Identity Precedes Mission | Feast of the Transfiguration (Fr. Mike's Homily)  

In case no one has told you this today, Fr. Mike you are so loved and respected. Your ministry has forever changed my relationship with God and I'm so grateful for all that you do to bring God to others! May God continue to bless you

Father God please protect all mothers especially single mothers! Even as I constantly struggle to pay my rent. And I constantly struggle to provide groceries for my children! I trust you Lord! I’m choosing to keep faith. Walking with faith is the most important thing us christian’s must do. That’s why love compassion and prayers are all we truly need. Please keep me in your prayers. As Christians it’s vital to trust God no matter what we are facing. I want to give up so bad! But God won’t allow me because he is our only strength in this world. As a single mom, things are tough on me. My husband passed years ago. I feel so alone. Both of my sons are autistic and non verbal. I’m constantly struggling to provide for my boys. I’m overwhelmed and so ashamed. Father God hear my prayers. My faith in you is strong! Even though I’m constantly in fear of losing my home. I have faith a miracle is on the way! Faith over fear!

A very comforting sermon about God's love for us, is greater than all our deeds. God isn't a unitarian. He loves us for who we are

Almost brought me to tears. God bless you Father Mike. I pray for you every night.

So many earthly parents will never give this gift to their children, valuing their authority over them more than making them whole and strong.

Sometimes Fr Mike’s homilies just blow me away. Wow, so good.

Beautiful, especially when it is hard to believe, but I will Trust in Jesus

Ty Fr Mike you are always building up His Kingdom GBUA 🕊🔥🕊🔥🕊🔥🕊

Thank you. Spot-on-preaching. I‘m only gradually undoing the lies of unworthiness, only with the help of Jesus (and good priests). God is truth, Jesus is truth and there‘s no space left for unworthiness. It is incredible to be claimed by God (especially if your parents didn‘t claim you unless you were successful). An incredible relief to be, finally, fully Christian. I am so thankful to have converted to Catholicism recently.

“When I first got ordained, the next day my family kind of threw a little party for me at my parents' place. My dad got up in the midst of all family and friends, and he had been a surgeon for his whole life, and he gave a little speech. He said, 'As a doctor, with these hands I have saved lives and I have healed bodies,' and then he said, 'But my son, Fr. Michael, with his hands - he will save lives; and with his hands, he won't heal bodies, he will heal souls.' And then he said, 'I believe my son will save more lives than I ever have.'” ~Fr. Mike ('Confession is a Place of Victory') Happy belated 80th birthday, Dr. Schmitz.

Missions come in all shapes and sizes . We have more than one mission in our lives x

Thank-you Father Mike! ❤️

Thank you Fr. MIKE, I needed to hear this msg I've always suffered feeling of being not worthy your msg speaks differently Amen

Father I hear you every day your Bible studies your prayers this is your friend 75 years old in California I appreciate your time and effort for all the things you’ve done giving me inspiration of the big problems I’m having and help God bless you God be with you God saved us is the world keeps turning thank you for all the good work you have done thank you for letting me listen to you every day you’re a huge inspiration in my life keep the good work out God bless I pray for you father and your family thank you

😢❤😢❤😢❤ praise and glory O'Lord.

I met four amazing FOCUS missionaries at daily Mass in Biloxi Mississippi this past week.

Thank you, Fr. Mike, (as always!). What a wonderful reality that we are claimed! Praise be to God! I'm praying for you, please pray for me.

This has to be one of the most amazing things I’ve ever listened to. Even beyond homilies. Thank you, Father Mike. May you be blessed and may your ministry continue to be blessed

God bless you!

Thank Fr. Mike for that beautiful homily! I really needed to hear this today! I had a negative experience at Mass that left me feeling embarrassed and ashamed, and I needed to hear this today! Thank you!!

I'm 💯% sure my sons will lead their father to belief...they were so reverent for their Confirmations (done together with long time family and friends)...😊

Very powerful and on-target homily!

Thank you father Mike! You are amazing, thank you!!!!

This is the message the world so desperately needs. God bless you, Fr. Mike. ❤️🙏

“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens [outsiders without rights of citizenship], but you are fellow citizens with the saints (God’s people), and are [members] of God’s household,” ‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭2‬:‭19‬

Thank you Fr. Mike. I watch your Homily video every Monday early morning. I enjoy starting my week listening and hearing your message. It always speaks to me. I needed to hear that I am loved and respected. It is something my husband says to me. I listen when he says this but I don’t always hear him. God Bless you. From Cape Town, South Africa.

The first miracle of Jesus: Mary says the same about her Sin: “Do whatever He tells you.”

Another spirit-filled homily. Thank you, Father Mike. This was an amazing message.

Thank you Fr. Mike. Your homily spoke volumes into my being. I had to share it with my friends. God Bless you, always. ❤

I can relate to the joy if having your parent's trust. That is how I feel when the things I talk about on my podcast teach my mother of 46years something new age didn't know. Thank you Father, for such a profound homily 🤗

My father has been gone five years now. I cared for him his last five years as he battled Alzheimer's - his final act. I was left with so many questions, so many doubts, about where I stood with him at the end. He came back to me today through your homily and helped me realize in a way I had never before, that he trusted me to be his caretaker when he could no longer care for himself. He was pleased that I would be there with him through this very unpleasant ending to his life. I feel blessed in this knowledge and thank you through God for opening my eyes and heart to this message. God Bless you.

❤❤❤🎉 need to know that we are worthy, thank you soo much, what a powerful speech

Oh wow no way I just read the secrets of the rosary. Great read!!! Always pray your rosary ❤️

This is a WONDERFUL homily! My father once said, "The only thing I did wrong was I didn't have 2 of ya." I said the same thing to my daughter later. Then last weekend my daughter said that her husband liked talking to me because he felt like I was a mother to him. THAT was priceless to me. Finally, you might want to tuck these notes away because this would make a great homily for Mother's Day or Father's Day. Thanks for your videos Father Mike!

❤❤❤ essence precedes experience

Father please claim you son Jacob and his wife.🙏🕊️

Wow

This one spoke to me. Thanks, Father Mike.

Thank you Fr.

Rings true for today's ME centric mission

Thank you Fr 🙏

Thank you Father Mike God bless you. Can you please pray for my daughter and myself to become better Catholics in Jesus name Amen

Glory to the Baby! Glory to the Child!

I'm a great grandma!

Nothing helps you face this, like facing your death then disabling diseases after the vocations and missions all in the service fields (healthcare, NFP, Chastity outreach, nursing home).....and you lose your...identity. This time is one God is using to help me feel my worth, when I'm on a 'forced break' of 'doing'...to the hard part of 'being' and finally work on some c-ptsd that I was giving what I didn't receive and thought that I was 'dealing with it.' Oh it's been so much more. Thank you! Good one. We have to think about our history, experiences and sometimes why we do what we do. It's easier when there is an "actual overt" addiction, but who it's subtle and the addiction was...to serve? Deeper things...

Interesting exegesis/ Thank you Fr. Mike. May the Lord Bless You and Keep You. From the island of St. Paul: Melitae

The corn. Fr. Mike. If you trust the spirit of grace, and do not trust The Spirit Of Truth, then you do not know the spirit of grace, like you think you do.

When Veronica touched Jesus robe. He knew her because of her faith x

and I also need some work for my brain and I'm too lazy to make it up myself. The more I deal with things at work, the less energy I have to fall into that dark vortex named "the bullying story". sometimes my brain just "clicks out" and I can talk only about that and then it "clicks in" and I'm much better. And some little communicating with some nerds also helps, they talk my language 😀

I wept

What do we say to a alcoholic whose trying to recover and stop drinking- “how can He trust me?” “How can he be pleased with me?”

Fr. Mike no idea if you actually read the comments but I have a friend with stage 4 colon cancer and we are doing a spiritual bouquet for him. This is the first time I actually heard of it and I am in need of ideas for my contribution in the form of prayers/novenas/sacrifices/offerings etc that would be the most beneficial for illness and healing. Thanks 🙏🏻

and so the main thing I'm nervous about is if I can find a job when the child is three and goes to kindergarten, because it's a social system in our country - very generous - that the government pays me for three years after giving birth and I can stay at home with a child without stress (in case I have a husband, single mothers sometimes have a problem) and the society expects me to go back to work and pay taxes for someone else). But this is a little bit complicated, because I'm 9 years at home now and this is a rather longer time, and we also terminated the contract with my former employer between my second and third children births (according to the law, they have to keep my place, but everyone tries to get out of it, because another person is at my place) and so I will have to start looking for another company (or maybe the same one, but with a new interview and the whole process and I I hate it, I'm not good at it)

I still think that a person must maintain and live according to minimum criteria, they are something like spheres of usefulness, the first is not to be addicted to any chemical substance and not to be too crazy, then the sphere is "to have a job" and some finances and thus not to be a burden on society or family. others (popularity, friends, partner, travel, pleasant appearance) is a superstructure and it's optional

The corn. Fr. Mike. The woman clothed with the sun and pain to be delivered from the man child, why is that? The same reason the foolish virgins, will pain to be delivered from the dispensation of The Spirit Of Truth.

The corn. Matthew 3:17. And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Behold, the beloved son of the father is one, and God, shall declare THEM! to no one, but one, Alpha and Omega, or the sons of God. When the last within the beginning of the Alpha, becomes first, and the first within the end of the Omega, becomes last, they become one and the same spirit, and one within the same structure, then know this. The spirit of Grace, becomes the spirit of truth, and The Spirit Of Truth, becomes the spirit of grace, in spirit and within structure. Behold, these are the two witnesses that is to come, and now is. Did this not cloud your understanding of what you know about God? Then know that the kingdom of heaven comes with clouds, covering and revealing it’s truth.

ut my main problem is not my brain but my nature. I am very disorganized. I can learn everything. During my time at technical school (at the end of xx century 😅), we programmed in Pascal (and Asm!) and then in C, then I tried C++ and at work I programmed in C# and that's not to mention the long and warm relationship with matlab. I always tried to avoid programming and it always found me. And of course I also needed oracle, excel and even latex. And Python too But I'm still lost every minute when I have to do something. I'm absolutely terrible at implementing anything with any language.

I'M Brazilian and I watch every sunday the homily, I'm catholic and trying tô improve my english in a way I like to. SOMEONE could tell me which country this priest is from? because he talks very fast and I'm curious to know. Thanks. God blesses

Fr. Mike has listened to America Ferrera 's commentary from that $1B movie ..or..is he a "Swiftie"? 🤔...thanks as usual!

Is God’s love about worthiness @ascension?

I hate that God created these bodies to age so badly, and so quickly. Why is it we are really only young till about 40? If we live till 80, we are decaying for 40 years. Aging is so terrible and depressing. It takes everything away from a person. Wish i had died by 40

The corn. Fr. Mike, did not God, love the foolish virgins, as much as he loved the wise virgins, when they were both titled merely Christians? Now that the virgins, has become foolish, the father doesn’t even know them.

Crying as usual.

not gay laura is my sister

He that is weary of sin, come: Through the Holy Spirit, God has put it on me to preach to those lost in the devil's deceit! Hear me when I say, ye that are Catholic have been deceived and know not God. Ye worship Mary, praying to her; when God tells his to worship none other than him. It is idolatry. Catholicism has its own Bible and teachings, which are blasphemous to the word of God: the Holy Bible. As ye follow the teachings of man and not God; ye hear the pope, but not Jesus, yet ye claim to be his disciples! These are but a few things I named ye dwell within; there are many more. I tell you now to repent of your sins, accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, and you'll receive the gift of the Holy Spirit upon asking the Father! There are *NO* sub-divisions of Christianity. You're either a disciple of Christ or not. A Christian is someone who follows God's word, not a religion. Who obey the Father and follow his will; not man's nor their own heart's. Unless you keep Jesus' commandments, think not the Holy Spirit will dwell within you! They who heed this message and did what was stated with an open heart to God... Read the Holy Bible (KJV) daily and every time before you read, pray to the Father and ask: "Lord I ask that you give me understanding of your word, that I interpret it the way you want me to, and none of my own. I ask you in Jesus' name, amen." Revelation 22:8-9 KJV 8 And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. 9 Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God. Acts 2:38 KJV 38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Luke 11:13 KJV 13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? John 14:21-24 KJV 21 *He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.* 22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, *If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.* 24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and *the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.* 3 John 1:11 KJV 11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. *He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.* 1 John 3:6-10 KJV 6 *Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.* 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: *he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.* 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 *Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.* 10 *In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God,* neither he that loveth not his brother.

R u a diver? Ur black clothes made me think of a diver 🤭🤭🤭 maybe thats why u r so tanned... sometimes... 🤭🤭🤭🤭

🤔 i think u need a haircut, priest 🤭🤭🤭