Surviving the Dark Night of the Soul - Explaining the Faith 

Please pray for us who want a spiritual director and cannot find one.

Currently experiencing this. Pray for me please, as I pray for all of you, especially the ones also going through this.

Father chris i was blown away by this talk when i seen it. Im in ireland i was talking with you about a year ago, so im in trouble with drugs and i honestly think god is getting me ready through rehab. So it was a fantastic talk thanks brother, say a prayer for me my name is gordon from dublin ireland. Thank you father

I went to prison where I made bad decisions now it my mission to win the race to see Gods face pray 🙏 daily for his grace no one ☝️ takes my place

God make my fear disappear without God is despair no one ☝️ else can compare… God come near don’t leave me alone I can’t make it on my own please bless my home 🏡 remove all evil and sins

I literally just came out of the dark night. I could not forgive a priest that hurt me a few years back. I hated him . I became oppressed. Satan was having his way. This week I was reading about our Lady of Guadalupe. I could hear her tell me” you belong to me”. It was instantaneous relief.

Thank you, Father Chris. I pray the Priest's Prayer for you and the Marion Brothers: "O Jesus, I implore Your devine assistance for Your faithful and fervent priests; for Your unfaithful and tepid priests; for Your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields; for Your lonely and desolate priests; for Your young priests; for Your dying priests; for the souls of Your priests in purgatory. But above all, I commend to You the priests dearest to me; the priest who baptized me; the priests who have absolved me from my sins; for priests whose masses I assisted and who gave me your Body and Blood in Holy Communion; the priests who taught and instructed me; all the priests whom I am indebted in any other way. O Jesus, keep them close to Your Sacred Heart, and bless them abundantly in time and eternity. Amen." God Bless you, Father.

This came at exactly my dark night. Thank you, Jesus. Feels like all my prayers are empty sometimes. He says He will guard but then dangers and suffering come through. It makes one wonder if He is really there. But there are sudden brief moments when I feel His presence and comfort. The desolation and abandonment feeling hurts, but the belief that He is there even when He is seemingly quiet and not there is highly necessary. Praying for anyone in a similar situation

The Dark Night is purgatory on earth 🤯 I have never heard it expressed so succinctly. Thank you Fr Chris

I’m not a depressed person but I’ve had panic attacks… i woke up ⬆️ shakes for years so I chased death because of fear of death so I’d get high to run from fear of death… insanity

Father Alar. I found this on my Audiobook, I randomly picked this sermon,.. Your describing my life. Everything I’ve known is gone, now it’s solitude & Silence. My 2 year depression is unlike any I’ve had before.. there is no break. Then I found this and I knew this is what I’m going thru. So many tears, pray for me please to stay strong. Bless you

YESHUA 🤍 is our LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!🤍❤️‍🔥🕊️

This is astounding & vital for our Salvation! What A BLESSING to learn this in order to have an understanding of WHAT CAN & WILL happen to us on our Narrow Road HOME. You are such a magnificent Shepherd, Fr. Chris! May God protect you completely. Thank you!

Oh my heart, I went through dark night of the senses for almost two years. I had no idea what was going on, nothing helped and I felt so abandoned. At the same time I could not get a priest to respond to phone calls, emails etc. Most of it happened during the pandemic when the parishes were closed. Watching this helps me understand what happened. Lord have Mercy, thank you Fr. Chris!!!

Praying for all who need prayers 💯🙏💯🙏💯🙏☘️🌹

My husband is struggling right now as he was diagnosed with flu a. In our 29 years married I have never seen him this sick and scared. I know God surrounds us always I pray he feels Gods divine mercy and gets physically well soon. Thank you thank you thank you.

Great talk Father Chris on The Dark Night. You saved my family & myself during covid in 2021. I started watching your masses around Christmas of 2020 was lost needing answers. During my Dark Night my oldest daughter was admitted in a mental hospital on Thanksgiving 2020 & got bad after that. When I started watching your mass it changed my life for the better took time but its getting there. God doesn't answer that second. But he does help you continuously. It was hard but it got better. Praise God & you Father Chris & rest of the Marian Brothers & Marian Helpers.

I am in the midst of the dark nights of the soul. It has been a very difficult time for me. Lots of tears and prayers. I will come out of this a better person.

During my dark night, I was tempted to join the Freemasons and live a life of luxury. Thank the Lord for keeping me from such a horrendous path! I found Our Lady in my time of trouble and my family now abounds in graces. Note: I also had dreams of judgment day and wrestling with the enemy in Heaven prior to making it out of the dark night of my soul. It was very scary but very enlightening to know for certain which side I stand by.

Father Chris Thank you Im hear because of you I went to church you had a huge push in me going to church ⛪️

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St John of the Cross, December 14th, pray for us Amen

Father Chris, Your like that Angel that shows up in the nick of time..God Bless

Father Chris this teaching brings my me back to it altho I've left some of these stages but I want to get closer to Our Heavenly Mother and Jesus. I pray for the fire of Jesus' love and I feel that there's more I should do. I'm learn to improve myself to jump up from the dark side. I Trust in Jesus, Saint Monica, Mary, Saint Faustina, and St Theresa laFluer. I 🙏 I'm willing to carry & embrace my cross as long as I have to. I'm struggling from depression but grateful to Jesus for sending me wonderful people into my life to decrease my depression. My spirit is very weak. I want to be believe to get up every time Zim down. AMEN. 🙏 🙇 ➕

My brother took his life in February. It has been a difficult journey. It was only a few years ago when my nephew took his own life. I wrestle with the work I do because I meet with people daily whom contemplate taking their lives because of mental illness or substance use. I have been so grateful to your healing words. Thank you and Amen

Father Chris, I felt you were speaking to me. I got up Saturday morning and was asking God why my prayers are never answered and asked him if he was still there listening to me.I also agree with you things that I thought I couldn't live without now mean nothing to me. I got rid of so much stuff that I wondered why I had to have them in the first place. So much good has happened to me since I have watching your videos I can't even begin to tell you but I feel like a new person and I don't even recognize myself. All of you talks have helped me soo much. After 40 years of not going to Mass I now go to Mass, observe all of the Holy days and go to confession once a month I feel wonderful! Thank you so much for all that you do for us. You have helped me in ways you will never know. You Fr. Chris, have been Truly Blessed.

My soul has been dark for many time of many years , last night i was sad and doubt , this morning i hear you Fr. Chris i know that Jesus and Mary send message to me through you and you awesome

As I listened to your message. It inspired me to write this poem. As I knelt in prayer, I know You'll meet me there. My soul pines for Thee, On Who's face I can't yet see. To hear Your laugh, and to see You smile, I'm willing to endure the weight of this trial. This cross of mine, I'll gladly bare, Lord give me strength in this world of cares. For the glory that awaits, I long to see Heaven's gates. Not just to see the people or the beauty in store, But to see the face of My Savior, On sweet Heaven's shore. That gives me hope for what comes my way, Even in this moment, as I kneel to pray.

Fr. Chris, I'm admitted in the hospital right now. Please pray for me. Thank you. 🙏 And thank you again for this excellent talk. God bless.

Great sermon. A very clear -- and honest -- exposition of the Dark Night(s) of the soul.

I pray my children come back to Catholic Church before I die.

Fr Chris thank you so much for your excellent talks today your teachings are so good it is important to survive the dark night as sleeping because as wonderful devotions to the First Fridays and First Saturdays i like Thursday and Friday because it is my favorite day to preaching and prompting in the gospel readings to offer Mass on Sundays which everyone goes to be true and Holy Spirit preparing for the death as prayers for peace as Ukraine and Russia war as the Chaplet and Rosary to purgatory as explained is simple on Christmas Day and New Year's Eve on December 31, 2022 before started as traditions to many liturgical year and Precepts of the Church and domestic church and also the priesthood as Saint Faustina prays for us and Staff Members. Praying for you, your family and Marian Helpers and especially your Mom and Pam and Sandy also your Dad's healing of the grandparents. God bless you, your family, Pope Francis and Deacons and Marian Priests. Amen!

And you Fr.Chris are Jesus and Mary 's priest

Prayers for America and our freedom, protect us Lord with thy Divine Mercy!

God bless you and all the MIC. pray for me and for my family

Mother Teresa is still saving souls like Saint Faustina and all of the other saints in heaven 🛐❤️🕊️😇

I pray one day I will love my crosses

Fr.Alar you a loyal and faithful servant of God ✝️🙏🦁♥️😇🌹

Mother theresa was and is a saint God bless you father alar ✝️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🦁🌹😺♥️😇

Wonderful explanation Father Chris. St. Padre Pio went through the same darkness, as well as most Saints. God bless you.

God help me want what you want more than what I want and do it Remove all evil and sins from me my family 💯🙏💯🙏💯🙏☘️🌹

Dear Fr Chris... only God knows tonight how much you have revealed to me by this holy talk... how much you have helped me, how much your explanation of the dark night of the soul and everything it contains, mean to me... thank you! Before I converted to Catholicism, I went through a period of darkness, and one morning on my birthday, I sensed a beautiful presence in my bedroom and I broke down in tears... my life played like a movie before my eyes and I cried until I was totally stripped and empty. Afterwards, the whole of God's creation was awesomely beautiful and holy and I was filled with God's peace and His Love and Light, feeling like mountains had been lifted from my shoulders... I was a new creation, the most beautiful and precious journey in my life began and continued and a desire to convert to the Catholic faith was so strong, and by God's grace I surrendered, had catechism classes for a year and was received in the Catholic Church as an adult. I have never looked back as I was blessed by God and now at 75, I am on an even deeper journey into Catholicism and enjoy every moment of every day. GOD BLESS YOU FR CHRIS. NEVER STOP FOR IN HEAVEN YOU WILL WITNESS ONE DAY HOW MANY SOULS YOU HAVE HELPED! 🌹🕯🌹🕯🌹🕯🌹👐👐👐💖

Father Chris, you really hit it on the nose how I feel right now!

Wow Thank you SO MUCH for this talk. This makes me feel not alone, I think this is what I’ve been going through. About two months ago I suddenly lost all appetite for my sins (hating others, not praying, food etc.) i just lost my appetite for all those things. I replaced all the things that used to make me sin with prayer, I got so much consolation I was in love, I was actually somewhat happy I no longer had those desires, not being angry does amazing things for your mental health. But about a week ago, everything went dark. The consolation stopped and I started doubting the existence of God and because of my pride I felt like such a fool. I know in my heart God exists but my rational brain couldnt and still has a hard time comprehending it. I began toying with atheism again, and saw the emptiness, feeling like life has no purpose my future is empty and meaningless. Not having God and thinking He doesn’t exist made my world crumble, it led to depression and I have felt physically sick and unable to sleep at night. Today Im getting some consolations, and hearing this talk shows me this is just God preparing me and makes me somewhat believe in Him more, since the stages of the experience is so on point with how you described it. Please pray for me as I still have those doubts, my challenge is the need for faith and that I can’t know 100%. Please pray for my strength to get through. Thank you so much for this talk

Worship over worry

Father Chris Alar, thank you for another powerful, insightful and inspiring Explaining of the Faith Talk: Moral Theology: The Dark Night of the Soul, The Dark Night of the Senses! God bless you, in all that you do, abundantly! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

As a Secular Carmelite, I am very thankful for this talk that helps me understand my vocation. God bless. ❤

Thankyou Fr Chris. Really needed to hear this. REALLY. This talk explains many things happening. I have St. John of the Cross books, etc, but off the bat, you hit a homer for me. Thankyou.

You make me laugh Fr. Chris, in a good way. I am older than you but with a similar background. Your down to earth teaching is wonderful.

Love listening to you, your a natural born teacher... you can keep the momentum going... good on you... 👍😁

Praise Jesus for you Fr. Alar...you have no idea how much you have helped me!!! I was feeling so alone and becoming desperate in that perhaps God had turned away from me...

Bless you, Fr. Chris. It’s been very hard to the limit these past 2 years of Covid lockdowns working in the hospital none stop. I just got home, having some rice and watching this talk. I finally feel that I have the permission to rest, I can rest and I should rest. Sending you and your community of priests a lot of love and hugs from Boston. Now I just need a bucket to cry in for a few moments.

It is always darkest just before the Dawn.

God Bless You, Fr. Chris! Thank You So Much, Fr. For this knowledge regarding the Dark Night of the soul&senses!!🙏😍❤️

I'm in tears. God Bless you Fr. Chris. I'll pray for you so that our Father continues working through you. You are helping so many of us. Praise be to God

Thank you Father Alat. Your homilies are spiritual treasures. Deo gratias.

I really enjoyed listening to this talk Fr. Chris, because with all Catholics, as well as other Christians, who have experienced this you reassure us that it's never the end of the world and that we should never give up on God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and Mother Mary. God bless you Fr. Chris now and always.

God bless you Father Chris!

I needed this today. I went to mass and my priest reluctance to promote divine mercy made me mad. I told him 'shame on you father' [I find it hard to keep my mouth shut] I guess cuz im so on fire for spreading divine mercy i dont get it when a priest dont feel the same. I need to find a spiritual director but when you have priests here that dont bother with first saturdays and dont want to spend more than 5 minutes in confession then its hard. You are my online spiritual director. Thanks for everything xxxxx

I thank you Fr.Chris deep from my heart may God bless you and always be by your side and makes you holly as you are !

Wow for the past year I have been going exactly through this along with spiritual warfare and just Today while spending time with God I felt his warmth in my heart how I truly miss him so much it hurts i desire to see his holy face and I treasure the moments we united together. Everything you teach is truly coming from the Holy Spirit. Im so glad God has put you in my path you have no idea how much you have helped me understand the teachings of the Catholic Faith thank you. Truly another Grace from God. Thank You Heavenly Father.

I am currently going through this at the moment. This is helping. Thank you Fr. Sometimes I think God thinks I am strong.

Thank you, I walked back to where I was listening to rosary and this was playing, never listened to you before and I heard your first words, I stood there surprsed, as I thought it was me, as I have felt Divine Presence but lost it again,:but your first words spoke to me, as I felt God was gone from me. So I listened, it is not just me for seems we all feel abandoned at times. Thank you

I really appreciate this talk. The part about being put into the dark so we can see reminds me of a story Jim Lovell told. Before he entered the astronaut program, he was flying missions off an aircraft carrier. Coming in for a night landing, he suddenly found himself in pitch black darkness. Night carrier landings are extremely difficult and dangerous; you can't do them in the dark! As he was wondering and praying how he would ever land safely, he noticed a green arrow in the water, pointing directly toward the ship. It was the algae that luminesces palely when stirred up by a ship's propeller. It was only visible because ALL of the lights, including the small instruments lights inside the cockpit, had gone dark.

I'm one of those people who has been afflicted with all three........Trials, temptations and desolation. Its been brutal. I've actually cried out to God and asked him to dial it back a notch or two, I felt like he was pushing me too hard. But i did this only in a very weak moment, most of the time I just say, "Though he slay me yet I trust in him". I just finished reading St. John of the cross's book, the dark night of the soul and also the ascend of mount carmel and these two books have been a God send.

Sometimes I get so scared because since I was a little girl my soul will flee away from my body I heard my name being called in my ears I was confused and scared but the family brings that dark night of the soul and your own sins too I’d been through it God bless everyone that’s has being through it and they don’t understand why God bless them all

Father, your opener with all of those questions are my questions. I have gone through those questions over and over again and sometimes, I lose Faith. I know I'm a sinner because I think I've fallen. But I'm trying my best to not lose my Faith. I always ask forgiveness but I know I have to go to confessions often to be forgiven. Father, your talk always make me realize how lucky I am that I am healthy and alive. Thank you, Lord!

Thanks to your talk. I understand why I feel sometimes I have no faith, but still go to church and do my daily prayers. Thank you father, God bless your ministry

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The dark night of the soul is God giving the soul a Heavenly alchemical mandate. True creativity.

I'm not Catholic, I go to Pentacostal churches. I found this very helpful and I feel God brought me to this video. And here I thought Catholic services were boring. God has been telling me to fast and the scripture about certain demons coming out only through prayer and fasting has been coming up a lot so I know what I need to do. It's not just food that I need to fast from I have to give up a bunch of things.

Marie Solomon , I join you in this Prayer. Amen 🙏🔥🕯️✝️

@53:20 the pleade... I felt that and it brought tears to my eyes

Thank you Jesus, for feeding many souls within this marian helper family, through the teaching and ministry of your devoted MIC shepherds Fr Chris and his brothers. Mother Mary keep protective watch over them and us 🎚🌷

I'm deep in it. Sleepless nights, questioning, asking, grieving. I feel like in a dark room trying to find the light switch but to no avail, bumping against furniture pieces, hurting myself, crying for a helping hand that guides me to that light switch.

Thank you Father Alar for bringing me back to my faith. You are truly an inspiration.

Thank you for a great talk, father. I’m thankful for your priesthood too.

Oh , I love you, Father Chris! I could listen to you all day !

God bless u dear Father. Please pray for me dear Father, my name is Susan from India, as for decades iam struggling with my faith and this can be really very despairing n discouraging. At times i feel so close to God and other most of the times iam back to square one n this is going on with me since decades. I feel so sorry for myself at my lack of faith. One thing that i honestly desire in this life is to be close to Christ. God please help me 🙏🙏

Be content in all situations

I just find these talks so transforming !! May God bless you always Fr Chris ! 🙏 🙏🙏♥️

May God bless you Father Chris🙏🏼❤️

Thank you, Fr. Chris, for a very beautiful presentation on The Dark Night of the Soul which I have anxiously been waiting hear. May God bless & strengthen you in your ministry. God bless the Marians.

It’s so easy to become attached to our spiritual consolations. They are so wonderful, I think most of our lives are spent in the dark night

Amen! Always love your homilies & lectures. Becoming Catholic is the most important action in my life. 2018 after RCIA.

Thank you Fr.Chris God blessed you ..! ❤

God Bless you Fr. Chris!

Yes purgative.. yes father thank you. I m home less room w blind priest. He's sick stomach bug Bowels 3 days,.. thank you for the reminder. My husband deceased alchoholic said " I don't care about you or health I don't live you," .. Lol eft me home less. And I hate shopping!!

Thank you Lord for increasing my hope through the Marians and this talk. I don’t have a spiritual director except for all of you.

This was an excellent presentation Father Chris. I never understood this (I only knew “kinda”). Thanks Father for making this so clear.

Praying for Mom and Dad, Father Chris and for St. Padio's and Faustina's, intercession!

I am so happy to see what needs to be taught reaching more Catholics through your talks. May God bless you and your religious order.

Blessings amen 🙏

Very true Fr. Cris. I feel it at times.

I believe this is where we loose allot of people to Protestant churches because they get lost to the “feel good “ sensation. The 3 days of darkness past already

OMG!!! I made a story with same title in 2012😊🙏 All about my struggle as one of GOD's children who was lost and came back 🙏🙏🙏

Man must endeavor to endure for Jesus Christ ✝️🙏🦁♥️🌹♥️

Fr Chris thank you. Watching from the Philippines. God bless you abundantly.

I survived the darkk of the soul from mental health medication given for 37, years. 5years ago God mercy was shown to me . I was healed within the Catholic faith . I've spent these 5, years proving I was s healed and saved .from damnation .and from abuse shownn in my town,where I live, in my church ., My family unite was broken .too and left alone to get on with it .but I am still here with my devotion to Divine mercy. .and With all the faith and trust I have in my body. While that other healings have been given as proof. My life was shattered. But He will restore my life , give back all that was taken while giving Mr a second chance as His Divine mercy was shown. Amen

Thank you Fr. Chris this is the best preparatory talk for advent ever!