Hey gabi, I am catholic(but not yet baptised) I would love to be able to consecrate myself to mary with 33 days to morning glory. As I am unbaptised would I be able to do that?
@gabiafterhours Thanks for this and all that you do... a humble suggestion of caution Brother. You went to film the testimony of Tammy Peterson not Jordan Peterson. Focus on her and Mother Mary not him in public forums. The temptation is admittedly potent but stay strong. ❤ ya as a Brother and keep up the great work!! In Christ, Eric
I learnt this opening prayer from formation with Opus Dei and it sums up everything "My Lord and my God I firmly believe that You are here, that You see me and that You hear me. I adore You with profound reverence. I ask Your pardon for my sins and grace to make this time of prayer fruitful. My Immaculate Mother, St Joseph my Father and Lord, my Guardian Angel intercede for me.
The “realness” of the imagined world is the truth that sustained quiet intuitives, like the Saints. It IS our keystone, that is why being “like a child” is so important: the access to decrement of the gut and ready imagination. I had to leave the Church and study with Bhakti yogis to learn what you’re discussing here (to their credit they truly love and accept Jesus as a practitioner and proponent of their craft). The issue was not theological but practical. In America we have a western tradition and need a western basis for community. The Church, it turns out, provides that. The saints provide that. The rosary provides that. I still chant hare krishna in honor of my blue friend who helped equip me to find and meet Christ where HE is, but it warms my heart to see Catholics rediscovering the Latin Mass, mystical prayer, and the special joy of communing with the Saints. This is YOUR spiritual legacy, there is nothing “foreign” about meditation. Chanting a mantra and a rosary with incense and sacred intention is effective in Latin or Sanskrit, particularly once you’ve been to the cabin a few times. 😅
Deep desire, conviction, need to see Jesus in adoration earlier this year. I found an adoration chapel. I went that day. It was Valentine’s Day but I didn’t realise it until a friend told me. I was on a date with Jesus. Lol. I’ve been going ever since. Life is so much better with Jesus in it,
Thanks so much - Great exchange - I am starting mental prayer thanks to Gabi I really enjoyed the convo and want to share Amber's site with my daughters
I hate to sound patronising but its great to see young people that love reverance and that hate the sign of peace!!! Yes me too. Its very encouraging im over 50 and have come back to my faith and found TLM and fell in love. Keep going you young and beautiful lions. God bless you❤❤
It is so nice to see young Catholics so on fire in love with our Lord and our Lady. Please do videos on the True Magisterium of the Church. We must keep that alive. Our Lady constantly asks us to do so ❤❤❤
I read a couple of those “big books “ and they are really in depth however, using your one page guide I find myself doing mental prayer more than just once a day. Thanks for that.
Thomas 6 months ago Gabl and young lady talking mental prayer, u said loads adverts, weird my friend u must have been correct there were NONE, keep praying my brother
I saw Gabi's talk yesterday after putting it on "watch later" and when I looked up the daily gospel for the last meditation in the video, it was the healing of the blind near Jericho. After trying that kind of concious mental prayer for the first time, that hit different
If you go to his channel, he has a video titled “urgency of mental prayer” that has a walkthrough of how to do it. I found it really helpful and copy it for my prayer time!
I dedicate myself to Holy Mother Mary and I pray my life & service is pleasing to Jesus. Thank You Holy Spirit ! Thank you Father YHWH creator for the gift of Life for one more day.....one more day I can open my eyes, I can see your world, I can walk again, until my final breath. Thank you for healing me.
@gabiafterhours I have struggled on my own to achieve even a semblance of the mental prayer you both talk so glibly about. I am a stay- at-home father of two children (1 & 3) and when my wife is home, I focus on her and the kids. She gets up at 3 so we all go to bed early. Peace is impossible to achieve. Being undisturbed is likewise impossible. I also suffer constant physical pain due to my condition. You talk like the meditative state is easy and constant. Like a pro just telling the novice " you just do it like this." I want what you have but I need constant and consistent instruction
The Holy Wounds chaplet is also extremely powerful for healing and trust 😊 (not comparing it to mental prayer but to the Divine Mercy chaplet that is quickly mentioned).
This is a great show. I have always have difficulties with mental prayer, due mostly to laziness, although I love praying the original three mysteries Rosary daily, and I devote a decade of someone I know or someone who needs it. That has truly helped my prayer life. I especially find it meditating when I go for Rosary walks. But my mental prayer before I go to sleep is still weak and needs work. Converting to Catholicism five years ago as made it a little easier. This video helps. One book I have but I have yet to read I think is a Catholic classic, 'Difficulties in Mental Prayer' by Dom Eugene Boylan.
I am privileged to have the Latin Mass, I should use it more for prayer. I don't think I could do the 'sign of peace'. I 'didn't like it much when I was a Lutheran.
I didnt realize this was revolutionary. Ive been communing with Jesus, Mary, Mary Magdalene, and St Michael for years this way. Its nothing complex. Just feel their love, see them, then flow with their energy.
I think I've had glimpses of this experience but I always shut it down because I thought it was blasphemous. The problem I have when I enter meditation is that these intrusive thoughts severely just mess me up. I hate my own mind and the wickedness that can come through when I try to pray or meditate. How can I get over this?
I don’t agree with Gabriel’s definition of meditation. True Meditation is receptive, it’s not about “thinking”. You remain still, passive, you surrender and you become an active listener. Prayer on the other hand is communicative, engaging. It can be petitionary. You speak and receive: it’s a conversation. I understand the mystics may have used these terms a bit interchangeably but I don’t feel this is right in a modern context where we have the benefit of a great deal of historical experience and we also have the benefit of comparative religion to shed light on prayerful practice. It also just makes sense. Ask any Buddhist monk what he does during meditation. I know that’s a non-Catholic interpretation and yet they’re not dissimilar. These truths are perennial across religions. Meditation should mean stillness, active listening, and just watching, observing and centring the breath and the mind. In that state - in the Christian sense - because you’ve already asked God to be present - we become ready to receive the Holy Spirit. After that meditative practice to begin with, we can then enter the act of petition, speaking, reciting, conversation with Jesus and God. I see one as leading into the other and even after our mental prayer, as of on a loop, we can go back into meditation to end the session.
Please pray for me. I struggle with my faith a lot of times. When I try mental prayer I am so distracted, i start to see distracting imagines. Most at times I don't know how to discern my thoughts and God's voice. And these days I just feel empty which I am not sure if it's peace or I am just empty. I just want to be with God and shut out the earthly noicd. @gabiafterhours
Secular is defined by the sacred. To even draw the line God|not God requires a theology. This is why reasonable catholics of good will simply take over, no one else wants to think.
Can I kindly ask that you stop using the name Karen in a derogatory way? Names matter. Imagine your name inserted in that sentence. It hurts even more hearing it from people of the faith that I respect.
You’re right God does have a sense of humor. there was this time that God had put it on my heart to tell somebody something that was very difficult. I don’t like telling people difficult things so I wanted to write it in a letter, I didn’t wanna call on the phone. but I kept getting this nagging feeling in my heart saying no call. so I’m having this dialogue with God in the bathroom while getting ready to brush my teeth and I said God do I really have to call? So I’m leaning over the sink brushing my teeth when I see a bar of soap …..DIAL. I laughed!
I feel you. Way back when I was just starting driving school, I sensed God telling me that I don’t need to go that day. I stopped on my tracks, because the pull was strong. I paused several times in getting dressed, doing my hair because of it. Pushed the urge away just so I could finally leave. Apparently my instructor was absent and no replacement for the day. I went back home, faced my mirror kinda laughing with a pouty face feeling like I should’ve given to the urge to call the school first. I felt God was smiling at me that whole time. Something even more weird, that He had a “jester” in His court, kind of the renaissance era where kings had one. Not sure if that represented anything else but this Jester was laughing mad at me, we couldn’t help but join in the laughter. It just felt like an intimate trio of friends laughing together. That’s how I discovered God the Father has a sense of humor. Can’t explain more about this experience, but I believe He has his own way to each of His children.
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I'm not understanding the difference between meditating on the mysteries and using your imagination to go somewhere with God. Aren't they basically the same thing? Like if you're meditating in prayer, you're using your imagination to communicate and visualize God, mary, anything you decide to focus on. What am I missing if I may ask? Also, sidenote. A few years back I nearly committed suicide and dealt with heavy suicidal ideations every day. In may I felt this calling to say the rosary. Had no desire. Ha. But I felt I was supposed to do it. I pulled up youtube and typed in "rosary" or something similar. First video was ascension presents. Sevond video was Gabi. Ascension brought up 3 rosaries and I was like, "I think you're calling me to do this " Gabi brought up 4 rosaries on his video and I laughed and said, "God...don't push it." I said 3 rosaries that day. On the 3rd rosary, 3rd mystery, my mind went from suicidal thought, despair, hopelessness, to complete hope and peace. First time in nearly 5 months that I had any hope. There's much more to the story. But God used ascension and Gabi to drive a point. I now say anywhere from 15 to 30 rosaries a week.
Closing your eyes has been a tremendous help for me in mental prayer especially while praying the rosary! Another great help in staying focused during the rosary that I learned from Dan Burke's book The Contemplative Rosary is when you get to the name of Jesus in the Hail Mary, repeat something pertaining to that mystery: Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus, who was scourged at the pillar for us, Holy Mary, Mother of God.... Also Dan Burke's other book, Into the Deep, is in my opinion the best book for anyone who is starting mental prayer. A short, easy to read book that will help anyone start mental prayer daily!!! God bless!!!
When praying the Rosary, we in Hungary always say the current mystery after the name of Jesus, in every Hail Marys. I thought this is how everyone in the world prays it, and I was very confused when I started to watch catholic youtube videos in English, and realized that's not the case. :) I think I read somewhere that people in Poland are saying the mystery in every Hail Mary the same way as we Hungarian catholics.
Thanks for commenting on the original mental prayer tutorial video Gabi made. I was aware of him but dont think i wouldve watched it otherwise. It has changed my life to an extent. i need to do it more!
Scrolled on this through a sea of nothing burger vids! Alleluia! Totally need a spiritual upgrade. I feel like the spiritual battle has intensified seriously
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Gabi is Amazing and this young lady talking about Latin Mass..it is so great!!!! Saludos desde México.
Congratulations, l love to see to see young Catholics discussing their faith. Your channel will transform the world. I follow it right from Africa and l share it others around me.
When St Paul talks about the “renewal of your mind”, I’m thinking there is a connection here with this battle that wages in our intellect and with our will. Mental prayer is like the key to the relationship with the trinity and the saints!
GOD REMINDS US TO PRAY THE LORD'S PRAYER AS THE SPIRIT WORKS ON YOU HE CHANGED YOU RIGHT NOW SO BE COURAGE AND DON'T BE AFRAID YOUR SPIRIT ABIDE YOU IN YOUR SPIRITUAL LIFE!
@gabiafterhours Your presentation on mental prayer inspired me. I’d always had a copy of Divine Intimacy sitting on the shelf and just never had the confidence to try. Thank you for being Our Lady’s servant.
Gabiafterhours and Amber Rose You are amazing❤❤❤ What a spirit lifting sermon God bless you😊😊😊 May our Blessed Mother Mary continue to intercede for you and keep using you both to draw souls to Jesus and Mary
Thank you for discussing the Rosary as an opportunity to truly enter into and participate in the mysteries. The Rosary is a fascinating journey, not a chore to get done.
Another wonderful discussion…… everyone needs to listen to this man because he is a bridge between so many different Catholic groups. I personally prefer the term Christian visualization rather than mental prayer, which is too vague. the term visualization will attract new agers who are being drawn to the truth. A good point they made is that you don’t have to have an active imagination Because really the Holy Spirit takes over. In fact it is because I actually don’t have a very good imagination that I recognize that this is the Holy Spirit and not me!
I don't know much about Catholicism, but everything I've heard sounds like a lot of distractions (ancillary things) from Jesus himself. I never understood the elevation of Mary as though she was a step above human and perhaps even a mediator (which Jesus said he took away); and why there's a distinctive "Virgin" in front of her name as though she's been reverted back to the time before she birthed Jesus' human siblings. Aside from not understanding all those kinds of surroundings I think there's a lot of helpful ideas here.
Great conversation. During our RCIA this last year they talked down on the Latin Mass over and over, about how it was so terrible when they were growing up. I think the fact that it's not the main version of Mass at this point in time makes those that do choose to go give it the reverence and respect it was designed for. I've only ever seen it online as there is no place within 3-4 hours drive that offers it, so the local NO it is (which is typically without issues).
Hi thank you for this interview. It is very edifying to know that other people pray this way. I have prayed like this for many years, but not really understanding what I was doing and whether it was OK to pray this way or not. I was raised Catholic but went away from the Church as a young man and came back in my mid 30s.(I am now 63). I would use my imagination to pray, and it would be very effective. I was drawn so much to Jesus and still am. I see his name and something stirs in me. I knew a little about mental prayer but I never read much about it and I didn’t know about all the steps. I just did it, and it felt good and over the years I noticed a change in myself for the better so I knew that somehow God was at work in it. I hope it’s OK but I put a link here to a song I wrote and recorded in the late 90s and it came from my prayer. I have a special place to go and see Jesus and this was about that experience. When I look and read the words now, I’m quite amazed, because it follows all the steps that you’re talking about: meeting the Lord, having a chat with him and going away with a resolution. The song is called Shine. The link will lead you to the song and to the words. alonetone.com/plisney/playlists/the-call-of-god/shine-9
My problem is that Im a very distracted person. Im a homeschool stay at home mom, so im constantly reviewing the days to do list as well as past and future activities. I feel like my mental prayer life can only come in small bursts, but longer mental prayer like meditating on the rosary is way harder! I hope to get stronger with this.
I’m wondering if you have any suggestions for people who have afantasia, which is the scientific word for people who have the inability to create mental imagery. we don’t visualize … we see a blank screen when we try to visualize. Thank you.
God will give you grace in your prayers. Pray with devotion and reverence. Pray with attention. Do what St Teresa of Avila did--she made use of the images around her and she used prayer cards. She also had trouble with creating imagery in her mind.
Dear Lord, these people babble on and on and are not getting to the point. Please help youtubers teaching Catholic Content to adhere to the wisdom of 'Let thy words be few' Ecclesiastes 5:2. The constant din tires me too. Diary of Saint Faustina 1008.
@@joethebro3965 on the supernatural level, they are trying to hear Jesus speak to them in the silence of their hearts and are struggling without understanding why. They need to shush, so to speak, interiorly and then they will hear.
You can also see mental prayer, as a beautiful experience that brings you closer to your best friend ❤ A moment of intimacy between you and Jesus, between you and Our Holy Mother Mary ✨❤️🔥✨ Gabi, thank you for teaching us about the Mental Prayer ✨ (to anyone reading this: don’t forget to pray The Rosary!)
@44:09 "I hate the sign of peace". This is where covid positively impacted that. Waving is now the accepted acknowledgment of other worshippers. I like that. I did not like shaking hands either.
Gabriel! I love all your vids bro and I just now found your page Amber, Im sure I will love yours as well but literally this is the first video i have seen of yours and Im already loving it! Just wanted to share how God helped me to discern his voice from my own thoughts and from the voice of the devil... obviously the devil is too roudy for his own good most of the time and its easy ,generally speaking, to know when it is him.. but the hard part for me was being sure it was God and not my imagination. Finally one day God dropped this super simple sentence in my ear. It is so simple that most people just look over it when i tell them like I'm crazy or something lol That sentence is this: " When I stop talking, I start thinking; When I stop thinking, I start listening." The trick is to say the first part out loud and the second part in thought. Say When I stop talking out loud and the rest of it in thought. Doing this makes you recognize your own voice that you speak is the same voice you hear while thinking.. that voice causes all our issues. It is unsure confused and the cause of all our anxiety. This voice is our voice . To hear God we must silence that guy or girl and start listening to the voice that knows all things .. I got immediately the first time I tried it when He first gave it to me. Others think im crazy and wont even try and some get it after saying it a few times. But this is the easiest way to get to that place of prayer you are speaking about and it works everytime in my own experiences! Feel free to use it it was a gift from God and I try to tell as many people as will listen. Keep on keeping on!
One of the ways you can help with mental prayer to set the mood and a prayerful atmosphere is to play some Gregorian chanting on very low volume in your room and just let it pervade the space while you settle in and get ready to practice those steps for mental prayer. I find that very helpful, as Gregorian chanting isn’t like normal music which is more emotional. Gregorian chanting is more mental and even intellectual, so it has just the right frequency to bring you into your mental state, in a heightened, alert yet connected way.
when Gab said that anything is fertile--I was shocked because after watching the video of Gab about mental prayer, I find myself imagining there was a cockroach crawling in the rock where Jesus was praying in Gethsemane. what's with insects?
Thank you so much, you're the best! Mental prayer changed my life. I'm doing my best to help spread mental prayer to everyone, God willing. It feels like satan's been attacking me worse than ever so hopefully that's a good sign lol
