I’m a 75 year old woman. I’m crying after one minute. I’m walking with you in the everyday struggle. I feel so defeated in the battle some days. You are a wonderful man- you are doing God’s work and the enemy is heavy. I’m going to adoration right now and will bring you with me in prayer!
One day while reading the lineage of Jesus in Matthew, it struck me how many unknown people are in His lineage. I wondered if they sometimes thought why am I here or what is my purpose?. They never knew that simply by their existence they were helping to bring the Son of God into the world.
Somethings up. In the middle of the first reading in mass today, I suddenly think (like it's some sort of revelation) "Oh my gosh, we have to let everyone in the world know about Jesus!". I'm an old life long Catholic. This is not news. Yet I felt as though Peter himself was talking to me. And now this. Me thinks the Holy Spirit is roaming the earth. God bless.
Thank you 🙏 I live basically as a housewife home most of the time praying for about 4 hours a day. I’m not doing a ton in the world but as a lay Nun I get to pray and care for my husband and grown children. And prayer is a role. Thank you for all the work you are doing to share the Gospel. God bless you 🙏
I think there’s a reason why Jesus chose uneducated and in society’s eyes, dumb fishermen, tax collectors, and sinners to be the instruments of His church. God qualifies the unqualified. 5:25
This is a new thing!! He’s on to something people. The unfiltered gunky content is making its way through social media as a natural opposition to everything else that’s curated for publishing🎉🎉🎉 Im no scholar but I know there’s a word for this kind of phenomenon. Please feel free to let me know the word😂 Also I can’t stop laughing that this channel exist from pure joy and relief. ❤
I am starting Young Adult group at my parish because the Parochial Vicar shared that my age and demographic (mid-20’s and single) are being neglected. Being called to it gave me various feelings, one of which was basically “Why me? There have to be better people for this than me.” I’ve since then realized that God called me and has supported me since that, despite my self-doubt. He wants me because he knows what I can do better than I do. Thanks for sharing the message Matt, it helps me stay humble but hungry for God’s will. God bless you and your ministry. I will not like or subscribe ;)
“Your wretchedness doesn’t disqualify you from doing the things demanded of you.” Yessss! Thank you for this. Btw, you get 95% of the credit for my becoming Catholic this Easter Vigil (Jordan Peterson gets 5%) Thank you
I so agree. I my family is distanced from the Catholic Fairh. I will be 80 August first. l keep my old lady worrying the beads to myself.polycarp was 86 and was not shy. He died a martyr with joy. Thank you Matt for rattling my cage
Our wretchedness is not more powerful than God's mercy. Its not about how "perfect" we can be, it's about how much mercy Jesus has for us. Its not about us at all. Blessed be the name of the Lord!!
Thank you, this is a video I'll be coming back to in hard times. It's another reminder that humble boldness and bold humility are really the only way to go with God and ourselves-- That does not come easily to me, but I'm beginning to more viscerally understand the need for it, and reach after it in my own life. And I can't give what I don't have, I need to strengthen my own prayer life and ability to rest in God's love to be at all effective as a preacher of his word. God bless you
Millenials picked up this self depreciating and self cynical psychology. It’s a huge temptation and has a weird sort of pride baked in as if we expect more of ourselves in order to close the ironic distance and be straightforward and serious about what we are doing. Good for you Matt talking about this!
Good stuff, Matt. It’s so nice to hear directly from you. You have been a huge part of my conversion process. Thank you for proclaiming the Gospel fearlessly! I consider you a friend on the journey, even though we don’t know each other. I’m another one of those fun former Protestant pastors, haha!
I have been a teacher at a Catholic school for 37 years and have felt that every day I have been called to do what I can where I can with what I have. Every day is important for all of us to be a witness and preach the Gospel and if necessary, use words. Also Matt it helps to have birds tweeting in the background!! Beautiful
I feel like this all the time. I am a wife and I have to do this with my own family and myself every day. We are called to be saints and even though we fall short, warts and all we must persevere. God bless you. Keep on praying and trying, God suffices and he picks up the slack where we fall short. 😊
Yes! That question, “who do you think you are to…(pursue holiness, proclaim the Gospel, etc., etc….)” comes from our enemy, who deserves to be ignored. Just like with the loaves and fishes, God can do mighty things through our little offerings.
Well, yes. If we remember always that we are at spiritual warfare it will help us keep our own failures in perspective. We fall and get up. A life of repentance is nothing more nor nothing less.
This is the radical relationship with the Holy Spirit we all need. The HS can ignite the Church overnight if we all believe we have been given this decree by God himself and then ACT to proclaim the Gospel. Amen, Matt!
I'll be 49 this year, and it took me seeing a picture of Carlo Acuto laying in his track suit to realize that saints were not super humans, somehow different from other humans. Realistically I always knew that, but there is a sense of them just being built different. We've all been given our own individual gifts, so we have to live our faith in a way that resonates with us, I'm a quiet person, so my expressions are on a more individual level.
I used to always say, "I'm just a nobody, but..." Brothers & sisters, we are called to go on the great adventure of accepting the invitation to be God's children, to turn our tragedies into weapons to slay sins in ourselves & others, and to be the boldest plagiarists (Jesus copiers) that we can imagine! I'm not a clown for my own amusement, but I'll sing, dance, & act like a jester if it leads others to this radical peace I've found. Accept Jesus as the co-captain of your life, hoist up the sail, & head out to move among the chaos of the world. Godspeed!!!!!!!
wow this is real. We are dirt but we are still needed to grow plants. For ours and everyone else sake. For everyone else, let Christ pour Himself into us.
I just saw this secret podcast, there’s no way will subscribe to this. However I will comment because I feel this is necessary commentary for our time.
He begins the video saying "don't subscribe", then says he won't diminish his work on youtube again, that he'll take it seriously, and then finishes saying again "don't subscribe". Which is it?! Either way, I'm subscribing
I lose my patience with the dementia-afflicted elderly I'm taking care of, sometimes. Changing a resident's diaper: "Could you please stop grabbing my arm?! I'm trying to get you clean!" or "For the love of... could you please sit still for fifteen seconds?"
I still can't believe God has trusted me to guide my family to him. 😢 In the last year ive realized Jesus put the responsibility of bringing my families and everyone around me souls to him and im like Jesus are you serious? You've seen the disgusting human i am😢. lately all i can do is talk & think about is Jesus and the Bible to the point that i think im going crazy because all i see is how short i fall. Idk maybe i Am just goin nuts all the people that i thought would be happy that im changing all of a sudden aren't so happy around me. Idk why i just commented all of this sorry Fradd lol. God bless you and your family.
Thanks for the message. I volunteer at our food pantry and we serve our community with love and as an example of Christ. Before Lent, we had a luncheon for all the ministers and they invited me and I felt like such an imposter going. Like I know how I am a sinner and I feel like I do so little compared to all these other people that serve at the parish. I feel like I chose the easiest way to serve to just get my foot in the door or something. Then each person I met there was so excited to meet those that worked with the pantry and reminded me that we all have roles in the Body of Christ to build up His Church. And it is no less of more important than any other contribution or role.
7:12 Ur doing great Matt...All Christian disciples struggle wd wat u r struggling now. Regardless, we press on for d great price. Loving God and doing His work and will for His sake is it all about❤ press on and continue d fight. Great prize awaits dat s out of this world. God bless always
Im very glad to hear you talking like this, Matt, bec I have been praying for you to stop downplaying your role in broadcasting. And thank you for the exhortation.
Thank you I needed to hear that very much for many residents. God bless you and keep up the good work Whilst you are in the area why don’t u go for a visit to Medjugorje 🙏God bless
Thank you for this message.I often feel as I am failing my little ones.I lose my patience and start complaining.I downplay my role as a SAHM I feel invisible.Its not about my feelings but these souls God has given me to lead them to heaven.🙏
Absolutely love this.. it really resonated with me…. And my very very many imperfections, 🙈🙈But my spirit is willing thanks be to God. God bless you Matt , you’re a hoot but a true man of God. And you were a huge part of my return to the faith of my birth n baptism . Míle Buiochas as Éireann ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️💚 I unsubscribed , but does that mean I could miss a post ?……
Wow! All this time I thought your name was Aquinas. Thank you for sharing. I pray the Lord keeps blessing all you do, for His glory. And if you ever feel weak. Tucked in the gospel is a prayer that I just came across. John 17. Woah. Here is the Lord saviour himself praying especially for you and all of us... "and now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory which I had with you before the world was made “I have manifested your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world; they were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you; for I have given them the words which you gave me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours; all mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. - John 17:5-10
1) Reminds me of a vlogbrothers video, although they're as not vehement about not subscribing, though. Very nice. 2) God being the source of all goodness, we can only say "we are worthless servants, doing only what was required of us."
Take Ourselves out of Ourselves! Just think of God and why he called us😊 God Loves us, and we were chosen to live in this Time❤ We Should Celebrate and Love what we do Because it Comes from God the Grace's Are a Gift from God Almighty not from us😮
