"The Infinite Importance of Jesus" | Easter Sunday (Fr. Mike's Homily)
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Are Jesus and the Mass merely optional...or essential?
We have such full lives and such small hearts that we are relieved when things get cancelled. But, for the things that are neccesary, we would be devasted if we missed them. Who Jesus is to us will determine our response when we are not able to get to Mass or receive the Eucharist.
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I was at 7:30 am Mass today - which marks my official return to the Catholic church! God is Great!
A very Happy & BLESSED EASTER to everyone!
He Is Risen! Hallelujah!
Fantastic news, welcome back and God Bless 🛐✝️
Welcome Home! Christ is Risen! Alleluia!
Welcome back!
Welcome back brother!! Our lord has risen alleluia!!!
Welcome home! He Is Risen Indeed! Alleluia!
Thank you thank you Father Mike. In May I will be 87 years old, and this is the Homily I've been waiting for all my life. The way you explain things, makes me understand and appreciate my existence in this world. Thank you very much. I have to add that if it was not for the pandemic I would not have found you. Everything has a reason!
May I ask why you think gad is real? Can you offer any credible reasons for your belief in an unseen gad?
Science tells us that the universe began 5.7 billion years ago. Like anything that had a beginning, the universe did not create itself. There cannot be an unending sequence of creation and created things, unless there is an uncaused cause behind it all. God is that invisible uncaused cause. Creation itself, indeed your very own personal existence, is incontrovertible proof that GOD exists.
@@stevehammett2008 So rather than think rationally and critically you jump to the unreasonable assumption that magic and gad are real? What credible evidence can you offer to support your outrageous claim?
Thank you Fr. Mike for a beautiful Mass and a stimulating Gospel that makes one realize their purpose on this earth from God and his compassion and gentle touch always. You are truly an Apostle of Jesus. ❤😅🙏🏻
We attended Mass in a foreign country in a foreign language and received the Eucharist in the universal language of God’s love for us! ❤ Happy Easter!!!
God Have Mercy on me a Sinner.
My daily prayer is… Jesus I Love you Please help me love you more 🙏🏼📿👑
He is risen! CHRIST IS KING! May all the world 🌎 know, love and praise him ❤
I am not even Christian, and Jesus is the most important part of my life❤🎉 “Do This in Remembrance of Me”
That's nice but I pray you convert!
If Jesus is the most important part of your life then you are a Christian. Perhaps more so than Christians in name only.
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Thank you! Blessing and prayers to you, as well (please keep praying for me!)🙏🙏❤️❤️
I was welcomed into the Catholic Church 3 years ago and I am now 71. I can see the thread running through and leading up to my conversion and I pray that you will too, God willing.
If Jesus is the most important part of your life, then you are indeed a Christian.
There was a time in my life where I treated Mass and Jesus as an accessory. I would be relieved if something came up where we would not have to go to Mass… once Jesus brought me back to him last year, I have become enthralled with him… i thirst for wisdom and knowledge daily… i speak more and more to him every day, working with him to become what he wants me to be, listening for the Holy Spirit to guide me… The best parts of my day are when we talk and I learn… I am so grateful each week for our Mass time and everyday for the ever growing relationship we continue to build! 🙏🙏🙏
If you're looking for "knowledge and wisdom" you will not find it in the babel nor believing in magic. Good luck.
Another powerful sermon. God bless you father Mike. You brings me closer to God every time I listen to your homily🙏
How can you be sure gad is real? Can you offer any credible evidence to support your claim?
I am from SA....During COVID, I was so disappointed as I would not receive our Lord in the Eucharist... so I found many online masses to attend🙏🙏👐 God bless you Father, you bring many back to God
When Mass was canceled, I was so grieved. I longed for the Eucharist. If you are not back to the Catholic Church, come back home. Receive your Lord and Savior--Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. You are missed. I am praying for you. Christ is Risen!
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Mass being cancelled was the best thing for me because it allowed me to view the mass celebrated from different churches and get more in-depth with my catholic faith. A few years before that, I knew the importance of the mass and that I needed to have a relationship with the Lord but the Protestant non-denominational services were causing an itch in me that I was thinking of attending some and maybe even jumping aboard but the mass cancellation made me realize the beauty and truth of Catholicism
I went on a hike yesterday with my brother and a few friends (who are Protestant) and they were saying how "it'll be cool if our pastor went to the stage on a Zipline." I remember thinking "They are removing the sacred for entertainment." I also remember thinking "All I want is the Eucharist."
“I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ…; I long to drink of His blood, the gift of unending love.” - Ignatius of Antioch
Amen
Would you please pray for my son, Joshua, to come home to his Catholic faith.
I long for him to miss Jesus in the Eucharist.
You should have shared your grace-filled thoughts with those protestants.
Will do @@colettemccleave4532
@@wms72I wish I had
Thank you Father Mike for another great homily. Yes, in my life, Jesus and the Eucharist are essential, always have been, always will be. I ask you Jesus to help me continue to be strong in my faith, for without it, I would be lost and my life would be empty. Happy Easter to you and all at Ascension and all listening today.
God bless you!!
@@gregl9175Thank you! You as well.
Amen Father. At 50 I suffer from JOMO~joy of missing out. I crave peace, have worked two jobs for past 5 yrs to sustain my home as a single mother….the news is depressing, the world is in upset regarding politics, war…..hate.. some may say my life is boring but I am happy, I go hiking, look after friends, family, feed those in need, try to donate time, money when I can. I am a fall away catholic, mainly due to work, I haven’t attended mass for a long time, but you, Fr. Mike and hallow have helped guide me back to my faith and love of Jesus. For that I am so grateful, it has filled my soul with hope and guided me back to daily prayer (and mean it). God help us all.
If JC and gad were actually real why do you think they allow your life to be so difficult?
@@TboneWTFGod does not allow anything in our lives, no matter how difficult, except for the purpose of bringing about a greater good. Any suffering God allows in our lives pales in comparison to the suffering which was voluntarily and lovingly taken on by his Son, on the Cross. Christians are called to imitate and follow Christ by taking up (accepting the suffering) the Crosses in our own lives.
@@stevehammett2008 LOL. Gad is good except when he's not. Remember when he flooded the entire planet and ryped open stumachs? Yeah your gad is a loving caring parent my friend. If he were real he'd be considered a homicidal maniac.
@stevehammett2008 LOL. Gad is good except when he's not. Remember when he flooded the entire planet and ryped open stumachs? Yeah your gad is a loving caring parent my friend. If he were real he'd be considered a homy cidal many iac.
@stevehammett2008 LOL. Gad is good except when he's not. Remember when he flooded the entire planet and ryped open stumachs?
🙏✝️🛐🛐🛐🙏I am humbled by this Homily THANK YOU FATHER MIKE💜✝️💜
Thank you Lord for resurrection Sunday!❤
During Desert Storm I was in 5 locations and the mass was always available. When I arrived in Al Masirah in Oman the priest had a mass kit that only had the Sunday masses so he celebrated the Sunday liturgy 7 days a week. I had a daily missal which I gave him and he cried he was so happy. In Riyadh the priest had to travel to different locations and had to celebrate the Sunday liturgy. I tagged along and heard the same readings and homily daily. It was so special celebrating the Eucharist in a place so close to where Jesus walked, in the midst of war. It's difficult for me to understand how a Catholic, especially with a family, could dispense with Sunday mass because of a vacation. I thank God for his grace and love in my heart for his priests and his mass.
Thank you for your service
Thank you Lord for all the bountiful blessings you have bestowed upon me and my family. I pray for the forgiveness of sins and to continue to accept Jesus Christ as the centre of our lives. In Jesus Name, Amen. 🙏
What exactly has JC done for you recently?
I wasn’t going to mass when it was canceled but due to Covid I started watching mass with you and now I’m going to mass again but still watching your mass because I like both.
Thank You Fr Mike
Lord Jesus, I need you!
Home run. Out of the park. Best Easter homily ever. Nothing of more importance than that, and for a climatic point of the year, bingo. For a current topic that pertains more to us now than ever, right on point. Seriously, I don’t know how anyone could talk about a more important topic.
I feel so bad for people that don't prioritize Christ. He shows so much grace and love.
Let’s hope they convert brother!
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Pray for them
We are so blessed to follow Fr. Mike here and other form. I always check my podcast to listen to him before offering Holy Mass. He always gives us the insight, the life altering truth about Our Lord who has eternal significance in our existence. We prary for you, Fr. Mike to stay safe; healthy and keep feeding His flock!
Wow! So powerful. Jesus is my necessity!
I really need to get to confession so that I may receive communion with a clean heart.
Ty Fr. Mike for your ministry. Happy Easter all!!
Fr. Mike, I continue to have difficulty with understanding why during Covid, at a time when we needed God in our lives more than ever, the church was closed. What was open were package stores, box department stores, etc. and we as Catholics cowered in our homes, as the disciples did that Sunday after Christ arose from the dead.
What very well could have happened, had the Churches not closed is have HHS shut the churches down.
excellent Father
Father, this is such an amazing homily. Encouraging the faithful to attend daily Mass is amazing! God love you.
Praise to God and Jesus Christ😇🙏❤
Happy Easter Father Mike and all at Ascensions ♥️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼God Bless you all !!
Yes.. only as we get older it’s almost such a relief when things get cancelled now comfy. We need never to cancel on Our lord Jesus Christ. Happy Easter Father.
Happy Easter Father. 🙏
Going to weekday Mass has been life-changing, I'm able to get there everyday except Tues. We have Adoration, followed by the Rosary, then Mass and the recitation of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, every Wednesday. Sometimes it feels like a long night but I always feel so alive and joyful afterwards. I've met so many people from my community this way, and I feel heartsick on the days I can't go. I thank God everyday for calling me back home to the Catholic Church and it's absolutely true the more time I spend nurturing my faith the deeper I fall in love with Jesus. The ways of the world seem foolish and trivial in light of Eternity and I never fully grasped that until I invested more time going to daily Mass and receiving Jesus in the Eucharist. He will open your heart and fill you with wisdom and grace. Our God is so awesome!🥰
Thank you for introducing Father Walter Ciszek.....its been a very rich path.
So beautiful. Father. ❤ Happy Easter.
I read Fr Walter's book throughout Lent. His story really puts things in perspective! Also attended daily mass for the duration of Lent. Both really had an impact on me. So thankful for our Catholic faith! Thanks, Fr. Mike (and Ascension) for all the seeds you plant!
Jesus is the most important person in the world. He is the Word of God, thus all things are created through him and by him. There is nothing we can do, when without Jesus. Jesus was there from the beginning. He is the light. He is truth incarnate. There are people who claim this is mythology, and they don't understand that it is the difference between walking to get to the supermarket (atheism) or driving a minivan to the supermarket (Jesus). In Christ and his cross, we focus our energies on the image of God (the Son of Man), and this blesses us when we believe. You are what you believe.
What a great examination of conscience… did I feel sad or relieved if/when Mass was cancelled? WOW great thoughts
Point in . I get happy if things get cancelled. And if not cancelled get postponed. Life is so full. Heart is not small but so big and Christ occupies all of it
Why do you think gad is real?
Thanks, Fr Mike, yes this is so true. When we are confronted with the history of such evil, we then are faced with ourselves. How would we handle life in a concentration camp. It's hard for our minds to comprehend. God Bless. Claire.
HOPPY EASTER FATHER MIKE 🐇 🐇 🐇🐇
Father you really hit a cord with me on this subject . . . Yep, I like when things get canceled and it did happen after mass went on line that’s when I stopped going to daily mass my heart was angry at the bishops I would of taken the chance getting sick to go, but then . . . I got away from going part of me was hungry to go back couldn’t wait I longed for Jesus in the Eucharist but I also felt the bishops didn’t think it was that important so why do I??
I’m being honest but this talk showed me i t’s on ME. Jesus has to be everything and I’m very grateful that you had this honest heartfelt homily made me look at my heart and buck up the truth thank you!! Just got back from daily mass. Continue with these great homilies we need them.
Wait until you hit 75😊 and fill your plate too full. I tend to volunteer for everything.
Thank you, Fr Mike for sharing your gift with us. You just inspired me to make Jesus essential in my life. Happy Easter!
We have to look beyond the Judas/es among the leaders to JESUS - Who is EVERYTHING
His best homily yet!
When he started into saying about being relieved or kinda happy that we didn’t have to go to mass, and that Jesus can be an accessory; I was convicted. Ouch! But a necessary ouch.
It’s like when Jesus said, “you can’t serve God and mammon”……
thank you for this Fr. Mike!
I cried 😢
I am always thought that going to Mass at least one weekend since childhood and always not eager to go for a weekday mass... Then one day, I happened to be free and tried to go last year. At first i thought it was crazy idea to go on weekdays but since then, I become addict to go even weekdays when I am free. Become a thing to go after working time to go for mass followed by gym or going to cell group etc. The peace that I feel after communion is insane.
I meditate and feel the same way.
Thank you!
Truth
Not always easy to speak the truth but sometimes it’s necessary
You got me with that opening, Fr. Mike! I’m a little too relieved by cancellations as well 😅 beautiful homily ❤
Thanks!
My parish cancelled masses until thurs. this week, to give our priests a break, but we do have perpetual adoration
I had that same amazing relief after four hours and 45 minutes of Jury Duty. After that Monday the rest of the week was canceled. 👍😀
Challenge accepted.
Alleluia! Wow! Magnificent way to describe the Eucharist!
Thank you, Fr Mike!
Love this Easter challenge.
Powerful, thank you and Jesus spoke to my Being ❤
Pray for our parish Fr. Stan he has stomach cancer
May Holy Nary, St. Olav and St. Raphael obtain Fr. Stan's healing. IN NOMINE PATRIS ET FILII ET SPIRITUS SANCTI. +AMEN
I need to make mass a priority; I have failed to show that Jesus and the Eucharist is my reason to live.
Your reason to live is a 2000 year old dead man?
I think during covid, we could still go to mass online - not exactly the same, but we could still make a spiritual communion. Excellent idea to go to mass more often during the week.
If gad is all powerful and merciful why did he create the Covid virus that has kylled millions of his children?
We are fighting the culture of the day
Amen. 🙏🏿
Thank you, Fr. Mike, I always need to be reminded. I work 2nd shift, so it seems difficult to get to Mass on week days.
Wow this really hit home for me. Your homilies always give me new perspective so thank you Father Mike! 🙏🏼 Happy Easter
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Wow that was so so beautiful! And I find it really funny that other people sometimes get relieved when something is canceled. Even if it's something that they want to do, I find myself feeling that way a lot😂
I was willing to trust that our Bishops were keeping us safe. I missed the Sacraments, but known that I made someone sick and someone could die because of me was a relief.
🙏 ❤
My mom(RIP) always taught me, you can’t leave Jesus because of Judas! Makes so much sense!!!🙏🙏🙏
Lord Jesus, open my heart so that I can encounter you today
Thank you from Toronto Canada 🇨🇦
Felices pascua
Well received authenticity ❤
For nerodivergent people, it looks a little different. We get distracted by things that don't "fit" with Mass. We have to discipline ourselves to the Mass just as others do, but it might take more energy. We are also invited to radically love those who are not participating fully in the Mass (and maybe sit up front to avoid the extra stimulus and just deal with the excessive incense). God gives us the grace to participate fully, but we need to want it.
Great message 🙏
Love is to spend time on; what we spend time on, we end up loving. As the Apostle shut out in the Book of Revelation: I know... you have endurance and have suffere I hold this against you; yet you have lost the love you had at first. The infinite importance is the source for me to love.
Have you read the babel passages that allow for and support slayvery?
@@TboneWTF he who was called being free is Christ's slave.
@@JakeWang I agree the babel is contradictory and hypocritical. Good luck my friend.
@@TboneWTF so as life and human thoughts. Thank you. May the spirit of God be with you always.
@@JakeWang Gad is a lie my friend, but I do hope you find the courage to live your own life some day.
I missed mass and confession so much. But i started watching mass online from Divine mercy shrine in Stockbridge MA and since then ive learned so much from fr Chris Alars 'Explaining the faith talks' . Since covid i now watch mass online every day.
Its a shame we cant receive from the chalice yet in England
make the Eucharist essential
It’s essential
and since I am less than nothing without God's guidance, I must pray more and I must cut out of my life all that is dark. And leave only that that is light. What God says is right is right. What God says is wrong will be wrong. I can rely on that. To pray more - I look at muslim women and they pray 5 times a day. Five! it would be good if I prayed at least twice. They have a prescribed text, but so do I when I open the breviary. I even have English one. I actually like to watch muslim bloggers. They talk about kids, clothing and food, it's relaxing. I still don't want to read their BOOK but I like their HABITS, in every sense of the word :)
I am a child of God and also not a member of the Catholic Church. I have been told that I am not allowed to take the Eucharist because I am not Catholic. Jesus said: take this-my body and my blood. He didn't say: only if you are Catholic. I have struggled with this. Some of my Catholic friends have said-don't worry about it. Take the Eucharist anyway. Others say, don't because it's too dangerous. I can't think of one thing that would be dangerous in order to get more personal to my lord and savior. On the other hand, I want to respect the values of the church. It is so distressing.
Second kidney!!!!!!! I’m sorry. I had to laugh. May the Peace of Christ be with all of you. Happy Easter Sunday. 🕊️🙏🕊️
Happy Easter Father! Possibly you need a rest cure retreat!
Quit while you're winning, at least temporarily!
Fr. Mike needs some rest. Poor man.
Father, you are so handsome. Do you think watching you and thinking that how handsome you are, Is a sin for a married Catholic woman?
FR WALTER is a all around Fr. Mikes homilies. Can i kindly get some litrature on him. I would love to read
The book is called He Leadeth Me. I'm eager to read it. I facilitate a Book Club at my parish and may read this book with my members.
once I'm out, at least mentally, from a toxic environment - I mean from czech churches - I can continue with my plan - I mean "how to be a better person". Because I see that pattern - "in case nobody would like you and everybody would criticize you, and cast you out of all fellowships and deny you, you will be more and more unhappy and dark and evil, our Poor Little Scapegoat". People use this and absorb this like this is some law. No. The gravitational law is a law. This is only a psychological pattern. Everyone can accept or reject this pattern as soon as they recognize it.
Father Mike, can you talk about the 3 day darkness?And what will jesus give us four heads up
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Can I have the name of the book written by father Walter?
The book by Fr Walter Cizsek is called He Leadeth Me
Regret, because i could worship at a big box store but could not worship at St JUDES in Lewes De
During COVID I spent a lot of time searching for a church with limited access but at least I was able to receive holy communion
Live stream is okay I suppose but it can’t replace being there
I see mass as necessity, not accessory. But that's not to say that we were wrong for shutting down churches during the pandemic. I'd say the Christian thing to do would be to look out for one another and not be risking people's lives.
If gad is omnipotent and created everything why did he need his son to dye for something that he created?
The sacrifice proved he was omnipotent.
Let me explain.
Jesus was considered the true sacrifice or the final sacrifice because before he died people would sacrifice animals for God to receive forgiveness from sins. But now that Jesus died, it is communicating to people that he is powerful enough to not even need an animal to die.
@@marissad9613 I'm not questioning gads power. I'm questioning why he needed his son to dye for something that he created. Why didn't gad just snap his fingers or blink his eyes (or however he makes magic) to resolve the problem that he created?
Is Fr. Mike wearing two watches? Haha
Yes many Catholic priests wear two watches. They need to know the local time and what time it is in Rome.
@@rhwinner Ahh, interesting!
Y’all folded. You undermined the entire thing by FOLDING to the lie. The cold of Siberia couldn’t shut a starving priest down, but there were plenty of fellow Christians willing to betray those who suggested secret Eucharist. Some priests were indignant to those who suggested secret Eucharist. I have returned and hope y’all LEARNED something. But I have doubts now.
Suis catholique en dehors de l'église...
How many C…did u watched and made fun of while u visiting AK???
Slow down your talking to fast
I'm a proud ex-Catholic.
What are your beliefs now? Just curious.
God bless ✝️
@@syan625 I'm an Animist.
That ex catholic remark made me shudder. Mama will get you back. Praying for allex catholic.
Do Animists have any beliefs in a higher power or the beginning of the universe?
Just can't get my head around a rock or tree having a soul.... Bless you for listening to Fr Mike❤
Thank you, Father Mike. Life is busy. It's always relieving to open my CZcams feed to you.