Closer Than You Think - Matthew Kelly - Life is Messy
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Closer Than You Think - Matthew Kelly - Life is Messy
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Excellent breakdown of the sin of gossip. This should be shown at every homily across the world.
Thank you.
Gossip and gluttony are sins that a lot of people do but are rarely called out as sin.
The inclusion of what it does to us (hardens our hearts) was so critical to include as was the part about passively listening to others gossip.
Social media is truly evil. Pray the rosary daily to become a better person, closer to Christ. 👐🏽🤗🥰🌈😄☮️🙏🏻🤗🌹
Yep
When you point the finger
3 point back!
Gossip makes us guilty!
Gossip burys another person alive!
Indeed
Lord shield me from the Evil.
nut job
Amen.
And us all
POWERFUL !! Strong message of wisdom and advice.. Thank you Matthew.
Think of the pain you could save others by just being silent.
Indeed
The power of speech
Thankyou. A simple message, but incredibly powerful. Definitely the sort of thing Jesus would say ❤️
The 8th Commandment Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.....
For Lent one year I gave up gossiping....so much was revealed to me by our Lord. I wasn't prepared for all that I learned by giving up that one thing, and the major impact it had on multiple lives.
Matthew Kelly brings me back to that year. It is still a sin I struggle with even though I do not want to do it.
It is a valuable teaching and lesson Matthew shares with us this Advent Season.
Great Lenten resolution.
Matthew, one of your best short videos ever! Very impactful.
Boy is gossip so easy to do too. Great video on opening my eyes wider to it.
Thank you for this.
It really opened my eyes to how gossip hurts so many people.
Thank you for helping me to be mindful of this destructive behavior.❤️
Welcome
Kelly makes.me feel pity on myself when i look back the past and see how sinful I have been. How silent life would have been if every word I altered was to paint the person i am talking about, his greatness, the words said in almost 100% of eulogies. How many families, keep on tearing one another apart, children to children and parents to children, and across each other. Good news expected in a phone call is more about talking bad on one another or wanting to hear gossip. Can resolve.e make a difference from this
Gossip is so easy to spot when others do it. Much harder to spot in ourselves. I need to be more aware.
Thank you Matthew. Your message here is why I have been gravitating toward a more isolated life, knowing that most of my relationships consist of gossip, especially in the realm of politics and other people's behaviors. It is unavoidable for me without increasing isolation, worship, dedication to prayer. Often times I try to say something positive or motivational and it somehow seems to offend. I most enjoy my time with God and that time is increasing in my life and my public presence is decreasing. God is the answer, not man.
Well said, I feel exactly the same way. It's so easy to be drawn into the "gossip mentality" when we are around others who are doing it. So, you are right. Better to disassociate from those people and spend time with God or just time enjoying the gifts God puts into our lives.
This is the most brilliant video. I am off to Confession to cleanse my soul from this evil bondage!! Forgive me Father! I will do better
Matthew, you speak so wisely - the Holy Spirit speaks thru you. I choose to think He is speaking to me, mostly because the subjects apply to me. And omgosh, I never thought exactly all it entails, what it does to us. Thank you so much
That is so true Judith that the Holy Spirit speaks through Mr. Kelly! Mr. Kelly has the gift of prophesy and predicted the corona virus in his book rediscover catholism. He didn't really I mean predict it or prophesise it, but what he wrote their merely as a story or as part of an example came true years later. He's a good author. I recommend your reading that story.anyway I believe the Holy Spirit prophesied through that story and guided Mr. Kelly to write that. Anyway, that's it , thanks for reading my comment.
Very well said Matthew, need to think before I speak 🛐☦️🙏
We all do
You are very welcome. Please pray for me.
Thank you
At first glance, I thought this said ELVIS is closer than you think. This is wonderful
Best talk I’ve ever listened to on gossip.
Thanks Rita. Please help share it with others.
It may be cowardly to be silent.
You are right. We have to weigh each situation
You are spot on especially when at work I am. That coward God help me and have mercy on me and all who commit this awful sin jesus have mercy on me a sinner
Press on
@@MatthewKellyAuthor thank you God love you your advice is so helpful I watch your talks on CZcams before I go to work thank you
I started watching your shows in EWTN I loved it and then i found one of your books the yellow one with a happy face on the cover it was in the church one day I stopped by .I loved it and I gave it to someone also. Now someone gave me the sagrados momentos i just finished it reading. Thank you!.
Powerful, I'm delighted the message is resonating with you!
The more I watch and listen to Matthew Kelly, the more I appreciate this man.
Gossip has been a sin of mine of which I overlook.
Thank you so much! Eye opener for sure.🙏🏽
What a powerful message!!! As much as I say I hate gossip, it is so easy to join in with others when they are doing it. I find myself feeling left out of the loop when I avoid those people, but the older and wiser I get, the more I realize how harmful it is to ALL of us. Thank you for a very VIVID reminder. You are truly a blessing!
I'm reading this book at this very moment. It's really truthful and thought provoking. Thank you
Thanks Janet.
The tongue is as viciously used like a sword when we participate in gossip it ties us to sinful life. God bless you Matthew 🙏
Thank you for this video. Totally true, and I agree about this gossip. Thank you.
Thanks
Great word my friend!
I never get enough of watching Mathew! Appreciate all you do!🙌🏻💕🙌🏻
110% I LOVE THIS! Somewhere I read that this was against the commandment of "Don't Kill" because it kills and harms people's reputation.
I love your books and your video’s are right on thank you
This is so true, and yes we are all quilty, and ashamed, and thanks for the reminder, let us wake up to this. . A great subject Thank you
Delighted this resonated with you @Dol Mc Cabe
Wow, does this hold up a mirror. Thank you Matthew, for showing us that even what we may consider “harmless” gossip, isn’t a victimless act. And that it harms us just as much when we participate in it.
Love your talk about how to pray! After Christmas mass my priest gave everyone leaving church, your book “Life is Messy.
I was very happy to get this book because I have others that you wrote. I want to thank you for making a difference in my life.
God bless you in you work! 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏
Hope you are enjoying the book
OOOOOooooo THANK YOU dear Matthew! Your candid openness helps us to see ourselves in ways we normally wouldn’t.
Ha! Gossip hardens our hearts too! Gossip destroys and we thank you for bringing this into the Light. Bless you. ❤
"Gossip hardens our hearts" - Indeed!
Powerful words thank you!
Thank Matthew. The team at New England Pet Partners sending warm woofs n wags. Yes, Life is Messy. I don't even know how Life is Messy (book) landed in my post box, but I am grateful. Thank you for raising awareness, insightful, authentic and inspirations sharing and reminders. Life is Messy, and we are part of the Mess. What helps me forge a clearer path out of messy situations (good, bad or evil)? Nature and dogs. Sharing my pets with myself first, then others, seems to keep me focused, balanced and meaningful.
Is it true, is it kind, is it necessary
Exactly
That is exactly what I was thinking about, those are the 3 things to ask yourself.
Merry Christmas
Same to you @Al Notter
Such a great message. Thank you for sharing. This is something I am really working on.
I am delighted this resonated with you Jeff.
Really, really powerful message that everyone needs to hear!
Thank you.
Thank you for this message. Gossip is such an ugly thing, we need ways to protect ourselves from it. Thanks for giving a few here, so important to guard ourselves from speaking and engaging with it.
Indeed.
What a great message - we are all "in it together" thank you.
Murdered by gossip... this is very helpful imagery
I am glad this resonated with you Rachel.
A Blessing for sure, 🕊🙏❤️
Thank you for the wisdom Matthew. Great insights from Life Is Messy, especially the fact that "Human beings can become desensitized to even the most horrific things".
Thank you.
I come in contact with evil evil everyday.
Very well said.
Same here.
We all do
Loved this video. A masterpiece. Loved the point that Gossip hardens our own hearts.
Really a deep subject thank you for bringing it to h our conscious
I am delighted this served you, Kathleen.
Thank you for your insights! Great job!
Welcome
Incredible.
I'm delighted this resonated with you, Sam.
I love this message! I share your messages on my FB Contemplative Catholic Discussion page for others to see and hear your message. Thank you!
That’s awesome. Thanks for helping spread the message
Gossip leads to hatred. Gossip makes us so uncaring.
Indeed. Delighted this resonated with you Debbie.
Thank you for this. I needed to hear this today. 🙂
Me too. I think we all need to hear it!
Much needed someone has really destroyed me out of immaturity & attention (negative). I pray for them, but believe it destroyed our relationship for good. 💔
I’m sorry to hear that.
Love the practical litmus tests you give for us to use. Thank you. It is so insidious how normalized it has become, I am going to try very hard to stop doing this. Likely the most dangerous evil out there due to the fact that it dehumanizes and hardens our hearts as you stated. Very thought provoking, I will share with my family:) I’ve read some of this book, and am currently enjoying Reclaim. Sent to me via ambassador program. Thank you for all you do. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Dear sir I just received your book life is messy so I guess I just met you and God-bless you
Thanks so much. Enjoy the book.
Wow! Do I need to go to confession.
We all do.
Wow Matthew. You got me here
Definitely something to reflect on. Delighted this resonated with you James.
Thank you Matthew, i needed to hear this. I did some sole searching. I want to be a better version of myself.
Take solace. We ALL need to be better versions of ourselves.
I feel crappy of myself for how easy it is to gossip. I try not to but it just happens
We all do. Keep trying
Just wowwwww 😔
Yep. We need to think on this more no matter how uncomfortable.
Thank you Matthew for this excellent exploration and illumination on this often glossed over form of bad behavior. However, I would add that what qualifies as gossip is not always clear. What would you say about the situation wherein I have been hurt by someone's bad behavior and need to talk about it to my friends? We've all been there. What about the situation where I feel obliged to warn someone away from someone else when I know that someone else is toxic in some way? What about my own need to clarify someone's behavior by talking about it to a friend? Is it me, or him? So, it seems that there are genuine human needs that can be viewed as gossip. It's always the gray zones that are difficult when speaking of personal moral discipline. Of course that's no excuse for our sloppiness in all those areas that are clearly trespasses, and these are where we should begin.
There are ways to do these without gossiping
I was wondering these very same things. When exactly does talking about another person become "gossip"? Because people always talk about other people, but again, when would that talk be classified as "gossip"? As in your examples, if someone does or says something hurtful to me, and I mention this to someone else, is that gossip? Somehow I think that the definition of gossip includes some kind of malicious intent. But then again, as Matthew is saying, we may say something about someone, not even realizing the harm we may be causing that person. It really is something to think about, and I will definitely be reflecting more deeply about this.
People spoke ill of me--- it hurt.
Currently in a toxic office where everyone piles on one person every day - who I dont think deserves it (I have figured out their background and issues) - I never join in - and when I try to ever defend, I get turned on. Basically, the goal is to move on soon. I feel exhausted at the end of the day from this toxic gossip. Pray for me.
Delighted this resonated with you @A R. Will be praying for your situation.
That's also a form of bullying- I'm curious if you finally left?
Your reply was 4 months ago...
Lord I trust in You! I want time with my boys
Beautiful prayer
Not all gossip is bad.....it could save someones life.....the only gossip hurtful is the made-up one
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Gossip is bad but slanderous gossip is horrible. If you didn't see it or hear it first hand, it's not true. Don't tell it. I failed that yesterday.
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Gossip and jealousy are things I hate the most.
They are both forms of black magic. and they spread like wildfire
Is there a difference between gossiping and confiding in a close friend about things friends may have said and knowing it will be held in confidence ?
When you here someone speaking ill of a so called friend when they are abscent you know they are probably talking about you in the same way when you to are abscent.
Sadly yes
My daughter slandered my good name to my abusive family of origin at least 25 years ago. There have been so many awful ramifications from such ungrateful treatment. Naturally, they were so happy to hear some dirt on me that wasn't true, or rather they would not question, so amply rewarded her with part of my inheritance while showering her with pity and attention.
I can't state my case, my side of the story, to nieces and nephews I never knew since they already have prejudice sight unseen and block me from emails and FB pages.
It is difficult to impossible to undo such damage and bad feelings. People do not like to believe they were wrong even if they were lied to. I have been and continue to be, a convenient scapegoat.
Yet, I did tell the girl if she wanted any kind of reconciliation with me, she can do her part by telling them certain stories she told about were not true, or at least was leading them to believe by elaboration or omission. The truth does come out in the end but in this case, too many years have been spoiled irretrievably.
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The difference between love of humans and love of God is that in human love, ecstasy comes at the beginning, but in the love of God it comes only at the end after one has passed through much suffering and agony of soul. The flesh first has its feast, and then the fast and sometimes the headache. The spirit has first the fast, and then the feast. The ecstatic pleasures of marriage are in the nature of a "bait," luring lovers to fulfill their mission, and they are also a Divine credit extended to those who later on will have the burden of rearing a family.
No great ecstasy of flesh or spirit is ever given for permanent possession without casting out something. There is a price tag on every ecstasy! The glory of an Easter Sunday cost a Good Friday. The privilege of the Immaculate Conception was an ecstasy given before the payment, but Mary had to pay for it at the foot of the Cross. Our Lord gave her "credit" but she later paid the debt.
Gossip is a sin no doubt. Heck, it's a Commandment of our Lord.
Do not go about spreading slander among your people.
-- Leviticus 19:16
Hello, I have thought about this in the context of work. So, I have a colleague that is not doing the job. [this is in the past]. This is a problem for the work team. The boss has no idea of the problem. So how does one morally address this problem. Is it gossip to discuss with team members? or the boss?
Talking about the guy Bishops in the Church and there distruction of the Church wrong?
Not sure what you’re saying
Question: If names and associated information is "scrubbed" so the individual can't be identified, and we share a situation/event/action that is an important real life object lesson about the affects of a bad behavior, is that still gossip? For example something like "... this is something that happened to me. The person isn't important, but this is what happened that was very damaging and I'm sharing this with you so you know these things really can happen and I want you to learn from my experience..."
I am thinking of some the parables of Jesus where he shared the impact of bad decisions. The Prodigal Son, the worthless servant, etc. Or even when he told people "Do what the Pharisees say but do not follow what they do" and calling them "brood of vipers". So is pointing out evil to protect others still licit?
Not sure. But my gut says yes.
In short, asking 3 questions before speaking, ...
Q. 1: Is it necessary?
Q. 2: Is it factual?
Q. 3: Is it kind?
When 3 "YES"s, sure.
If 2 "YES"s, may be/might be.
If only one, better not.
I like that.
Gossip is poison. I hated Gosip. The power of the tongue is bad. It ruined my life, It's poison.
Guilty...
Aren’t we all.
If they were not vicious, & were speaking truth* as they knew, just casually, & watch if audience were mature enough; I really appreciate their view. //But some women have vicious, malicious heart & mind : )
Eating meat.
Think of the pain you could save by just being silent.
I have read that silence leads to humility
Exactly