This Is What It Means to Encounter Jesus
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- An encounter with Jesus is important, but it’s difficult to wrap our head around such an abstract concept. Fr. Mark-Mary suggests we read the story found in Mark 5:21-34 about the hemorrhaging woman, to help us understand what an encounter with Jesus really is.
This woman was an outcast in society. She was considered unclean, and she lived this way for twelve years. Friends she might have known her whole life may have looked at her with eyes of caution. Misled religious leaders may have looked at her with judgment. Doctors may have looked at her with the eyes of despair. Family members may have started to look past her.
Because of all these lies, she probably started thinking of herself as unwanted, a burden, a hopeless cause. But then she hears about Jesus and goes to find him. When she does, she touches his tassel. When Jesus notices that he was touched, the woman apologizes. But Jesus doesn’t chastise her. Instead, his eyes say, “You are known, good, and loved.” He speaks truth to her and calls her daughter.
This is an encounter with Jesus. It reminds us and convicts us of our identity. This is the essence of prayer and reading Scripture. Next time you pray or read Scripture or both, look into Jesus’ face as this woman did, and you will understand how powerful an encounter with Jesus can be.
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Thank you my dear Catholic friend. I was raised as a Protestant to believe that Catholicism was not of God. But I see clearly now that you, a Catholic, have a deep love for Jesus and what He came here to communicate to us. You have shown me that Jesus and His mission here on Earth TRANSCENDS the traditions that I was brought up to believe are true. God bless you!!!
I was raised protestant as well, converted earlier this year, and ive really realised how much SLANDER and misinfo is out there against the Church. keep researching and learning. God bless.
I had a similar dream one time that I was at a cocktail party. A party where there were groups of four or five people standing and chatting. I looked across the room and saw Jesus. I positioned myself in back of someone so that they would be blocking his ability to see me because I knew that if he saw me, he would come over and call me out. Alas, He makes a beeline straight toward me. I brace myself for what I had coming to me. Instead, he held out his arms and I fell into them and I have never experienced such a feeling of relief. Best dream ever!!
I’ve seen people say seen visions of Jesus appearing and Mary wake me a spirit discernment
"Dont fear,i will be with you till the end of the world"
I’ll never forget my encounter with Jesus and the significance of what it meant for me and how God saw me after I spent my entire life feeling unwanted and unnecessary to the world.
Wow, that must be amazing.
Thank you Father Mark Mary for this awesome video. I too had an encounter with Jesus. For some time I left the Church and belonged to other faiths. I was on the verge of becoming an athiest when somebody invited me over to Mass. I don't know how to this day, but seeing that piece of bread I saw Jesus. He was there. Simply wanting to welcome me home. I didn't feel judged nor condemned. I mark that day as the beginning of my conversion. I am now and since that day, 20 years ago, a committed Catholic. I feel loved and understood. I may not know a lot of things and I am certainly not nearly perfect, yet I am sure Jesus loves me and little by little he is making me the man he wants me to be.
God is good.
God Bless you and Bless you...
The hemorrhaging woman is one of my favorite gospel stories. Thank you for this reflection. It spoke straight to my heart.
Father Mark Mary,
Thank you so much for all that you do.
I am nearly 50 and I am a cradle Catholic who had an encounter with Jesus 8 years ago in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. I have decided to follow Jesus and have fallen in love with the Catholic Church again.
We are about to launch the Wild Goose series in the Parish in England and I have been feeling opposition and feeling low. This week I have identified one of the problems.... I have not spent enough time in prayer, on my own with God and His Word. I have neglected the time needed to be able to have an encounter with Jesus and this video has really touched me. My next session with the Confirmation group is on prayer and I am thinking about using your videos, especially this one and follow it with Lectio Divina of the passage.
Jesus, because I have come back to Him again this week and prioritised my time with Him has blessed me beyond any expectation. So, thank you for being part as such a beautiful blessing.
May God carry on blessing you, so you can carry on being a blessing to others.
@Peachgirl91 Yes and no
I felt Jesus's extreme love and forgiveness. The context was not the same, but I felt like the adulteress to whom Jesus said, 'Go and sin no more'. It was my first 'proper' confession as I had previously been away from tbe Church for years and I gave to Christ all that I could remember fro when I was a child; things I had never confessed and all I felt was Jesus acceptance, mercy and love. All I had to do was change and follow him. Now, i understand what the disciples felt when they met him and left everything because this encounter with his heart, through the priest, compelled me to change the things I needed to change. I was cured from a sin I was locked in. It was a miraculous encounter. As a result of this, I have become more like a disciple. Of course I make mistakes and this is why I run to confession whenever I feel I have hurt God by my behaviour. Not because of hello, but because I have hurt the person who loves me the most.
So, no I did not see Jesus, but yes, it was a supernatural encounter because of its miraculous effect.
It has made me want to learn about my faith as although I am a cradle catholic, it was not important to me,; I now read the bible daily because I want to know God put Father. I have also become active in the Church. The encounter has changes me from having a God on standby when I needed me, to me searching the will of God for my life daily, and wanting people to also have their own encounter with Jesus.
Thanks Lord for affirming me, for your loving glaze, for freeing me when i encounter you
I had an encounter with Jesus thru a picture of Jesus with his sacred heart. I was in the midst of my horrible sins, and he overcame me with his love. I've never been the same.
Dear Fr please pray for my daughter Mary so that she encounter Jesus, enhance her prayer life be more closer to Jesus.
Thank you Father Mark. I currently am on my journey back home to the church. I have been a lost sheep for a very long time. Your video today felt like an encounter with Jesus for me. I constantly barrage my own self of my unworthiness. So thank you truly. For today I saw Jesus through you. God bless you.
Thank you, Father Mark. I've recently converted and come home and I'm learning more all the time. And you're part of that. So thanks.
Fr. Mark-Mary you are terrific. You make me think of what Fr. Benedict Groeschel might have been like when he was young.
Praise OUR LORD who inspired you Fr. Mark-Mary, for talking about The Invaluable Personal Encounter with JESUS! You described most of my personal one (with some "heavily tear Shedding").
May GOD keep blessing you.
What a fantastic expansion of a short part of the gospel , unbelievably moving and powerful .. Thanks Fr Mark Mary, the holly spirit is truly with you ... God Bless
Muchas gracias Padre. This is one of my favorite gospels. I often think about this woman, her heart beating fast as she approached Jesus. Your reflection brought tears of hope. Gracias por tan bella reflection. Bendiciones!🙏
Thank you Father...this really spoke to me and I can do relate to the hemmoraging woman...I have a chronic, untreatable circulatory condition in my legs that causes constant open wounds and bleeding and twice, I developed such bad, unsightly infections that I had to go to the hospital...and both times I picked up MRSA which put me in a quarantine situation..There were some nurse, aides, technicians who had horrified looks and I understand but it does make you feel so alone and almost shunned...But I did experience such beautiful and loving care from most which I know was the Lord! Two incidents stand out..a doctor came to my room and as he was leaving said they would probably being doing an amputation on my leg..I was shocked and began sobbing but my nurse then just came in at the end of her shift and offered to stay with me on her own time..I will never forget that (and thank you God, I still have me leg)! The other was, after weeks in a rehab facility, I was praying on a Sunday morning that I wish I could be at church with Jesus...literally moments later...a wonderful man came to my room and was a Eucharistic minister and he brought me Jesus...I knew Jesus was there! I pray my condition would get better but I trust Jesus' is always with me! God bless you Father and I will pray for you!
Therese, I'm reading your comments of a year ago. I pray you are doing well. I will be doing a zooming rosary in about ten minutes and will pray for your well-being. May our Lord heal you if he hasn't already.
Hi Therese, thank you for sharing your experiences - what a time you've had. I suffer from M.E. - also a chronic condition. Like you I hope I will get well one day, but my experience of the Lord Jesus's provision and care for me, and the knowledge that my life is just as valuable to Him whether I am ill or well, makes me care less about how things turn out for me in the future because I know He is with me either way. It's often in the darkest, hardest, loneliest times that I have learned the most. Sending so much love to you and a huge hug 💗.
@@GeorgeAlexa Thank you George...I'm just reading this because I've been in the hospital for the last two months with a severe respiratory infection (not covid) and I also had cardic arrest. I just got out. Thank you for praying for me! I'm sure your prayers were heard because I'm finally home. I'll be praying for you! Thank you for your kindness!
@@clairey6407 I just got out of the hospital after two months with a severe respiratory infection and cardic arrest. (Non covid). I don't know how I could have gotten through it without knowing Jesus was with me. I'll be praying for your healing! God bless you!
Please brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus pray for my daughter Marjorie, my son Homer, and my husband Nathaniel to encounter Jesus the way I have encountered our ture saviour. King of kings, Lord of lords. God bless you all. Thank God that I have never ever been bother what others think of me or how others looked at me. I have God in my daily life. Do to personal experiences I know that God exist, God loves us sinners. God is all I want. God is all I need. God / Jesus Christ is my only true King and Saviour. God loves you. Thank you Father Mark.
Pray for them to find god and it will happen on their own time. It may take days months or years. Whenever god chooses. Until then only continue to love them and know jesus is with them all along whether they accept him or not
A few weeks ago I began praying for all 3 of my children (25, 20, and 14) to find their way "home". I went so far as to pray a binding prayer over each of them over a specific issue for each of them. My middle child told me last week she had downloaded a Bible app on her phone and somehow at the same instance she saw something about reading Romans 8. I immediately felt a small sense of relief that the prayers for my kids are working. This child has been my difficult one, a handful since she was little and very rebellious, always wanting to do her own thing and invariably always having to pay for negative consequences. I see so much of my past in that with her. Anyway, I felt so much joy in knowing she had her own profound experience from scripture. This comes from the same young woman who calls God a woman and in the past has called Him "the make-believe sky wizard".
I will continue to pray for all 3 of my children to come out of the darkness they've lived in with me for so long because as a mom, that is my duty. I will not give up on my family or myself.
Dear Father, This was just wonderful. I also had wondered, “what the heck does it mean to have an encounter with the Lord?” When I would ask, no one could seem to give a response that made any sense. Thank you for mentioning the gaze of Jesus in the Body of Christ and of why we need to take prayer time everyday to encounter the Lord in our heart and to be reminded of what this means.
Thank you!
Thank you Father Mark! My husband and I grew up protestant but as we’ve learned more about catholicism we want to become Catholic! I’ve watched tons of ascension videos, this one was so wonderful and reminds me of The Furious Longing of God by Brennan Manning. Thank you so much for all the videos you do Father!
Powerful meditation. Especially appropriate on st Valentine’s Day, when we celebrate love.
Amen, Fr. Mark Mary. It's the greatest comfort of my life to know that I'm , at every moment of my life, loved and known by Jesus, by God. He is truly our best friend.
A beautiful story of the infinite mercy and love of Jesus for humanity. Thanks for sharing, Fr. Mark-Mary
God bless you Fr Mark Mary. In your videos I can feel, see and hear your love for God and Jesus Christ. It touches my heart in ways that I do not understand. God bless you and your work.
This SO cut me to the quick, Father, letting others, unwillingly or not- letting others define you.
Oh how we need Jesus, the True One, the Lover of our souls.
Thank you so much Fr Mark Mary! Ive been a cradle Catholic but I never knew my Bible well enough to live up in Truth and so I did what my eyes thought were right. I was blind but now I can see. Thank you for your words, Fr. Mark. It is very timely to hear it for what I am going through. Prayers promised for you and all the priests in Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
Jesus is too perfect
True, Jesus was completely without sin, and yet he is our brother, God sent him to earth so we will know that we are equally loved, even if we are imperfect sinners
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I think he must have been, yes, Jesus was a yogi beyond the flesh
Dear Father, thank you for letting me see the gaze of Christ through the love, passion, and joy that you have for Him. I am praying for you!
Father: I believe you are refering to Matthew 23:9. This is speaking of the word Father in a much different sense than in the sense we call priests father.
Celabicy: First. Priest Celebacy is required in the Latin rite. I can't speak on the other 20something rights(not sure of the exact number)
Second, Priestly Cebacy stems from the practice being called holy in the bible and the understanding of the role of the church.
That was beautiful! You have such a very rich meditational prayer life. I wonder if you ever thought to offer guided meditation videos. Thank you so much for sharing. The passage of the hemorrhaging woman is one of my favorites.
This is the truth of the living God. Thanks so much for sharing this video. Hit me like a freight train like the good news should. Sometimes you just need to hear it put a different way. God Bless you Father.
I just keep watching this and every time I do, it increases my hope.
Beautiful f r Mark Mary god bless you I needed to hear that. Thank you. You so much.
Father Mark, you have a way of reaching my soul so deeply. I was balling as I was watching this video, keep doing these amazing videos!
Beautiful Fr. Mark-Mary absolutely beautiful. Thank you so much!
Fr. Mark Mary, I just wanted to thank you quick for your work and wisdom. And even if it doesn't mean that much: You are my favourite person on Ascension Presents.
Thank you so much for all you say. ♡
Thank you Father. This is my homework from my Spiritual Director. Seeing my worth as God's daughter and recognizing all the ways he loves me is so much more concrete with your teaching.
Is there anything else that helped you
😪Thank you so very much for explaining this this way. You brought tears to my eyes. I have seen this one out there, but failed to click on it until today. What a great day to see this video on the day before Ash Wednesday. Thank you so much again. You gave me hope again.
So true. So often, our own FAMILY makes us feel we're better off NOT BEING. Jesus, help us.+
This was so good Fr. Mark Mary! 😭😭
Father, you have moved me to tears; but why does such a powerful story break my heart still when it ends “well” with Jesus healing the hemorrhaging woman with one touch of his robe, and then, accepting her with, “Daughter.” I think because as you say, we encounter the disapproving looks that we aren’t enough, worse still that we are somehow contagious, throughout our lives. Oh, to experience the loving gaze of Jesus and carry it in my heart forever...
God Bless You Father.
This was extremely powerful. Thank you Fr Mark Mary for sharing. This hit me hard.
Thank you Fr. Mark-Mary. Wonderful homily.
Thank you Father Mark Mary, so beautiful ❤️. This explanation stirred something in my heart. God bless you.
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you.
This is beautiful. Thank you
God bless you! And thank you!
The other day I was writing in my Faith journal that how people treated me. I was a sinful girl and I'm aware how sinful and dirty I was but when I was just a kid my parents wanted to kick me out you know that's what I remember from them but while I was writing them in my faith Journal I wrote but God gave me a home But Gods presence became my home and I wrote many things starting with But God... Breaking all those things I believed and remembered and I Think this is an encounter with Lord Jesus😭✝️am I right😭😭
That was truly beautiful. Thank you so much. 🕆📿❤👍😊
Fabulous description thank you
Thank you Fr. Mark Mary. I really needed to hear this.
Fr Mark, thank you so much for entering into this deep and thoughtful encounter with the woman who had a flow of blood; This will be helpful to me as I pray to see people's need in just living my life in a normal way. I would like to add to your discusion the many times our Lord makes the call to those who are far off and those who are near. To encounter him. That this encounter with Jesus is always available at any day at any time. In all people's need there always seem to be a precense of the Father's Love inside them, in a very easy and gentle way to lead them to Jesus " Listing to him - The Father Spoke - our Precious Lord who makes himself available. I too feel extremely encouraged and afraid also as I listing to the words of the Shema so that Jesus may fully live in me. Your video is a great gift, to see the other brothers and sisters out there, needing this message that they may have this reply from Jesus also.
Beautiful thank you for this video!! God bless you Fr Mark Mary xxx
God bless you, Father.
Deep calls to deep. 😭😓😔
Thank you, Jesus.
Ahhh I love you! Thank you so much for leading us. You are so good
Thank you Father! Such a beautiful message and deeply profound for all
who suffer. We must offer up these sufferings. That’s where our true encounter with Christ takes place. The cross is just His pure and genuine love for us. Viva Christo Rey! God bless you!🙏🏼📿✝️
Beautiful and thoughtful reflection. Thank you!
Beautiful thank you 😊
Thank you
Thank you so much ....this was beautiful ...happy Valentine's Day ! 😊
God bless you for what you are doing 🙏
Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing, God bless you.
Wow!!! So necessary. Five hours of being with the Savior equates heaven on earth, in my opinion! And, His kingdom (thinking) thus takes precedence over the thoughts and ways of this fallen realm. Wow!
What a beautiful contemplation.
Graaacias! Dios es mi Padre que feliz soy, soy Hija suya, soy Hija de Dios! Desde Mexico un fuerte abrazo!
Me too amen .
Thank you, Father!
Amen
Excellent.
“And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea. Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him, he fell at his feet and implored him earnestly, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live." And he went with him. And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, "If I touch even his garments, I will be made well." And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, "Who touched my garments?" And his disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, 'Who touched me?' " And he looked around to see who had done it. But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth. And he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease."”
Mark 5:21-34 ESV
Amen.
Thank you, Father. I did as you suggested and read the passage, and I saw another detail that your discussion helped me notice: in verse 29, after touching His cloak, her flow of blood dried up and she felt in her body that she was healed, but it wasn't until AFTER her encounter with Jesus in verse 33, that He told her, "Go in peace and be cured of your affliction." Wait a minute, she was already cured in verse 29, yet He didn't make His usual statement, "Your faith has made you well." Rather, He told her to "BE healed." So, apparently she needed that personal, direct encounter for Jesus to finalize the healing, and make it permanently hers!
Father Mark Mary I love you my brother
Amen 🙏🏾
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JESUS CHRIST bless!!!
Where did this terminology of “encounter Jesus” come from? Did any saints use it? When I grew up we were encouraged to have devotion to Jesus. I just can’t get used to this way of speaking.
Wow! You’re a poet! 😊
You should really make a video with bishop Robert Barron. That would be a cool collab
I had a horrible infection in my blood ... I’m surviving I never lost my faith in Jesus and in the hospital I played healing peaceful music and in the hospital my very sick lovely roommate Nancy said thank you ... you have been the best roommate ever... she was so frail and much more ill than I and I prayed God would heal her also. I’m slowly recovering getting my energy back and praying that Nancy made it thru her illness too. I thank the two Priests and Eucharistic minister who visited with me in the hospital ... I am hoping to make it to 5:00 mass today because I haven’t had the energy to go ...
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When I read Mark 5: 21-34, I saw a different picture, that is, this bleeding woman knew that Jesus had performed many miracles, so she specifically came just to touch Jesus' clothing to be healed. Jesus made a point to look for her among the crowd, just to have a moment with her to make her feel special and loved. He commanded her for her faith that healed her, but she knew that He was very special and powerful. We at times are very vulnerable, hurt, feeling unwanted, being judged, stressed out, overwhelmed, and yet if we take the time to ask God to come even for a moment, our faith would heal us in many ways to be healthy and to feel peaceful because we are very special and loved as always by God.
Peace out
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You look tired Fr Mark Mary .. .look after yourself . .take some vitamins . . We need you to stay healthy . .
Just a quick question. . . Is it a requirement for members of your order to have a beard?
How do you seek God like get signs and stuff? Would do anything for a sign from God
Father can I do a come and see with you guys?
I'm a dude but feel exactly like that woman but without that cool ending.
What is the Old Testament teaching about a woman in her condition from the Jewish perspective? So that We could see more clearly her experience. She has hope in our Lord and this is what ought to be experienced in absolution. When he sees Us individually we are given a glimpse of heaven. Thank you Father. This is only my humble perspective.
In my work they have a contract saying that no chains are allowed to be worn or jewellery has iam a practicing catholic and were my mirraclous medel and crucifix what should i say or do has i might loose my employment and if so is there any were i can get a catholic support
Beutiful
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How long should lay people pray each day?
Try 10 minutes at least. In silence.
A good meditative Rosary can be prayed 20 to 30 minutes if not a bit longer. Each morning when you wake up, pray in gratitude for at least 15 minutes; then in the evening, at the end of your day, pray in thanksgiving for at least 15 minutes. In doing this, you will achieve through Gods Grace a Holy Hour of Prayer easily. Peace
I was told by a Priest once, giving one tenth of yours is not just money wise, it's got to be one tenth of your time too.. which translates to 2.4 hours... I know it seems long, take it slow n break up your prayer time throughout the day. I am still at 1 hour n 45 minutes.
Please pray for me to release me from Satan and Lucifer. Please pray for me to release me from all demonic soul ties and spiritual contracts. Please pray for my mind, body, soul and spirit to be saved from the evil one and his minions.
Please pray for me because the online evil cult (spiritual awakening teachers, motivational speakers, tarot card readers, energy healers and teachers) had made me feel trauma to awaken myself. They know that I have a astral projection skill. I did not even know I had that ability.
It was too late for me to know that the 4th dimension is a spirit world. It was too late for me to to know that I had a kundalini awakening which was really powered by demons to go through that dimension. Their keywords and titles triggers me to commit sin without even committing any of those sins and their wishes to come true.
They had forced me to do high-level witchcraft to make their wishes and dreams come true. I am afraid that my soul damned in hell for eternity.