When You Go to Mass This Sunday, Do These 3 Things (feat. Fr. Jonah Teller, O.P.)
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- When you attend Mass this Sunday, consider trying these 3 simple practices!
In this video, Fr. Jonah Teller explains how to "bookend" your Mass, truly listen to the prayers, and place your heart on the altar. By doing so, you can experience a more profound and powerful connection to Jesus and the sacrifice of the Mass.
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Insert a “Franciscan/Dominican” joke here. All in good fun of course. 😂 Thank you both for this. In all seriousness these micro-lessons on faith formation and how to really get everything we can out of our mass and our Catholic religion helps so much. Timing is too perfect for me at the time of this post (21st Sunday Ordinary Time Year B) because we heard about making a choice to believe in todays mass readings and then what to do next. God is so good. Thank you for showing us that, what we can do next in our decision to believe is, refine and enforce the basics of our faith. To recognize we might have actually taken these things/acts at Mass for granted or not understood fully, or how to make the “BLP” in our lives an eternal signal to Christ that we love, adore, honor and respect. Blessings to all. Poco a poco! 🙏✌️❤️
Fr. Jonah served at our parish as a brother for a bit--his messages about how to live holiness in our daily lives were always so inspiring! Praying for all of you! 🙏
I truly enjoyed this. I do go early to church and I don’t run out . I’m a lector and the first time I was up on the alter I felt so humbled I was about to cry . Now I would like to work more with the church . I’m going to speak to my priest next week if he would allow me to take classes so I can be a Eucharist minister because the ones we have now are getting old and sick and the church needs more people to help. I feel God calling me and I didn’t even know the problem was that big that the lady in charge of catechism. God was talking to me because right away I told her I want to help and take the classes . Pray I get there 🙏 I love going to church and means more to me as my faith grows.
God bless you
Have you ever talked to your priest about not using a Eucharistic Minister? I feel that not having one, and the process being longer, really helps people to focus on what they are about to partake in.
By the way, you spell it altar. Alter is the other one.
I pray you have a blessed week!
@@bloodwrage thanks sometimes this spell check is faster than my fingers. I love working for the church . It’s brings me a lot of peace in this crazy world and that is what I have in mind. The mass culture in Puerto Rico is very different from USA which some channels I see are the traditional way I grew up with mass and catholic school . Yes it’s the same format mass in Puerto Rico but there are lots of transitions I miss from USA mass. Have a blessed weekend . Believe it or not u must realize that everyday there are less willing to be a Priest and less nuns too. If we don’t have a Priest we can’t have communion. We need to pray, that more hear the calling of God.
Lord, thank you for the gift of baptism, gift of ministerial priesthood.
Help me concentrate during mass, fully participate and place my heart on the altar, offering my life, the joy events and my crosses too.
Heal me and make me whole, to serve and glorify You in each moment of my day ❤
Arrive early, follow and read along with the missalette, stay after and reflect.
💙 The image of the water is rather apt and beautiful 💙
Thank you, this was helpful
I started to scroll thinking I don't have time to listen today. Thank God I didn't!!!
I get very distracted on Sundays and I can get too intellectual when all I need are reminders you reminded me about mass.❤❤❤
I have three children aged 4, 2.5 and 9 mo. Trying to get to Mass early is a struggle and waters don't really settle even during Mass. These tips are great but there's not a lot I can do besides the last tip right now.
My kids are pretty much the same age as yours, I feel the same way it’s just so hard to even show up most weeks😞
The very fact you are there with your children speaks praise and thanksgiving to God. I have no doubt of His intense joy you are there, no matter how distracted. I applaud you both and all parents who struggle similarly.
@@laurenweber6826 You're doing great. Just showing up is enough. I felt compelled to comment cause this title is CZcams click bait and is harmful. There are people who can't just go do these three things. I hope you are not discouraged by this. Show up to mass with the kiddos cause even a mass where you heard nothing and were not involved has graces for you and the kids. Take solace that Jesus supports you. "Let the little ones come to me" and unless you are like a child you can't enter the kingdom of heaven (paraphrase). So they are welcome and needed at Mass even if others don't see. I hope you find courage each week to bring them there. It's our vocation not vacation but know that you are doing an awesome job. Lots of expectations for you from all over the place but Christ only expects you to love them, which I can tell you do well.
Perhaps get to Saturday vigil? Bringing your kids to Mass is the most important thing you can do ❤️ 🙏
@@HisLove4You I get there every Sunday and often during the week when I'm off from work. They respond better to morning. But the difficulty is getting there on time and focusing, which I've come to terms with for this part of my life
Truly beautiful lessons to be learned from this video. Fathers, thank you tremendously for spreading the word of Christ in a way that hits us in our hearts. You both are blessings. Thank you again. 🙏🏻✝️❤️
BLP. Will try this.
Thank you, Fathers! God bless you 🤗🙏
I do arrive quite early to mass.... But now I try to leave a little after the priest leaves and then hang around outside just in case anyone wants a friendly face to talk too.... (I do all my prayers and light candles before hand).
Beautiful
I enjoy all your videos thank you fathers but I have trouble meditating. When I pray the rosary, You know What I can do God bless.
I'm not an ordained minister, but one thing I remember hearing from the Dominicans is: "Pray as you can, not as you can't." I have ADHD and struggle with some of the prayers/meditations that require a certain duration or amount of attention. So I use whatever helps I can to make it easier--for the Rosary, I like praying along with Bishop Barron's recordings here on CZcams, because he offers an image or two to reflect on as we pray.
Or there's a 24-hour live Rosary where hundreds of people from all over the world tune in to the recorded Rosary--and sometimes I only have time to pray a decade or two, but it's always so powerful to know that, even though my prayer and reflection may not be as "pretty" as I'd like, by uniting myself with others we can build each other up and intercede for one another's intentions, you know? 😊
But most of all, remember: God doesn't ask the impossible of us. When He asks us to pray, the attempt and intention to pray well is enough. 💛 I'll pray for you and your loved ones, may you all have peace!
Thank you Father's. God bless you both.
Thank you Fr for sharing
God Bless us always
Very enlightening! Thanl you! I will remember to practice these at Mass.
Thank you. Amen
Love isn’t a feeling. Love is more than that. It is a choice. We get too wrapped up in our emotions and allow how we feel about something to determine its worth.
Love is trusting and willing the good of the other.
I pray that anyone who is suffering from spiritual desolation continues to try to go to mass and receive the eucharist as often as possible. I hope people suffering also are able to choose the strength in reconciliation. I pray that people stop living as victims and start living as survivors.
Life is hard, no doubt. One minute at a time…..it is all any of us can do. Then those minutes become hours, then days, then weeks and finally years.
Find the help you need. It may be a priest, a nun, a family member, a friend or a stranger. Be vulnerable and share that part of yourself with another….someone is always waiting for you to open that door. And the Lord will always be beside you.
Calvary is made present.
❤ Beautiful!
The lake we only see the top underneath there is a whole other world just like us !!
AMEN!!!!
Love u guys ❤
Yes! 🙏 🤲
this is excellent
I love to pray the rosary at mass :)
Pls, will you consider praying the rosary before or after instead of during? The Mass is for us to participate in unison, as one in the body of Christ. 🙏
@@lguevara586 no. Multiple popes have written that it is a good practice to pray the rosary during Mass, including Pope Saint Pius X. I'll take the advice of a canonized Pope :).
@@hamie7624 🤷🏽♀️ Will look into that but it just comes across as discordant to me. We live & learn. God bless you. ✝️
@@lguevara586 yes the traditional view of the Mass is that we unite our prayer to the prayers of the priest at the Altar who is offering them to God. The modern view is more that the Mass is a performance that we must "participate" in, much more rigid than before.
@@hamie7624 Hmmn, confusion. There's no more "rigidity" of worship than in the true traditional way of worship as documented in the Old Testament.
Even apart from religion, I think that if a group is gathered for one specific purpose but one member is doing his own thing in the midst then that is contrary to the purpose of coming to be a part of the group at that time. Imagine that scenario in team sport, etc.
The Mass is the communal offering up of the Sacrifice that is the Lamb of God, main focus, while we offer up our own tnks/pleas/joys/sorrows/selves in union. That's the "participate."
But as I've said, I will look into what you've replied, tnks. 🤗
Amen❤❤❤
Many other denominations mock Catholic mass as boring its somber by design the inner journey an escape from the world that is fallin like an inner regrouping that inner strength. Getting our inner strength soul for the strength to carry on another 6 long days of dealing with life’s struggles trifold inner in church then Eucharist in us inner inner then back out to the fallin world leading by example not trying to judge n fix everyone else just self am not perfect this is learned by experience not knowing anything is genius way to learn
Amen😇🙏❤
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What do you mean by put your heart there in the gifts?
Thank you for this reminder. How can we do all this while also bringing our children (younger than 5) to mass and supervising them, as they get restless and often times you're outside for the readings and homily.
My grandparents used to bring me. I always loved singing. The would hand me the missil and help me find the readings and the songs. That kept me busy, and I'd also sing my heart out 😊 They also taught me when to be quiet. Further, each parish usually has a Mass more tailored to children, which helps. If not, they'd probably like the Mass with the choir 🎶 Hope these suggestions are helpful!
@HisLove4You thank you for this info. Unfortunately, we no longer have masses tailored for children in our country that we like. Yes, I too, had parents who helped me follow the readings and sing too, and I can't wait for my kids to get to reading age, but alas, my youngest is only 16months and to get him to sit still and quiet for 20 min is a mission. I only hope that in time we'll get to this stage, where I can again focus on the mass 🙏🏼
What does that mean to place your heart on the altar?
Mass Is The Highest Form Of Prayer & Thanksgiving. Don't Watch Mass. Participate Actively, Fruitfully, Faithfully, Fervently. Every Baptized Catholic Christian Is A Kingdom Priest. The Sacrifice Of Christ Offered To God Through The Holy Spirit Brought Down Back To Us. Who Loves Like That. It's Incredible.
I’ve always wondered why we have to have the offering and the money at the same time as the priest is beginning the transfiguration and also trying to hold the missile and singing too much going on at one time
Hi! Might I suggest beginning by reading "Understanding the Mass: 100 Questions, 100 Answers" by Mike Aquilina. Also join your parish ( or neighboring parish) Bible study. Many of them begin in the Fall!
@@HisLove4You or maybe maybe you could just tell me the answer
@carolynnegron4671 If I could sum up the Mass in one answer, I'd be making these videos
Like JESUS YESUAH CHRIST told Pilate his kingdom is not of this world 🌎 . JESUS was so amazing context in reading scriptures we can’t use modern day thinking they where different back then why Jesus wrote nothing no one would comprehend kinda like us talking to our dogs . He found 12 to transform n translate GODS message . if am wrong let me know
I honestly thought we were offering our financial donations to God. I really feel silly now.
I also use to think that!
No reason to feel silly - we ARE also giving our tithe/ gifts to help our parish community, etc., in addition to the Sacrifice of the Mass
Nothing happens when I look at a crucifix. I’ve given my heart to God, but it was rejected. I have a hard time even wanting to go to Mass because anything I could offer will always be rejected. It doesn’t help that I can’t find a church that is welcoming to new people
What do you mean God rejected you? He loves you no matter what. Tell him in prayer how you are feeling. Ask for Our Lady’s intercession. Don’t give up. God will respond if you are persistent. Make a novena. There is much you can do. Talk to a priest about this.
@@rechronopunk4481 I mean that, when offering my heart to God, God looked upon what I was offering and said “I don’t want what you are trying to give me, because it isn’t good enough.” I could ask Our Lady to intercede for me, but it’s my understanding that nobody can change God’s mind, including the mother of His only son. I’ve spoken to a priest about this, and was told to continue offering my heart to God, even despite it being rejected, which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
@@God_my_Savior I’m saying that people at church haven’t been very welcoming to me when I do go to church. Apparently going to Mass just to fulfill an obligation is not the right reason to go, so I don’t go.
@markantonelli53 Open your eyes & heart to the Lord. If your heart is closed to Him, He cannot enter. When you *truly* see Him on the cross, things will change.
@@markantonelli53Are you Catholic?
How to get MORE out of mass? If people go just to get stuff out of mass they'll be disappointed and discouraged. Be present! offer yourself to the Lord. Bring your stuff, your sins however they look or smell. Dwell in His presence. Incarnate his love and spread it all over your house, office, school, on the bus. Be a part of His Body, eat his body and take care of him. Everything you do to one of his little sisters or brothers you do it to Him.
True believers are always spiritually alive forever and always know where they will go when they physically die. Unbelievers do not!
Romans 8:9 KJV "But you are not in the flesh, but in the SPIRIT, if so be that the SPIRIT of GOD dwell in you. Now if any man have not the SPIRIT of CHRIST, he is none of HIS.
11 But if the SPIRIT of HIM that raised up JESUS from the dead dwell in you, HE that raised up CHRIST from the dead shall also quicken (bring to life) your mortal bodies by HIS SPIRIT that dwells in you."
John 14:16 KJV "And I will pray the FATHER, and HE shall give you another COMFORTER, that HE may abide with you FOREVER"
1 Peter 1:23 KJV "being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the WORD of GOD, which lives and abides FOREVER"
2 John 1:2 KJV "for the truth’s sake, which dwells in us, and shall be with us FOREVER"
How about you making sure the choir can actually sing and doesn't curdle cream at 100 yards. And nobody comes to hear a poor choir sing... No need for five verses of the entrance song. Also make sure the lector can read and speaks loudly enough to be heard and that if the priest comes from India or Africa or the Caribbean or speaks English as a second language that his accent isn't so heavy that his homily sounds like 20 minutes of complete and utter gibberish.
Oh and how about reducing the use of incense to a minimum, it stinks up the Church and is a carcinogen. Also, you don't need to conduct the Asperges rite on a routine Sunday in ordinary time... It's not Easter Sunday.
Let"s see what else... How about ending the Mass creep. Sunday Mass used to be completed in around 50 minutes. My parish offered Sunday Masses on the hour from 6:00am till Noon, every Sunday for over 50 years... now many Masses take over 75 minutes. I leave after 70 minutes and it's often still during the communion rite. You should not feel like you have a captive audience.
Oh and you don't need to read the announcements at the end of Mass... that's the purpose of the bulletin and believe it or not I learned to read and have usually read the complete bulletin by the end of Mass.
So, before discussing what I should do during Mass how about paying some attention to what you should and shouldn't do. I haven't heard a decent homily over the course of the past ten years and that includes the very few homilies that were even intelligible.
I very much agree with many of these but some of your points are against church teaching
Sorry Ascension Presents, but sometimes just showing up is enough
Hi! These suggestions will absolutely bring the Peace of Christ into your heart, and help you participate more fully in the Mass ❤🙏
If I could understand more every word we repeat if there was an explanation of everything, start to finish.
Join your parish or a neighboring parish Bible study. Start reading the Psalms - they are beautiful & straightforward.
Thank you, that was really helpful
Thank you and Amen 🙏
Like JESUS YESUAH CHRIST told Pilate his kingdom is not of this world 🌎 . JESUS was so amazing context in reading scriptures we can’t use modern day thinking they where different back then why Jesus wrote nothing no one would comprehend kinda like us talking to our dogs . He found 12 to transform n translate GODS message . if am wrong let me know