How Does Purification Work?
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- God wants you to be holy, so he is going to set you on a path of purification if you choose to do his will. He is the one who is going to make you holy. This process is going to strip away many things you hold dear. It’s going to require active participation in his will, doing what is right and good. But it’s also going to require passive acceptance of things that are out of your control. See everything you do and experience as a chance to grow in holiness, and God will make you into a saint.
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To live for God is simple. It's just not always easy.
Yeah😂
“May it be done unto me according to Your will”, eh?
Why are not you God, sir? To be fair, why aren't I? Philosophically, we all have free will to Love more than Jesus? I am nothing without Jesus or I am negative infinity. I love to theologize or philosophize, God allowing!
Thank you for your beautiful words. May God surround, embrace and bless you.
Painful to hear this when just now I have been unfaithful to God and His will. Please pray for me everyone. I need it.
Creative Creations.
Hail Mary full of Grace the Lord is with Thee blessed art Thou among women and blessed is the Fruit of Thy womb Jesus,
Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen
Praying for you and please do not give yourself a hard time. God understands you more than you understand yourself. He is so faithful and so merciful so please don't let anything nor anybody to hinder you from continuing to come to Him. He is always there for you and He will never leave you nor forsake you. Forgive yourself as He has already forgiven you in the Cross. God bless you more. Amen.
Repent of your sins to God. He's listening, and just receive His forgiveness and believe you are forgiven. Done.
God understands our weaknesses. Trust in Jesus. Don't give up. His mercy is new every morning. Just tell God you are sorry. He loves you very much.. God bless you.. It will all work out.. ☔ first it rains 🌞 then the sun follows 🌈 and through the clouds a rainbow comes out. Life is just like that.
Creative Creations, I prayed for you. Remember you can always start over again when you have fallen down.
This video is so incredibly relevant to my current situation, it brought me to tears. Just moments ago I felt alone and disqualified, yet Fr Mike's words, filled with the holy spirit, opened my eyes and set fire to my soul. I will receive this as a gift/answer from God, and use it to better live according to His will. To whomever is reading this, you're not alone, and through Him you can be holy!
I agree! Not easy but possible
Just cried reading that....
It doesn't matter if you changed and it's only been one day. One day is a thousand years for the Lord. And a thousand years a day. Amen.
❤ Allie 👋
Honestly, I have been having a really tough day, week as a matter of fact, struggling with deep depression, I can't even bring myself to pray, but I am glad I watched your video. Thank you and God bless.
Me to
Have you tried a Christian bible meditation on CZcams? Just put the headphones on and let the words in. I understand I suffer from stress and anxiety. Sometimes I wonder is it ever going to lift? Hang on. Never give up. Never give up. Never give up. Praying for you all. Please pray for me too.
@@GringoXavier thank you. I think I'll try it. I will keep us all in my prayers. God bless you.
Yvonne Moreno-Taylor how are you doing now my friend?
Depression, eh? I'd say I have a lifetime's experience with that. So in case it helps, I'll share with you some of my thoughts I wrote down a few years ago.
Overcoming problems.
December 14, 2013 (Religious references added 2019)
I've had a comparatively rough past few weeks, emotionally, as have a number of my friends. I spent the day thinking about things and came up with some words I figured I might as well share in case anyone else takes it to heart.
If I'm perpetuating a negative scenario in my life, I must be doing something wrong. I'm responding wrongly to my situation. The first and most important reason for that is forgetting my self and forgetting how to respond positively (helpfully) toward everything. The next biggest reason I think I'm responding to things incorrectly is a deep-rooted oversensitivity to negative things. Awareness of problems is good for the sake of meeting them with solutions, but to see only the problem without a positive context is a tunnel vision which can bring hurt or hopelessness, leading to desperation and faulty coping mechanisms like aversion or rejection in forms such as misdirected obsession or anger.
I believe the general solution is to realize what everlasting positivity & productivity is and to remember & retain that on some level in virtually every moment. If the negativity of taking a critical view is deemed valid, it should be subject to a perspective which knows appreciation.
I think part of the way to do that is to allow an optimistic assessment of a situation to come not only from specific, circumstantial reason, but also from abstract, philosophical, or religious, faith. If a paradigm of faith in something overall positive is used to provide the context for what a person perceives, then any specific circumstance can be met with the optimism of hope & peace. (Romans 12:12)
An example of a belief to hold faithfully in the foundation of a positive paradigm like that could be to agree that there is always the presence of opportunity in which you have the power to choose what you consciously will, what you align with, through the defining nature of your identity, and that the freedom of this creative power is a responsibility which you graciously accept. (Galatians 5:13) To connect that power to good will and to understand that power as a law of attraction (Thomas 41 Proverbs 4:23), you can have hope that you'll move in the right direction, so long as you take action from identifying with what you feel as overall morally good and are willing to separate in your identity from what you feel is bad. (Matthew 3:8 Psalm 51:10)
Beyond the scope of your self as a single person and your current ability to affect your situation, there may lie factors outside of your control that seem undesirable. I don't have all the answers on that one in me right now, but I figure the goal there is to achieve inner-peace through acceptance and reconciliation of problematic conflict. If the external conditions cannot or should not be changed (as with divine providence), then until a better way is found, it may be the internal world which requires change to accept reality as it is (as with the serenity prayer).
Learn to truly forgive your self and others, and I imagine you will know the graceful wisdom of inner peace through unconditional love. (1 John 4:7-16) I believe the key is in understanding a person's perspective as being drawn from innocence, though filtered through their failed human condition, and you can look past the mistakes to forgive that innocent person buried beneath their blindness. Do not condone the mistakes as right action, but do love the person who made them. (Matthew 5:43 Lev.19:18)
May be not the easiest task to embody all those ideals in perfect form. But perfection I think is meant to set the course of your direction, not exactly your expectation. So that's the idea here. Just trying to lay out some of my thoughts as a reminder of which direction to move in the complicated, forgetful mess that is life.
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Oh wow the whole town is sanctifying me. Thank you!
Pilar Gutierrez 😂
sadly i'm not having an amazing day but i needed to hear this. evidently, i was an aweful mother to my daughters and it's being thrown in my face now. one issue is my exhusband is in our daughters life now after he has stayed away for years. i believe now that he's divorced for the 4th or 5th time, now he's telling our daughter's side of our divorce (i was wife #1) and she wants to "get to know him", she tells me. in my defense, i was a single mom, he left me in debt, i was going to college part-time and really struggling. i did the best i could, but that makes me a crappy mom and she's better than me.
Just asking for prayers for humility and acceptance of my shortcomings. Lord hear my prayer. thank you. I really needed this...
May OUR ONE TRUE GOD HEAL YOUR HEART!!!!!!! THAT DAM DEADBEAT DAD SHOULD OF HELPED YOU A LOT MORE INSTEAD OF HAVING YOU STRUGGLE SO MUCH!!!! INSTEAD HE WAS TRYING TO HAVE BABY MOMMA AFTER BABY MOMMA, DAM, MAY BLESSED JAH BLESS YOU MOST TENDERLY, & BRING YOU MUCH BLESSING & COMFORT AND JOY TO YOUR HEART!!!!!! I CAN RELATE WHAT YOU WENT THROUGH, & NOT JUST THAT SOME MEN NOWADAYS AND EVEN BACK THEN SEEM TO THINK THAT MARRIAGE IS JUST A BOWL OF CHERRIES AND DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THICK AND THIN MEANS AND LIES ABOUT ACTUALLY BEING THERE IN A MARRIAGE!!!!!!! SOME MEN JUST DON'T DESERVE A RELATIONSHIP AND MARRIAGE LET ALONE HAVE KIDS!!!!!!! I HOPE OUR DEAR BLESSED LORD GOD ALMIGHTY HEALS YOUR HEART BECAUSE YOUVE BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH AND I CAN RELATE!!!!!!!! ITS A GREAT BLESSING TO HAVE OUR GREATGOD THAN A STUPID EVIL MAN BECAUSE ITS NOT EVEN WORTH IT IN THE END!!!!!! MANY BLESSINGS FOR YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN IN BLESSED JAHS NAME AMEN ALLELLUIA AMEN!!!!!! MAY THE JOY OF THE LORD BE YOUR STRENGTH LIKE IT SO STATES IN THE BIBLE, O.K. HONEY BECAUSE OUR GREAT GOD IS THE ONE THAT TRULY KNOWS OUR HEARTS!!!!!!!!!!
Maria Esparza you are a perfect child of God-- No one on this beautiful but very difficult world is better than you- My love and prayers to you-
Your daughters love you. Jesus loves you and your family. Stay faithful. I will pray for you and your family.
I’ll pray for you! Remember God adores you and he can help you through anything. Sending love to you and your family. Keep your head up and remember God will always catch you :)
thank you so much. may our almighty God bless you and yours.You made me cry, happy and blessed tears. thanks again.
As usual Fr. Mike, you have shown me exactly the message and topic that I was struggling with. You do the Lord's work. May God bless you.
I had never heard that before; that God heals our hearts through the wounds of our hearts. That is very true 😊💓 I definitely need to be purified. Please pray for me 🙏😇💓✝️🔥🕊️🇻🇦
Thank you Father Mike for reminding me of my purpose in life. God bless you.
May all who have watched this and watched, like me, from a perspective of woundedness, wherever that wound is, find peace. It is my hope that the lord will help me offer up the pains of my wounds to help all those who are trying to become saints. Needed to hear this more than I can Express, because sometimes if feel that no matter how hard I strive for holiness, I am a pile of broken pieces.
In those moments, I find it helpful to ask the Lord to accept my agony at my defects and failings and ask him to accept that suffering, those tears, as an offering. As an expiation of the sins of my life, as an offering for the suffering souls in purgatory, as a means to suffer in union with our Lord's passion and in the Hope that my suffering can be used to convert sinners. In this way I feel my suffering has a purpose and in that way I feel that the Lord is purifying me, even in those moments when I feel far from purified or holy. Please, pray for me. I will keep all in my prayers as well.
@@MoogieB thank you so very much! I'll return the favor!
I have been struggling with with the baggage of my past sins- they have reared up the ugliness of the realities i faced and the weakness I caved into about 30 years ago due to some challenges with my son. I relive trauma I caused as well as trauma experienced & am filled with self doubt. My heart aches with the ugliness of my weakness and sins. I have PTSD from an abusive relationship with his father and the sins i committed trying to escape my reality at the time. I really needed to hear this message during this season in my life. Praying the God will purify my heart & help my son return to the Church in the process. thank you Father Mike
"These people are not the problem. The problem is these parts of me that need to be shaved away." BEST. ADVICE. EVER. 💘💘💘
Matthew 16:24
"Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me."
what an example of gaslighting. That's not true. Very often it's specific people who are the problem. Any communication is a two-way street, and if one way is blocked, there is no way to get through.
Could anyone who reads this pray for me? I am trying to conform my will to God’s will again.
OH MY GOSH! For my 12th birthday this nun gave me books on the lives of Saints and I was really inspired to be one as a kid! I thought it was a stupid wish and I'm probably too proud to want to be one but oh my gosh it was God all along! He REALLY never let me down, even though I thought He did :')
This is so true!
Recently I became aware that my abusive childhood showed me how to be a better parent, and that my prayers for humility included me losing a job so I would be humbled by gratitude for a job that helped me provide. Well said as always Father Mike. ✝️💯🙏
Thank you Fr Mike, I REALLY needed to hear this message. God Bless you🙏
Hello fatger Mike, I m christian but not roman catholic, I just want to thank you for your video, are very inspiraring, and pushing me to love God and to walk in obbedience to Him
i had a very bad day at work due to annoying co workers. and this video pops up on my feed. wow! thanks for the reminder Lord 🙏
The passive purification way of looking at life is really powerful at re-framing experience in a positive and meaningful way.
I know it’s not even related but can I just say I absolutely adore father Mike which ultimately means I adore God because it’s God that works though him. Still, what an amazing human being he is.
This was really encouraging! I'm finishing grad school this week, and I wish I had seen this earlier in my studies! When things are difficult and overwhelming, it's easy to become discouraged and lose hope. What a great reminder that the difficult times in our lives can be used by God to purify us if we surrender them to him. Thank you Father Mike!
I needed this. I've wondered every day if I'm going to reach my full potential, whether my work will do good or lead people astray. And now I know that this is wholly contradictory to how I pray every single day, "God wherever you lead me I will go, show me what I must do, because my love for you is so great", and I mean it when I say it. It is not empty. I merely need to trust what he tells me to do.
“You are made to be a Masterpiece, so allow the Great Artist to work His Masterpiece in 𝔂𝓸𝓾"
"You live in His will, and He lives in your Heart- " Yes 😊.
Such good encouragement in this video.
Thank you for this advice. One thing I've found important is responding to the conviction of the Holy Spirit. I might be stuck thinking about something and the Holy Spirit will convict me that I need to stop that.
The way God heals our hearts through the wounds of our hearts. That reminds me of Jesus who heals the world through the wounds of his body.
“God can purify your heart through the wounds of your heart” oooof I love that 🙌🏼
God Bless you too, Father Mike!
"God is closer to you than you are to yourself "
10 minutes 20 seconds
Is on my license plate frame
Installed after I read those words from the Summa, 20 years ago
Thank you Fr.Mike n im from 🇰🇷 n its almost sunrise here😁. God bless
"You are made to be a masterpiece " this profoundly touching ❤🙏🕊
Truly needed to hear this !!
This was helpful - especially the part about our defects/wounds and submitting it to God
Needed to hear this today. Thank you, Fr. Mike and thank you, God!
O Lord Jesus, purify this world and purify me with it...so I can finally love this world and love myself in it...Amen!!!
"The Mad about Christ"
I pray...therefore I live...
In this Holy Land of Eternal Lebanon...
with the Help and Grace of the Almighty God of Love...Amen!!!
Thank you Fr. Mike, and I hope your having an amazing day too!
Thank you for your videos and reflections, Fr. Mike and to all of Ascension Presents. Praying for you too! 🙏🏽♥️
Thank you Fr. Mike for this! This really helps and change my whole perspective. 🙏🏻
Thank you for all you do on this channel Fr Mike. These talks and this channel have always helped me to grow and continue to set me on fire with the holy spirit. Thank you!
Thank you father! This is so relevant today.
Wow, I am blown away. I needed to hear this.
Thank you, Fr. Mike. This episode means a lot to me right now. Praise be His Name.
Oh wow I needed this! Thank you Fr. Mike!!!
Thank you and God bless you Fr. Mike, I'm so glad to know that God is helping me when I least see it. I will trust that he is there along me when I'm annoyed and impatient with my fellow human beings. I will pray to be more humble, our society tries so hard to be the most out going and right about everything that we forget about humility.
The timing for me watching this video is perfect 🙏🏼💜
Father this hit home with me too! Wonderful message! i loved this...I ALWAYS want to say YES to GOD!
Holy moly. This came on today and I needed this so badly!! Thanks for all your 'yesses' to the Lord, Fr Mike. One listener feels so much more strengthened in remaining obedient right when doubt began to get so powerful. ♥️🕊️
Oh my gosh! I finally figured out how to leave a comment! (Can you say low tech?). Father Mike...you are amazing! I have been wanting to reach out to you to say THANK YOU for months! I pray for you every day...that the Lord keeps speaking to and through you! You have blessed so many lives...WOW! I am a returning Catholic ...and you have answered soooo many questions for me! And you COMPLETELY crack me up too! 😂🤣😆
OK...I am going to stop here! Who knows if this is even gonna go through?!?! Please know I am so grateful...seriously...tears streaming down as I type! Thank you and may God keep blessing you! Love, Macy
@Macy Erickson Congratulations! I see you even know how to edit the comments :)
It's really God's work through YOU, I had to be reminded of this when I had this conversation with a friend of mine. It's HIS work through you
This is exactly what I needed to hear, thank you
This was a confirmation to me about what I’m going through. I was not aware of what was happening in my life until recently. I love your videos Thank you.
Once again!! The amazing Fr. Mike!
Thank you so much !! Just what I need it !! God talks to you many ways .😘😍🥰💕
Thank you Father Mike 🙏✝️🕊
I needed that today 🙏🕊😇
Love you in Christ Fr. Mike. You are a true blessing to us all
WOWowowowow. Exactly what I needed. Thank you Father
Thank you Fr. Mike! Exactly what I needed right now. I surrender and allow God to work in and through me.... especially through my oh so many personal defects! God Bless!
God bless you so much Father. This video is so timely
Thank you so much for this talk, it really hit the spot and was just what I needed to hear. Thank you. X
Bless You Father Mike. This really helped me and now I can understand what I have been cofused about and did not know how to do. Sounds dumb, but I really needed to hear this and process it. Ty again
Thank you Fr. Mike for helping us in our journey to holiness. I often use your talks in my mental prayer. I savor and reflect on them to be ingrained in my heart. Please pray for me that I may put them into action.
Fr. Mike, you're the best. I needed to hear this. I'm in RCIA and I'm trying so hard to be more holy. It feels like, most of the time, that I'm not making progress, but hearing this I know I'll make it if I persist and keep saying "yes" to God. I'm wholly new to Christianity and I'm not sure what it's supposed to feel like, but sometimes in deep prayer, I feel a peace that I've never felt before. I try to hold on to those amazing moments to keep me going. I'm going to keep saying "yes."
These are great advices to prepare for a real holy Lent.
Many thanks Father Mike.
Thank you Fr Mike. May God bless you.
Powerful knowledge. Thank God for you, Fr. Mike, your parents, those who formed and instructed you and that you chose this life in God's vineyard. Have learned so much from you. God bless you.
I needed to hear this, Thank you Fr
Amen 🙏💕 thank you so much Fr. Mike. God bless you.
Thank you, Fr. Mike for your talk. It is true that the circumstances I am in is purifying me to be the person God wants me to be. Even though it is painful, I know that He working in me in ways I didn't see.
Father Mike, thank you so much for this message, especially about your emphasis on the closeness of God to us. You have a strange way of speaking on specific ideas in moments when I really need guidance in those specific areas (and, more likely, I just have lots of room for necessary spiritual improvement in all areas! :) May God bless you always.
Thanks for this insight Fr. Hope u r having an amazing day too. God bless you n ur family always 🙂🙏
Beautiful message, thank you 🙏🏻
I needed to hear this today May 13, 2020! Thank you GOD! Thank you Father!! God bless!
Thank you sooo much! Always right when i need it MOST!😳😊
Awesome teaching Father. Thank you.
Well said Father Mike and I like your humorous facial expressions. God be praised and gloried. Amen
There is such wisdom in what you say :) thank you for sharing! Thank you also for actively loving and pursuing the Lord and His calling on your life; you’re reaching millions for Him, which surely beats working in the movies...God bless you, father and brother. Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱 niech Pan Jezus mocno Ci błogosławić :)
The timing of this message 😳🙏
Thanks Fr Mike. Spot on for where I am.
I second that. 😔
Thanks fr Mike I love your positivety,
Thank you Father. God bless you
Thank you Fr. Mike that was very helpful and I will use that info to improve my life :-)
Seems like Good answers my prayers through CZcams Autoplay sometimes 🙏 Thank you Father Mike
Thank you, Fr Mike for the video! 🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍
I wish I had heard the things you have said on this podcast many, many moons ago! Thank you
Thanks, Fr. Mike. Very inspiring!
I need this reminder often.
Amazing! God bless you Father Mike!
Here's a cute thing that happened today!
Today I was telling my family I want to go back home to them instead of staying in another far country, (I'm grateful for everything of course, and I know we'll get through this, thank God for everything, we are blessed to have another chance to be better), but it feels a bit hard because I miss them that's all...
And then I see this video and you give the example of if someone wants to change the town and they're stuck there. Like right on time for me to watch it! And that is extremely true, this year has been a journey for me, I know God more than ever before. I still have a lot to work on, but He is great! He is here! We are being helped by him every second! We are never alone🥰 I love God, He is our King! The best King!!❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏 Thank you Father Mike, AscensionPresents, and everyone in the comments. You guys are awesome! I love this community, it feels like family❤ Take care please, and God bless you all☺🙏💗
I'm currently in a situation that presents many opportunities for passive purification... Hearing this gave me some peace. God bless you, Fr. Mike. Three Hail Mary's for you!
Thank you Father! 🔥💛🔥
So helpful-thanks Father Mike!
Thank you! Father 🙏🏼🕊
Thank you, Father!
Thank you Fr. Mike
Blessings
Jesus is calling me this Lent season in to a more close relationship with Him for sure and Fr. Mike, you're making it easy and easy for me. Not that I have been perfect but because Am beginning to get answers to a lot of questions, I have been having in my mind.
Thanks Fr. For the great work of God and may Bless you.
I love god so much and give my soul and body to him he is my one and only god
Thank you, Fr. Mike
Great lesson!!!
Thank you for this video Fr! And I loved you well wish for an amazing day at the end. - To you as well!!
Fantastic video, very deep and simple. God bless you.
GOD BLESS AND PROTECT YOU FATHER IN JESUS NAME
Thank you Fr. Mike.
This was so poetic 💕