The Virtue That Takes Virtue to the Next Level
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- čas přidán 3. 11. 2020
- Fr. Mike introduces us to the virtue that makes other virtues excellent: magnanimity.
If someone asked you what the most essential virtues are, you might say humility, faith, hope, or love. But have you ever heard of the virtue of magnanimity? What this virtue does is it magnifies-or makes greater-other virtues within someone. In other words, it’s to strive for excellence.
This is not to be confused with the vice of pride, which relies on the gifts of oneself without acknowledging any help that may come from another person or even God. Instead, a magnanimous person sees the gifts God has given them and chooses to emphasize them in their life as a way to honor him.
Consequently, every saint must be magnanimous; they must be great for the Lord. Even saints who have the most different and opposite lifestyles become one in the same, purely through their desire to be excellent, not for the sake of themselves, but as a “thank you” to the Lord.
One way to strive for magnanimity is to avoid the temptation to it’s opposing vice, which is pusillanimity. Pusillanimity is the direct opposite of magnanimity: it’s to shy away from the gifts God has given you, out of timidity. This is different from humility, because where humility is acknowledging that your gifts are not your own, pusillanimity is refraining from using those gifts in the first place.
By embracing the gifts God has given us and using them to glorify him, we are being magnanimous. It doesn’t matter what stage of life you’re in, how old you are, or what your gifts consist of. All of us have the opportunity to be magnanimous, and all of us have the opportunity to be saints.
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I love that saying that God gives us gifts and we use them to make a gift for Him. Father Mike I love your enthusiasm!
This is why we should fear God and nothing else. Becoming magnanimous requires us to be courageous and voluntarily choose the hard path.
Well said
I needed this.
God gifted me with many great talents and I often waste them with false humilty out of fear of failing...
I want to stretch towards greatness, a big thank you for God! :P
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@@parmiggianoreggie-ano1832 by culture yes but by birth no 💞
These are great words that define many of our follies. Thank you brother 🙌🏽
This was my biggest struggle as a Catholic. I used to believe that desiring and pursuing great things is a sin. They said Christian life is an adventure and so you must give up your desires and follow God's will always. But in effect, this made me feel stucked and depressed because I thought having a dream is sinful. "The world is bad" "give up all worldly desires" "happiness cannot be found in this life" mentality that so many Catholics possess is just negative and depressing. I suffered depression and anxiety because of that way of thinking. It felt like the only way to God is to enter a convent and pray all day while waiting for your death.
Thank God I stumbled upon the book, The Power of Positive Thinking. It was written by a Protestant Pastor Norman Vincent Peale and it helped me realize that God wants all of His children to be successful, to shine, to be excellent, and to be joyful in this life. Our Lord Jesus said He came so that we may have life and have it abundantly. Regardless of our circumstances, we should be happy and grateful for we know that God loves us, God is always with us, and God is in control. Knowing this truth made me feel more grateful, energized, and hopeful for the future. I want to thrive and be excellent so God will be proud of me and I will be capable to help others. I hope Catholics will put more emphasis on the Virtue of Magnanimity and cultivating a positive mindset.
Oh God, do grant us many magmanimous Saints. Through our Blessed Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, now and forever. Amen.
Pusillanimity - never heard that one before. A great concept to keep in mind.
He must become greater; I must become less. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
Father mike schmitz you've gotten me though alot thank you
Im very guilty of false humility.. i put myself down
Praying for you!
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Hallelujah
"Qualities that are required for Knowledge to emerge-such as stillness, patience, discernment, openness, restraint, compassion and affinity. These are great virtues, and they are fundamental to living a genuine life."
*Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 6: Discernment*
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AWSEOME!!! AND INSPIRING!!! video Father Mike!!! Thank you so much!!! and Thank you so much Ascension Presents!!! God bless you!!!
Here we go, God's speaking to me again! He wants me to give up everything for him and in a sense become poor i havent even looked at this gift of poverty out of fear, but i need to do it... I should trust God and im sorry,i need to do this.
‘My Soul magnifies the Lord! ‘
Thank you Father Mike
Please pray for me. I am praying for the gift of faith because I did not take care of it and “gave it away”. But I remember what it was like to love God, now I am lost.
Praying for you my friend JESUS reaches down to us when we are drowning look up and grab on tight to His Strong Arms. He will pull you up and give you Life's Breath. Much Love✝️❤️
Thank you, Father! Glory be to God in the highest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jard to follow until you said Gods gift to you is who you are and who you become is our gift back to him.
This kept popping up in my feed. I finally acknowledged that was for a reason. I watched it and yes, I needed to see it. Humility is not timidity. The gifts from God. So many good and important things in this lesson
Thank you Fr. Mike.... I pray our holy advocate Mary will continue to guide us... and pray for us and with us.
Thank you very much.
Love from the Holy Land
Grant me magnanimity Jesus
I had thought this was the ‘nobility of the soul’ but now it’s more than that, thanks for filling the gaps
Thank you, Lord for your gifts. Thank you, for Fr. Mike.
Thank you, Fr. Mike for being a blessing. God bless you!
I struggle with timidity even when I know I'm capable. You referred to it as small mindedness. Thank you for your insight. I pray to God for the grace of magnanimity of the soul. God bless!
Thank you.
The idea of giving God a gift is something ive searched for my whole life. What will he take from me what can i give to him that he needs.
Thank you Fr Mike.
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Thank you Father Mike and may God continue to bless you. I will strive to be humble by acknowledging the truth.
Hope that all these talks would be compiled into a book
Thank you, father, from the deep of my heart 🙏
This is such a needed virtue in my life.
Alleluia. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Love you Father Mike :-)
Thanks Father! You reminded me that I have a relic from Fr. Solanus Casey from a while ago! (I grew up in Windsor which is next to Detroit so...) Thanks to you, magnanimity is much more clear now.
Greetings Father Mike being educated thru a Catholic Faith got me thru some really challenging times as a minor child and thru my adult hood. I have always respected Priests and Nuns and admired their discipline and love for God. In a world of greed I seen and been thru alot growing up heard war stories seen soldiers depressed and the best advice I could give was to say a prayer everyday talk to God in private go to mass when feeling lonely. I respect commandments and laws. I respect people and that we are not made the same but with different cultures and skills. You are from my generation and enjoy hearing you explain the bible because some men don't have a clue. In the bible it does speak about a shepard that knows how to lead its sheep.
so much encouragement! I've always known that we are to work hard and honour God, but this, this puts it clearly. Magnanimity! so good!
Humility, I think that is always greatest, but I am reminded of the Magnificat.
To him much is given, much is also required.
I started to listening your messages and not only help me with my faith but is also helping me with my English. Thank you Father Mike and May God bless you always!!
Was bout to cheat on a test then i sad nahhhh after this
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That’s brilliant 🔥
Congratulations!
May God bless you for the love and truth this video speaks. Thanks for keeping on doing them. Thanks for Ascension Presents. Let's keep on the road to be saints. Let's pray for each other
This is exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you for always being timely, spirit led and on point Fr Mike. As a discerning seminarian, I truly appreciate this and ask you all to keep me in prayer!
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Thank You Father Mike. God Bless You!
Father Mike, thank you for this video. I really needed to hear this.
Hi Fr. Mike. I live alone listening/watching your videos is like you are company. God Bless You! We need faithful priests like you.
Thank you Father.
This was amazing. Thank you Father!
Many new people at work are saying to me that I m a very patient person and they feel at peace with me. I' ll strive to be a more patient one! 🤗🤗 Hope I understand well the message! God bless!
No one speaks as fast as father Mike- I struggle to keep up!
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@@edebevictor9221 wow- didn't know that, thanks
That was AWESOME. Thank you Fr. Mike.
I would say you have this virtue father Mike. God bless.
St Katherine Drexel pray for us and all the soles in purgatory
Thank you, father. God bless!
Thank you for your teaching father Mike from london⛪️✊🏻❤️
This is such a great video, that I had to watch it 3 times and then take notes on it...lot's to pray with...give God the glory!
Amen. Thank you Father Mike and thank you for your sermon last Sunday
Never heard the term pussilanimity before, thanks for sharing Father!
And absolutely loved the mention of this quote: What we are is God's gift to us, what we become is our gift to God!
God bless you Father as always and the team and your families 🙂🙏🏼❤️
Wisdom! Thank you Father!
Exciting when we find ourselves through his gifts and words. Teacher, Healer and Savior.
Thank you so much, Fr. Mike! 🙌
I needed to hear this, I've been confusing humility with timidity way too often.
Love this video
Great video, Father! Thanks a lot! God bless you!
My humility is truly great. I’m an extraordinarily humble person. I learned that from guardians of the galaxy. Great vid by the way - way to make us think and learn.
Thank you Fr Mike , it’s really good video and I learned so much. Praise the Lord Almighty 🙏🙏🙏
What a beautiful video, thank you Fr. Mike. My concern, especially as someone who suffers with mental illness like depression and anxiety, is that through those illnesses I've become habitually timid, and small, and I don't know how to recognize any "gifts" within myself. How can someone like myself even begin to see those, so I can try and start to let them grow and work towards glorifying God?
I feel the same as you
Perhaps you could join a support group where you talk about them and get the feedback you need to help you figure out what they are. Or if you have any close friends who are honest with you who could help you figure it out. Or you could sit and meditate on your possible potentials for awhile, and if you think you hit on a possibility, then give it a try. For example if you draw and doodle and wonder if you could be a good artist, then practice more. If you write a little, like journaling, and you think maybe you could write a book, or even just an article for a magazine, then practice writing more. What were you good at when you were a child?
@@BoomerAnn Great suggestions, Ann. I current work as a designer, but that's not going great so maybe I'm forcing something that isn't there haha I'll try and pray on them and see what comes up. Thank you!
@@lumina5 I genuinely do not.
I too suffer from mental illness and what I always pray to God is for him to remove any walls and blockages (spiritual or mental) that is causing the flow of His Love entering my Heart and Soul. I have to pray with great Faith and child like Trust that in this relationship/friendship with Him he can surpass through any walls in my life right now. Like when He entered the Upper Room where the Apostles were praying before Pentecost. When He is inside the Tabernacle/Temple of my Heart, I just rest there and let Him teach me/rest with me/play with me. This is what being with God looks like and let Him do the work He began in you. You may not know it but you are already using God’s gift. If you want to definitely know what these are specifically, it is between you and God and you can ask Him in prayer. I will pray for you.
Thank you father I see that i really had misappropriated in my mind humility and saw it in the wrong way.. also great example from the Bible is king David who was actually humble knowing God is great and he didn’t esteemed himself but God and by that won the great battle against the big enemy even as it seemed impossible 😊
God gave me the gift of singing. I had been cantoring for our church until COVID hit. I’m waiting to do this again. Our church is open, but I’m in my early sixties and am fearful of cantoring now. This video has moved me to pray more about this. I truly get so much pleasure singing for the Lord.
Wow. Powerful and Inspiring. Thank you Fr. Mike. May God bless you.
Thank you God
father, I feel like in every one of your videos like God is speaking to me directly through you. what a gift God has given you in your speaking and your platform to educate Catholics! I love you keep up the awesome videos :)
Love it! Thank you.
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This has really helped me after a long time of wrestling. Thank you so much.
Lovely lecture, Father. Thank you so much!
In the past I abused my talents to put others down instead of pointing them to God. I didn’t know it, but it was magnanimity which made me re-examine myself and throw that malice away. I now try my best to glorify God through my gifts.
Peace to everyone🤍
Peace and Love to you too✝️✨🌹🕊️
100! (Holy Spirit!)
Thank you, Father! Awesome explanation, and beautiful zeal :-)
Oh, hey, look, this is timely.
So good!
Wow! Thank you so much Father Mike. You have cleared some doubts I had. Magnanimity is not pride. It’s Excellence
Magnanimous. I still remember the meaning of this word from my H.S. English class....it was assigned to me as part of our vocabulary lesson. Definitely has stuck with me ever since.
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This talk reminds me of the casting crown song-‘Nobody.’ Beautiful!
4:30 to 4:34-> That is why Mike Schmitz became Father Schmitz.
very nice! Thank you
Amazing !
progresing in faith with virtues like magnamity ensures availability to God's service.
I am great fan of the Almighty when I didn't believe at times he showed me that there are many ways and paths in life. All I have to believe is in him and I will find one.
I'm just in awe and shock at how much the Lord has spoken to me through Fr. Mike in the past few videos and homilies. It's like each new video answers my prayers and questions and doubts that I have about something so specific and profound. And he has verified thoughts or ideas that I have. The Lord is clearly pointing me in the right direction. He is the all mighty and merciful. Praise Jesus! Lord, bless Fr. Mike!
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@@tootynuggets there was a "father Mike"answering in the rewiew asking money and saying that he had a revelation with you, i received the same too, but he was an impostor , he wasnt priest Mike, and he wrote many people, but I think CZcams already bloqued him"
Thank you very much, Father! This is quite different to what some people come to sell you sometimes, that being humble and Saint is to reduce your possibilities to end up doing nothing in this life. I call these people "drug dealers", but many times the reason why people don't want you to do great things is because of envy, hate or fear linked to previous reasons. Thank you again for this lesson.
Holy Spirit give me the strength to be a saint and the wisdom not to offend God
I'm almost done with St Faustina's Divine Mercy in my Soul. Exactly,this is the virtue that she has which is misunderstood by some. Her strong desire to be great for God's glory is selfless...🙏❤️❤️❤️
Dear Father Mike, I’ve been contemplating about the concept of LONGANIMITY. and listening to you with MAGNAMINITY, it makes me think that these two are similar or go together, wouldn’t you agree? I’m fascinated with this two virtues and for sure want to practice them as best as possible with God Grace! ✨🔥✨🙏🏻
I do try, " JESUS COME WITH ME",
Everyday, Father, I do try.
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Últimamente he estado orando y le he estado diciendo a Dios que no me gusta la mediocridad. Este video habla exactamente acerca de lo que he estado orando.
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Please pray that i overcome my horrible uncharacteristic crushing timidity. Thank you.
Hi Father. I think that famous saying you mentioned at 7:09 is from the movie coach carter. Its says: our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frighten us. You playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.. and as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same as we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Yes... :)
Wow. :)