Contraception and Abortion and are killing our Shepherds before they are born.

Homily of Fr. Michael O'Connor from Mass on April 21, 2024 at Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church in Bay St. Louis, MS
Referenced Readings:
Acts 4:8-12
1 Jn 3:1-2
Jn 10:11-18
If you would like to donate to OLG and her livestream ministry, please go to
olgchurch.net/give

[@OurLadyoftheGulfCatholicChurch]

It has come to our attention that KZbin is beginning to follow other social media platforms by inserting automated responses in videos that they consider "misinformation" or "offensive". KZbin's automated systems will pick up keywords in videos and post counter information that they themselves deem appropriate or corrective in nature. We believe, as all Catholics should, that speaking out against the evils of the world, including some of the most evil practices such as killing innocent human life through abortion, should not warrant a counterpoint. Unfortunately, these Tech giants control the platforms that all of us use and there is little we can do to prevent it. We can't stop or remove the messages, but we can voice our concern against the practice. We have provided the following link where you yourself can voice your complaint. While one complaint will not likely change their practices, many complaints may do so since their revenue depends on advertisement revenue from the viewers. support.google.com/youtube/answer/4347644?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform=Desktop&sjid=6763842228877245528-NA

[@Catholic33AD]

Hello Father. I was temporarily suspended from posting on KZbin because I wrote that homosexuality stems from.. I can’t say it because I was threatened by YT that I will banned permanently. But pedophelia is a big problem in America and needs to be prayed for to come to an end.

[@cliffbarber1642]

I immediately submitted a complaint. It is outrageous and, I feel, unconstitutional for Google to do this. I told them that the information banner they put up on abortion was unconstitutional, but also misleading and incorrect in many ways. Lord, have mercy on us!

[@Catholic33AD]

@@cliffbarber1642 the elites in DC nor google or YT cares. They are all in cahoots with this diabolical agenda. The more they get ppl to sin and follow these abominations the more power they give to Satan and the more Satan gives them. They have one god and that is money.

[@michaelhaywood8262]

@@Catholic33AD I once made an anti-transgender comment, which was instantly deleted and got me a 24 hour ban and a warning. I think that an abbreviation I used was recognised as a so-called ''hate word'' and triggered the sanctions. I do not hate transpeople, but I disapprove of puberty blockers, hormones, 'social transitioning' and the like for minors. This is surely not ''hatred''.

[@geraldinegraves255]

Thank you Fr. Mike for your great sermon and for reminding us to pray for our priests and vocations. It is so inspiriing to hear your sermons!

[@patriciaburchell9626]

Wonderful homily, Fr. Mike! You ARE a Good Shepherd and we are all so blessed by you. May God richly bless you and protect you always! 🙏❤️

[@jean-ericguindon1853]

Yes, he is !

[@dacableman1986]

Father Michael O'Connor you are one the many good sheperds of our Catholic Church. We will definitely keep praying for you!😊

[@SamSlam-sk7zs]

Father Mike you are one of the best shepherds I know. I love hearing your beautiful words and I will pray for you. Please keep doing your work and Thanks!

[@dorahernandez9939]

Fr. Mike I appreciate your homilies of truth. Wish we had more shepherds that preach truth. I appreciate your Bishop for allowing you to preach truth. Thank you for hour priesthood and you are in our prayers. May God bless you. 🙏

[@robertallen7186]

THANK YOU Fr. Mike for calling out abortion and contraception.......topics that sadly will not be addressed at my local parish. The Catholic Church needs priests that are not afraid to speak the TRUTH of the Gospel and the teachings of the Church. May God bless YOU and your flock both there in Bay St. Louis and here in KZbin Land. Bob in Grand Rapids, MI

[@mulipolatuuumataafatiufeaa4964]

Of course. Abortion and contraception are murdering millions of good sherperds whom GOD in all Eternity has created in their mothers wombs but killed by another two Catholics Joe Biden and Perosi with many others. They never realise the spiritual consequences of their sinful actions. Thanks, Fr Mike, for continuing to pressure these stupid Catholics by name to repent and return to God.

[@saveamerica423]

NOt a word said at my parish either and it's disheartening because sticking your head in the sand isn't a solution.

[@teresamelvin1073]

Thank you Father Mike for a beautiful homily you are one of the good shepherds God bless you and keep you safe❤

[@cnyphotovideo]

Amen. Thank you Fr. Mike for continuing to strongly proclaim the truth of Christ.

[@rockportmom2598]

God bless you Father Mike. You are in my prayers. Thank you for being such a great teacher and shepherd for us all❤

[@virginiaconnolly1823]

Thank you Father Mike for helping us fight against this evil we need to be encouraged we need to be encouraged to do what God says is good instead of following the ways of this broken evil country 😢

[@mariettatrapani291]

I Am the Good Shepherd Sunday: Today Is World Day Of Prayer For Priestly Vocations: Prayer for Vocations Prayer to Saint Michael: In the Name of Jesus We Confidently Ask Divine Protection For Our Priest, Bishops, Deacons, And Seminarians Ora Pro Nobis! Thank You Rev. Mike O'Connor For Answering God's Call to the Priesthood God Bless⛪

[@katkat2340]

Thank you Father for proclaiming Our faith in Jesus with your very life.

[@gracesflowers977]

Father Mike, you are a sheppard .Feeding our Lord's sheep all over this country. Thank you.

[@franclark9256]

Fr.Mike,just watched your homily when I got home from church!! You are so powerful!! I'm so happy you answered the Lord's calling to be a priest. God bless you all at OLG!

[@franbalsamo8922]

Fr. Mike, you are a wonderful shepherd, and I will pray for you that you will always continue to be one. God bless you always.

[@MariaHernandez-lb6vm]

Fr. Mike may our Lord Jesus Christ and blessed mother Mary walk with always. May they give you the courage and strength you need to shepherd your flock.

[@lorettagallagher9577]

Amen. I'm praying for you Fr. Mike. God bless you and keep you.

[@janetotto796]

Keep preaching the truth Fr Mike!

[@patricialaporte8485]

Thank you Father

[@craiglist483]

Thank you for answering the call Fr. Mike you are a blessing to me🙏. And I’m praying for you and more Good Shepherds🙏

[@juanitaesquibel9242]

Prayer for you father Mike, may God bless you

[@Marekcatholic]

I dont qualify to be a priest. We need good and strong and bold shepherds. You are one of them Fr. God bless. I'll pray for you.

[@mulipolatuuumataafatiufeaa4964]

Thank you, Fr Mike, for this inspiring homily on the Good Sherperd Jesus Christ. ❤ it

[@Marcia811]

Thank you, Father Mike. Keep us, your flock , close. I need to hear this often. ❤🕊🙏

[@resist4god]

Thank God for Father Mike🙏🙏🙏

[@guyrochefort9722]

Thank you fr Mike God bless you ❤

[@cneturytwenty6794]

Thanks for so much hope and peace.

[@SunshineTwilight]

Beautifully Delivered! Amen!

[@GB_3219]

Might our almighty God grant you holy perseverance and His love 🙏 God bless you, Fr. Mike ❤

[@CVB-ho9ki]

Amen. Prayers for strong good Shepards during this time & for you Father Mike. Gratitude & Peace in Christ 🙏

[@lindaboland8869]

This one brought tears to my eyes Father Mike - you truly are a good shepherd and we keep you in our prayers! Thank you doesn’t seem enough✝️

[@cliffbarber1642]

I am praying for you Fr. Mike regularly in my Rosary. We are living in a Missionary Age not unlike the one St. Peter was preaching in during the first reading. You are correct we need more priests and more lay Disciples of Jesus who boldly proclaim Jesus as Lord and Saviour, the only one who can save us in our helpless condition of sin.

[@patodwyer721]

Thank you Fr.Mike for your Wisdom, Guidance and Leadership May Our Lord Jesus Christ guide you and all other good Shepherds for the benefit of all mankind ✝️💕

[@agneshabas2890]

Yes Father Mike I pray for you

[@katherinembach6261]

Alleluia- AMEN Father!!!! Be strong- Be the TRUTH- Stand up for GOD and never waiver!!!!!!

[@johnamiro6927]

Thank you your the best good shepard

[@kathykois]

Thank you Fr. Mike for being a Good Shepard to us - His people. And for being so very brave and truthful on things people don't want to talk about nor hear from the pulpit!! 💛

[@sharonr.6612]

LORD HELP US, PLEASE GIVE US MORE GOOD PRIESTS WHO SPEAK THE TRUTH..

[@michellebegin386]

Father ~ you most definitely are a ‘good shepherd’ ~ today’s homily is one of the best ever!

[@Kindcmm]

Fr. Mike thank you so much for answering God’s call to the priesthood. Your sermons tremendously help me in my faith and make me love and follow Christ more and more. You truly are a Good Shepherd. Praying for you always and I will also pray that God sends more Good Shepherds like you to lead his flock, the Church.

[@rosemarykirby7489]

I love all our Good Shepherds! Especially Jesus. Thank you for being a priest who calls his sheep to Jesus!

[@agathestlouis5932]

Praise Jesus, Shepherd of our shepherds in this life 🙏🙏🙏we love you‼️we adore you and thank you ‼️‼️🎶🎵

[@mt1054]

May God bless you abundantly Fr. Mike! Thanks be to God that you are a true priest and a true shepherd. I will keep you in my prayers. 🙏🏻😇🙏🏻

[@joannebywaters4154]

I love your homilies!! & God bless you on this day for your yes to being our Good Shepherd!!!🙏❤😇

[@PLA5207]

Fr. Mike thank you for your excellent sermons/teachings. Bless you always and in all ways. ~Doc

[@margo7036]

We pray for you Fr Mike , down under in (Australia)❤🕊🙏

[@armandolugo9467]

Continue to be that Good Shepherd

[@king_sa7]

Amen

[@duanegrove6516]

God bless you for proclaiming our Lord’s truth

[@innocentodenigbo7284]

Very very interesting ❤🙏

[@saveamerica423]

Just so accurate. I wasn't always so conscious of it when I was younger, but boy am I now. Human nature is so broken and flawed. I think about myself. IF i currently did not have God as the cornerstone of my life, I would be committing all sorts of evils. It's so disingenuous to think otherwise. I thank the Lord that he has bestowed at least a little tiny bit of wisdom and grace upon me in order to fight the temptations we all face.... some of us more than others. I would be in that category.

[@Catmonks7]

👍✝️🇻🇦🙏

[@Catholic33AD]

St Mark 3:26 Satan has risen up against himself and is divided,he cannot stand, but is coming to an end. That means if an atheist is divided against himself, the end is at hand. And if this country is divided against itself, it will not stand but fall. And we are at the peak of that division.

[@petemaverick4538]

FYI… it was said by Dawkins, not Hitchens recently.. Hitchens died in 2011 and he too was an avowed atheist as well. God bless.. Fantastic homily!!!!

[@joecrow2847]

I pray for a pro-life president. Ever since Fr. Silva became the pastor of St. Brendan's Church, I have not heard a single word about abortion. There used to buses to Washington on respect life Sunday. I have a daughter who voted for a proabortion president and will plan to vote for him again. My son laughs when I mention that abortion is an issue. My dad is starting to support the proabortion president. My wife and mother are politically apathetic. As for me, I wonder why praying for a pro-life president has often resulted for sadness in me others support a proabortion one and are very happy.

[@teresahuston6650]

Pray for vocations of Priests was on Sunday. I want to tell my parish priest to stop having alter girls at the other masses. I attend the only Sunday Norvus Ordo very reverent mass that he has with alter boys.

[@HumilityisaVirtue]

Father, concerning YoUTube and other liberal platforms, it's so good to know secularism is alive and well (sarcasm). More importantly, you broached something I had never considered until your homily. Do people that choose to go to hell not recognize the voice of Jesus Christ? Ten again, if they failed to recognize HIS voice while on earth, how could they possibly recognize HIS voice at the time of judgement. Jesus certainly gives us all, through HIS divine love, but we choose what we choose.

[@Catholic33AD]

Everyone has it written in their hearts the right and wrongs and ones conscious speaks to us which is the voice of God. Denying that voice is denying the Holy Spirit which is the unforgivable sin and guilty of the eternal sin, rejecting God. If it were the case that we didn’t know right from wrong and didn’t hear a certain voice advising our conscious to do right then we’d be in chaos with one another and in a disordered behavior that society wouldn’t have the structure it has now. No one would respect each other and there would be no laws and it would be Neanderthal in a way. Unbelievers especially them hear constantly the voice of God in their conscious but hardened their hearts and refuse to want to turn or change from their stubborn evil ways.

[@evelyncarrasquillo2282]

I will pray for the Christians who even though he watched Fr. Connors at Our Lady of the Gulf, heard his message and still did nothing to draw closer to Christ because they think it's the next guy who's got some improving to do! Just remember it will be too late once everything goes down the rathole.

[@Catholic33AD]

That is why humility is key and everyday we must admit that we are sinners in need of God and a desire to be a better Catholic. The moment we become presumptuous and arrogant we lose sight of Gods will and our pride blinds us once again.

[@evelyncarrasquillo2282]

@@Catholic33AD You are absolutely correct. Humility is key. Unfortunately I read somewhere most Catholics don't even want to try the Litany of Humility. Not even at these crucial moments in our history! That is unparalleled arrogance. We all need prayer.

[@Catholic33AD]

@@evelyncarrasquillo2282you know that the more humility one practices which is a virtue, the more graces and protection one receives from God. Scripture begins to open up. The peace of Christ dominates your every being. You see things clearly even the plots from the evil one you become aware of. Humility is like the hidden secret that the devil doesn’t want us to know and reason why he wants us to be prideful. To then be blind from the truth, to not receive gifts from God in graces and to ultimately disrupt our relationship with God. Meek to the point of accepting a loss even if you know you are right. Meek to the point of showing humility to others below you.

[@Catholic33AD]

@@evelyncarrasquillo2282let’s pray to God so that we can become a living litany of humility to others so that we will be able to plant seeds by our example. This culture is prideful, let’s be counter culture, meek and humble.

[@evelyncarrasquillo2282]

@@Catholic33AD That is the end I am striving for. I am a work in progress! Viva Cristo Rey!

[@Maria-wh7ul]

The athiest spoken of desires the loss of faith and living according to and obtaining the pleasure of his own disordered desires but doesn't want to reap the just rewards of his desires; in other words, to live in a mean, corrupt, and physically and spiritually dangerous world. He is precariously sitting on the proverbial "fence." A fence we, at times, find ourselves sitting upon in own own "lukewarmness" (i.e., not praying for the conversion of souls who seek our persecution and the destruction of the Catholic Church).

[@Catholic33AD]

It’s true. He’s being hypocritical. He despises Christianity yet loves the peace that it brings to the community vs atheism brings chaos and disruption. Yes. Let’s pray for all of the atheists out there so that they may see the truth that is in Christ and his Church.

[@TJ1920]

People need to be educated on the subject of abortion Not women’s reproductive rights or pro choice a fetus is a human life this can not be disputed The State is not always right sometimes they are wrong but if the people the majority of people were educated against abortion the State would soon fall inline with what the people wanted that is the way democratic governments work Christian Culture What I want not what’s good for me as a human being remember the child within the womb This issue needs to be addressed to one and all