Day 336: Jesus Hears Our Prayer - The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

[@carolynalameida709]

I find myself crying everyday during this pillar on prayer. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner.

[@SuperRuthJ]

LORD JESUS CHRIST SON OF THE LIVING GOD HAVE MERCY ON ME A SINNER!🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

[@dianefrank3688]

Amen! ❤🙏

[@rm-paradise]

Father, may everything that I do this day, whether it be full of joy or pain, whether it be full of love or of grief, I ask that everything I go through today be offered to you just like Jesus offered everything to you. It is in his name we pray. Amen. 12/2/2023.

[@56Tyskie]

For the sake of His sorrowful Passion have mercy on us and on the whole world. ♥️🙏✝️

[@dianefrank3688]

Amen! ❤🙏

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

❤

[@lindab3293]

Praying for you Father Mike! Thank you! 🥰🙏🏼❤️

[@joannebates3505]

Jesus Christ son of the living God have mercy on me a sinner

[@paulacevedo8814]

Praise to you God and Jesus Christ🙏❤😇

[@marianmilne6009]

Thank you Fr Mike. Praying for you and everyone here. God bless🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

[@Melissa-dz6je]

A.S.A.P.~"Always Say A Prayer"🙏🕊️🤲

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

I like this

[@kathywiens9852]

I like acronyms. Thank you for this. 💖

[@Melissa-dz6je]

@@kathywiens9852 Here some more Acronyms to enjoy!☺️ T.R.U.S.T.~True Resolve Under Severe Testing F.E.A.R.~ False Evidence Appearing Real

[@TrixRN]

I like acronyms, too. It makes it easier to remember things.🙏❤️

[@SuperRuthJ]

Thank you father Mike!❤

[@normangautreau4518]

I pray the daily “Jesus Prayer” for the dying and holy Souls in Purgatory. Amen 🙏

[@dianefrank3688]

Praying for Fr. Mike & CIY 🙏🙏🙏 Thank you everyone for your needed prayers.❤ I sailed through the city traffic and made it home by 7pm.🛻 My sacroiliac has been pulled out again because the muscles are so tight. I have been doing a few ball exercises to stretch out the back muscles. I go back to the chiropractor on Tuesday.❤🙏

[@glenapereira3492]

Praying for your speedy recovery 🙏 🙏

[@dianefrank3688]

@@glenapereira3492 Thank You your prayers are grdatly appreciated. ❤🙏

[@barbaramazzocca4605]

dianefrank, I have been suffering with the same thing for 9 years. I would not recommend going to a chiropractor for this. A chiropractor tore my tendons and ligaments doing adjustments for this problem, rendering it impossible to ever heal. It is difficult to sit, drive, walk up steps or inclines. So, if you would like to talk about this, I don't know if there is a message thingy on KZbin, but I'd be happy to talk to you about it. I've been in PT for 9 straight years because of letting a chiropractor deal with the SI joint problem, I don't want it to happen to you or anyone else. God bless.

[@sandyrausch1999]

Make sure your pelvis is level, one leg longer than the other can do weird things to your spine and SI joint. Postural x rays are the way to diagnosis short leg or hip. SI braces help.

[@TrixRN]

Diane, as a RN I second Barbara’s advice. I’ve seen injuries come from using a chiropractor inappropriately. This might be the appropriate use of chiropractic services. However, I would check to make sure. I pray you find relief & healing.🙏❤️

[@elizabethcronin3074]

Hello everyone & Happy Day 336!🙏😊

[@dianefrank3688]

🙋‍♀Elizabeth & All 😊Day 336 ❤🙏 Jonathan, my son will drive us to the city for the Sat. vigil mass. The Life Teen sells poinsettias outside before the 4pm mass. I usually pick some up for four different families every year. They are donated by a florist and are beautiful, reasonable priced, and go to a good cause. I am so thankful that my son is willing to drive me & deliver the poinsettias as my back is still in pain.😪❤🙏

[@elizabethcronin3074]

@@dianefrank3688 have a blessed first weekend of Advent!🕯Lovely that you share the plants with those families! Prayers for easing of back pain!🙏😘

[@dianefrank3688]

@@elizabethcronin3074 Thank you. I am offering up this pain for the souls in Purgatory so it isn't wasted. ❤🙏

[@DarlaTurner-vt4pn]

Praying you are restored to good health and no pain.🙏

[@dianefrank3688]

@@DarlaTurner-vt4pn Thank you so much❤🙏

[@pelawren]

The Way of a Pilgrim is a good book to know more about the Jesus Prayer.

[@TrixRN]

Who wrote it? Is it online?

[@danielmuntean9345]

@@TrixRN It was written by an anonymous writer in Russia in the 19th century

[@TrixRN]

@@danielmuntean9345 Thanks! I wonder if the archive is working again.

[@Catholic_D.O.G]

Domine Jesu Christe fili Dei miserere mei peccatoris 🕊🙏❤️

[@glenapereira3492]

Jesus Prayer in Latin. 🙏

[@chavelasalas9151]

Praise your mighty name Lord Jesus Christ thank you ❤❤we love and trust un you Amen Father. Prayers Father Mike Amen Amen 🙏

[@roystonfernandes8305]

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me, a sinner. In Jesus, our prayer becomes a communion of love with the Father. In this way, we can present our petitions to God to be heard. Mary’s prayer was characterised by faith and by the generous offering of her whole being to God. Mary prays to Jesus for the needs of all people.

[@cbtherepetitiveparthelpsme957]

I am of the Eastern rite. I have used the Jesus Prayer as an act of contrition. It is beautiful without being overly wordy. Keeps me focused on why I am there.

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

​@@cbtherepetitiveparthelpsme957Thank you for this comment

[@cbtherepetitiveparthelpsme957]

@@StAlphonsusHasAPosse 🙂

[@TrixRN]

I love the Jesus prayer. When I’m without words for whatever reason I pray this because it says it all.🙏❤️

[@cbtherepetitiveparthelpsme957]

Absolutely

[@marybailey6254]

Blessings to all who are participating in the CIY & BIY today 🙏🕊🛐🕊🙏

[@slawre4433]

These days are the best…prayer. In gratitude. Come Holy Spirit Come.

[@143mschrag]

Glory and Praise be to You Lord Jesus Christ❣️ Thank you so much Fr Mike and Ascension. My continued prayers for all, God Bless 🙏🏻

[@CarmenRodriguez-vx1km]

Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me a sinner 🛐 Love this prayer 🙏🏽 Thank you Fr. Mike for Day 336 ✝️.

[@artorefalnera3055]

Fr. Thank you ❤. Praying for you, for the Ascension team and for all my CIY brothers and sisters. God bless ❤🙏

[@tjf42193]

All of you people watching this please pray for a friend of mine her words exactly “I don't know if non-believer is the right word, I'm not affiliated with any particular religion, I'm probably agnostic right now, I do find value in the psychospiritual, maybe to say I'm questioning is more accurate.”

[@TriciaMalikebu]

Thank you Fr Mike for the Jesus pray. I have struggled going to confession because I always think I wouldn’t remember the contrition. I found a short prayer & have been prayed it everyday as I plan to go go for confession every month as a minimum from this month of December. Now I have even a shorter prayer, oh my, what an absolute blessing. Lord Jesus have mercy on me s poor sinner🙏🏽 If at all I forget everything which is impossible as I believe the Holy Spirit will continue to teach us on what we have learnt this year but even at my last breath, may I say Lord Jesus, have mercy on me a poor sinner. Thank you family for all your prayers. You are in mine. We are all sinners, may the Lord have mercy on us amen

[@TriciaMalikebu]

Sorry for the typos🙏🏽

[@TrixRN]

Amen!🙏❤️ When I just can’t find words for prayer I pray the Jesus prayer.

[@chavelasalas9151]

Prayers Father Mike. Amen to the Lord Jesus Christ 🙏

[@NAMASIVAYAMANANDASAKARAN]

Greeting! Everyone greetings!! Happy Advent. Jesus answers any prayer expressed in faith. Jesus hears every prayer expressed in faith and expressed in words. The traditional prayer of Jesus is "Lord Jesus Christ Son of God have mercy on me, a sinner!" When we inhale say Jesus and when you exhale say mercy and we will be constantly having this awareness of Jesus presence in us. Fiat means "Let it be." In Mary we have the prayer called Magnificat. Holy Spirit helps us to pray with a purified heart. Let's thank everyone and pray for Fr Mike Schmitz, all the clergy, all the seminarians, all those we promised to pray and all of us in the CIY community. Amen!!

[@dianefrank3688]

Amen!❤🙏

[@TrixRN]

Amen!🙏❤️

[@carolradlinger8661]

We are talking to someone, so important to understand that, Jesus, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner, so beautiful ❤

[@KolokaiKalai]

Day 336....Thankyou for your time Fr.Mike...Keeping you and the Ascension team in prayers 🙏. 🙏.

[@angelagalluzzo883]

Praying for you Father Mike and all CYI members 🙏✝️

[@joanhaselman444]

Father Mike, since this year is coming to a close, maybe, maybe, you could lead us in a whole year of teaching us about prayer, and praying with us. I know you prayed with us at the beginning of every segment here, and I thank you, but, oh, prayer, is so important, and if we were led to appreciate it more, by your teaching, and praying all together every day for a year, led by you, it would be so powerful.

[@Jmjemmanual]

Lord Jesus, Son of the Eternal Father, have mercy on me a sinner ❤❤❤❤

[@LaurensiaRimanu-nb1fy]

Thank you Father Mike! Praying for you all

[@marianmilne6009]

Thank you for this Fr Mike.....I've listened twice already. How blessed are we.......Praying for you and everyone here. God bless🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

[@richardbergmark6722]

Thank you Father.

[@MM22272]

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me, a sinner; and bless Father Mike for all of his love and faith in serving us sinners with your truth!

[@ElviaAlamilla-cr2ge]

Thank you Father Mike God bless

[@jwhite62]

I need prayers for my mom please. She is so depressed because she is having eye issues and may lose her sight and I don’t know what to do except pray for her. Thank you. I am praying for you Father Mike and all those who are listening.

[@kmousie]

I'm praying for your mom and asking St. Lucy to intercede for her. I'm praying for you too. ❤

[@annmariem3236]

Praying for your mom... THE MOST POWERFUL HEALING PRAYER BY ST. PADRE PIO Heavenly Father, I thank you for loving us. I thank you for sending your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, to the world to save and to set us free. I trust in your power and grace that sustain and restore us. Loving Father, touch @user-xb1lp8op6s's mom now with your healing hands, for I believe that your will is for her to be well in mind, body, soul and spirit. Cover her with the most precious blood of your Son, our Lord, Jesus Christ from the top of her head to the soles of her feet. Cast anything that should not be in her. Root out any unhealthy and abnormal cells. Open any blocked arteries or veins and rebuild and replenish any damaged areas. Remove all inflammation and cleanse any infection by the power of Jesus’ precious blood. Let the fire of your healing love pass through her entire body to heal and make new any diseased areas so that her body will function the way you created it to function. Touch also her mind and her emotion, even the deepest recesses of her heart. Saturate her entire being with your presence, love, joy and peace and draw her ever closer to you every moment of her life. And Father, fill her with your Holy Spirit and empower her to do your works so that her life will bring glory and honor to your holy name. I ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen

[@R.C.425]

Thank you

[@MrDarshD]

Jesus prays for us, with us, and we pray to Him as the Son of God. The gospels, and our experience helps us to know that we indeed don't repeat mantras but we're talking with Jesus and God. The dawning of the fullness of time is a great description of Mother Mary's prayer. She trusted God and showed the possibility of God's plans when we give ourselves in God's hands. The best example of obedience to God. Jesus: wanted His disciples to pray (A) with a Purified heart, (B) with lively and persevering faith, (C)with filial boldness. He calls them (D) to vigilance, and (E) invites them to present their petitions to God in His name. Thank you so much for sharing this with us, Fr. Mike and Team Ascension. I'm praying for you and for the fellow listeners. God bless.

[@17CW68fNv]

Praying for your ministry, Fr Mike, and all here. May God Bless. Claire.

[@munchlax9715]

Praise be to God

[@joannebywaters4154]

Praying...in thanksgiving & for a strong finish for us!!🙏❤️😇 All our holy angels & saints pray for us❤️🙏😇

[@hlobend2111]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼-for Fr Mike and all the associates that make this daily service possible. Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

[@laurieharris1247]

I say the Jesus prayer a lot and today, on this first Saturday of December, the day we make reparation for all the offenses made against the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the day before Advent begins, what a joy to hear the prayers of Mary - have a blessed Advent CIAY and BIAY famiglia 😊🙏❤️

[@annettegrant6791]

Thank you Father..I have listened to certain parts twice because it is so beautifully said and I want to be able to pray more and more. God bless you 🙏 ❤

[@R_Thomp]

Thank you Father

[@glenapereira3492]

Jesus hears every prayer expressed in faith - in words or in silence as also the urgent request of people through the Jesus Prayer. This prayer is an awareness of Jesus by calling on him from our heart while presenting our petitions; knowing that the Trinity holds us in their gaze. Mary's prayer her Fiat: *Let it be done to me according to your word* cooperates with the Father's plan of loving kindness. Her greatest prayer of Praise is the Magnificat. It's more important to pray than to talk about prayer.😊

[@wreloise1]

“O You who hear prayer, To You all mankind comes.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭65‬:‭2‬ ‭

[@dawnmireles2912]

December 2, 2023 Do you have just a moment in time to pray for Souls in Purgatory with me? According to tradition, St. Gertrude the Great, was told by Our Lord that each time she piously recited the following prayer, it would release 1,000 souls (or a vast number) from their suffering in purgatory: Eternal Father, I offer You the most precious blood of thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal Church, for those in my own home, and in my family. Amen. In her account of another vision, St. Faustina describes Purgatory as a "great crowd of suffering souls" undergoing purification. Further, she says that the souls are "praying fervently, but to no avail, for themselves; only we can come to their aid" (Diary, 20)

[@yvobalcer]

I once read a blog from a priest who told people who could not pray due to illness, to just say the holy name of Jesus as a prayer.

[@TrixRN]

Yes, that’s a very good practice. I’ll say O my Jesus when I’m in the middle of something, especially if it’s urgent, or just to bring Him to mind if I’m doing chores.🙏❤️

[@nathanngumi8467]

Word.

[@joseguzman1051]

Amen 🙏.

[@deedeebuhler9610]

May God bless you always 🙏

[@almapuritaparcon3435]

Day 336. 🙏🙏🙏❤

[@MorreHope]

Amen

[@metildajoseph5265]

Greetings Father Mike, Thoughts :- -> Message reflect with, "Principle of Prayer connects Spiritual Imitation with Holy Faith in Lord Jesus Christ in all aspects of Life." -> Good Valuable Insights, Father.. Thanks Team CIY, Team Ascension Press. With Prayers, Ranjith Joseph (R.J)

[@lanstonpinto4421]

Day 336 *The Jesus Prayer* Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner Now we should repeat the prayer even as we breathe. Inhale - Jesus Christ , So of the living God... Exhale - Have mercy on me a sinner. Or, Inhale - "Jesus" Exhale - "Mercy" This is not a mantra like Om... This is because we are talking to someone and directing our attention to that person....

[@dawnmireles2912]

December 2, 2023 When the Catechism is complete (or maybe even now), consider listening to Saint Faustina’s Diary in a year and/or EWTN Mother Angelica’s Classics to add to your Catholic learning! Oh my goodness so much life guidance in conjunction with Father Mike’s Bible and Catechism in a Year!

[@DIS6103]

❤🕊

[@moniquearseneault1460]

❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@noradsouza3673]

🙏🏻😇👏🌹

[@gloriaruiz2332]

❤

[@eduardohoover2127]

Jesus prays Satan preys In my book "Look Who's Praying Now: Healing Unto the Nations," I didn't overly use the CCC to draw from, however the book does dovetail into the literature like two rivers coming to a confluence. I had no idea about the section on prayer in the CCC as it wasn't instructed in my RCIA classes. I'm with Fr Mike that this last pillar should be somehow incorporated into the entire year sort of like "nugget day"--"prayer day."

[@TrixRN]

I never thought about whether it’s incorporated into RCIA/OCIA. We haven’t gone over prayer yet (I’m a sponsor). We might in the P&E phase, purification & enlightenment, the last 4 meetings before Easter.

[@JayRedding12_12]

I have a recommendation, Fr. Mike was saying if you can't remember the Act of Contrition The Jesus Prayer is good, but I like to do an examination of conscience everyday and pray the Act of Contrition. If I pray things everyday it helps me memorize. And personally I like to pray the Jesus Prayer sometimes in lieu of Kyrie Eleison.

[@TrixRN]

Really good advice.🙏❤️

[@adelaidawallaert287]

🙏❤️

[@sandischorling1055]

🙏🙏🙏

[@kattydeleo9035]

🙏🙏🙏🤗❤️

[@robehrgonzales77494]

DaY 336 (31-MaY-2024) HaPpY FriDaY Katy, Tx (Cinco Ranch) A❤m❤e❤N❤

[@marsharr2877]

So, if we go to confession and say “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me a sinner.”, the priest is not going to say something? I was always under the impression that we had to say the traditional long version of that prayer.

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

I asked my son, who is a seminarian, about this. He said it would be okay, but it is mainly used in the Eastern church. He prefers memorizing or reading the longer Act of Contrition. Just throwing that out there for what it's worth. BTW, I always enjoy reading your comments and questions 😊

[@marsharr2877]

@@StAlphonsusHasAPossethank you! I actually asked a priest this morning as well, and he said that that this was his favorite way to end his confession personally. He said it was scripturally based and is one of four or five formulas for an act of contrition at the end that is approved for use.

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

@@marsharr2877 I'm going to use it and see if my priest says anything

[@kathywiens9852]

We had a priest a few years who actually posted that Jesus prayer in the Confessional. Apparently he thought it was OK. Pretty sure he'd rather someone come in and not be anxious about not remembering their act of contrition. Seems to me that in most Confessionals they have the AOC taped up to help the penitent also. At least here in middle America. Ks. I personally like the AOC, because it spells out my sorrow a bit more thoroughly. Going to confession frequently as in at least once a month helps to remember it. I'm sure any priest would want people in the Confessional no matter which prayer they use as long as they have deep sorrow and desire of absolution. 🙏🙌🙏💝

[@jamesedward9262]

The last time I was at Reconciliation, the priest didn’t ask for the aoc. I asked him, why? He said, I will do it for you. Never had that happen before.

[@victoriaa9107]

That's crazy, I still don't get it. God holds existence into existence, I'm not sure it can ever be anything that is "got". I stared at my hand today, imagining all of the systems working in tandem beneath my skin, then the crazy intricate relationships between cells and all the work and design required to flow and have life, and then, the insanity of my thoughts "controlling" my voluntary movement of my hand despite all the hundreds and millions of involuntary movements between the systems and cellular mechanisms firing off in and between every cell. God creates this and holds it into existence :O Madness :O And that's the complexity of what I can see, and then God holds in existence our very souls which cannot be seen and which I certainly scarcely understand. :O

[@joseguzman1051]

Amen 🙏.

[@susannebrule3160]

Thank you Father Mike.🙂🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@josecesarvivares5005]

🙏🙏🙏

[@DwellinginFaith]

AMEN

[@peggybruening4415]

❤

[@munchlax9715]

Amen