Day 361: The Kingdom and Will of God - The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

[@pokekiwi]

How wonderful, should those of us planning to do this again , invite others in their parishes to join them ! Imagine if we all began small study groups!!!

[@patl2898]

Keep praying for each other. 🙏🙏🙏

[@joannebywaters4154]

God thank you for CIY, Fr Mike, Ascension & all the graces YOU POUR OUT ON ALL OF US!!!❤❤❤

[@marianmilne6009]

This just amazing 2nd time round. Thank you Fr Mike. Praying for you and everyone here. God bless🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

[@rachelamaltese3419]

For me, it is the 2nd year of catechism in one year and the 3th for the bible in a year, and I'll do it all over again

[@chavelasalas9151]

Praise you lord Jesus Christ ❤❤❤ we love you and need you so very much in our lives. Thank you ❤❤❤Amen. Amen Father Mike prayers 🙏 ❤Amen

[@brianflanagan3013]

9 am in London. Couldn’t sleep so got to catch up. I’d love to hear Fr Mike’s musings about what the next life might be like. Brian Flanagan

[@lanstonpinto4421]

Prayer God I know what I want. And it might be what you want, I don't know. I surrender it. Even I don't know what I want, I surrender it . I place it under your dominion. You are the Lord, you are the King. I place it all under your kingship. It's under your reign ✝️

[@munchlax9715]

Amen

[@ombrettaperfetti]

Grazie.

[@carolynalameida709]

Amen!! Thank you!! I listened to this a month ago, and now I am listening again. So powerful. Please God, give me the strenght and courage to discern and to do your will. Amen.

[@carolynalameida709]

Thank you. I jumped ahead to this day as a friend thought it would help me in my current status. Walter Ciszek in He Leadeth Me says this, "His will for us is clearly revealed in every situation of every day' (pg 40). We need to view all things as he sees them and sends them to us, God puts me in situations, places and with people on purpose to put forth His Will. Everything we do do towards the end ... God's will. Give me the grace, God, to offer my prayers, work, sufferings and joys of the day to YOU.

[@teresauwajeh1406]

May we say your will be done in word and in truth. Amen

[@user-mv2tg8hc8c]

God’s will be done! Amen!

[@sandrastange8314]

Oh yes it's indeed the highest form of worship.

[@CarmenRodriguez-vx1km]

Praying for you Fr. Mike, and for all listening to CIY 🛐.

[@dianefrank3688]

❤🙏

[@andiebrodie3936]

Saint Faustina for one!!!!

[@phylliscory2105]

My husband has attended daily Mass for 60 years; after our seven kids were in full time school, I was able to join him. What a blessing to have daily Mass available to us. We continue to be sustained through all our trials.

[@teresauwajeh1406]

Amazing! I strve to be like you. Attending daily mass. What a privilege, what a blessing

[@paularoussel7859]

I started going to daily Mass last year, and don't know how I did without it before!🙏

[@kristidygert9642]

Yes indeed!!

[@elizabethcronin3074]

Hello everyone & Happy Day 361!🙏😊

[@dianefrank3688]

🙋‍♀Elizabeth & All 😊Day 361 ❤🙏

[@TrixRN]

Hi y’all 👋 Happy day 361.🙏❤️

[@KB_2161]

❤❤❤

[@angelagiannini3910]

Hi all & Happy Day 361🙏🏻

[@dianefrank3688]

@@angelagiannini3910 Hi ❤🙏

[@SuperRuthJ]

Thank you Father Mike!❤ Is anyone starting again in the New Year 2024? I am doing this again, love Father Mike’s teachings and all of this wonderful CIY family! God bless you all!🙏❤️🙏❤️

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

I'm still trying to decide whether to do this again, or do Bible in a Year

[@bettymanguriu1712]

It's back to the BIAY for me.

[@dianefrank3688]

I hope to do CIY & BIY again next year. I need them both.✝☦❤🤍🙏🙏

[@hnoelle37]

Bible in a year for me! I never did that one.

[@dianefrank3688]

@@hnoelle37 I have done it twice and I will probably do it again, but just listen this time. The lesions are quite a bit longer than those in CIY. Average is 24 minutes. 🥰

[@annievahos105]

Nearing the finish line!!!

[@dawnmireles2912]

December 27, 2023 Please, 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)

[@donnawilkey6857]

I had a couple of times where I could not do the CIY . Now I am returning to those sections and completing the year. The information gained throughout has impacted my understanding especially in terms of the Holy Spirit and our Mother Mary. I lament that this year of study was not required before I taught 25 years at the 8th grade level. I estimate that 80% of those souls are lost to the prevailing culture. They may have become lost anyway, but maybe more knowledge from a teacher would have given them pause before they became indifferent to God.

[@SandraHouston30]

I just wish to say how much I enjoy your deep comments.

[@erlindafields8897]

Wow !!!God Blessings to everyone 🙏🙏🙏

[@dianefrank3688]

Thank you! Blessings to you and all ❤🙏

[@annettegrant6791]

Praying for all of us listening today Thanks Father and God bless everyone. Amen 🙏 ❤

[@robehrgonzales77494]

DaY 361 (27-JuNe-2024) HaPpy ThursDaY A❤m❤e❤N❤

[@jeromefc]

O Supreme Will, come to reign upon the earth invest in all generations, win and conquer all, and do not delay any longer, amen. . Fiat!

[@TrixRN]

Amen!🙏❤️

[@GabrielReyes-ne9us]

Hola, hola! Wow. Blessings. I am going to listen to it again just as I have been listening to the Bible in a year. What a gift and blessing this three years have been for me. Thank you! Father Mike.

[@mcsmama]

@17:23 Fr. Mike quoting C.S. Lewis: "There are only two kinds of people in the end, those who say to God, 'Thy will be done', & those to whom God says in the end, 'thy will be done.' " WHOA! Like a bucket of cold water thrown into the face, that pretty much sums up the reality of the ramifications of the choices we make... WE WILL ULTIMATELY END UP GETTING EXACTLY WHAT WE CHOSE, & too many of us go through our lives time & time again, embracing the temptations of this world & ACTIVELY CHOOSING "NOT Him".😢 [12.27.2023]

[@tinyad7180]

Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come ... Ave Maria

[@delialee6320]

Again, Thank you Almighty Father & Jesus Christ & Holy Spirit for bringing us to this 361st day of this wonderful Podcast by Fr Mike. Thanks Fr Mike for doing this 🙏.

[@R_Thomp]

Thank you Father

[@MrDarshD]

I love the analysis of "God's Kingdom" done here. Abstract noun - Kingship. Concrete noun- Kingdom. Action noun- Reign. It's a great reminder of the connection of worship, the Eucharist, and the reign of the Lord God the Father. This is how individual prayer and the Mass both are seen as significant. Through the Mass, the entire Church prays for God's reign to come and Jesus Christ's return. We also want society, the Earth to progress in the present and thus, it's not just about eternal life in the future but our present life. I find the formula at the end to be very helpful. We must surrender our will to God and Jesus. We must also be honest and surrender to God what we don't know and what we are not sure. The endurance to do what God wants us to do is achieved through prayers and faith. Discovering God's will is a big task in itself but if we continue studying Jesus and the Gospel, we find hints. Still, we need to continue praying for God's intervention. Thank you so much, Fr. Mike and Team Ascension. I'm praying for you, Team Ascension and for the fellow listeners. I will continue to pray for you all, dear Catechism in a year family/community. God bless

[@wreloise1]

“To know [skillful and godly] wisdom and instruction; To discern and comprehend the words of understanding and insight,” ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭1‬:‭2‬ ‭

[@glenapereira3492]

Basileia =kingship, kingdom, reign. This has been coming since the Last Supper and is in our midst in the Eucharist, which is everything.!!! When we worship God and do his will, God listens to us. By prayer, taking care of the poor, giving self to others we hasten the kingdom and Christ's return. God's grace helps us to surrender our will to him uniting it with Jesus to do what's pleasing to him, as we are radically incapable of doing it on our own. Let us pray for wisdom to discern the Will of God in our lives, with the courage to start and the endurance to continue doing it to the very end, united with Jesus and the power of His Holy Spirit, to the glory of the Father. 🙏 🙌 🙏

[@naomiwelch6715]

Thank you for this beautiful teaching and prayer.

[@francesf527]

Wow. Nearly finished, I know that I have learnt so much. Thankyou Father Mike and all The Ascension Team. May we all follow Gods will with His grace.

[@barbaraberg4050]

Twice a day prayers for you, Fr. Mike. BIY and CIY. Thanks for all you have done to make both of these possible. May God shower abundant blessings on you and all those at Ascension who have made these two blessings a reality. Many prayers for all. 🙏🏼🦋🙏🏼🙏🏼📖

[@daphinesands4366]

Praying for God's will and endurance.

[@yucaipian0001]

I am thanking God for you I converted at 14yrs old my family was good about it for the most part. So I have loved my faith for 61 years and I have never really and truly understood my faith at this level. So happy to know that I choose so well at 14 years old and now just now I know why. Thank you God for your understanding of my slowly loving you for so long and Thank you God for Father Mike. Amen

[@doreensimmons976]

Hi Fr. Mike. I am one of those who watch the Catechism in a year on UTube on my Smart TV. I have learnt so much from your teachings during this year and also have been praying for you and all of us. I am a grandmother living in India and visiting my daughter in Canada. God bless you Fr. Mike

[@mabelmrivas1710]

Hello everyone. I can't believe we're almost at the end. I honestly didn't think I was going to be able to stick with this until the end. I was born and raised Catholic. I have always kept my faith, but as many others have sometimes struggled with it. Having heard the catechism daily has strengthened my faith and made me love God more. I am truly grateful for this podcast. God bless you, Father Mike.

[@meanchoolee5845]

Thank you Father Mike

[@dcamille-]

Amen and God Bless🙏🙏📿🙏🙏

[@roystonfernandes8305]

The Church prays for the final coming of the Kingdom of God through Christ's return in glory. The Church also prays that the Kingdom of God increase from now on through people's sanctification in the Spirit and through their commitment to the service of justice and peace in keeping with the Beatitudes. Come, Lord Jesus 🙏 The will of the Father is that all men be saved. Jesus perfectly fulfilled the saving will of His Father. We pray that God Our Father unite our will to that of Jesus His Son after the example of the BV Mary and the saints. It is only through prayer, especially at the Eucharist, that we can discern the will of God and have the endurance to do it. Lord I place my will under your dominion. 🙏

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

Marana 'tha

[@SandraHouston30]

I enjoy your comments. Are you affiliated with the church in some way?

[@roystonfernandes8305]

@sandrahouston9356 I'm not sure I understand the question. I am part of the Church laity.

[@thatophokontsi7233]

I always look forward to your comments 👏👏…

[@56Tyskie]

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

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

❤

[@17CW68fNv]

Praying for you, Fr Mike, for your endurance in prayer. I pray for this every day to Mary and my guardian angel as well. Prayers for all on BIY and CIY. May God bless. Claire.

[@marybailey6254]

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

[@beckypetersen6820]

I am going to restart bible in a year January 2024

[@gerrymccarthy9568]

Calvary made present in each Mass at the consecration! I know I am there on Golgotha with Mary, John, Mary Magdalene, the holy women. God lives outside time…. He created time. Oh what bliss!

[@valentinabiebie]

Thank you, Father Mike ❤ 29-12-2024

[@KB_2161]

Father in Heaven we give You praise. We thank You once again for speaking to us this day. We thank You for the group of people who are journeying with us, this family of God who seek after Your Word. We listen to Your Word attentively and we ask You to make Yourself known even more fully not merely through Your Word but also through the Spirit that works and animates in Your Word. May It animate in our hearts and illuminate our minds as we come back again and again to Your Word as You reveal It; as You reveal Yourself to us in the Sacred Scripture. We give You praise as You reveal Your Heart to us. Help us not to be afraid to reveal our hearts to You through Christ Our Lord. Amen. - Fr Mike Schmitz ❤❤❤

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

Fr. Mike has lovely prayers, but I will miss your beautiful and eloquent prayers also. I have enjoyed them so very much! 🙏 ❤ 🙏

[@munchlax9715]

Praise be to God

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

Amen 🙏 🙏 🙏

[@carolradlinger8661]

In every mass, so mind boggling ❤

[@ChildofGod98765]

Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you today asking for your blessings as a single mom. I’m raising my children with strength and courage, despite the challenges I face with my sons being autistic. Lord as I struggle to pay my rent every month and as I struggle to buy groceries for my children. I ask that you bless me with your wisdom and guidance, as I navigate parenthood on my own heal my lupus and heart disease and continue to give me strength to keep going so I may watch my sons grow into men. ❤

[@dianefrank3688]

Praying for you and your family🙏🙏🙏

[@ElviaAlamilla-cr2ge]

Thank you Father Mike God bless u abundantly

[@josephcaristo]

Prayer and fasting ensures that we are doing the Father’s will, but this must be unceasingly. Overcome the temptations and distractions of our world, the flesh and the devil with the sacraments often. Thy will be done.

[@artorefalnera3055]

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

[@dianefrank3688]

Thank you! Praying for you and all. ❤🙏

[@TrixRN]

🙏❤️

[@elizabethfaulkner8809]

Yes I am definitely. My third time. Thank you so much FR. Mike I am 78 radle catholic and I have learnt so much, wouldn't have done it without you. ❤

[@richardbergmark6722]

Thank you Father. Thank you for this year of joy and sorrow in being blessed with a better understanding of this treasure of time, wisdom, love, and faith.

[@JohnHenrysaysHi]

14:05 When we give of ourselves to others, God is glorified when that happens. His kingdom is even more present. It's so important that we don't just say this with our words in our prayers. But we actually do this in our actions, in our lives. And that's what all the saints have done. 14:56 The reality is the people who have done more good for people in this life on this world, their hearts were set on the next life. Their hearts were set on the coming of God's Kingdom. Their hearts were set on heaven. Those who did the best, the most good. The saints who did the most good for the most people in this world and in this life, they had their hearts set on that next world. They prayed every day that the Kingdom of God would come, that Jesus would come. Focusing our hearts on heaven does not make us ignore Earth. It would not be right. It is not the teaching of the Church. 4:33 "It may even be . . . that the Kingdom of God means Christ himself, whom we daily desire to come, and whose coming we wish to be manifested quickly to us. For as He is our resurrection, since in Him we rise, so He can also be understood as the Kingdom of God, for in Him we shall reign. " -Saint Cyprian 5:00 "Even if it had not been prescribed to pray for the coming of the kingdom, we would willingly have brought forth this speech, eager to embrace our hope. In indignation the souls of the martyrs under the altar cry out to the Lord: 'O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell upon the earth?' For their retribution is ordained for the end of the world. Indeed as soon as possible, Lord, may your kingdom come!" -from the early Church Father Tertullian 6:00 "Only a pure soul can boldly say: 'Thy kingdom come.' One who has heard Paul say, 'Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies," and has purified himself in action, thought and word will say to God: "Thy kingdom come!" -Saint Cyril of Jerusalem 8:64 "In committing ourselves to [Christ], we can become one spirit with Him, and thereby accomplish His will, in such wise that it will be perfect on earth as it is in heaven." -Origin 9:05 "Consider how [Jesus Christ] teaches us to be humble, by making us see that our virtue does not depend on our work alone but on grace from on high. He commands each of the faithful who prays to do so universally, for the whole world. For He did not say 'thy will be done in me or in us,' but 'on earth,' the whole earth, so that error may be banished from it, truth take root in it, all vice be destroyed on it, virtue flourish on it, and earth no longer differ from heaven." -Saint John Chrysostom 10:09 "It would not be inconsistent with the truth to understand the words, 'Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,' to mean: 'in the Church as in our Lord Jesus Christ Himself'; or 'in the Bride who has been betrothed, just as in the Bridegroom who has accomplished the will of the Father." -Saint Augustine 10:49 In the New Testament, the word basileia can be translated by "kingship" (abstract noun), "kingdom" (concrete noun) or "reign" (action noun). 11:15 The Kingdom of God lies ahead of us. It is brought near in the Word incarnate, it is proclaimed throughout the whole Gospel, and it has come in Christ's death and Resurrection. The Kingdom of God has been coming since the Last Supper and, in the Eucharist, it is in our midst. The Kingship of Jesus, the Kingship of God Himself is in our midst in the Eucharist. The Kingdom as the Church gathers around the altar to worship God the Father, that Kingdom is in our midst when we worship God in Spirit and in truth in the Eucharist. And our Lord Jesus Christ reigns. Father in heaven reigns when we celebrate the Eucharist. 12:26 The Eucharist is everything. "If any one is a worshiper of God and does His will, God listens to him. Such is the power of the Church's prayer in the name of her Lord, above all in the Eucharist. We are praying that the will of God can come be here. Be done on Earth as it is in heaven. And the power of the Church's prayer in the name of the Lord, above all, is powerful in the Eucharist. 13:34 God always hears us. The most powerful prayer we have is the Holy Mass, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Then when we get to participate, we get to represent the great sacrifice of the Son to the Father and the power of the Holy Spirit. The Kingdom of God is here, and God's will is done on Earth as it is in heaven. Merry Christmas, Father Mike Schmitz and everyone here. I'm praying for you. Please pray for me. Hope you have a light-filled peaceful joyful day. God bless you all!

[@teresauwajeh1406]

Thanks for the summary. I always look out for it helps

[@JohnHenrysaysHi]

@@teresauwajeh1406 God bless you! Thank you so much for letting me know.

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

🙂

[@JohnHenrysaysHi]

@@StAlphonsusHasAPosse Hope you're staying warm and doing well!

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

@@JohnHenrysaysHi Thank you--Same to you

[@143mschrag]

Amen. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. To GOD be All the Highest Glory always❣️ Thank you so much Fr. Mike and Ascension. As always, I am praying for all of you. God Bless 🙏🏻

[@georgeromer7432]

WOW! I’ve been listening to CIY since day one and have been inspired to continue day by day, but today, Day 361 has been incredible. I’ve listened twice already and believe this episode should be reviewed often. I’ve said the Our Father for over 70 years and never realized how much is revealed in those few words. I can never repay you Fr. Mike for your insight and deliverance of both the BIY and the CIY. God bless you and all those inspired by your perdurable presentations.

[@dianefrank3688]

Praying for Fr. Mike & CIY 🙏🙏🙏

[@TrixRN]

Hi Diane 👋🤗❤️ I replied to your e*mail earlier today. Have you gotten it?

[@dianefrank3688]

@@TrixRN I did not get it. I wonder if it is because you are on - - -mail. My sister-in-law is on that also and sometimes I have trouble getting her emails. My brother is in that same house but he is on a different network and I get all his emails. Weird. 😪

[@KB_2161]

​@@dianefrank3688❤❤❤

[@KB_2161]

​@@TrixRN❤❤❤

[@dianefrank3688]

@James_RC Not likely that they will pay, even though they set the fire at the meter which traveled and burned out the main outdoor control box. They also started a grass fire. I guess I should be grateful that they did not burn my son's house itself. I am still going to try to approach them again.

[@RobertVinti]

I hope you will address the petition "Lead us not into temptation" in light of James 1:13 which states God would never tempt anyone

[@victoriaa9107]

action-thought-word, then "Thy Kingdom come."

[@MorreHope]

Amen.

[@MorreHope]

I will consider my finishing line T Day 207. But will start the cycle again; because: I am well versed in the Bible; it will be almost impossible to jump around; and grab a panache of newly acquired verses; until I am a breathing organism of the care-chism; --AND it is my desire: IT IS LOVE ITSELF; I HAVE THE REST OF MY life in this veery organism of life; FROM THE FIRST DAY I WALKED INTO THE SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH. Like Moses I stopped the project of other bushes; WITHOUT LIGHT; but I got intrigued by this bush that is on fire; and does not burn. I came during Christmas time; and I never had a Christmas tree in my entire life. WHAT A SIGN OF THE TIME TO ENTER INTO THE KINGSHIP, THE PLACE OF BEING FIRE, LAYING DOWN CROWNS AND TAKING OFF MY SHOES; BECAUSE: GOD SAID TO TAKE OFF MY SHOES; NOT MY SOCKS; NO, HE IS GOD AND I AM NOT; I TAKE OF MY SHOES. I WAS AFRAID. I DID NOT UNDERSTAND; and would leave early. I came for 6 months afraid. Then I signed up; and my priest took me on personally because: I did not speak French to join the French catechism. I finished early; and then I joined the French class; to become part of the family of God; - in the ACTION OF KINGDOM WITH THE OTHERS; NOT A KINGDOM TO MYSELF; BUT WITH OTHERS. AMEN.

[@hlobend2111]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼" Endurance, as you say Fr. Mike , day 361, You are the guide of example. 1 Corinthians 9:24-2724 Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. 25 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 26 Well, I do not run aimlessly, I do not box as one beating the air; 27 but I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

[@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. 12/27/2023.

[@andiebrodie3936]

Brothers and Sisters, you must listen to Sister Gaudia Skass, called Discovering the Eucharist Anew - you will never be slothful at Holy Mass again ❤❤

[@paularoussel7859]

I found it and will listen in the new year! Thanks!

[@sandischorling1055]

Praying for you So powerful Thank you for all you do. FR. Mike 🙏

[@marianmilne6009]

Than you Fr Mike. Im going to miss this so much that ill start again. It can only do good. Praying for you and everyone here. God bless 🙏🏻 ❤️ 🙏🏻

[@lornamartin1128]

Thank you Fr. Mike! ❤

[@WashingtonDC99]

Day 361🎉🎉🥳😱💥👌👍✌🙏🧠🫀🫁😇👼🔥🎊🎈🏆 Thank You Jesus, Joseph, and Mary. Deo gratia. Viva Cristo Rey. Thank you Father Mike Schmitz and Ascension press 🙏💙❤❤❤❤

[@joseguzman1051]

Amen 🙏.

[@GravInducedSleepTrac]

The Tridentine Mass, also known as the Traditional Latin Mass IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL & MOST REVERENT MASS . HIGHLY RECOMMEND MORE CATHOLICS TO ATTEND & EXPERIENCE THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS. 🙏🙏🙏

[@dianefrank3688]

I love the Latin Mass, which is what I grew up with. Unfortunately it is not available in many areas.

[@TrixRN]

There’s not one close enough for me to get to. I love my Mass though.🙏❤️

[@MM22272]

Father Mike, thank and I love you for your love and service. May Jesus bless you. I'm sorry for the sins from which I habitually fail to repent and my entire lack of repentance. I've battled or tried to battle most of my life, but imperfectly and perhaps uselessly, for I haven't stopped; but thank you for everything you're doing for us lost and foolish lambs.

[@NAMASIVAYAMANANDASAKARAN]

Greetings! CIY community Greetings! Only those who do the will of the Father in heaven, not our will, will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. United with Jesus and by the power of the Holy Spirit, we can surrender our will to him and decide to choose what his Son has already chosen to do what is pleasing to the Father. Have the wisdom to discern by God's grace what is his will is. Let's us thank everyone and pray to all those we promised to pray. Amen!

[@LaurensiaRimanu-nb1fy]

Father Mike, Thank you! Praying for all of us. Amen 🙏

[@chavelasalas9151]

Thank you Lord Jesus Christ 🙏 prayers Father Mike

[@dawnmireles2912]

December 27, 2024 As we are coming to the end of CIAY, 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!

[@nathanngumi8467]

Word.

[@kathydeegan7358]

How do we figure out what is God’s will for us ? Fr. Mike. This is hard to discern. 🙏

[@rosealenius-spencer4823]

“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Keep on doing what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me.Then the God of peace will be with you.”Philippians 4:8-9. This has helped me all my life. Be faithful to God in your vocation. Obey God’s commandments, and pray. The Will of God will unfold before you without you even knowing it…..🕊️Peace comes from doing the will of God❤️ Hearts will still break, trials will still come, but God offers us a way to navigate through it all and it is in this process of life that we are sanctified and prepared for Heaven. Hope I could help. God’s blessings to you in the New Year.

[@kathydeegan7358]

Thank you Rose. I appreciate your response. I try to do this each and every day. I think this is all we can do while here on earth. God Bless you also. Have a very happy and healthy New Year. 🙏😍

[@carolynbrown4712]

Yes, I am doing CIY again in 2024...so much to yet learn. Thx you Fr Mike. God bless you 🙏

[@elizabethcronin3074]

Wow, did everyone catch the C. S. Lewis quote about the 2 kinds of people in the world? Those that say to God, Thy will be done & those to who GOD says in the end, “thy will be done”! 💥They made their choice, they did NOT follow God’s Will & they will spend eternity separated from GOD & those they love- ALONE in HELL!!! 🎤⬇️

[@TrixRN]

Yes! Scary, scary! Have you read his book The Great Divorce? It’s a really good depiction of who gets their own way rather than God’s way.

[@elizabethcronin3074]

@@TrixRN have not read anything by him but I get the feeling that I should!

[@KB_2161]

Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it -- made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand. C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

[@56Tyskie]

Let us pray for them and do acts of reparation on their behalf.

[@TrixRN]

@@elizabethcronin3074 He has some excellent books. Screw tape Letters is a dark comedy almost. It’s the advice of a senior demon to a lesser one on how to subvert a Christian. Can be eyeopening for some. The Great Divorce, Mere Christianity, The Problem of Pain, of course The Chronicles of Narnia. He also wrote a science-fiction trilogy. Many essays & poems. He was a prolific writer & he & J. R. R. Tolkien were great friends. It’s too bad he could never embrace the Catholic Church. He started as an atheist & had a “Come to Jesus” moment, an almost Saul on the road to Damascus meeting.

[@marianmilne6009]

I am. I will miss this somuch but it can only do hood to listen again🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

[@paulacevedo8814]

Praise to you God and Jesus Christ😇🙏❤

[@KolokaiKalai]

🎉Day 361...Thankyou Fr.Mike for your prayers and time...Praying for you and all in the Ascension team 🙏 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@NAMASIVAYAMANANDASAKARAN]

Amen!

[@deedeebuhler9610]

May God bless you always 🙏

[@annthomson4182]

Hope you had a blessed and peaceful Christmas fr. This teaching is incredible. Can’t believe I’ve actually not missed one day. Hopefully I will join you for Bible in a year 2024 already did 22. Have a beautiful last few days of this very challenging year. Following from Barbados

[@RoseEscarchas]

Does anyone read Luisa Picarretta? The kingdom in the period of the church , the spotless bride

[@ainestewart8775]

I come to correspond with love for all that the Sanctifier does for those He sanctifies. I come to enter into the order of grace to give a correspondence of love as if all had become holy and to repair for all opposition and failure to correspond to grace. (Luisa Piccarreta and the Divine Will teachings of Jesus. Susanne James)

[@josecesarvivares5005]

🙏🙏🙏

[@elizabethcronin3074]

Your Song of the Day: “Maranatha”- by Gerard Chiusano.🎶 kzbin.info/www/bejne/anuweqyZn5yqfsk

[@dianefrank3688]

The words, singing, & music were beautiful on this song. 💙🙏

[@christopherjachulski1927]

What God wants me to do on any given day is usually right Infront of me. It's how I respond to it or not. " We are radically incapable of this but,.................................. Paragraph 2825.

[@almapuritaparcon3435]

Day 361.🙏🙏🙏❤

[@metildajoseph5265]

Greetings Father Mike, Thoughts :- -> Message reflect with, ""One's Free Will to Understand God's Care and Love through Spiritual Contemplation in Lord Jesus Christ in every sense in all aspects of Life."" -> Wonderful Insights Father.. Thanks Team CIY, Team Ascension Press. With Prayers, Ranjith Joseph (R.J)

[@maryellenrose1764]

❤❤❤