"Lost: Have No Anxiety At All" | 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Mike's Homily)

Lost. What if?
Not knowing where we are, where we are going, or how to get there can be incredibly daunting. It can bring us to a place of worry and anxiety. We can be tempted to avoid the uncertainty and discomfort of the journey. By focusing on God's presence and blessings, we can have the courage to move.
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[@stephenletrent9858]

I needed this today so much. My wife decided she doesn't love me anymore and is divorcing me and I have been lost. I haven't been able to see past the next few weeks. Any semblance of control I had is gone. I am praying that God will lift me and my children up and show me a path.

[@dianeduquette6368]

I’m so sorry I will pray for you 🕊✝️🙏🏼🌺

[@Tgerardb]

Must be very difficult. Sad

[@USMC98]

Prayer for you and yours. 🙏 ❤

[@mwarmoth5951]

My husband did the same thing. Left me & our son & never looked back. It’s brutal & devastating & I am SO SORRY for what you & your kids are going through. Saying a prayer for you. Gods will never leave u. It may often feel like it, & u have to remind yourself that it’s not true- that God IS beside u. He’s got you. I promise. 🙏

[@thisgirl5933]

She will regret it.

[@michaelgutowsky9756]

I’m not even a Catholic and i became instant fan.

[@RC-tg8mt]

"God knows you and loves you better than you love yourself and you can trust Him 1. Stay in a state of grace 2. Do your daily tasks 3. Pray" Fr. Mike 20:45mins

[@user-kf8wb2cq4f]

I am Not driving the Bus. I've been more peaceful since accepting this. I can't control so much..so I give it to God.

[@bryanmcclure2220]

Not a catholic but I felt God speaking through this message thank you.

[@user-mm3jw1uh9f]

I really needed this message today because I'm having a mastectomy tomorow and my feelings are very complicated. I needed to increase the trust I have in God that at the end of the day, be okay on this journey to recovery. Father Mike, your sermon helped to pinpoint what is necessary to complete this journey of defeating cancer. Blessings for you!

[@constantine_cara]

Hey! How did it go? I hope you're feeling much better now.

[@Aaalllyyysssaaaaa]

yeah I had chronic anxiety because I have ADHD which stopped me from being able to act on things I knew were important. The two things that made my anxiety turn a corner were believing that God wasn't angry at me for failing, and created me with the limitations that I have for a reason, and then being able to discern when those times were happening where God planned for me to act, and I didn't have trouble acting at all. God really does know how weak I am, and He really does love me this way, and He has a plan for my life that accounts for what I can and can't do. Medication helps as well. I'm on long term medication, and I can definitely say my anxiety can be managed much more easily. The thoughts don't continually bombard me, they go away when I solve the problem that brought them up. My anxiety was not at the level where I had panic attacks except for a short period in my life, but during that time, short acting medication was absolutely necessary over and above the long term medication. Nobody deserves to have panic attacks.

[@rijd2304]

I didn't realize until later in life that being lost is a blessing. It truly is. Oftentimes, being lost can be indicative that you are starting to give up the direction, plans, expectations, demands, and concerns of the world and its conditionings. As if you, unknowingly, had enough and threw the road map out the window. It's a scary feeling at first, because we are conditioned to think we "need" a destination or high bars, but life happens in the present, and you can't be lost when you are present in the moment. Like Jesus said...don't worry about tomorrow...observe the birds and flowers as they live for right now, without future concern. I like using mindfulness meditation for this reason, books like "30 Days to Reduce Anxiety" by Harper Daniels have been nice mindfulness guides for me. It's so important to give up the desire and expectation to not be lost, and to accept being lost...because God's grace is present regardless of being lost.

[@WhistleblowingGoodWitch]

Amen ❤

[@user-ui1zv8bd4y]

Thank you Fr. Mike I needed this. Badly today. I wrestle with the sin of being double minded- saying to myself and others that I trust Jesus Christ and yet being anxious about what I cannot control, yet in my inner being I know God remains in control.

[@anaklusmosj8432]

I'm going through exactly this right now. A bunch of things are happening in my family and with my health that make me anxious, yet in my heart I know that God will take of us. This double-minded way of thinking is troublesome indeed. May God give us the grace we need to completely trust him. 🙏🏼

[@neyetm5550]

Thank you for sharing - I recently identified with this double-mindedness. We’ll be fine :) I’ll keep you in my prayers too ❤️ happy Sunday. Hope you’re feeling better since that time

[@angelicadesantaana849]

Thank you❤

[@rperalta1952]

Amén. I love the mindset shift from “what if” to “what is” ❤

[@rosemaguire4472]

Fr.Mike Loved your words of wisdom Thanks for taking the time to share this valuable knowledge Much appreciated 🙏🙏

[@DiBella03]

Top tier Fr. Mike Homily this Sunday. I very much needed to hear this. Bless the Lord.

[@wandabrun3269]

😂 I totally understand, I am 60 and before the GPS, I was always lost going to places, and even now I still do 😅. As for my life, same thing, I am always doubtful if what I am doing is correct. Funny thing, people have always seen me as a very secure person, inside though, I am terrified with outcome. The only way to avoid or succumb is to pray desperately and surrender to GOD.

[@caroldye433]

Wonderful messages! So applicable and 3 things that can we all can be doing daily. Thank you, Fr Mike!!

[@monikacoates7661]

You are radiant with light, Fr Mike!!! Thank you for your words! God Bless!

[@Yahia.Lababidi]

Wonderful and wise reminders to Trust and give thanks. Wrote down the checklist you proposed: Am I in a state of Grace, Am I doing my daily tasks & Am I praying? Stay blessed, Fr. Mike and thank you for sharing your Light with us. I'm a Muslim poet, married to a practicing Catholic, and after listening to you feel inspired and spiritually enriched. God loves us better and knows us better than ourselves, as you said, today. Amen.

[@SBL19681]

Wow that must be challenging sometimes, God bless your marriage!❤

[@Call_Upon_YAH]

*These words are not mine.* These are the words the Ruach HaKodesh (YAHUAH's Set-Apart Spirit) uttered through me when I prayed to YAHUAH; asking him what *he wants* me to say, knowing the truth. To they with ears: "Know that YAHUAH is the name of the Most High and YAHUsha is the name of The Son. Come out of her, my people, who have fallen to the deceit of Constantine. Who know not my name and say they love me. I have made myself known. I have heard you and I am here. There are many who are yours to be saved. I am he who knows all that you are. Come to me, here are they who are mine. Make haste to come, here are we. Give in to them who speak of me, they are yours. I am here for you. Know that all is for them, here are we. Give not to them that are against me. I am he who sees all you do. Come to me out of her, all are here for me. Do what I say. Out of her, come. All are here." Exodus 3:13-15 KJV 13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? 14 And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you. 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations. John 5:43 KJV 43 *I am come in my Father's name,* and ye receive me not: *if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.* 2 Corinthians 6:17 KJV 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and *touch not the unclean thing;* *and I will receive you.* Isaiah 52:6-7 KJV 6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I. 7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! 2 Corinthians 6:1-2 KJV 1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. 2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) Romans 10:1-3 KJV 1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. Romans 10:13-17 KJV 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 14 *How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?* 15 *And how shall they preach, except they be sent?* as it is written, *How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!* 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. *For Esaias saith,* Lord, *who hath believed our report?* 17 *So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.* Nahum 1:7 KJV 7 The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and *he knoweth them that trust in him.* Hebrews 3:15 KJV 15 *While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.* Isaiah 52:11 KJV 11 *Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing;* go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord. John 14:15 KJV 15 *If ye love me, keep my commandments.*

[@blancatorres4848]

🙏🏻🤗

[@doloresgrace2924]

Thank god for gps!

[@tsaehtron]

Really needed to hear this ☺😊

[@vstu7643]

BEST HOMILY EVER. LISTEN TO ALL OF IT ❣️

[@ibelieve63]

I wish I could bottle you up and bring you with me--I just love you, your energy, your sincerity, your love for God and your desire to lift others up….❤

[@skinnywaistscuba4563]

Thanks!

[@katpellot7646]

Needed to hear this Father Mike! Thank you and God bless ❤

[@melissacoleman6951]

Thank you Father Mike. You truly helped me today. May God bless you now and forever

[@leanneheadland2470]

My anxiety has been sky rocketing for the last 4 months. I've really needed this. Thank you, Father Mike ❤

[@KolokaiKalai]

Thankyou Fr.Mike..great homily. I always like to listen to your homilies. Thankyou Lord for the amazing gift of Fr.Mike. I pray for you and all the priests..Blessings

[@ramondiaz2494]

Never give up, never lose hope, always keep faith, it helps you to cope.

[@constantine_cara]

I've been dealing with social anxiety throughout my teenage years and now I'm entering adulthood. This is exactly what I needed to hear today.

[@I-am-CC]

Me too! at 42 I still get it as well. Aww, I'm with you Father Mike.

[@meekam7161]

"Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things." Philippians 4:8 I absolutely love how you quoted that at the end because I tell myself this ALL the time! One of my favorite quotes of my patron saint; "You are quite wrong to think of sorrows that the future may bring; it as it were, imermeddling with Divine Providence. We who run in the way of Love must never torment ourselves about anything. If I did not suffer minute by minute, it would be impossible for me to be patient; but I see only the present moment, I forget the past and I take good care not to anticipate the future. If We grow disheartened, if sometimes we despair, It is because we have been dwelling on the past or the future. " Story of a Soul ch. XII st. Therese of liliuex Be present, and be constantly Thankful God Bless 🥰❤ While your waiting for God to open a door, Praise Him in the Hallway! 😊

[@MikeM-pk6zq]

absolutely excellent

[@Tgerardb]

Yep, that’s what happens to the middle child of 6. I feel your pain. I’m pretty much lost even when I know where I am and know where I’m going. My problem seems to have been, and continues to be, how do I let go and let God, and so become free to t live without fear and anxiety? My life has gotten a whole lot better as Ive learned to forgive and so forget. Thanks be to God!

[@annettebailey4224]

Best sermon ever! So many people need to hear this! Thank you, Father Mike!

[@mypublicchannel3884]

Don't worry. You will.

[@jefflabarge5092]

Absolutely fantastic message. If you are browsing/searching for something…Listen to this!!!!

[@rosemaryrozario]

After answering your final 3 questions, I finally feel like I can relax now. Thank you, Fr. Mike! I'm looking forward to the Lost series 🙏🏽

[@RobsonJung]

most of the approaches tells you to act like you dont have depression or anxiety, but St Paul has the key

[@potatocatwastaken]

This. Thank you ❤ not everyone understands anxiety, but you clearly do. But just as is stated in Romans 8, "all things work for good for those who love God who are called according to His purpose." God can use every single thing in your life for good, including anxiety. Once I began to lean into God, I realized that anxiety began to lift. The more I lean into Him, the more calm I feel. God is real and He loves you more than we will ever understand.

[@cynthiahall9297]

The first part of this is hilarious 😂 😂 I can related to this with my youngest granddaughter, who is really brilliant, but was never in charge when she was little. Your so in touch with humanity and a tremendous asset to the Christian faith! Thank you!!!

[@bettyjmj]

❤

[@montanamornings8526]

This homily came on the perfect day. Sharing with my daughter. Love you Fr Mike

[@AileenSerrantes-ol8qk]

Im sorry im having a hard time. ❤

[@franh8043]

Thank you, Fr. Mike. Your homily helped me reflect on my current life.

[@joanlb-ld3tw]

I so needed to hear this message today. Thank you, Father Mike and thank you Jesus! 🙏🕊️❤

[@kimavant8526]

Refreshing ❤

[@samanthaortiz6595]

The serenity prayer

[@mkatekomachabi2282]

Listening to this message 👌 gave me such a profound thinking of taking care of my thoughts... on what is... It made me realize how 🤔 so many times I spend the thinking 🤔 of my thoughts trying to figure out "WHAT IF" 😢 Thank you vet much for the video 📹😊🎉

[@R_Thomp]

Thank you Father

[@jimamos8681]

When I was much, much, much younger I used to as the question of my elders or those with authority over me, "How do we know when we get there if we don't know where we are going?"

[@potatocatwastaken]

❤

[@amytovar344]

God Bless you Father Mike ♥️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@kayladreamrider885]

How did you know my my heart’s questions? This helped me so much! May God bless you in abundance.

[@davelane4055]

Damn right father and thank you for being a great vicker of Christ praying the most Holy rosary of the blessed Virgin Mary for you Isreal and MAGA

[@RoseTV-ti6bd]

Greetings 🫖☕ good evening 🌌 thank you father Mike for spiritual growth 🙏 you make me understand what life is about when I have confusion 🤷🏻‍♀️ love has structure ❤️ 🌹

[@user-ji2on8eg3l]

Saint Matthew 6:19-21 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.

[@Jennifer-gr7hn]

"The way way back" ......up! Of the 1976 caprice classic wood paneling station wagon :) Good ones! hahah Relatable. Don't feel bad, I was youngest and no one consulted. People were too busy catering to enabling the middle child ;)

[@tinatrahan3902]

Father Mike is a true blessing from God!

[@GosiaLove]

Praise the Lord 🙌🛐Jesus Christ ✝️

[@SBL19681]

Can’t wait to be at St. Patrick’s cathedral on Tuesday!

[@mandericom]

Amen. Thank you Fr. Mike🙏❤️ 1. God knows me better than I know myself. 2. God loves me more than I love myself.

[@kerryfaden94]

Dear Father Mike Sunday night here so great to listen to your super homily Thinking of lack and abundance So grateful for your homilies and this community At the end of your talk felt like cheering you on! Best K!

[@Godfearingwoman489]

Thank you 🎉 Amen 🙏

[@josephrainonejr.4381]

Thank you Fr. Mike for your encouragement, God bless!🙏

[@markemery4518]

Thank you Father, I am 100% sure God put this here fo4 my heart and mind today! Thank you and thanks be to God.

[@ameyesandears]

That's a great metaphor you opened with.

[@lindab3293]

Trust in God and be grateful! Thank you Father Mike, your words are truly inspired by the Holy Spirit! God bless you always! 🥰🙏🏼❤️

[@nathanngumi8467]

Word.

[@dianag4840]

Thank you🙏🏼 😌

[@marlenebuchholz3217]

Thank you again,Fr Mike, for a great homily!

[@bigdripextracts6521]

When you have Christ, you don’t fold, bend or break just trust in the lord! He has greater plans for you

[@kimberlyparisi5844]

Amen!

[@RC-tg8mt]

life-changing homily Fr. Mike! Amazing 🙏

[@coa6056]

Amén. Gracias! Bendiciones

[@EliB567a]

❤ so need this

[@timwilliams9402]

Wonderful talk by Fr Mike - very helpful

[@cathyhannahperez]

LOL!! Fr Mike & I are same age so I totally relate to his history. 😜👊🏽

[@everydayfel]

Thank you father.Keep posting

[@benedictaang1875]

Amen 🙏

[@RafaelVelasquez-rk3jc]

Thank You!!! 🕊🙏✨️

[@chanelc133]

Thank you Fr. Mike always such a great sermon. God bless🙏🏼💛

[@SarahChastain-ni2xs]

God bless you and keep you sir!

[@vernferns.8711]

So timely, this talk, fr. Michael. You are an angel. Lost no more, for this timeliness can only be Providence

[@Prythian00]

Needed this one, thanks

[@ratdog7050]

Thank you Fr. Mike.

[@monicarivera6559]

Thank you ❤

[@spencercolgan]

I’m the same way. Even till today.

[@angrypotato_fz]

Yes, I'm lost.

[@jeanniepericoli4534]

So amazing . Needed the words ❤❤❤

[@azalia2534]

Thank you so much Fr. Mike.. i truly needed it..

[@sandrasabatini5175]

That reminds me a time I was at a chapel where I got know kicked out from where I told a church staff that focuses on evangelization that I was lost when trying to find the lyrics of the song that was being sang

[@joolsmartin1996]

12 min anx

[@billmayo1094]

Speed talker!! Amazing....

[@tigerman3]

Thanks for the great homily Father. Sharing with my son.

[@moniquearseneault1460]

❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@user-pw7wb4ec5n]

Father, thank you for this message it really hit my heart thank god and the holy spirt I really struggle with this. I have been listening to your mass every week I have been struggling to go to mass on Sundays what you do really helps me.

[@brendamyc3173]

Father works diligently at least 70 hours a week to provide for the flock.

[@AileenSerrantes-po6wg]

😔

[@marybussey4473]

💙💙💙

[@reesesha2289]

Thank you Fr. Mike, so powerful!!! I needed to hear your words & Powerful ?'s! Am I in a state of grace? Am I doing my daily duties/tasks? Am I praying on a consistent basis? God, What do you want me to do? Focus on what is. I also just heard in church today: "FAITH: Forward All Issue to Heaven" and "PUSH: Pray Until Something Happens"

[@feolav3586]

❤❤❤❤

[@valeriocritelli6714]

Hello Father Mark. This is a very inspiring and informative sermon. God bless you.

[@wms72]

I saw a meme focused on hands holding phones. The caption was "Me, checking my phone to see if things are getting better." This is why so much time for action is LOST.