"Our Rabbi Teaches Us to Pray" + 2nd Sunday in Lent (Fr. Mike's Homily)

[@ChildofGod98765]

Please pray for me. Prayers are all I Need and WANT. I’m a single mom, my husband passed away years ago, I’m all alone. I’m struggling to provide for my children. I feel like a failure. But no matter what I will keep faith in Jesus. I can’t seem to get back on my feet. I lost my job for declining the vaccine. I declined due to my health conditions. I suffer from lupus, and heart disease. I’m now waitressing and so thankful to be working but I’m not making nearly enough to get by. I have two beautiful sons both are autistic. I’m overwhelmed because they require so much from me. I recently started homeschooling them because they were having so many issues including bullying. With homeschooling them my hours to work are now limited. Every month is a struggle to not end up on the streets with my boys. I’m so tired of not being able to afford simple things like groceries. But I know God will provide. He has this far. Jesus hear my prayers. I have so much love for you. I know you will carry me through this difficult journey. All Praise to THE MOST HIGH!

[@MoonlightNothing]

Mercy 🥺 ❤ 🕊🙏

[@MaryWhiteNaturOilEBlessed]

Praying for all of your needs 🙏

[@buddybrown8607]

Open the Bible to a page in the New Testament. Ask the Holy Spirit to tell you what to contemplate on. It may be a paragraph or just a few words spend a couple minutes in silent prayer repeating those Wars all that verse. Don't ask going over Heavenly Father for help ask him for understanding and patience. God bless you and your boys

[@carolgamez2800]

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[@KathleenBanfield]

I just said a prayer for you. You are already adhering to Father Mike’s teaching today..your name says it all! ( Child of God)

[@almiramollanida9528]

Strongly agree, Fr. Mike Schmitz!

[@CarmieS123]

Amen🙏 May your dearest Mom soul rest in peace🙏 Keeping you Fr Mike and your family in prayer🙏

[@jonathangoodwin646]

Practicing Catholic. Sometimes, we struggle in my family Because. I'm on a fixed income. I'm on social security. Small pension. My wife. Has it 2 part-time jobs . We have three kids that's students public schools . Still had to pay rent. Still have to provide food for my family Still have to pay for the car and car insurance Studies don't anything I can do as a Catholic? Pray Mother Mary. Did talk to her son Jesus Christ that we need help? It always works out.. Jesus Christ has always watched over us things that we need is given us so much. An answer to prayer..

[@donaldseth-hp7ps]

Thanks!

[@jbottsie]

I pray that during this lenten season I will become like our Prototype. That I will learn to pray like Jesus.

[@mik655able]

Wow! This was such game changer for me. It is going to help me so much with my prayer life. Thank you so much

[@ameliaolson7580]

I've said a prayer for you, your family, and your mom. God bless.

[@EustaceKirstein]

My wife and I's wedding rings have a rainbow of 12 stones (similar to those on Aaron's breastplate). These make our rings a sign of God's covenant with His people. "If it's good enough for God and His people, then it's got to be good enough for us!"

[@KathleenBanfield]

How unique and beautiful!

[@gabismom77]

"Strength and dignity are her clothing" Proverbs 31:25. Praying for your mother and your family , Fr Mike. Amazingly I am on day 363 of BIY and you specifically stopped to talk about this Proverb and correlated it to your Mother and sister 😭 🙏🏽❤️✝️📿 Injad to share this!

[@robynmarler1951]

Wow!!!! What a message!!!! Thankyou so much🌱

[@ivonnemedrano8937]

God bless you Father Mike and just know that you are not alone God is with you and will help you to move forward and get through this difficult moment of the loss of your mother. Take care of yourself.

[@nathanngumi8467]

Amen. 🙏

[@gingerphelan5728]

Praying for you Father Mike 🙏❤️✝️🕊️🌹

[@pawyfication]

Thanks

[@susanclemons116]

Thank you Father Mike sometimes my prayers are all over the place. I love the wedding ring explanation. God Bless you.

[@wreloise1]

“Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who acquits us.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭8‬:‭33‬ ‭

[@theresaskrabanek512]

Thank you Father

[@ingridbela4258]

🙏💗😆

[@esthert9146]

I love this because we are stepping up of our prayer life.

[@lindab3293]

Is……Amen! Thank you Lord Jesus! Thank you Fr.Mike for another awesome homily! God bless you!! 🥰🙏🏼❤️✝️❤️

[@abrahamcastro5864]

Blessings on your way

[@lindaknipfing8441]

Thank you Fr. for this enlightening homily. May God continue to bless you and your family. 🙏🛐❤✝️📿

[@artorefalnera3055]

😇😇😇

[@williamwightman8409]

How does the child laugh? Without effort. The secret to prayer is the absence of effort, malice, or thought. Release the fallen mind, and express the indwelling "I Am" with a grateful heart. We have no mortal instruments for prayer. Extraneous words and repetition are useless. Just feel thankful always. "Holy, Holy, Holy", "I thank you Father on this day", "I Am the Living Power of God and all is well". These type of thoughts. Let us pray with every breath in thanksgiving and joy in the holy secret place of silence. Faith expressed in prayer is the action of the spirit, not of men.

[@CARS63]

Thank you🙂✝️

[@metildajoseph5265]

Greetings Father Mike, Thoughts :- - Sunday Homily reflect with "Importance of Pure Belief and Faithful in Prayers along with Sacraments in Lord Jesus Christ Path establish ourselves as The Children of God in all aspects of Our Life." - Thanks for the Valuable Homily on Importance of Lenten Prayers. With Prayers for Everyone, RanjithJoseph (R.J)

[@roniquebreauxjordan1302]

I picked up on this part during vlog mass today...

[@wms72]

Wow. This is a message I really need to memorize. Thank you, Father. Deo gratias +

[@marypinakat8594]

*"The disciples didn't ask Jesus to teach them some new prayers. They were asking Jesus to teach them a new way of praying ...* The most distinctive aspect of Jesus' prayer is that Jesus prays as one who has been claimed by his Father." - Fr. Mike

[@vtangky]

Thank you Fr Mike for this insightful teaching. I hv an intellectual knowledge that Jesus is the Son of God and in lieu of my baptism I share in Jesus's inheritance, as son to God the Father. Only now I realise how God the Father has also claimed me as his son..Praise the Lord for his mercy

[@marypinakat8594]

@@vtangky Showers of Blessings☆

[@iamjennypennie4858]

My prayers are with you and your family Fr. Mike 💜 I love praying the Jesus prayer I just learned from the catechism in a year “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.” 🙏🏻

[@mintavia]

I am persistant, but with my adhd my mind wanders after a few lines of prayer. Please advise. Are prayers useless if you cant concentrate ir do you spend hours repeating the same prayer until you get it right. This was a stumbling block for me for many years. I would love to here a sermon or talk on how to deal with prayer when your exective function does not cooperate. Most with adhd give up because they think their efforts are pointless without proper attention to the " meditations ".

[@mm7846]

Can you please prepare a video explaining “son of God”, divine council, and “son of Man”? When the “son of God” is the fourth man in the fire with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, seems like he is Jesus especially because reading today from USCCB for March 29, 2023 has gospel taking about children of God. But I read divine council are bad divine beings from tower of babbel and these were sons of God. So confusing for me 😅

[@gabubot]

we want to be Jesus like, and maybe we can be on the surface, but how do you be like someone who already knows they are God? I don't think it's fathomable as a human with inherent faults

[@michaelmicek]

That's the whole game. It's not the surface that makes us holy, but confidence in God's love for us despite our weaknesses (He was pleased to crush him infirmity).

[@jonathangoodwin646]

I used to have a drinking problem, so I went to AA. A woman came up and kissed me on the lips after the meeting. She did not warn me what she was gonna. Do I? Was? Wearing. My wedding ring? I was so embarrassed what she did to me. I did not give any sign I wanted her to kiss me. . I'm a practicing Catholic Because I am honest I told my wife what she did. My wife was not angry caching you? It wasn't my fault. What does woman did without asking? Because the trust my wife has for me we are honest with each other. . When I should've done and. Instead of welcome way. I should have told her can't you see the Damn Ring .