Dividing Christians for 500 years: What must I do to inherit eternal life?

[@kathleenmurray7423]

Your priestly vocation is a gift to us all. Thank you for your obedience, Father. Truly you are the Bishop Sheen of our time. Praying for you!

[@19624291a]

Amen prayers from. UK

[@vimserin5567]

Amen. God Bless You Fr. Mike.🙏Thank you. Please continue to be a blessing to us.🙏You are one of the voice of God that speaks & inspire us. Thank you Lord for Father Mike.☝️

[@annpapalii3232]

❤

[@adriadua5019]

Thank you Fr Mike from Sarasota. Your teachings help us to understand our beautiful faith . May the Lord bless you with wisdom and good health.

[@donaldakosior9840]

Thank you Father Mike, I live in Canada, and I love to listen to you, I haven’t been to church for years, but I’m thinking of getting back, in the meantime I will keep listening to you

[@danielborst7598]

Amen.

[@bettybella2417]

Such a thought provoking homily. Thank you Rev Fr Mike for always bringing the message of the GOSPELS to the forefront of my mind. Makes me contemplate over all that you have taught us. God be with you❤

[@HarperCobblestone]

The one and only Audio Bible Study and priest I listen to and take with me everywhere I go. Past 2 years have been a Journey indeed. Thank you Father! God bless you. In Jesus' name. Amen.

[@carolatwater8009]

I listen to you everyday and your program on Radio Maria. Your homilies are inspiring and but yet easy to understand. I thank God for your ministry and for you.

[@19624291a]

Much needed sermon gifted by the lord Thank God for fr mike praying for you and all priests who please pray for my family my atheist husband and older son and our youngest son

[@marybailey6254]

Thank you Fr Mike for your relevant real world words today 🙏🏻🕊✝️🕊🙏🏻

[@Marekcatholic]

Thank you Fr. Mike for the powerful sermon! I needed to hear this! We need to keep striving for our inheritance. Doing our best in our personal battles. Detaching from hte world. even though the world tries to pull people in. Im at a stage yet where being chaste and keeping commandments is a "have to" yet and not "Im doing it out of love for the Lord". But I do want to get there. God bless Father.

[@tugatarle2654]

So good! Thank you, Father Michael👏

[@cliffbarber1642]

Amen thank you Fr. Mike. I appreciate the passion in your homilies!

[@sergiovellozo6451]

I listen from Brazil. Your words pierced my heart. God bless your ministry.

[@julieguillebeau7935]

Bless you bless me Fr. O'Connor from Delaware.

[@anthonytony8328]

WE LOVE YOU, FATHER MIKE!!!!🙏♥️🙏♥️🙏♥️🙏♥️

[@filiusvivam4315]

Beautiful! God bless you Fr. Mike.

[@peacefu1]

thank you Fr. Mike.

[@PatriciaDebrow]

Fr. Mike, my husband’s Grandma and Grandpa were life long members of Our Lady of the Gulf. (The Mercier’s) I wish we were over there! I Love hearing your sermons and passing them on to others!

[@annemcgoff8495]

Thank you! You help me understand the gospel in such a beautiful way. 🙏

[@mariettatrapani291]

Thank You Rev. Mike O'Connor For Another Excellent Sermon Today God Bless You!

[@lisaparker1607]

It's those darn attachments again! Maybe it's not money or riches... maybe it's my TV programs or my addiction to comfort. I know I don't always put God first. I do see myself in this young man. And I know Jesus looks at me and loves me... in spite of my poor priorities. I can do better. With His love and His grace, I will do better. Have a beautiful day, Fr. Mike!

[@mdts12345]

Thank you once again Fr. Mike for sharing this homily with us. I found it so enriching and needed to hear this.May God bless you always

[@grahamcmusic]

Thank you Father Mike for your great gifts which you so lovingly share with us. You are a truly inspiring teacher and indeed person. Your great faith, humility and likeable personality shine through.

[@ViaOjo]

Boy, I’ve missed a lot through the years in this Gospel. I never noticed that Jesus looked at the young man with “love”. I also never noticed that Jesus said “give to the poor”, not give “it all to the poor”. I also missed the connection between of the prodigal son and the rich young man. I’ve also missed that the Graces Jesus gives us are our “inheritance” and that we “squander our graces”. My take away from this is also that this is why I need the Mass to hear the true word of God. Thank you Father Mike!!!

[@teresamelvin1073]

Thank you Father Mike for a great homily as always God bless you and protect you❤ from Canada

[@BabbsSuarez]

A Protestant recently confronted me with this question. He asked if I was saved. I said only God knows. I said I have faith and I was baptized and I try to obey God. He got angry and said faith alone saves and not good works. This is a great short and sweet answer for those of us who aren’t Bible scholars when getting grilled by angry Protestants.

[@geoffjs]

Good response! We are being saved Phil 2:12 Faith alone is not biblical neither is sola Scriptura!

[@nicholeblume2191]

Well done sir God bless

[@patodwyer721]

Thank you Fr.Mike for your Wisdom and Guidance. You truly are a good Shepherd

[@theclapaolini4322]

People of Fr Mikes parish. You are so blessed to have all this and all the homilies Father gives you all to be better love God by keeping the laws God gives us to get to HEAVEN

[@patr5708]

Wonderful message Father! Thank you and blessing and prayers for you! You are a gift to the people of God.

[@liasosa4100]

Thank you Fr. Mike for heeding the Call and serving God's people, you are doing the Lord's work and changing hearts. You are a gifted orator that the Lord is working through, your inheritance will be bountiful because we know Our Lord is a generous Father. I pray that the Lord Bless you and Mother Mary Protect you always!

[@jong-hyonshin632]

Powerful!

[@cnyphotovideo]

Amen amen! Thank you Fr. Mike

[@vivrowe2763]

A very good Sermon. Don't even hear them like that today.

[@LCccce6]

Thank you Father Mike you help me very much. ❤️

[@figurefour633]

Whoever Loves me will keep my commandments, John 14:21

[@JOSWEBCROCHET]

Amen 🙏

[@PatriciaDebrow]

Thanks!

[@alexmburu830]

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@mariettatrapani291]

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[@geoffjs]

You mean the 6th apparition?

[@lindaowen6059]

Oh, how the modern church has fallen in love with the idea of 'cheap grace'! Thank you, Father Mike, for telling it like it is. May we, may I, ever and always deny self and follow Christ in holy living!

[@FleefromROME]

Cheap grace? You must be referring to the "grace" of water Baptism because it "delivers no one."(Catechism 978) "Yet the grace of Baptism delivers no one from all the weakness of nature" - i.e. sin.(978) That is a cheap, man-made grace because it doesn't deliver anyone from their sins. Only faith in Jesus Christ alone delivers sinners. Those who believe in Him receive the "living water," the "Holy Spirit."(John 7:37-39) Only Jesus Christ is "full of grace and truth."(John 1:14)

[@OurLadyoftheGulfCatholicChurch]

Water baptism is the way we become children of Christ. Let’s see it in Scripture. At the very beginning of Jesus’s public ministry He was baptized. In Matthew 3:13-17 (and all synoptic gospels) he commanded John to Baptise Him and when John did, the heavens opened. In the midst of Jesus’s ministry, His conversation with Nicodemus Jesus says: “unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God” (John 3:5) Finally, the last thing Jesus does before his ascension was to command his apostles to: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” Matthew 28:19. Blessings!

[@Undermarysmantleforever]

🙏🙏🙏🌟

[@felicitygrace5113]

❤

[@helzwar007]

Reminds me of Nicodemus. Still a Pharisee but on the right track.

[@robertmcginness4610]

TRUE FAITH IS ITSELF AN ACT. period. Inorder to have true Faith you must respond to the free gift of Faith by an act of the will/ ♥

[@rhondarabalais5972]

Hope you enjoy Cruisin The Coast

[@KTS522]

I wouldn't say pathetic but as the scripture says, sad. Sad that he doesn't know Jesus well enough to understand only He can satisfy the deepest longings of our heart. Sad that he didn't see the look of love in Jesus's eyes. Oh Father God in Heaven I know how it grieves Your heart when we are separated from You. Please open our eyes to see Your love and our hearts to receive it. Through Jesus, Amen. 🤔 Maybe he saw him on the cross and that is where the transformation took place. Oh don't give up on us Father I pray. Only You know the right location for each one of us to be saved. I praise You for Your love, patience and understanding. Amen.

[@robertmcginness4610]

Luther found some Catholics that sin, Oh My! Lions/ Tigers & Bears.

[@bhoran1152]

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[@HumilityisaVirtue]

Father Mike, I have a sister who has tried to justify another sister, one daughter (both turned away from Mother Church) and even the likes of (for example) Taylor Swift... by claiming they are "good" people. That's such a relative term and, in today's gospel, Jesus sums it up in excellence. I'd love to think I'm a good person, but how can that be? I'm a sinner. Continue blessings, Father Mike, for pulling no punches.

[@CurtisVanHeddegem-h6t]

What really happened to Jim Robb???

[@paulrussell6495]

The bible says what you must do to inherit eternal life. it's not a puzzle that needs figuring out

[@JWellsUp]

Some denominations believe that obeying the commandments is works. So much deception nowadays.

[@geometry9537]

Did the thief on the cross keep His commandments?

[@robertmcginness4610]

" If you love me you will keep my commandments." Jesus = God. It you don't love God = No Heaven Period.!

[@rosemarykirby7489]

He loved him. But he walked away to his pretty life instead. Sad indeed.

[@margaretrobertson967]

Father I only want to know Do you read these comments? I need guidance

[@FrMichaelOConnor]

Hello Margaret, I often read the comments for Sunday homilies the first couple of days after a video is posted. Peace.

[@FleefromROME]

What must you do? Believe in Jesus Christ alone for salvation, and not in the so-called "sole Church of Christ" (Cat. 816) that says the "Church...is necessary for salvation," (846), that says water Baptism (which "delivers no one" - 978) is "necessary for salvation" (980) and that Penance to a sinner (a priest) is "necessary for salvation."(980) "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength" - Jeremiah 17:5

[@figurefour633]

You are very confused. I don’t know how you are going to make it! Your heart is harden. Whoever Loves me will keep my commandments ❤, John 14:21

[@FleefromROME]

@figurefour633 I would say that you are confused and blinded by the teachings of the Catholic Church. What did the so-called first Pope, Peter, say about "the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth" (v.10) in Acts 4:11-12? "This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ Nor is there salvation in ANY OTHER, for there is NO OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN given among men by which we must be saved.”

[@figurefour633]

@@FleefromROME Jesus was Catholic, what are you going to say when you have to stand before him after having blasphemed against his Holy Church, which is his body?

[@sergiovellozo6451]

So your call is to attack the Church of God. It is the devil's part. Maybe someday you return like the prodigal son. God have mercy.

[@TriciaPerry-mz7tc]

@@figurefour633jesus was a Jew and Nazarene. He was NOT CATHOLIC NONE AT ALL. you all add and make up anything to agree with being CATHOLIC. ITS NOT OF CHRIST AT ALL

[@johnnolan2557]

Do what God says or go to hell?