Say "No" To Moralistic Therapeutic Deism

[@tanyakozel]

I decided to put God first, but truly first. No regrets. I wish everyone could feel what it's like to live in that peace. I cry often from pure gratitude for what He has done in my life since I fully surrendered it to Him and His service in my work and at my Parish. It's worth every apparent sacrifice.

[@byrnedegrandpre8884]

Awesome homily Father. Lightning for me and those believers who are listening closely.

[@susanarmstrong7462]

Amen to that. Thankyou for feeding me with the Truth. We really need to hear this LIVING WORD being proclaimed. Always listen to you, here in UK.

[@irenedsouza794]

Fr Mark Bernhard let us understand the way you make us understand may we all know how great love of God Amen 🙏 thank you fr.

[@defeatevil]

God bless you dear Rev. Fr. Mark. Your parishioners at Our Lady of Mercy Parish miss you. It’s been 3 years already….

[@user-yb6xn3ut7o]

Thank you Fr. Mark. I've often found it curious when I see people wearing cross necklaces yet aren't churchgoers. Its like, whats the point?There are other necklaces you can wear. Great thought provoking homily.

[@joannebywaters4154]

Time to really seek Him in this new backdrop!! Thank you that you emphasized that this God is pursuing us, so we need not be afraid to listen & give Him everything!! Day by day living it out

[@marlenecloughessy7550]

Thank you for your helpful and informative homilies. You are a "special" shepherd. God bless you!❤

[@lydiaborella5951]

Thank you, Fr. Mark and greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦. Thank you Lord for this priest ❤️❤️❤️

[@spinninginspace]

beautiful homily! 15:08 "Amen. Blessing and glory, wisdom and thanksgiving, honor, power, and might be to our God forever and ever. Amen." Rv 7

[@kathleenwharton2139]

Thank You 🙏 Jesus Please Forgive me 😇 Please Bless EveryOne

[@Adrastus_]

im 22 and currently a seventh day adventist (although I am not baptized) and inquiring into catholicism and eastern orthodoxy. it is so immensely refreshing to see a catholic speaking about things as it should be, thus drawing me somewhat towards catholicism. I still pray God guides me on the right path, but this is a very powerful video, Fr. Bernhard! may God bless you always.

[@raulcosta6836]

god bless you, brother. May the Aeternal Wisdom enlight you

[@kathleenlutgen4883]

Wow. So excellent. Thank you father.

[@JavierGarcia-jg5xp]

God gave us a brain to use and reason with. We all have to follow our conscience instead of just blindly following dogmas that we don't believe in or don't make sense. There is nothing wrong with being a good person or with being happy. I am sure that God wants that. May the peace of the Lord be with all of you. (I don't want to argue with anyone.) All the best.

[@dbzpro12]

It's good that the dogmas of the Catholic church are true and logically sound.

[@JavierGarcia-jg5xp]

@@dbzpro12 I disagree with you, but I don't want to argue about this. All the best.

[@duanemoret1049]

Thanks again for your thought-provoking reminder to stay "near to heart of God."

[@marcihf217]

Thank you Father for this homily. Very interesting and very true what you say. I have fallen into this and see it everywhere.

[@briendoyle4680]

ahaha

[@catholicwarrior8407]

Thank you father Mark, you are a very wise young priest. How I wish all Catholic priests would really preach what is in holy scripture and not water down the word. Sometimes the homaly has nothing to do with the daily reading that one easily forgets what was the gospel about?

[@bettybella2417]

Thank you Rev Fr Mark. Your homilies are inspiring & reflective to listen to. God be with you.

[@ginniej48]

AMEN FR MARK wonderfully said, 🙏🛐✝️❤️‍🔥

[@Kltarver]

Amen! Excellent word.

[@smoothduck5578]

I remember in 6th grade when you first became a priest at my school and you would play with us at recess.

[@lisajmj]

Absolutely excellent! Thank you Father Bernhard, forever!

[@russellcollins52]

My own pastor focused on the Rock that is there. And your homily hit the topic head on that we are working on in Small Group

[@jonathanfarrell2378]

Wow! A very dynamic sermon! Powerful!

[@bankruptcybailout]

Powerful and a much needed message.

[@lufhopespeacefully2037]

Why does the Trinity not appear in the Bible?peace

[@bankruptcybailout]

@@lufhopespeacefully2037 Interesting question. God is referenced numerous times in both the Old and New Testaments, the Holy Spirit is referenced numerous times in the New Testament, and the New Testament is pretty much all about Jesus Christ, the son of God. There is the trinity.

[@lufhopespeacefully2037]

@@bankruptcybailout ,ty.,ty for replying connie,, as far as i know trinity is an old worshipping for some an egyptians who have worshipped ezice,authorice&hurce ,later on the church has abducted the notion&also The concept of a trinity predates the Bible. The concept of a trinity predates the Bible. The much older Hindu Vedas had a holy trinity.Called the trimurti, it was Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer, three individual deities that are also a single deity

[@lufhopespeacefully2037]

@@bankruptcybailout ,sorry i wrtie connie by mistaken,sorry about that

[@lufhopespeacefully2037]

@@bankruptcybailout ,In the Qur’an, God forgave Adam and Eve for their sins. God also saved Christ and raised him to heaven, and therefore we do not need Jesus’ sacrifice. Why did Jesus pay the price for a sin he never committed? Don’t you see that your so-called God is so cruel even to his only son, so how can you guarantee that he will have mercy on you? peace

[@Elven.]

All that's left is fear then or depression, the latter has been my experience since I stopped being an atheist. My life is nonsense and I wish I didn't exist

[@garymanz3403]

I communicate with many atheists and I rarely encounter any who think deeply.

[@thefoxcatch]

Father Mark, thank you!

[@lwest46]

My “Catholic” family taught me deism since childhood. I thought it was Catholicism. I was also taught that if your parents weren’t married in the Church, you were destined to hell. I literally had to relearn everything.

[@lostmojo]

Same in Italy. People picking up the easy bits of catholicism, bending it into what most pleases them. Unfortunately many priests don't explain the dangers of building ourselves the God one wants

[@roryo1970]

As Churchill might have said of Luke 22:44: I offer you blood, sweat and tears

[@claramitchell7774]

Great to hear this from a young priest

[@hugojames85]

Bollocks! And I was SO looking forward to indulging in a big load of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism today....

[@QuTeBug]

Sounds like Jordan Peterson…we need to pray for his conversion

[@worthwhilediscussion]

Amen, Fr. ✝️

[@hudsonsgamingchannel334]

Very good!! Say it again and again.

[@nathanngumi8467]

Amen. 🙏

[@mraemartinez]

Jordan Peterson???

[@catherinemcdavid1533]

Yup !

[@richardkasper5822]

I see the moralistic therapy prevalent in sooo many Protestant evangelicals. Also in modern gnostic beliefs.They believe the God of Abraham isnt anything more than a chaotic demon.

[@StarEssences]

Choosing more moralistic types of choices in the constitution of our freedom is a CHOICE; Those who are doing so for various reasons, look at all the attacks upon them then ask yourselves why they are attacked: the DEVIL DOES NOT EXIST? I was a fornicator and when so I had all sorts of health issues. After having made the choice to fully live for God along with the truthful discussion about the attitude and conduct from males in general as yet still being solo in my mid 50's I have no female GYN issues any longer; What did God tell Mary Magdalene who was a prostitute? "Where are all your accusers now Mary (as God shared a statement to those who were going to condemn her to death with stones); Go and sin no more".

[@llamaluvr]

When you quote Jordan Peterson but don't want people to know you're quoting Jordan Peterson...

[@mikeryan7213]

Exactly. Cowardice and delusion. Dude in frock has no credibility.

[@AranelEruvyreth]

@@mikeryan7213 Honestly I think it was prudent because the people who most needed to hear this message are the same people who hear the name Jordan Peterson and will immediately discredit everything that comes after on that basis alone. These are also the same people who don’t actually know what Jordan Peterson says or believes, therefore are leas likely to make the connection. The ones who can pin this quote to Jordan Peterson with ease are typically ones who would have listened to the message either way and taken it to heart. He’s trying not to distract from the main message of the sermon and while you may not agree with it, knowing a lot of Catholics who are in the former category as I do, I think he made the prudent decision here. If a member of the congregation was really curious later about who this psychologist is, they could ask him after mass, but drawing attention to his name would not have enhanced the sermon any and could have led to many who needed to hear the message disregarding it before it was even heard. This is, unfortunately, the kind of psychology we have to battle against. It was not cowardice that kept him from naming the name, but prudence.

[@mikeryan7213]

@AranelEruvyreth I'm afraid referencing that dude immediately loses the priest his credibility. Because if you research the things that dude has come out with, then you wouldn't touch his stuff with a barge pole

[@AranelEruvyreth]

@@mikeryan7213 I suppose that’s a fair opinion. I don’t watch or listen to Peterson, personally. He occasionally says some good things, but a broken clock is also right twice a day as the saying goes. His surface assertions to young men to clean their rooms, take personal responsibility, and get their life in order are very good ones, but many of them view him in almost a deistic sense and hang on every one of his words and he has plenty of kookier ideas, many of which stem from the fact that he is very much not a Christian. This is the thing, though - you can reference a quote from someone whose philosophy and psychology you think is bad, if that quote has truth. Martin Luther King Jr is an example of someone who had an objectively terrible personal life, but still got a lot of things right in another sense. The fact that he was an adulterer doesn’t lend any less credibility to the things he says that are true and a person who quotes him doesn’t lose credibility because the person they quoted was a hypocrite. I feel the same way when people quote Peterson and others of his ilk. Because the point is a good one, even if the man behind it doesn’t have a worldview based on the truth of Christ and scripture and is therefore flawed.

[@mikeryan7213]

@AranelEruvyreth big difference between someone being messy in their personal life, and someone who is avowedly not Christian, and who associates with the alt right on occasion. I think the priest is mistaken, there are less controversial thinkers he could quote. The impression is given that perhaps the priest is a fan of that dude, and this of course puts an entirely different complexion on things.

[@plant9399]

MTD is an incomplete concept. Either switch to Christianity or classical deism. I chose deism. Even though the existence of God can be proven through logic, there is no reason to believe that any doctrine really allows insight into the essence of divine design. Man will always seek to carve the image of his creator from the nearest log.

[@nellypinilla5577]

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[@HNCS2006]

2:32

[@Bikesdavebikes]

What makes being a Deist so bad when Christian’s, Muslim’s or Jews can’t and won’t agree with each other? In fact all three mentioned have a lack of agreement within each religion.

[@greyhoundmama2062]

If you believe that Jesus is God, there is no way that Judaism and Islam can be seen as true, because both religions reject Christ. Make up your mind.

[@lwest46]

Being a deist is rejecting the idea that God wants to be close to us. It reduces God to a detached, uninterested, uncaring manufacturer of the universe and our very souls. But God does want us to be close to us. We continue in existence because of His love. What we think, say, and do does matter.

[@kevinvillamor5570]

say no to priest like this they think hey know it all but they don't

[@lwest46]

What did he say that’s incorrect?

[@mikeryan7213]

When you reference an an alt right agitator, without having the balls to even name him, you lose on the double. Far better to be a moralistic therapeutic whatever than a holier than thou hypocrite. Remember jesus threw the sanctimonious scribes and pharisees out of the temple. Jesus associated with fallen people, the poor, lepers, sinners.

[@greyhoundmama2062]

I believe in free speech like the "alt right agitator" you mention. The only speech leftists want to forbid is Christian doctrine. That's because their true god and savior is government.

[@jackphalon880]

Said a prayer for your peace of mind Mike

[@mikeryan7213]

@jackphalon880 my mind already ap peace dude, save your prayers for others

[@CatholicCarlismEnjoyer]

What alt right agititator are you going on about? Do you even know what a remotely far right person even believes?

[@mikeryan7213]

@@CatholicCarlismEnjoyer yeah. They believe lies and conspiracy theories. There's your answer. 🤡

[@sjurdurkjv]

Say no to the whole papal institution: Come out of her my people. Amen.

[@wreckingcrew07]

Nah. We tried your way and it’s failed. It’s time for people to come back to Holy Mother Church, and reject modernism/protestantism. You obviously didn’t watch the video.

[@beatlecristian]

Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus. Forsake the traditions of men and become Catholic. Ite in pace.