"Loosen The Roots" + 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Mike's Homily)

[@Angela-dh6ij]

Divorce destroys everything. All of it. All. You can't build anything or anyone healthy on a broken foundation. Please help those who are overlooked and grew up with divorced parents Father 🙏.

[@kathyworland7032]

Angela, my heart hurts for you. True words: “divorce destroys everything”. It’s ripping a plant up & throwing it away; far different from repotting or transplanting & loosening the roots for it to take hold again. Having been thru one w/o children was hard enough. Seeing my daughters go thru it w/children continues to be one of the hardest things to bear. Anyone who thinks “it is for the best” & deceives themselves that “it will be okay” is greatly mistaken. I understand there are times people have to separate or walk away due to abuse or other trauma, but for other selfish reasons, it is so damaging. The person I was died when we separated. I did not surface to try to start over for 6 months. That’s only because of “divorce recovery programs, retreats & counseling.” Even now almost 40 years later, happily remarried & having new roots in a new pot, I still reflect sometimes & feel that intense sadness. So, I look forward to what would not be in my life w/o that trauma & try to focus on the good. It takes a long time sometimes to see it tho. And yes, it affects everyone. My dog died after I was gone & my ex-mother in law had a stroke. The trauma for children is unspeakable. May God bless you dear soul with His Peace. You are loved.

[@wms72]

My parents never divorced, but perhaps they should have. They drove each other literally crazy beyond telling. Extremely abusive.

[@kathyworland7032]

@@wms72 yes; those are the ones who should retreat to their own corners. Key word: abusive. How love can get so twisted is beyond me. The opposite of love is NOT hate; it’s indifference. Hate is twisted & destructive love. I learned that in counseling & it helped me. Not nurturing love in the family setting is very destructive to those living in it. So sorry to hear. May God bless you with His Peace. 🙏🏻

[@Angela-dh6ij]

@@kathyworland7032 Thank you so much Kathy. So many try to quickly dismiss this topic by making excuses for it. No one wants to listen to the children who suffer so much in silence and become adults who don't know where to turn. Thank you for listening and I will pray for you ❤🙏

[@dawnlapka3782]

My teenage kids told us we had to get a divorce. My fiance was cheated and beat. So he left. Our roots are each other, and total reliance on Jesus Christ. He and I have a very large undertaking of bridge building in our marriage. Both of us are declared null in the Catholic Church. Please pray for those of us who get the grace of getting married a second time and get a chance to rebuild faith, family and family values. God bless you. God bless all of us who listen to these homilies.

[@margaretfroen777]

Thank you so much! This message was an answer to my prayer.

[@peppy619]

Ok, Fr. Mike, this homily has been hitting home for me so harshly I'm about to charge you for manslaughter. I was about to enter a period of prayer and fasting because I really want to get close to someone, but as today I was realizing that I was pretty much putting God as a mean to an end; I was getting everything backwards.

[@BitsyBee]

In the last quarter of my life and security has been an idol my whole life. Needed to hear this. My roots ha e been shaken up and I've been moved around the country. It's been an adventure in trust.

[@wandaburki9244]

Thanks!

[@sigmann66]

“If I don’t know I have to rely on you every moment of the journey” Thank you Fr Mike

[@lauradahlus]

In order to grow in faith we need action... So loosen my roots dear Lord. 🤗

[@denoshea5683]

Father my parents divorced ,mum felt she had no choice. To be brief as I went into young adulthood the eldest of six . I swore I would never divorce if I was to marry as I felt I had been forced to grow up and be head of the family. Alas multiple relatioships and four mariges down the track plus children grandchildren I am finally long term married and well into the journey back to God and the Catholic church. I follow you and your ministry. God always returns love and love and the holy spirit direction. As to the answer God will reveal it in his time. Prayer is the only Answer and the one answer I have recieved i being grateful for every moment the lord gives me good and bad. I think of what our lord sacrificed for us all. 🙌🙏 thank you father.

[@curlyclouds9]

I’ll walk with God in uncertainty ❤️

[@lauradahlus]

"The more we love we sacrifice". -Fr. Mike "We love because we sacrifice" -Fr Mike "Every act of sacrifice is an act of faith and ever act of faith grows our love..." -Fr. Mike.

[@dorothylanasa6074]

Sacrifice means to make sacred.

[@danieldefonce]

The Great Unknowing is our fragile state of being as finite humans. And, it is only when we confess and seek to remedy or transcend our unknowing that we reveal Great Knowledge. This knowing of our great unknowing points us to the Great Knower Who Knows Great Knowledge; for if there is knowledge of great unknowing then there exists a great knowledge that, although unknown to us would-be knowers, is knowable and somehow seeks to be known, as demonstrated by our desire to transcend our great unknowing and know the unknown, but can only be known by a Great Knower who Knows all Great Knowledge into existence, along with us knowers of great unknowing.

[@Angenga]

I really needed to hear this today, thank you Fr. Mike for these homilies!

[@micheleamoroso8579]

Absolutely one of the best homilies out there! I just realized that I may be making God's promise of something a proxy for God & my relationship with Him. Thank you, Fr. Mike.

[@jesuslovesyou2024]

Thank you, Father Mike. The Holy Spirit convicted me, instructed me and encouraged me through this homily. May God bless you and keep you and shine His face upon you and your ministry.

[@wreloise1]

As We ‘let go’ and In the midst of insecurity, may we focus on our Lord

[@kimberlysmiley0033]

Wow! That really hit home about how we treat our spouses and how we treat our kids, I found myself doing that all through my children's younger years. Oh, my husband doesn't need me do that, he can do that himself, but the kids do need my help . That kind of thing.

[@shareenchoudhury-leighton1748]

🩵 beautifully & eloquently put. God bless you & your family 💙

[@mistyviolet3825]

Thank you 🙏🏻 Father Schmidt….. may OUR LORD GOD BLESS & HEAL AMERICA once again…. 🇺🇸🕯💔⛪️🕊 Saint Michael The Archangel💫, please please protect us and our children from the evils of this WOKE culture and the indoctrination in the public schools taking advantage of our children’s youthful minds …. AMEN 🙏🏻

[@iguesi]

Man O' Man! This hit me in the heart. Thank you Holy Spirit for using the message to shake my roots.

[@BC-gd8ij]

This is THE most important issue of our current time.

[@lois7235]

Great homily Father Mike

[@lorettagallagher9577]

Walk by faith, not by sight.

[@rafaeloliva8328]

I need desperately to loosen my roots Lord JESUS please stay with me I need your help Thank you father Mike for your teaching. Bless you brothers

[@roxy323]

What a beautiful and wise message this is! I found it very, very helpful ! Thanks for sharing God's message.

[@esthertraver6288]

I really needed this today, thank you. 🙏❤️

[@ftdoctormama]

Thanks

[@rhwinner]

Please get to Mass. Praise god in His sanctuary! 💗🙏💗

[@germanodiciero3752]

God, you are the center!

[@noradsouza3673]

Science! Science is changing the minds of kids, hope your intelligent words will help them to strengthen their whatever faith they have. Thanks from Canada.

[@adrianortegarojas1920]

About Adrián Ortega Rojas, Vocational for The Priesthood in The Work of The Church, talk about I send regards and greetings to My Esteemed Friend Father Mike Schmitz, Thanks for The Present Homily, I agree with Father Mike Schmitz of God Almighty Father 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@monocyte2210]

im always struggling with this. thank you Father Mike.

[@carolhannah4635]

Thank you Lord for Fr Mike. Thank you for him proclaiming the truth in Your Name. Fr Mike you are helping me see the idols in my life and how they are subtle. I'm over 60 and I'm just seeing them with your help. I see it as disobedience too. Lord I pray help me to always put you first. Amen. God bless us all. 🙏

[@giarose6493]

Love ❤️ this

[@lovelast4evergemma508]

Amen❤️

[@carolinepatton132]

Amen🙏❤🕯

[@LostArchivist]

I think this compliments very well with Dr.Jordan Peterson`s video `Fear is a Powerful Motivator`. This tells why to give up, and Dr.Peterson elaborates on the cost of not choosing painful ways or not deciding what to sacrifice. There is no such thing as neutral in the spiritual life, you are either going up or sliding back down. So we need to keep striking out for the next summit. Praise be to the Lord God!

[@andrear8141]

My parents are going through separation and I so wish they could listen to this.

[@fram1111]

Thanks, I've had that question for a while! It seems like common sense, but I didn't know for sure. I find it hard to let go. I like the Super Hero comparison on the EWTN Homily. Love your conclusion that Mass is the sacrifice to overcome the Idols in our lives. I hope I understood that properly.

[@scotchtapeworm3755]

Walking out not knowing where you are to go... How can one go out if they don't even know which direction to go? I can handle not knowing the destination, but if I go left, but God wants me to go right, and I keep going left, then I am continually going in the wrong way. So I need to know at least which direction to go, so I don't keep going in the wrong direction. No one has given me a good explanation for this problem, and it has been troubling me for over 10 years. I have asked similar questions in the past, and I don't know what God wants me to do at all, and just going, or just moving makes ZERO sense. There are infinite directions to go, so if God doesn't tell us which way out of infinity, what hope do we have to even going the right way? They say we are to do God's will instead of our own will. But God doesn't tell us his will, so we are forced to either not do anything, or do our own will, or make random guesses.

[@davidcole333]

I struggle with this also. I pray, read His word and get to a quiet place and spend time listening for him.

[@scotchtapeworm3755]

@@davidcole333 I feel like the more I try praying and listening, the more anxious I feel. Just silence, and feeling more lost. I hope we can both get though this.

[@mary-anneo.2632]

Scripture reveals God's heart and personality. Study this and pray and you'll start to know God's Will...Serve others wherever you are. God sees your sincerity of heart. You going in the 'wrong' direction is not enough to truncate God's Will for you.

[@lorenzolozzigallo2589]

Roots are everything, but the foundation of these roots is Our Lord Jesus Christ. If a nation, a society, a family, don’t acknowledge that, they begin to fail that very moment. I won’t loosen my roots - quite the opposite - but I will always look for Christ’s love as their ultimate aim.

[@kelkabot]

Roots are not everything. Our Lord Himself was homeless when he walked the earth, and He told us that if needed we should deny mother and father to follow Him; moreover, He told us there would be no marriage in Heaven, which suggests (to me at least) that marriage is not an ultimate foundation. So neither our human ties nor our financial foundations should be our security, but God alone.

[@metildajoseph5265]

Greetings Father Mike, Thanks for the Kind Sunday Homily which reverberates with Love and Grace of Lord Jesus Christ in every aspects of Life. My Thoughts : 1. Our Family have been facing Financial, Legal and Social Obstacles due to Illminded Intentions of Relatives, Friends,.. Thankful with Prayers before God for Valuable Lesson. 2. Presently Handling my intense emotions through Prayers before Lord Jesus Christ because of Specific confronted event on - Questioning my Manhood with Possibility of Male Heirs in all aspects. - Immoral Obligation addressed towards Future Spouse. 3. I value Dignified Self-respect but Value of Sympathy from Our Lord Jesus Christ in all aspects of Life. Special Prayers : My Sincerest Prayers with Best Wishes for Parish Coordinated Spiritual Camps in Minnesota and All around the World. With regards with Prayers for Everyone, RanjithJoseph (R.J)

[@carlosjose1]

Woow! 🙏🏻

[@margaretwissler4874]

“Motive for His movement” ❤️

[@hoakerhoaker]

@00:47, God said a man is to leave his parents and cleave unto his wife. Our parents aren’t our God. Too many marriages end in divorce because one spouse or the other is still running home to mom and dad, they never did leave nor cleave. Ask Jeff Cavins, I got that from him. Edit: The more I listen to this the more Father’s message sinks in. I believe we perceive messages based on our state of mind and state in life. What he’s saying makes so much more sense a few weeks later. We’re constantly evolving and changing.

[@soroushfetkovich5084]

So true!

[@Ordinary_1]

Can you talk about the the saints and more about them please.

[@VideosGospels]

For many, idolatry is only configured if they are pagan idols. If it's from Catholic saints, then it's not idolatry. Idolatry is anything that places itself as more important than God. Examples: A person has the custom of going to church on Sundays; but if that day her team is playing, she won't go, she prefers to see the game, the team is more important. The Catholic says that he only venerates the saints, he does not worship; but veneration, praise, celebration is part of worship. There is no biblical text that says we have to do this for the saints but only for God. Those angels made by Moses and Solomon for the temple never received any of that. There are people who say they don't have time to pray, read the Bible, go to church, because they work and study. For her all this is more important than God. I have to take care of my children, my husband, I can't, I can't! Many are passing into eternity and getting lost because Jesus is the only one who can save, he is the only one who paid the price on that cross for us. It was not his mother Mary, nor Peter, John, Paul, nor any saint, but only him.

[@dorothylanasa6074]

The Father,Son, and Holy Spirit all are without adulterations, perfect, sinless. There is no devil in heaven. Why is the devil here on this beautiful earth? This dark force has lead so many people astray. Now devil worshipers want to kill people who don't worship Satan!?

[@nathanielswan909]

I love your energy and the message. But...You ain't from the south

[@robertyoung9305]

Why do you start these masses with your sermons.? I know why cause people are not watching for the mass. Even as Christians, we need to Trust God!!! Period. If people watch the mass to just skip your sermon. It is a great sermon, please don’t miss understand. But people come to Jesus by the deeds we do. The lights we shine. Not by control. 🙏🙏🙏. Many Blessings and Love. Robert Again I apologize Father, but I believe you know what I’m saying. Amen 🙏.

[@robertyoung9305]

Father, I do apologize. I see now the Mass is on another stream. I must of picked the wrong listing. Again I do apologize and I did Love the sermon. Robert

[@Taylor44555]

Save Palestine. Jesus would not have wanted this

[@charleneendo2443]

Are you a liberal?

[@tonyfarina9772]

With all due respect Fr. Mike, recently (for the past few months) your “homilies” have been weak. What happened to your mojo?

[@shaunajoyce7133]

He is one of the best around I understand your comment but no not in the least