The Atheists applauded.

Homily of Fr. Michael O'Connor from Mass on January 28, 2024 at Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church in Bay St. Louis, MS
Referenced Readings:
Dt 18:15-20
1 Cor 7:32-35
Mk 1:21-28
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[@KB_2161]

You are a billboard for Christ. Thank you Fr Michael. May your journey be filled with blessings, and may your faith be strengthened in the holiest corners of the world through Christ our Lord Amen ❤

[@annmargaret2106]

Such a good reminder, God needs to be first in our lives!

[@stephaniehatfield5831]

Always, always, feeding your lambs, thank you Fr Mike, may God bless you always🙏🏻 McMinnville, Oregon

[@patodwyer721]

Thank you Fr.Mike for your Wisdom and Guidance

[@tinarodriguez5182]

Fr., Mike once again great homily !!!!!!!‼️🙏‼️❤️🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

[@HumilityisaVirtue]

Beautiful Father Mike. Practical atheists... that was an excellent way of explaining when one turns away from God; for any reason. It seems that I was once a "practical atheist". I now think of God all day long, and into the night.

[@elizabethdawncrable8662]

😊

[@dan77734]

If God didn't have control of this world (particularly the spirit world of angels around us) Satan would destroy this world. Thank you Jesus for dying for us to join our spiritual life.

[@r.e.gamache7175]

Thank you, Fr. Mike, for providing the people of your parish with substantial spiritual food for their souls during Sunday Mass!

[@patty5270]

Thank you, Father, for sharing your wisdom and gifts.

[@annaplucinsky4605]

THANK YOU FATHER MICHAEL. You helped me much to understand !!! GOD BLESS

[@patrechtien8186]

I give you my whole heart and soul my Lord. To know Him is to love him and He softens my heart to be able to love

[@lisagregg1387]

Thank you for the sermon today really helped my understanding. I actually listen to the sermons everyday

[@user-tp6cm6bd4r]

Your preparation for your homilies is commendable. Thank you for the hard work for which we all benefit. I have hard work ahead of me, but I welcome it.

[@harryoesep3086]

Thank you, Fr Mike. It’s a beautiful “homily. “If you hear God’s word today, he Arden not your heart”. Amen

[@lisaparker1607]

Beautiful homily! Thank you!!!

[@mohancharles3158]

Beautiful sermon! Praise be to God! Greetings from Colombo Sri Lanka with love for all the people of good will everywhere!🙋😇🌹

[@cnyphotovideo]

Amen. Thank you, Fr. Mike. This message is incredibly relevant in this time for all of us. Falling into “practical atheism“ is a problem for so many. God is the only true answer.

[@denisechittle4772]

So enjoy your sermons.

[@franclark9256]

Fr.Mike, I just watched your homily on replay! I always do in the evening after going to Mass at my church(St.Ambrose). I absolutely believe you are a true servant of God! I love all your homilies!!

[@markomonstar4526]

Amen and Amen!

[@delin62]

"If God doesn't exist, everything is permissible." This ultimately leads to chaos! Where are we now, as a society?

[@i.m.watching5536]

Amen!

[@j.d.s.8132]

That is, assuming that our society only consists of psychopaths and sociopaths who feel no empathy and who are only held back by the fear of an eternal punishment. I digress, Adolf Hitler himself was a Christian and a creationist who strongly believed in the existence of a god and that belief did not keep him from commanding the murder of over 6 million jews. So as shown in the example, bad people will do bad things. They aren't held back even if they believe in a divine rule. And good people will do good things because if there is no god, there still is empathy and love, even if they are not some supernatural magic, they are real chemistry in our brain that won't vanish just because we don't believe in some specific god. If the only source of your morals is an appeal to divine authority, you will easily get into a mindset where anything god presumably says or allows becomes permissible. That won't happen with humanitarian rights because they are not legitimized on an authority figure.

[@cheraybisaya]

Thank you Father Michael, Blessings to you and all the priests!

[@christinegreenberg1145]

LOTS to reflect on!

[@king_sa7]

Praise be Jesus Christ

[@harryoesep3086]

Thank you very much, Father. What a beautiful sermon. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you . Amen

[@joannebywaters4154]

❤I too love Psalm 95❤🙏🙏🙏

[@mariace4848]

Wonderful homily Father Mike. I know what a stone heart feels like and don’t want to experience it again. I also know the easy path of least resistance is always just a step away. I just want to remember to always ask Him for help.

[@InnocentCentaur-tt3we]

Why would anyone want or agree with nothingness? Seems strange that anyone would settle for nothing. Praise be to God! 🙏 Salve Maria 🙏

[@sherrelstroot3034]

Thank you Father Mike! Another excellent Homily.

[@user-hc9hs5rm8d]

Thank you

[@bettybella2417]

Thank you Rev. Fr Mike for your homily. I start my morning with Psalms 5 & 50(51). However, throughout the day I have done the mantra of Psalms95:7-8. Dont wanna be like our ancestors as they were in MERIBAH & MASSAH. God be with you❤

[@lourdesstodddard850]

🙏 Amen

[@kermierogers7876]

Great homily. I feel like in the last year or so, I realized that somehow my whole life had changed and I lost my desire to do all the worldly (and sinful) things I had been doing my entire adult life. And I pray all through the day. I'm not perfect by any means but it's just so strange how that happened.

[@michaelsix9684]

great sermon

[@nancygagne5905]

Thank you Father Michael for another very insightful homily!! 🙏❤

[@teresamelvin1073]

Thank you Father Mike great reminder for all of us❤

[@watermain48]

Thank you Fr. Mike. That was an incredible homily.

[@mariettatrapani291]

Today Is the Feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas Priest and Doctor of the Church: Saint Thomas Aquinas was born in the Year 1225 into a Family of the Count of Aquino. Saint Thomas was educated at the Abbey of Monte Cassino and the University of Naples. In the Year 1244 He joined the Dominican Order. Considered one of the greatest philosophers and theologians of all time He is called the " Angelic Doctor. " He exhibited an unparalleled mastery of scholastic philosophy and a profound holiness of life. Pope Leo XIII declared Him Patron of Catholic Schools. His monumental work Summa Theologica was yet unfinished when Saint Thomas died near Terracina in the Year 1274. Saint Thomas Aquinas Priest and Doctor of the Church Pray for Us! Thank You Rev. Mike O'Connor & God Bless! ⛪

[@annaplucinsky4605]

HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND MY CHILD.

[@dianebertin7370]

Thank you!!!

[@theclapaolini4322]

Such s needed homoly.that is such a BEST I hope it helps each person.

[@peggybruening4415]

❤

[@TaimazHavadar]

Nothing to say When you are preeching GOD S WORLDS IN BIUTIFULL WAY 🙏🙏🙏💚💚💚

[@pennyfinn7363]

Thanks!

[@anahioliveros2011]

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@ScottAguilar-wi1zu]

Air....

[@belovelyloveofgod]

IFIN ONE CAN COMMIT ALLLL SIN WHICH IS DEATH N STILL BE SAVED FROM WHAT SHOULD BE JUSTICE, THEN GOD LIGE MEANS NOTHING, PERIOD.🌹☀️

[@deannedaves5136]

Have you listened to John Lennox?

[@j.d.s.8132]

It's the ultimate irony that the same people who would claim atheists to be hedonists are the ones that think life becomes meaningless if you don't get to live forever. If there isn't a cool afterlife party as a reward for all the "good" points you collect, then in the minds of these people it all becomes meaningless. So you are telling me life isn't meaningless for the billions and billions of people that would suffer for *ever* in eternity in a hellfire? You think that somehow adds meaning to their existence? If anything, religion takes away meaning in life. Why is life meaninglful, if it pends out into eternity? Doesn't a year lose its significance if you get to be conscious forever. For me personally it is scarier to be concious and feel forever than to be concious for 80 years. And it adds meaning to life, it places a timer on it and makes every minute valuable. You won't meet the people you love a second time.

[@lesliehasenkampf7088]

With all due respect, it seems to me that you are determined to read your own ideology into Father Mike’s message. If I may ask, have you read the Bible, more specifically, the New Testament? If you have, it says clearly multiple times that eternal life is not meaningless. Life just becomes more meaningful with time, not the opposite. It’s not like the organic nature of earth and humanity where things denigrate and lose value over time. It’s not like that at all. I strongly encourage you to read the Bible and study the lives of the Saints. That’s what helped me gain a greater understanding of life and life eternal. Many prayers for you and God God bless.

[@j.d.s.8132]

@@lesliehasenkampf7088 What the bible says doesn't matter, the bible could claim that humans can fly if they really wanted to and it wouldn't make it the truth. It is pretty obvious, that life becomes meaningless if it goes on forever in some form. Then every interaction/ every moment can be repeated ad infinitum, thus rendering the current moment infinity meaningless. Just because the bible says it becomes more meaningful, doesn't mean that's the truth. Eternity can't gradually become more meaningful with time because there is no time in eternity.

[@patrechtien8186]

Thanks!