The Spiritual & Corporal Works of Mercy | LITTLE BY LITTLE | Fr Columba Jordan CFR

[@danielfortier2629]

My former priest Father Bernard Brault, who was my priest in northern Ontario, Canada for sixteen years, came from a very rich Montreal, Québec family. Father Brault refused his large inheritance, and he chose to live like a poor man. He would say that anything extra that we don't need to survive in this world, belongs to the poor. He was a sainted man! He actually lived what he preached. He loved the poor. I admired him a lot. God bless his soul!

[@ctmcatholic]

What a witness, thanks for sharing!

[@theclapaolini4322]

That is CHRISTLIKE TO THE ENTH DEGREE.

[@gregorythorne6101]

Just gifted Mary's Meals in your honor, Father... Stay humble 😊

[@ctmcatholic]

Thank you, Gregory!

[@mdjbusiness]

Thanks for telling us about Mary’s meals. God bless you.

[@ctmcatholic]

A pleasure!

[@ValentinBrutusBura]

As long as we don't actively and intentionally serve the purpose of evil, it is more or less okay. That is what I feel about this.

[@itazenin]

Increase our generosity and kindness and humility Jesus.

[@EustaceKirstein]

Your sincerity and passion at 5:05 is noticeable and beautiful. Thank you Father for your many sacrifices

[@ctmcatholic]

Thank you, (Fr?) David!

[@kwkw5711]

Thank you for this message father and bringing this charity to our attention. God bless you.

[@ctmcatholic]

Thank you!

[@anthonyw2931]

that we are God's hands on earth, is especially resonating. Thank you for yet another very moving sermon. Yes, I think these are sermons.

[@ctmcatholic]

Thank you, Anthony!

[@ritaalsauskiene9528]

Thank You, Father!

[@ctmcatholic]

You’re welcome!

[@marystenson2852]

Huge challenge of the faith👍💪

[@lucaslambers5315]

Thank you Father! Good words.

[@ctmcatholic]

You are very welcome

[@taniaraquel6649]

Thank u Fr appreciate this video of how God can use seemingly small deeds to make a big difference in someone's life 🙏

[@ctmcatholic]

Thanks for watching!

[@Gail33-77]

Amen 🌹 Fr. Columba

[@erinduvic8579]

Love this.

[@theclapaolini4322]

I am so happy that l send to Mary's Meals after you talked about it I will continue.thank you for letting us know about MARY'S MEALS

[@ctmcatholic]

Praise God, thank you for your generosity, Sister!

[@aseeker2109]

Mary's meals is only £15.90 or €18.30 for a whole school year to provide a meal for a child. A wonderful idea. Thank God for the ones who were inspired to provide this help to enable children to be educated.

[@ctmcatholic]

Amen!

[@DustyCrunchAddictASMR]

Father, I just have to say thank you for sharing your vulnerability when speaking about Our Lord, Jesus. I was just praying today and I asked, Am I ever going to be able to speak with you Lord or about you Lord without crying? His mercy and love overwhelm my heart so much, that my eyes begin to sweat, most people consider that crying! 😊I am not crying, just completely filled, with the overwhelming gratitude, that the Creator of EVERYTHING- found me worthy of something. Thank you for sharing.

[@joanneharrison3531]

Thank you Fr. Columba for your teaching. Your sincerity of heart is inspiring and your perspective is very relatable for me. Please pray for more good priests for our diocese.

[@ctmcatholic]

Thank you for your kind words, Joanne, and so glad you found this helpful. We will be praying indeed 🙏

[@danasandlin2435]

Your care for the poor is touching...dts/usa

[@ctmcatholic]

God bless you!

[@michellemonks6855]

I absolutely love your videos. Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to educate us. I hope you answer newer questions on this older video. I have a friend who works for a Catholic church (in another city from me) and she is now speaking about me to her boss. They both horrified (quoted) can not understand or believe that I no longer go to Mass on Sundays and I am committing a mortal sin. (Personally I think they have gossiped, judged & condemned) Now she did not tell her boss the whole story because she thinks I am only making excuses. Since covid this is only taken place, otherwise I was always there. I am a caregiver of my 98 year old Mother and oldest daughter who is a 2 stroke survivor. Both live with me. She insists that my daughter and I go to Sunday Mass. I can not leave my Mother alone. She is 98 ! She is a fall/trip hazardous and does next to zero for herself. We all are high risk and the church is packed. Well I tried to tell her I am doing the works of mercy. She says that is only an excuse. I do go to Mass on Wednesday when there are few there, I go to confession, I go to Adoration. I use to go to a local soup diner once a month before covid and help feed the homeless. It is not like I don't want to go. I do have a small prayer room that I made just for me. I get up before everyone else, tip toe through the house and spend an hour or more in prayer before everyone gets up and I do the same before going to bed. What are your thoughts? Her words have really hurt me and I do not want it to effect our friendship.

[@ctmcatholic]

Hi Michelle, great to hear from you and sorry to hear of your mother being unwell. The main thing I would advise is speaking in more detail about your situation with a priest you can trust will lead you well - does anyone come to mind? Attending Sunday Mass is one of the basic and most important requirements for any Catholic and it would take pretty desperate circumstances to allow for an exemption; however these do happen. You’ve probably already considered this, but is there any way of finding a friend or family member who can mind your mother for one hour on a Sunday so you can get to Mass? I would make that a priority if you haven’t already. God bless you and know you and your family are in our prayers! Katie x

[@ctmcatholic]

As for your friend speaking about you - that sounds very difficult and I’m very sorry to hear how it’s affected you and your relationship with her. She may well be gossiping but the best thing to do as you probably know is to pray for her and ask her to stop. She may be genuinely concerned for you but it would be better for her to talk to you and not others. I hope you can find healing and forgiveness. God bless

[@michellemonks6855]

@@ctmcatholic Thank you. I have 2 siblings but they give zero help. I lost all my local friends when my daughter had her strokes because I had no time for them. I thank you for your input. I have spoken to our Deacon about it and he seems to think that because I am doing the works of mercy I will be forgiven but that it will be between God & me when that day comes. I will hopefully find a solution soon.

[@bondslave21]

As always- thank you for your obedience and sharing not only the words and wants of our Father but for being so real and tender hearted. It's a gift to feel such love for people and children that most of us would never even consider. Please never stop sharing your heart with us. Your words and works uplift so many. ❤️ Glory be to God Almighty and peace to his people on earth.

[@ctmcatholic]

Thank you for your kind words, God bless you.

[@juliemacfarlane-barrow1356]

Thank you Fr Columba! #marysmeals

[@ctmcatholic]

Our pleasure!

[@MsCorina222]

Pray for all Saints and me

[@grespinosa]

I used to give to Mary’s Meals…unfortunately haven’t been in a position to do that anymore as the cost of everything has gone up and I can barely afford gas to get to work. 😔

[@kwkw5711]

May the Lord show you how to increase your finances so your needs and the needs of others may be satisfied. May the Lord bless you for your past generousity.

[@Aaalllyyysssaaaaa]

It's hard because I can't work due to autism and loads of mental illness, but in some regards, my mental health would be so much better if I worked, like my self esteem, sense of accomplishment, feeling like I'm contributing and valued as a person - it would all improve so much if I could do it. On the other side of the spectrum, if I give money to charity, and the charity misuses my money, or my gift leads to more suffering indirectly, that is bad, and sometimes I misjudge my own needs and I end up needing more from people supporting me than they can give, and we are all just hungry. So I'm like... oh my goodness I need wisdom so badly. I just ask and hope I'm doing God's will but I feel like the prodigal son when I ask God to fulfill my needs, like "make me happy now please, I don't need to do your plan when I don't understand it and I don't know what's going on and I can't tell if this is the 'narrow way' or the path of least resistance, it feels like an easy yoke but also a wide road sometimes and it feels like a narrow way but a heavy burden sometimes, help 😭" but it's so easy when you are unhappy to believe either that God wants you to be unhappy, or that God wants you to do something you firmly believe will be agonizing and believe it will make you happy. I tend to do that and then get more unhappy because I expend all my energy and fail, and it makes me feel like I failed God, which is a big near occasion of sin, makes me think God despises me and like I have no hope/help. I'm happier when I admit my weakness and recieve charity instead of trying to work despite my disabillities and failing, but I'm still disabled, I still have moments of deep desperation stemming from sensory overwhelm and loneliness and confusion, and in those moments it feels like God wants me to give more, and that's why I'm so hungry. All told I think judging by how I can't seem to change anything despite all this consternation and wrestling, I think God's saying like "would you just be still and know I'm God already?" lol but then the next moment of dire need makes me afraid to seek happiness all over again. I guess God sometimes makes me happy and helps me give to others all at the same time. I wish I knew how to keep my calm when life is hard.

[@ctmcatholic]

God bless you!!

[@marystenson2852]

Take one step at a time, I’m guessing you are young so first do all you can in your education, get professional support for your needs, find your talents/ interests in life, pray everyday. Join a local club/ activity and you can contribute through fundraising. Faith is a process and we are all learning 👍

[@Aaalllyyysssaaaaa]

@@marystenson2852(Trigger warning, I'll warn you because I started telling the story and it just all came out sorry) I'm 31, just now coming to terms with the fact that I'm not a late bloomer, I'm disabled, and supporting myself may not be possible, and struggling to believe that I'm still worthwhile in the face of this, as well as being blindsided by a divorce and my husband and all his family ghosting me and having a total psychotic break in the aftermath as I tried to force myself to work (my husband made me go to my brother's overnight, told me he would divorce me if I didn't get out and give him space for the night, then he never let me come home, my brother couldn't take me in though eventually he had to kick me out, I was struggling harder than ever to apply for jobs, and burning out, and continuing to struggle anyways. I didn't understand that at some point you can't push your mind any harder it just breaks haha. When my brother kicked me out I tried to live in my car but the lack of sleep was the last straw for my mind and I completely broke, I thought I was hearing the voices of Jesus and Mary, then they got cruel and manipulative and abusive, then I thought I was posessed, I thought I was the last one alive and it was the apocalypse and everyone else was in Heaven and the people I saw were only illusions, I thought I was the only one going to hell but it was okay because everyone else thought I liked it, or wasn't a real person, or that it was a joke and I was the only one who knew it was real. I should have died, I drove off 6 hours across Nothern Alberta believing that I was communicating with my husband in my head and that he was going to meet me somewhere that was being disclosed one step at a time, then I thought the communications were time delayed and I was supposed to meet him a month earlier, and then I thought I was supposed to communicate with his past self in a dream and tell him to divorce me without explaining anything to me because it was the Second Coming and the unbelievable pain was the only way to purify me so I could write a manual for how to get a resurrected body, and then I believed I was being resurrected "manually" by my soul being shredded into pieces and my brain getting dissected while I was awake... all while I was driving on the highway. Seriously, I should be dead. I believed multiple times that I was supposed to die, or be killed, or I was being tempted to kill myself, or everyone was resurrected and laughing at me and wondering why I was screwing around and why I didn't die so I could wake up. ) It's literally a miracle that I am alive. I was tracked down by police and hospitalized for over a month. The hospital helped me apply for disability, and they also convinced my parents that my autism was real and I wasn't just lazy, which was absolutely an answer to prayers. Now I'm safe and have a place to live, renting from my parents, and I'm no longer trying to push harder than my brain will let me, and I can't believe how good God is that He took all that and got me through it alive, somehow with my faith intact, and healed my relationship with my parents through it. I have hope for my husband too, God helped me so much with the things that hurt him in our relationship. I'm just waiting and trying to have faith that God is pleased with my being and He has a use for me and it's beautiful, He is taking beauty from all this brokenness and I am safe and loved. Sorry, I started out in order to explain that I'm older, I have a degree but my doctors do not want me working and it all came out. Thanks for reading.

[@ABB14-11]

Hello, I don't have money right now but once I get a handle on my finances, I'll make sure to give. I used to do visits to the sick and poor, and tutor kids for free, what I struggle with in those areas is that I'm not always in a "good mood" to be a blessing to others or I have my own stuff to deal with. Other than prayer, I wonder how we could improve in this area.

[@ctmcatholic]

That’s beautiful!

[@ABB14-11]

@@ctmcatholic Thank you, although it's not very beautiful when I feel like I'm being fake to these people.

[@ctmcatholic]

@@ABB14-11 I very much doubt that’s the actual case. It sounds like you are giving what you can!

[@Barbaramamato]

"Ask and you shall receive." Jesus Christ Ask not what your church community can do for you, ask what you can do for others. Para. "May God grant that I may not so much seek to be loved as to love." Prayer of St. Francis Also, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Jesus Christ "Make me a channel of your peace." Oh my Lord, and savior, make me an instrument of your love. For, "what so ever we do to the least of our brothers," we do to God in Our Savior, Jesus.

[@ctmcatholic]

Amen!

[@DistributistHound]

for Child care I trust the Church but I'm overwhelmed of the volunteers of several ORG/ ong that are really good at asking for money however I don't trust them specially the "United something something for international etc." nope on the other hand this is a topic I have always struggled with because of its relation to pelagianism if not done properly and because in some sensei I believe it makes people think that others owe them something to the degree of creating a suitable ground for sociopolitical currents like Marxism or Liberation Theology to take hold in big portions of society