Day 349: Temptation, Trust, and Prayer - The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

[@MorreHope]

Amen

[@dianefrank3688]

Hope all is well with you in the Advent season leading up to Christmas. ❤🙏🥰🙏🎄🙏

[@MorreHope]

@@dianefrank3688 Do you like my Rosary? I made it. It feels so special when I pray; it is so light; the white section; and the black section is real black gold. The black gold is the dross from cleaning the gold; this came from Ghana.

[@margaretmay6010]

Oh my, I need to listen to this day over and over.

[@ColetteO_]

Same

[@56Tyskie]

O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell; lead all souls to heaven especially those who are in most need of. Your mercy.

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

Amen and Amen 🙏

[@connienavarette1948]

Amen!!! 🙏📿🙏📿🙏

[@SuperRuthJ]

Lord Jesus Christ Son of the Living God have mercy on me a sinner! ❤🙏❤️

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

Amen 🙏

[@almapuritaparcon3435]

Day 349. 🙏🙏🙏❤

[@marieconstantia4441]

Today has SO MUCH conviction! I can check off all the boxes. This much be the distress that they are talking about. Oh Lord, forgive!

[@richardbergmark6722]

Thank you Father.

[@elizabethcronin3074]

Hello everyone & Happy Day 349!🙏😊

[@TrixRN]

Hi y’all 👋 Happy day 349🙏❤️

[@dianefrank3688]

🙋Elizabeth & All 😊Day 349 ❤🙏

[@dianefrank3688]

@@TrixRN Hanging in there. Hope all is getting better for you. 🥰🙏

[@miryamanayamacedo7131]

❤

[@roystonfernandes8305]

Filial trust is tested when we think we are not heard. We must, therefore, ask ourselves if we think God is truly a Father whose will we seek to fulfil, or simply a means to obtain what we want. If our prayer is united to that of Jesus, we know that He gives us much more than this or that gift. We receive the Holy Spirit, who transforms our hearts. Lord, help me to cling to you in faith even without any feeling of consolidation. Make my heart humbly turn to you. I trust you.🙏

[@evelynmrsnik8550]

You are a beautiful, and humble soul Royston. I feel like I know you and we are connected even though we have never met physically,

[@roystonfernandes8305]

@evelynmrsnik8550 Praise God and bless Fr. Mike, who has helped us all to understand the tenets of our Catholic faith. He has "connected " us with a hope that we transform our lives at the end of the year. I feel enriched and spiritually fortified..

[@rm-paradise]

Father, may everything that I do this day, whether it be full of joy or pain, whether it be full of love or of grief, I ask that everything I go through today be offered to you just like Jesus offered everything to you. It is in his name we pray. Amen. 12/15/2023.

[@dianefrank3688]

Amen! Joining my prayer to yours. ❤🙏

[@lizmcdavid1506]

I had a car accident yesterday, and broke 2 ribs. I ask for your prayers for quick healing for this old lady. I have thanked God for the less serious injuries. But I fee extra hurt during this Christmas time... God bless all of you, and especially Fr. Mike!

[@mperez2730]

Yes, I will pray for you 🙏. Hope you heal quickly 🙏

[@kmousie]

Praying for you!!

[@paularoussel7859]

Prayers for a speedy recovery! 🙏🙏

[@meanchoolee5845]

Thank you Father Mike

[@glenapereira3492]

*Lack of faith* is the most common yet hidden temptation to prayer. A practical atheist is one who just professes faith but does not live it out in humility, aware that apart from Jesus one can do nothing. *Acedia* - Fr Mike's definition - *I'd rather be somewhere else doing something else*. It's a lack of joy in doing the Lord's Will in this moment and place. *Filial Trust* is a test to refine us in tribulation. We must ask God to accept our praise and thanks so that he is glorifed. He is our Father and not an instrument to be used like a divine ATM or a genie in a bottle. God is a jealous lover and his love is true so we must ask with our whole heart and not a divided one. Filial trust in our good, good Father is the *key* to knowing that whatever we're going thro is what we need to go thro as he uses that for our salvation and the people around us, cos he loves them even more than we can love them.❤❤❤

[@dck_tx4007]

I intended to scroll through the transcript to find this, but took a screen shot of your post, instead. Thank you for taking the time to post.

[@dianefrank3688]

Amen! ❤🙏

[@annapodsiado381]

Happiest of birthday, Fr Mike! ❤️❤️❤️

[@socorrocervantes9363]

When is his birthday? We are so blessed to have Fr Mike in our spiritual journey and all the other faithful priests who are true to the teaching of our Church.

[@angelineculverwell9998]

Praying for protection Fr. Mike .🙏🙏🙏

[@dianefrank3688]

Praying for God to protect you from physical & spiritual harm. ❤🙏

[@artorefalnera3055]

Fr. Thank you ❤. Praying for you, for the Ascension team and for all my CIY brothers and sisters. God bless ❤🙏

[@dianefrank3688]

❤🙏

[@WashingtonDC99]

AMEN 🙏

[@WashingtonDC99]

Day 349 🎉🎉 ( Friday December 15th, 2023 ). I can not believe that it is only 16 days left of the Catechism in a year podcast with Father Mike Schmitz and Ascension Press...!!!🎉 Praise The Lord O My Soul. Praise The Lord O My Soul 🙏❤😇👼👍✌ Viva Cristo Rey. Jesus Christ Son Of The Living God. Jesus Christ King of the universe. ❤❤❤❤

[@carolhannah4635]

So good. He knows what we pray for before we ask, and the explanation is our free will. He wants us to use our free will to freely ask our Father in prayer. Wow! Please, God, help me to remember this. ❤🙏✨️

[@ColetteO_]

Me too

[@audreydonovan6710]

May God bless you Fr. Mike for your teaching and your clarifications which are shedding light on my limited understanding and of the emence love our Heavenly Father has for each one of us. 🙏💕

[@sandyrausch1999]

Love the quote, Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask of him; for he desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to him in prayer! ❤❤❤❤❤❤what a rich day with CIY and Fr Schmitz! Trust in Him in all situations……..a ♥️ of trust.

[@daveskorupski631]

The last two minutes of Fr. Mike's explanation in this video is incredibly powerful! Thank you Father Mike for letting God speak to me through your podcasts!

[@NAMASIVAYAMANANDASAKARAN]

Amen!

[@meihui7767]

Amen

[@ColetteO_]

I completely agree with you.

[@56Tyskie]

In her Diary entry 1578, St. Faustina records our Lord's revelation: The graces of My mercy are drawn by means of one vessel only, and that is - trust. The more a soul trusts, the more it will receive. Souls that trust boundlessly are a great comfort to Me, because I pour all the treasures of My graces into them. I rejoice that they ask for much, because it is My desire to give much, very much. On the other hand, I am sad when souls ask for little, when they narrow their hearts

[@jennijeannie]

Beautiful! Thank you. God bless

[@dianefrank3688]

Amen! Words to hold in the heart. ❤🙏

[@JohnHenrysaysHi]

Happy Birthday, Father Mike Schmitz! Hope you had a blessed peaceful celebration yesterday. Thank you for your loving service to God. Thank you so much for your help over the years helping so many with our journeys. Prayed for you yesterday and this morning. And everyone here in my Rosary. Hope you all have a light-filled peaceful good Happy Friday. God bless you all. P.S. Ascension Presents let us know about Fr. Mike's birthday yesterday!

[@NAMASIVAYAMANANDASAKARAN]

Amen! for praying for all.

[@JohnHenrysaysHi]

@@NAMASIVAYAMANANDASAKARAN God bless you and yours!

[@piva1358]

Happy Birthday Father Mike !!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@loricrockett-owens5117]

Great Video father Mike. Take it easy and God bless. Hope you're well.

[@vivachristorey4777]

This was the most impactful day for me. This is a game changer! We should be begging our Lord to accept our praise and thanks because He is the almighty God. WOW! My prayer has instantly changed. Thank you father Mike. I understand true humility now and how the Saints worshipped God on Earth. Wow! It only took me 349 days! LOL!

[@ColetteO_]

Same here. Big day for me.

[@NAMASIVAYAMANANDASAKARAN]

Greetings! CIY, community Greetings. Day 349. When we trust in God the Holy Trinity with undivided heart, our jealous God who is yearning for our love and knows what we want unconditionally will rejoice! He is the vine, and we are his branches, and remain in him and we will bear fruit. Let's thank everyone and pray for Fr Mike Schmitz, all the Clergies, all the Seminarians, and all of us in this CIY community, all to whom we promised to pray. Amen!

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

I always enjoy reading your comments. Thank you

[@gailwedgeworth7517]

I am a very flawed human being, but I know that the best thing I can do is say, not my will but yours God. Often I pray this, Let all things be done to me in accordance with your will, God. In good times and bad times all things work for good for those that love and serve the Lord. Peace

[@socorrocervantes9363]

Heavenly Father, Lord Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit please help us to trust you with our life in complete surrender to your will. Amen. Thank you for your prayer Fr Mike and everyone.

[@AuroraB-74]

Amen

[@WashingtonDC99]

AMEN 🙏

[@maryannchaisson6742]

Thank you so much for today - it’s very difficult sometimes to realize that God loves our families more than we do- but He does & in the end it’s all about TRUST. Divine Mercy, hear our prayers, I trust in You! 🙏🙏❤️🇨🇦

[@dcamille-]

Amen and God Bless 🙏📿🙏✝

[@joseguzman1051]

Amen 🙏.

[@hlobend2111]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼prayers for full commitment during prayer session, praying for full trust, accepting what is best for us, indeed never making God jealous of our praying actions.

[@Jmjemmanual]

I Trust in you Lord my God❤❤❤❤

[@josecesarvivares5005]

🙏🙏🙏

[@moniquearseneault1460]

❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@KolokaiKalai]

🎉🎉Day 349...Thankyou Fr.Mike...Praying for you and all in the Ascension team 🙏

[@NAMASIVAYAMANANDASAKARAN]

Amen!

[@normamcclernon1596]

@@NAMASIVAYAMANANDASAKARAN😊😊

[@alnotter4717]

Prayers for all

[@143mschrag]

Amen. Praise, Thanks, Honor, and Glory be to God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit forever❣️ Thank you so much Fr. Mike and Ascension. As always, I am praying for all. God Bless 🙏🏻

[@carlz7777]

I'm trading in y highlighter for a can of spray paint!! This whole section is YELLOW!

[@ColetteO_]

Ha ha 😂 I know! I have to restrain myself to not highlight everything!

[@dawnmireles2912]

December 15, 2023 Forgive me for asking you so many times. Do you have just a moment in time to pray for Souls in Purgatory with me? According to tradition, St. Gertrude the Great, was told by Our Lord that each time she piously recited the following prayer, it would release 1,000 souls (or a vast number) from their suffering in purgatory: Eternal Father, I offer You the most precious blood of thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal Church, for those in my own home, and in my family. Amen. In her account of another vision, St. Faustina describes Purgatory as a "great crowd of suffering souls" undergoing purification. Further, she says that the souls are "praying fervently, but to no avail, for themselves; only we can come to their aid" (Diary, 20)

[@56Tyskie]

For the sake of His sorrowful Passion have mercy on us and on the whole world ♥️✝️🙏

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

❤

[@marybailey6254]

Blessings to all who are participating in the CIY & BIY today🕊🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻🕊

[@linadeutsch8935]

Thank you. So beautiful and just so reassuring. Special thanks for explaining God's jealousy over us as proof of His love. Praying for you, Father Mike, and for all of us.

[@deedeebuhler9610]

May God bless you always 🙏

[@R.C.425]

Thank you, Father Mike

[@CarmenRodriguez-vx1km]

WOW Day 349 is the truth ❣️. Prayers for all of us listening to CIY , and for Fr. Mike Schmitz 🛐

[@dianefrank3688]

❤🙏

[@SuperRuthJ]

Thank you Father Mike! Wow Day 349! ❤️🙏❤️

[@JudithValade]

Have you seen the movie the Shift done by the Angel Studios?

[@SuperRuthJ]

@@JudithValade No have not.

[@sgrieger_]

😭 Amen!

[@marianmilne6009]

Wow. This was just amazing......thank you Fr Mike. Praying for you and everyone here. God bless🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

[@dianefrank3688]

Praying for Fr. Mike & CIY 🙏🙏🙏 This day 349 is intense and very helpful. ❤

[@gemmacrichton2195]

God bless you Fr Mike, at times I was behind but I asked God to help me to catch up and my faith makes me to be here with you and everyone today 🙏🙏

[@susannebrule3160]

Thank you Father Mike. I trust in you Lord for I know you are a good God who cares for me. Thank you that you will work every thing out for my good because you care and love me.

[@peggybruening4415]

❤! This was the most beautiful day of listening and learning, and feeling. I am going to miss see why I and the whole community I wish there were a way to continue to hang together and pray together and learn together!

[@marygabadi74]

Thank you Father Mike.May God increase our TRUST in Him through Christ Our Lord.Amen.

[@EugenieKikango]

Oh Lord, have mercy on us!

[@MsMeg25]

Jesus I trust in you🙏

[@chavelasalas9151]

Thank you lord praise your holy name. Thank you Father Mike prayers Amen 🙏

[@majorfrank1167]

I know my prayers are heard. Many have been answered and at 84 I'm expecting the prayer that count's to be answered when I arrive in Heaven and meet God.

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

I'm sure it will be. God bless you

[@miachambers830]

Day 349..! Temptation, Trust, and Prayer… I CANNOT WAIT to hear you again..! ❤️❤️❤️ I am praying for all of you. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Please pray for me. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 God bless..! ❤❤❤

[@marianmilne6009]

That was just so beautiful and really resonated with me. Thank you Fr Mike. Praying for you and everyone here. God bless🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

[@dawnmireles2912]

December 15, 2023 When the Catechism is complete (or maybe even now), consider listening to Saint Faustina’s Diary in a year and/or EWTN Mother Angelica’s Classics to add to your Catholic learning! Oh my goodness so much life guidance in conjunction with Father Mike’s Bible and Catechism in a Year!

[@carolynalameida709]

I love everything! Thank you!! Please, God, receive my thanks and praise and may you be glorified .... May my praise be acceptable. You are my Father. Thank you!!!

[@pattigillette8810]

Today and yesterday were so powerful! Thank you so much. Every line spoke to me in such a heartfelt way. God bless everyone abundantly.

[@adelaidawallaert287]

Happy birthday Fr. Mike 🙏❤️

[@samanthaortiz6595]

🙌🏼🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@angelineculverwell9998]

Thank you Lord for teaching and please give me a heart of trust 🙏🙏🙏

[@gemmacrichton2195]

Scared heart of Jesus I put my trust in you 🙏

[@mercymercy331]

19:57-20:16❤ Thank you Father Mike!

[@WashingtonDC99]

Please, pray for The Priests and parishioners who are being affected by the cancelation of The Traditional Latin Mass. I feel sorry and heartbroken for the Priests, especially the Priest at the Church ⛪ where I was attending the TLM in NE DC. Please, please say a prayer for the Priest at the Parish...Reverend Brian P. Sanderfoot, Pastor. Part of his community has been taken away ( The parishioners who attended the Traditional Latin Mass ). Six churches have been affected by the cancelation of the TLM at the Archdiocese of Washington, DC. I watch the TLM on KZbin but it is not the same 😢😢💔💔

[@jamesmcgrath3841]

@WashingtonDC The TLM has been cancelled because of the actions and behavior of those who attend the TLM. They are creating division. Within the Church. And have brought this upon themselves. The Pope has do to all in his power to keep the Church united. With renegade Bishops like Strickland and Vigano, and priests like Fr Altman, he has little choice but to close down these sources of division. Those who attend the TLM and somehow think that is "superior" to the vernacular, are also sources of division.

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

That's such a shame. I don't know why we can't accept both types of mass

[@ianschreiber7591]

Thank you, Father Mike!

[@ElviaAlamilla-cr2ge]

God bless you Father Mike

[@kattydeleo9035]

🙏🙏🙏🤗❤️

[@adama5363]

God I surrender it all at the foot of the cross. With your blessed mother Jesus, I trust in you truly

[@TheTish]

The one thing I should do more of to elevate my prayer life is to go to the adoration chapel more often. I pray (chat with God) a lot through the day, but I realize being in a specific space set aside for prayer, is vital. I learned this through the CIY. Thank you.

[@ipatecek]

Me too.

[@rosalieboutin4663]

Convicting section! Great clarification on many issues. Thanks, Fr. Mike.

[@MrDarshD]

This is an eye-opener. It reminded me to pray like we are children of God and always talk to God instead of only talking or praying when I need God. We also need to trust God when praying. The acedia or the carelessness about God's grace is a big sin, and the Noon Day Devil phenomenon makes us ask, "What's the point?". We must fight that feeling and continue our work as well as our prayers. The reflection on the image of God and faith was moving. We must live like Christ. We must consider God's test for what it is- God doesn't want to see us fail but wants to refine us through tests. Thank you so much for sharing this, Fr Mike and Team Ascension.. I'm praying for you and for the fellow listeners. God bless

[@lanstonpinto4421]

Fr. Mike said the below which hit me *The people I am praying, God loves them even more than I love them. And I can trust him........*

[@joeyunger6460]

God Bless Fr. Mike!

[@Ogbi-ig3nx]

Convinced and convicted! When I give God thanks do i care if he accepts my thanks

[@wreloise1]

“Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest [of God, to know and experience it for ourselves], … ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭4‬:‭11‬ ‭a

[@naomiwelch6715]

Powerfully awesome!

[@angelicazelich7743]

May our Lord Jesus give us a Heart of Trust!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@tjf42193]

All of you people watching this please pray for a friend of mine her words exactly “I don't know if non-believer is the right word, I'm not affiliated with any particular religion, I'm probably agnostic right now, I do find value in the psychospiritual, maybe to say I'm questioning is more accurate.”

[@channyrose]

I need prayer, brothers and sisters. I am trying to help my mentally ill relative but it gets harder every day to know what kind of help they need.

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

Praying 🙏

[@paularoussel7859]

🙏🙏🙏

[@robehrgonzales77494]

DaY 349 (13-JuNe-2024) HaPpY ThursDaY A❤m❤e❤N❤

[@paulacevedo8814]

Praise to you God and Jesus Christ😇🙏❤

[@17CW68fNv]

Praying for you, Fr Mike. This is just what I need to do, trust that The Lord hears my prayers. Some times, the answer is subtle and I only realize later that there was an answer, but not quite what I expected. God Bless. Claire.

[@marywalsh2292]

Subscribe because it makes catching up easier. My tip is when you are catching up press play on the next video as soon as you have watched one and play the first minute of the next one. Next time you want to catch up that episode shows up in the sidebar with a little red line under it showing you have only seen the intro. Hope that makes sense and helps.

[@metildajoseph5265]

Greetings Father Mike, Thoughts :- -> Message reflect with, "Prayers symbolise True Devotion which offers Spiritual Freedom in Lord Jesus Christ's Path in all aspects of Life ." -> Well Spoken words Father.. Thanks Team CIY, Team Ascension Press. With Prayers, Ranjith Joseph (R.J)

[@AuroraB-74]

This message was tough to hear this morning because I'm guilty of these problems in prayer. I ask the Lord to help me do better. Help me Holy Spirit to learn how to better pray.

[@carolradlinger8661]

Trust is everything ❤

[@ginaanelli9717]

Just catching up..2 days. This is truly me. Trying.❤️

[@jeanneoconnell4134]

Beautiful.

[@cyndichanou]

Wow! That was a great one! So helpful. Thank you, Fr. Mike.

[@bellajoyce2257]

Joy

[@ritasaar2208]

Praying can be very difficult. I question myself if I am doing it correctly so that God is truly knows I am sincere.

[@Toniangel96]

I often wondered why people left the church in droves and days like today make it a little more clear. In the past 2 years I have worked very hard at getting closer to God. I've done BIY for 2 yrs back to back and added CIY this year. I go to church every sunday, every holiday of obligation. I attend weekday masses when I can. I give more than I can afford some weeks in my offering and donated to Christmas and craft fairs tons. So to come to a day where I feel like I am being called an "ATHEIST" which is like a curse word to me, is VERY upsetting. I truly think the Catholic Church needs to reconsider this wording. We are trying, We are striving, to throw a phrase like that at people because they are not of the cloth but are doing their very best is just harsh and detrimental.

[@glenapereira3492]

Realization will only come with a humble and contrite heart, my friend. Keep on keeping on as without Him, you can do nothing, and in the end, He will be your reward. 🙏

[@dianefrank3688]

Hang in there. Life and our prayer life goes up and down. The priest needs to talk to all of us who may be in different stages in our faith journey. There is such a shortage of priest or we could just talk to one personally and get advice or to be our spiritual director. I myself have fallen in to a laziness in my prayer life and this day 349 has caused to me think and priorities. Praying for you please pray for me.. ❤🙏

[@NAMASIVAYAMANANDASAKARAN]

You are made in the image of God, and do what you are doing with contrite heart to God the Holy Trinity. Rejoice. Amen!

[@jamesmcgrath3841]

@Toniangel Being a "practical atheist" is not a "curse." Merely descriptive. I "believe" and my brother is an "atheist." But if you looked at the part of my life outside of church going, you would see little difference between his life and my life. That makes me a "practical atheist." Nor is Fr Mike actually calling you a "practical atheist." He is speaking in general. And his description definitely applies to me. It is not in the least bit offensive. Fr Mike is also not "throwing a phrase like that" at people who are "not of the cloth." I'm sure "practical atheist" could be applied to many priests also. Who are too busy to pray. No way can you describe what Fr Mike said as "harsh and detrimental." His tone is the precise opposite. I think you do Fr Mike a grave injustice.

[@dianefrank3688]

@@jamesmcgrath3841 ❤🙏Excellent explanation.

[@DeadNetCord]

That was helpful.