Same-Sex Attraction & The Fear of Loneliness | Fr. Mike Schmitz
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- Fr. Mike Schmitz explains how loneliness is not just for those with same-sex attraction, but for everyone in the world.
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HI FATHER MIKE. YOU ARE ALWAYS ON FIRE WHEN YOU SPEAK THE MESSAGE OF GOD. AMEN!
The good Lord has brought me and my husband a same sex attracted neighbor. By providence I have been cooking him dinner once a week and showing him Christs love. I don’t know if he knows if I am a Catholic but I pray for him as I make the food. We never know how our Lord is using us to reach the suffering. May the good Lord be with you all ❤
❤❤❤ this is EXACTLY the way to reach the gay community love it!
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*With all my heart I want with this message to wish you, that God gives you everything you need, that he realizes all your dreams and that he fills your life with prosperity*
Ive seen that happen sadly often and depression. They don't choose celibacy like a priest. You can be close friends with another person who is gay but your aren't interested in, same as hetrosexuals do, but people write off gays with "just be celibate" while I lead my life. Everyone needs someone or people they can count on.
yes is very hard , many priest are gay that dont accepet them selfes soo they cant help to accept your orientation, and conservative people are friendly only if do the war to other gay people or u accepet nicolosi theory...
You started with some good questions, but you didn't answer them. So your answer is you won't grow old anyway? Wow how encouraging.
Yea I didn’t get that. Most people don’t grow old? The life expectancy is pretty old. This isn’t 1600. Most people do grow old.
You still didn't answer the question of "who drops me off at the airport?"
Jesus I love you. All I have is yours. Yours I am yours I want to be. Do with me whatever you will.
God provides. If his plan for you is not to be married remember Jesus makes away. After all can’t He do all things
Middle-aged MARRIED men are the loneliest because nearly all men don’t seek out male companionship- including most Catholic men.
Women are much more likely to put the effort to make and keep friendships. Men may like to, but it seems to require too much effort for them.
That is absolute horse-donkey. He said that it was a general stat of married men- that includes the line from atheist to practicing Catholics. Married Catholic men I know are some of the the most joy filled, happiest I have ever met and aspire to become one day.
And to hard for "Them"- it sounds like you missed the whole part of "It's not an us versus them thing" Padre was talking about. Honestly, I could jot down that last sentence as sexist, without further context.
I won't, though, and just give you the benefit of the doubt that this was a spur of the moment response.
You're kidding right?!?!
What does this mean? It’s not a clear message at all…
He knows gay people and they aren't "them". They aren't a non-entity told to just be good and celibate while I live my non celibate life. He knows if you are gay many "religious" wont want to be your friend, hetrosexual couples have you over but you are always the one without anyone (usually) Your gay friends are getting married or living together and it's lonely. Just like telling kids "don't do drugs, say no" you need to do more than words. Those words are empty. They don't have a calling to be celibate like Fr Mike. It's just not easy, he doesn't want people to say things and think that makes it better. At least from other talks he had, he is very understanding on how hard it is, doable but very hard.
@@deb9806 thank you but still don’t get the final message. I find it rather ambiguous… The message should be: people who have this situation and don’t live in chastity as well as the rest of us who live with somebody without being married, lives in mortal sin. Period.
@@consuelobeccarvarela1199 That is true but again, hetrosexual people have more options and people are less judgey. Even if you are nice, many don't like to be around someone they know is gay if they have strong feelings about that. Many don't, but many do depending where you live or how you grew up. They need friends and outlets.Sure some non gay singles stay single but many don't or have that option. I think he just wants people to realize what you are saying to them. He has given talks on that. I have been around or friends or coworker to many gay men and women and always saw them by their name and who they are, not who they are with. That is something some people don't ever experience. He also knows being a priest and a guy, we overlook hetrosexual sex all the time, it's never a hindrance to marriage and even in the 70s when I was a teen, they were told to be chaste at least a few weeks before or when they started marriage prep but it wasn't hated the way gay sex is by many. It's all perception. But you are right, it's wrong but less so by actions of most for many. There's no easy answer when you feel the way they do. They can get married but not in Catholic church and we all need connections whether middle aged men or singles or elderly.
@@deb9806 Thank you, I got the point but the thing is, this sin is one of the worst. Sodomy is one of the three sins that “cry to God for vengeance” together with murder (abortion) and oppression of the poor. So of course they will have a heavy cross to carry and of course they cannot “marry”.
@@consuelobeccarvarela1199 true but sodomy isn’t committed by all. Jesus spoke of the sin against Holy Spirit and loving each other as he loved us and forgiveness was a huge one. This is a sin but not one Jesus spoke of but a sin nonetheless. We have much greater ones that hurt others,murder, rape, pedophilia, ignoring the poor,racism, antisemitism,gossip true or not. Very flawed human race
Oh, that’s some BS. Way to avoid the issue.
Ontario catholic spiritual leaders and CHINAda listen follow the truth. Thanks ..
If the medieval church has monasticism and celibacy aa alternatives to marriage, then for today there ought to be community for the single.
So you are celibate and chaste for life, but hey, you probably won't live to be old anyway. This comes across as well-intentioned but also callous and tone deaf. Also the loneliness of heterosexual people vs. that of same-sex attracted lay people living a celibate and chaste life is NOT a fair comparison. Normal heterosexual people at least have the option and possibility of finding a companion whom they are able to marry. Yes, we ALL have our crosses to bear but don't say all of those crosses are equally heavy.
I think I maybe get what he's trying to get at, in line with Matthew 6:25 to 34, but he's presented it so badly. In the US most people do actually get to live into old age, that's what it means for the life expectancy to be 79. "Don't worry about it, you're probably going to die before then" is a ridiculously uncompassionate answer to this sort of concern, and also simply not true. And pointing out that many people are lonely, not just gay people, does not detract from the fact that by being single all your life you are probably going to be lonelier. Just an awful response for someone dealing with this issue.
Huh? Well no a lot of people grow old.
Social engineering of society; high expectations; for that perfect ideal partner; for the different degrees of subliminal messages; depending how base it is: in advertisements to even now: I heard that; there are robot women. THE DEVIL HATES WOMEN; BECAUSE: SHE IS THE ONE WHO CARRIED THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR FRUIT OF THE TREE OF LIFE; IN THE GARDEN IT WAS PULLED AWAY; FOR THE VM. THE DEVIL HATES MARY; AND THEREFORE HATES WOMEN; AND - ACCORDINGLY; THE DEVIL DOES...
ALL THE KILLING OF PERSONALITIES; include the loneliness syndrome. The works of Satan: The mind has been programmed to have a false idea. It's always entered a mental disorder; from the time we are born; a target to advertise falsely. There are so many wounds; in every imaginable scenario; it does not have to be sexual. People might indulge in food; or starve themselves. There is brokenness of the vase wanting the pit within to be mended; so, that the water of the sacred Blood of Jesus can hold and retain. Like the woman at the well. Jesus gave her water; and she was mended. And she never thirsted again.
Perhaps somewhat surprisingly given what spills out from the magisterium/catechism there is no demand/requirement by the Catholic Church for life-long celibacy so if you already have a loving relationship then there’s no need to beat your chest over it and if you don’t then ask/pray for one and enjoy and just focus on that! Take care. Peace🙏🏾
This post is NOT for those lacking Critical Thinking Skills. Dear LGB+ Catholic tribe I just thought that it was well worth pointing out that the importance of “PRIMACY OF CONSCIENCE” within both the Catechism, the Magisterium and Church teaching more widely including Pope Francis. Long story short PROVIDED you do some research/become as informed as you can it’s really up to you whether you accept the official teaching on same sex relationships, celibacy and all the rest of the nonsense! It’s all really between you and the Divine/God and the promptings of your own conscience. If you honestly feel that Church teaching on the matter is utterly wrong and actually quite harmful you are NOT REMOTELY OBLIGED to follow it. This applies to ANY Church teaching and not only that which pertains to sexuality. You are entirely free to repudiate anything that just doesn’t sit right! Your conscience is King! Be who you are and if you want a partner and don't already have one it's perfectly fine to pray with all of your heart and soul to the Divine and ask for one. I did that and found the love of my life! Also if you wish to marry there are other Christian denominations that will do that too if you want to stand before the Divine and make eternal spiritual vows to one another. Blessing although not marriage are also available in Germany and Belgium within the Catholic Church. And if you’re like me and do care about and want a relationship with the Divine then strongly developing your own personal conscience is a pretty good place to start imho!😁😄😄. Whenever everything fails in the Catholic Church it is to my Conscience that I turn. The psychopathic lunatics running the gaff aren’t very keen about you knowing this teaching power crazed as they are by nature. Good parish priests will always be at pains to regularly bring this teaching to everyone’s attention given that it is so PIVOTAL to EVERYTHING ELSE! The bad priests and church hierarchy officials will, however, be at great pains to omit this pivotal teaching from their deliberations, assertions, pronouncements etc, etc obsessed as they are with having AUTHORITY OVER YOU! So, don’t be scared, bullied or harassed or stressed! Your liberation from RELIGIOUS AUTHORITARIANISM awaits!
Only problems with following your heart is what the Bible says: “The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked.” You are telling yourself what you want to hear, and then declaring it good. That’s willful sin. The Bible makes no provision for same sex marriage or sex between people of the same gender. I’m sorry it hurts, believe me, I am really sorry.
Same-Sex Attraction means a person is concupiscent, which is Mortal Sin. Our Lord Christ Jesus taught us that "lust" means we've committed adultery in our hearts. Same-Sex attraction is a deadly sin. Sadly, many Priest and Prelate are teaching opposite this reality.
I think you should brush up on the definitions of moral sin and concupiscence.
Concupisence isn’t sin. Sin is always an act of the will. You should delete this comment, because you are spreading heresy, which is actually a mortal sin.
This comment is embarrassing. Out of charity to yourself and others delete it 😂
@@bman5257 Not going to delete TRUTH!
@@kiotee_nouw It’s not the truth you are delusional. Do you have any magisterial statement supporting your delusions, I don’t think so.