Thk U Father! As a mom of 3 adult alcoholic children, I know the only way of success is through our DIVINE HEALER & OUR ANGELS & SAINTS I call upon daily ❤ 🙏
Fr Chris, I love the way you discuss the current and real struggles of our time. This show on addiction is closely tied to your previous episode on gluttony - both allow us to fill ourselves with what our secular society tells us will make us happy. Thank you for reminding us that God’s love is greater than sin. The continuation of Jim Wahlberg’s interview is quite compelling and I appreciate his bold courage in sharing his story. While the mission of the Comunita Cenacolo Community is to replace God with addictions, their premise should resonate with all of us - learn to rely on God and know that He is the answer for everything. May God’s mercy be upon all those with addiction as well as their families. 🙏
I agree with you Tanya. Fr Chris is a nice excellent priest but he posts the Living Divine Mercy Show at 6:30 PM on Thursdays as always. Join in prayers for Fr Chris and his family also his nephews and grandparents. DM Chat group: Ann Elliott, Florian Cenzon, Denise Webb, Paula Ann, Grace Lumayag, Karyn Ann, Deb Kas, Jon Mernick,
Fr. Chris, thank you for following up on this special episode on addiction. Your presence is a big support to those who may perhaps desire to change but in need of spiritual encouragement to take the first step. Thanks to Jim, he said all the important points he has to say to be of help to others. I pray for everyone too who are victims to any form of addiction because I believe it isn’t easy for them to get out in their own prison web. God tenderly loves them and we love them, too.
I watched 3 one hour long documentaries years ago on Alcohol, Drugs and the Brain’ with neuroscientists explaining what happens in the brain with addiction, why there are levels of addiction, and why some people are genetically predisposed to become addicts. It was interesting to see how neurotransmitters and dopamine receptors enable addiction. It changed my perception on addiction. We can’t ignore the science of addiction, but we can explore all the causes of addiction, be they physiological, psychological or spiritual. No alcoholic starts off drinking a bottle of whisky a day. No drug addict starts off on hard drugs and we can mistakenly believe we are in control. What starts out as a habit can, for some, turn into a full-blown addiction. You’re right that we are seeking comfort and self-medicating but the wrong way.
Thank you for this Fr. Chris and the whole Divine Mercy team, it is timely and relevant for my family’s situation. I have a brother who is exposed to drinking and drugs, it is him and my mother only in our house in Philippines now, i live overseas to work. Im the youngest and my father and eldest brother have died already. My brother who is with my home has been halucinating a lot of times, (hearing voices) that is scary on our part. For my brother, and for my mom who is at home with him. But God is so merciful and good, i have been praying the rosary and divine mercy prayer on behalf of my brother and the safety of my mother. This week a miracle had just happen. My brother who is long away was just recently attend one of the prayer meetings we have in our Church, I ask for your prayers Bro and sisters that the conversion of my brother heart will continue and may he devote his life to Christ our Lord. I also pray for those in the same situation we are in, for healing, deliverance and conversion in the name of our Lord Jesus.. 🙏🏻
Father Chris, as a pilgrim to Medjugorje, we were taken by a guide to the Communita Cenocolo, founded by an Italian religious sister, Mother Alvera. We heard testimonies by the people who were overcoming their addictions. They were from different countries and were totally dependent upon generous donors for food and clothing. This was beautiful to witness. Reading the counsels of Mother Alvera and her knowledge of this scourge is really eye-opening. She has all of the answers. (I may not have spelled her name correctly.) There are now Communita Cenocolo in the United States. Thanks be to the God of Divine Mercy!
What’s really amazing is the way that God’s grace places people where they need to be, without any logical explanation. Comunitá Cenaolo sounds like a totally altruistic organization. May I recommend that you read Jim’s story to learn about the progress that his son made through the program. God bless you Olivia 🙏🏼✝️
I stopped taking my mental health antidepressants, and that was the hardest thing, but it’s been a few months and I’m feeling a lot better and I don’t think of myself as a drug addict when I smoke weed I think of myself as a florist
This is a beautiful episode, God bless Jim and his family. Very powerful, I am so grateful for these Living Divine Mercy shows, Father Chris. You and the Marian Priests are always in my prayers.
Thank you very much Rev Fr Chris This is a very comforting uplifting and assuring messsge I particularly like WHAT ARE YOU GIVING UP FOR LENT? I never really thought about it till today. I'm going to give up my addiction to playing word games and spend that time reading The Holy Bible. God bless you and your Congregation always Amen Bangalore India 10/3/23
I love your plan for Lent! Hoping it will become a permanent part of your day. If you have not already done so, considering listening to Fr Mike Schmitz’s “Bible in a Year” podcast. God bless you, Pam!
By the Grace of God I got off a 100 mg a day fentanyl habit in 2010 🙏 It was a patch and I would eat it instead. Unfortunately I have a very broken body and since then I've had several orthopedic surgeries and fusions. Tomorrow I will be scheduled for a second neck fusion. I had 3 levels fused in 2018, and now I need two more levels fused 😏, and lung cancer that will eventually have to be removed. They're having a hard time getting to it. Thankfully it's slow growing and the neck fusion has to be addressed. I'm a Lefty and the left side is shot, and I need it back please Lord Jesus 🙏 Thy Will be Done on Earth as it is in Heaven 🙏
May the Lord bless and keep you as you go through a second neck fusion tomorrow. Keep your eyes on Jesus for He is our only Hope. You are in my prayers, Tony. 🙏
@@tanyac.9005 Super Way Cool 👍, but I meet with the Nero surgeon today and then we'll schedule the fusion. A month ago I got the steroid shot to see if it would help some, but it nada. I'm putting off the fusion for as long as I can it. Offer it up 👍🙏 Viva Cristo Rey
Addiction has only destroyed lives and families. We need to pray very hard for the end of all sources providing drugs especially to children and young adults. Thank you Fr. Chris for the insights shared in this episode.
Thank you father Chris for best lesson i learn from you always... I pray that God will give you good health and bless you with abundant knowledge so that you can keep on teaching us, for i learn new things from you every week. God bless you🙏
Thank you so much Fr Chris for these excellent talks about Addiction your doing an wonderful job of your teachings and it's almost the weekend because the forms of prayer about the new possible as the coming to the Holy Spirit preparing the sacraments also the sinners and the domestic church about the traditions about Christmas as the confirmation and confession during the liturgical year before the Precepts of the Church and the People of God also the Immaculate Conception the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Marian Apparitions about your explanation was so simple and the protection health and the lessons and the mortal sin and original sin as the devotions to the First Fridays and First Saturdays before the Thursday about the chaplet and rosary as the answers to the dark night of the soul as the natural law about the charity and the salvation and the Divine Revelation also the Sacred Scripture and the gathering the homily also the Mass as the message of the priests and Archbishops and the seasons are the World Peace of Ukraine and Russia about the lectures and the examples also the questions on Inquisition as the Advent and Pentecost and Lent and Easter before the Ordinary Time and the novena as the liturgy and the portal about the new kings and the worship and baptism as possible to be good as the studying as the impossible to change about the inspiring majesty and the received as before the Christmas traditions. Thank you Brother Mark for assisting Fr Chris and Brother Alex also Brother Jason and Brother Ben as always. Praying for you, your family, Marian Helpers also your nephews and grandparents especially Mom and Dad and Sandy also Pam's completing healing. God bless you, your family, MIC and Staff Members at the National Shrine of Divine Mercy in Stockbridge MA.
May I recommend reading THE BIG HUSTLE. As a Boston native, I’m so proud of Jim and all that he overcame. I had the honor of meeting him a few months ago, and he is as authentic as he comes across on screen.
Prayers 🙏✝️🙏. For all those you struggle in various addictions and wanted to quit them. Abba Father , help them who struggle with addictions in any ways , give them strength and your power to overcome them in "Jesus" name...i pray ...amen. Prayers to Mother Mary and Saints to ask blessings and overcome the various addictions believers needed too . From Abba Father Almaighty in "Jesus" name ....amen
I really look forward to the Living Divine Mercy broadcasts and am never disappointed with your spiritual messages. Thank you for all your hard work. May God bless you all.
Addiction has been the downfall of my family and my marriage too. When I found out my husband was an addict I cried so much. Why. Why am I surrounded by all this craziness? Adoration helps me deal with the addicts in the family. Also prayers to Mother Mary and Saints. This video came in perfect timing. Thank you for sharing story and resources. Thank you Lord for showing me love through Father Alar and team. 🙏💖
Clara, I am so sorry to hear of your husband’s addiction. You have done the right thing by going to Jesus in adoration and invoking Mother Mary and the Saints. You and your husband are in my prayers. God bless you both! 🙏
Thank you so much for this segment on, “ADDICTION.” We are currently dealing with addiction in our family and it’s extremely overwhelming! Please keep us in your prayers. God bless you for all you do!!!
I can relate my son for over a decade had been an addict, started with alcohol, opiates, heroin and ultimately passed 6 years ago overdosed on fentanyl. He went thru many many rehabs, AA, as a family we all went thru it. I do have your book Fr Chris! Thanks Mr Wahlberg u are spot on what u know and wanted him to do doesnt mean he will want. All very familiar! Please pray for my son Thomas! Thank you both!
Thank you and prayers for your son. Thank you for having the book as well because although the title is about suicide it helps with any kind of suffering or loss. God bless you
It’s the hardest drug that I’ve ever kicked which I stopped doing heroin. Several times in my past I haven’t done heroin since 2003. Thanks be to Jesus Christ but it’s one problem after another father. I’ve been off her drugs for 10 years. There is no drug I have not done. Not been fun long long run but I got Custie back of my five sons and for them or adults and I got two grandchildren now thanks be to God that I’m still alive and then I survived
Thank you Fr. Chris and EWTN. I just shared this great show and resource of help to relatives with struggling children in addition. Please pray for them 🙏
Thank you Father Chris. It's nice to see Guisepi on this video. Go easy on him Father Chris ☺. Very blessed. God bless both of you. Looking forward to meet you guys in person and visit the Shrine one day. God's will. Also, hi to all your staff, and Bro Camera, is he a MIC seminarian?? God bless him
Br Stephen did a wonderful job reading from The Divine Mercy Bible. I also enjoyed hearing Jackie tell us what she is doing this Lenten season and will join her in walking long distances from my car in parking lots. And Cameraman Giuseppe - well, I hope Fr Chris goes a bit easier on him this Lent and gives him a box of Cocoa Pebbles when he is hungry as a Corporal Work of Mercy.
@@ellenjimenez57 Stephen is a brother, not a seminarian. As I understand it, brothers and seminarians are different. A brother does not feel called to receive the sacrament of Holy Orders while a seminarian is discerning the priesthood.
True I pray to always want with God wants more than what I want to put God first to break the curse and remove all either save the Earth. What’s the church break the curse?
It will be 10 years March 25 that I have not shot meth. I was 96 pounds. I went to prison in 2014. I lost custody of my children in Idaho. My mother got custody thank God and my sister of my sons in 2014 I was shooting meth I was on methadone. I was prescribed 210 mg of methadone for 10 years. Thank you God I’m not addicted to opiates. I thought that beast.
Wonder if Fr. Chris and Cameraman Giuseppe planned that part out 😂 it just seems too well timed to be coincidental. That, or they just know each other too well at this point. One of the things I’m doing for Lent is the Fiat 40 with some gals in my friend group. Some of it is stuff I’m doing anyway and it’s going well, but some of it is pretty tough to get in the habit of. But, I think doing these things with a group is much easier and fulfilling, as they help me and I help them 😇 I know and am related to some people that have let various addictions control their lives, and have also seen some overcome it. I pray for them and hope they can be fulfilled by the only thing that can help them: God’s grace and mercy 🙏
@@alwaysmisskaryn thank you, Karyn! 😇 Fiat 40 is a women’s Lent program meant to help participants grow deeper in their spiritual journey during the Lent season. Guys do something similar, known as Exodus 90 or Exodus Lent. The similar points are giving up social media (though spiritual nourishing like this channel and worship music is kosher), adding prayers, doing small sacrifices (like cold showers, limited meals, no snacking or sweets, etc), and offering up it all up for God. For Fiat, there’s more ‘girly’ things like giving up needless shopping, no gossip, no hitting snooze in the morning, exercising more, no tv/gaming stuff, things like that. It also focuses on letting Mary be our guide, since she’s the perfect example of how to be a woman of God. Along with other Saints’ intercessions. There’s prayers in the morning/evening, daily Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet, frequent daily mass attendance, Confession, more mindfulness while praying in general, and adoration. Been able to get things like the Rosary and DM back in my habit. Logging online for daily mass with the Marians since I get to work early and it’s not busy then. Getting into the swing of morning/evening praying (both what’s in the Fiat and I’m adding the Liturgy of the Hours as well). Confession hasn’t caught on with me yet, but I am doing a nightly examen while I’m going to bed, so hopefully this weekend or next week I’ll go. Would do more Adoration, but the timing of everything hasn’t worked out yet either 🙃
@@jendoe9436 thank you Jen. God bless you. Sounds like many of the things I am trying to do. How wonderful to have a support system as you receive a lot of spiritual church with this channel as well. Great to put a name to the behaviour.
Fr. Chris, there is another emptiness also. I have read that according to people who become addicted to opioids the feeling they get from that is like feeling love. People are starving for love, and often the messages they got from society is "you are not worthy of love." My son, also struggled with addiction and ended up killing himself. For some people the voice of society at large drowns out the voices of those who truly love us. And the enemy of our souls, Satan the liar, fosters that critical inner judge that tells us we are not good enough to be loved. I read another article that said according to a British study, the two most common words uttered by men about themselves before their suicides were 'useless and worthless.' Just interesting stuff.
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I had been taking [prescribed] sedatives at night for 20yrs+..I managed to stop them in December last year. Was this prolonged use of night sedation a form of addiction? I now get relaxed by playing a low volume swishing watery sound. Is this better or have I simply switched from a physical addiction to a psychological one? I found by chance this sound could help relaxation, although I did know water sounds could help relaxation [examples if you visit a water garden in the summer, or the sound of light rain on the window pane]. However I had never heard any thing like the swishing water sound on these vids. It s even better if I use one with a pulse in the background. .
I think many people use this “white noise“ to relax and fall asleep. It is very effective for newborns as well. Congratulations on kicking your addiction to sedatives! God bless you during this Lenten season, Michael. 🙏
@@tanyac.9005 Thank you and God bless. I hope that I do not have to return to sedatives {mirtazapine]. A trauma may force me, but hopefully not. I have had two very sad events within the last 2 years, y mother died June 2021, and my father a little over a year later, July 2022. I had not heard this water/pulse combination before, I found it by chance.
I’m going to try to pray more to say extra rosary as well give more to others I’m going to try to be loving and carnival and peaceful and not get angry and yell
I haven’t met with opiates in a long, long time, but yes, how old is very hard core on the street to Boston look up the methadone mile on mass Avenue. They call it mass cass.. it’s with the homeless live in tents
My sister dated Mark Wahlberg when they were children we grew up in Dorchester as well. Mark shot a video and my niece’s apartment to last couple years ago. I’m OFD 😂😂😂💪🩸☘️🇺🇸❤️🌹🙏😂🎉
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Thk U Father! As a mom of 3 adult alcoholic children, I know the only way of success is through our DIVINE HEALER & OUR ANGELS & SAINTS I call upon daily ❤ 🙏
God bless you and prayers for you and your family
Prayers for the youth, women and men dealing with addictions. May they receive healing and sobriety 🙏🏼❤️
Amen
i pray the way of the cross daily, privately.. pray to be free of addiction. Jesus I trust in You.
God bless you, Andy! 🙏
Fr Chris, I love the way you discuss the current and real struggles of our time. This show on addiction is closely tied to your previous episode on gluttony - both allow us to fill ourselves with what our secular society tells us will make us happy. Thank you for reminding us that God’s love is greater than sin. The continuation of Jim Wahlberg’s interview is quite compelling and I appreciate his bold courage in sharing his story. While the mission of the Comunita Cenacolo Community is to replace God with addictions, their premise should resonate with all of us - learn to rely on God and know that He is the answer for everything. May God’s mercy be upon all those with addiction as well as their families. 🙏
I agree with you Tanya. Fr Chris is a nice excellent priest but he posts the Living Divine Mercy Show at 6:30 PM on Thursdays as always. Join in prayers for Fr Chris and his family also his nephews and grandparents. DM Chat group: Ann Elliott, Florian Cenzon, Denise Webb, Paula Ann, Grace Lumayag, Karyn Ann, Deb Kas, Jon Mernick,
Yes...thank you Tanya!
Great connecting of the dots Tanya.
I’m going to light a candle right now for my Mirian family and to Saint Joseph to watch over all of us, in the name of Jesus
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Thank you so much.
Thank you Fr. Chris! God bless you always!
God bless you, my dear friend Sally! ❤
I didn’t a lot of programs I love that Jesus in the Eucharist are involved in the healing process
I guess i will start now pray for ST.MAXMILIA to help my son to get over his addiction ,and i been praying that he will agree to cenacolo .🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Praying for your son through the intercession of Saint Maxmilia. God bless you both.
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Thank you, Father God, for FrChris, the guest who shares experiences, and all staff working for this show.
Thank You Fr Chris!😇
thanks, Fr. Chris, for featuring Matt Talbott in this episode -- he's on my Saint Squad (and hopefully will be beatified soon!)
Fr. Chris, thank you for following up on this special episode on addiction. Your presence is a big support to those who may perhaps desire to change but in need of spiritual encouragement to take the first step. Thanks to Jim, he said all the important points he has to say to be of help to others. I pray for everyone too who are victims to any form of addiction because I believe it isn’t easy for them to get out in their own prison web. God tenderly loves them and we love them, too.
Thank you jesus and praise your holy name please pray for me and my family amen
@@marychapman8307 I’m with you in prayer, Mary. We place our full trust in Jesus Divine Mercy. He loves you and your family.
Praised be Jesus and Mary 💙💚❤
Thank you for ur time father. God bless 🙏 u
Thank you Fr, for this great video- Jesus I trust in You
Thank you for this program & glad to know for an alternative channel. God bless you Fr. Al & all who made the programs available !
I watched 3 one hour long documentaries years ago on Alcohol, Drugs and the Brain’ with neuroscientists explaining what happens in the brain with addiction, why there are levels of addiction, and why some people are genetically predisposed to become addicts. It was interesting to see how neurotransmitters and dopamine receptors enable addiction. It changed my perception on addiction. We can’t ignore the science of addiction, but we can explore all the causes of addiction, be they physiological, psychological or spiritual. No alcoholic starts off drinking a bottle of whisky a day. No drug addict starts off on hard drugs and we can mistakenly believe we are in control. What starts out as a habit can, for some, turn into a full-blown addiction. You’re right that we are seeking comfort and self-medicating but the wrong way.
Praying for the whole Wahlberg family
Thank you for this Fr. Chris and the whole Divine Mercy team, it is timely and relevant for my family’s situation.
I have a brother who is exposed to drinking and drugs, it is him and my mother only in our house in Philippines now, i live overseas to work. Im the youngest and my father and eldest brother have died already.
My brother who is with my home has been halucinating a lot of times, (hearing voices) that is scary on our part. For my brother, and for my mom who is at home with him. But God is so merciful and good, i have been praying the rosary and divine mercy prayer on behalf of my brother and the safety of my mother. This week a miracle had just happen. My brother who is long away was just recently attend one of the prayer meetings we have in our Church, I ask for your prayers Bro and sisters that the conversion of my brother heart will continue and may he devote his life to Christ our Lord. I also pray for those in the same situation we are in, for healing, deliverance and conversion in the name of our Lord Jesus.. 🙏🏻
Thank you and God bless you and prayers for your brother
Father Chris, as a pilgrim to Medjugorje, we were taken by a guide to the Communita Cenocolo, founded by an Italian religious sister, Mother Alvera. We heard testimonies by the people who were overcoming their addictions. They were from different countries and were totally dependent upon generous donors for food and clothing. This was beautiful to witness. Reading the counsels of Mother Alvera and her knowledge of this scourge is really eye-opening. She has all of the answers. (I may not have spelled her name correctly.)
There are now Communita Cenocolo in the United States. Thanks be to the God of Divine Mercy!
What a blessing to be a part of that pilgrimage, Olivia! May your Lenten journey be blessed. 🙏
What’s really amazing is the way that God’s grace places people where they need to be, without any logical explanation. Comunitá Cenaolo sounds like a totally altruistic organization. May I recommend that you read Jim’s story to learn about the progress that his son made through the program. God bless you Olivia 🙏🏼✝️
more double lots of likes Fr Chris!
I stopped taking my mental health antidepressants, and that was the hardest thing, but it’s been a few months and I’m feeling a lot better and I don’t think of myself as a drug addict when I smoke weed I think of myself as a florist
Thank you Father pray for my son Boris who is addicted and refuse to hear about God or go to mass
Boris 🙏🙏🙏 praying for him
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St Joseph, watch over Fr Chris, Jim W & the whole world 🙏❤️
Thank you and God bless you
This is a beautiful episode, God bless Jim and his family. Very powerful, I am so grateful for these Living Divine Mercy shows, Father Chris. You and the Marian Priests are always in my prayers.
Thank you for watching with us Sheila and God bless you
Thank you very much Rev Fr Chris This is a very comforting uplifting and assuring messsge I particularly like WHAT ARE YOU GIVING UP FOR LENT? I never really thought about it till today. I'm going to give up my addiction to playing word games and spend that time reading The Holy Bible.
God bless you and your Congregation always Amen
Bangalore India 10/3/23
I love your plan for Lent! Hoping it will become a permanent part of your day. If you have not already done so, considering listening to Fr Mike Schmitz’s “Bible in a Year” podcast. God bless you, Pam!
Thank you father
This is good information that can be passed along !!! God bless you both 🙏
By the Grace of God I got off a 100 mg a day fentanyl habit in 2010 🙏
It was a patch and I would eat it instead.
Unfortunately I have a very broken body and since then I've had several orthopedic surgeries and fusions. Tomorrow I will be scheduled for a second neck fusion. I had 3 levels fused in 2018, and now I need two more levels fused 😏, and lung cancer that will eventually have to be removed. They're having a hard time getting to it. Thankfully it's slow growing and the neck fusion has to be addressed. I'm a Lefty and the left side is shot, and I need it back please Lord Jesus 🙏
Thy Will be Done on Earth as it is in Heaven 🙏
May the Lord bless and keep you as you go through a second neck fusion tomorrow. Keep your eyes on Jesus for He is our only Hope. You are in my prayers, Tony. 🙏
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@@tanyac.9005 Super Way Cool 👍, but I meet with the Nero surgeon today and then we'll schedule the fusion. A month ago I got the steroid shot to see if it would help some, but it nada. I'm putting off the fusion for as long as I can it.
Offer it up 👍🙏 Viva Cristo Rey
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Addiction has only destroyed lives and families. We need to pray very hard for the end of all sources providing drugs especially to children and young adults. Thank you Fr. Chris for the insights shared in this episode.
Thank you for watching and God bless you
Interesting 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️☘️🌹
Thank you father Chris for best lesson i learn from you always... I pray that God will give you good health and bless you with abundant knowledge so that you can keep on teaching us, for i learn new things from you every week. God bless you🙏
Thank you and God bless you
Indeed we are blessed to have Father Chris as our teacher.
Thank you so much Fr Chris for these excellent talks about Addiction your doing an wonderful job of your teachings and it's almost the weekend because the forms of prayer about the new possible as the coming to the Holy Spirit preparing the sacraments also the sinners and the domestic church about the traditions about Christmas as the confirmation and confession during the liturgical year before the Precepts of the Church and the People of God also the Immaculate Conception the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Marian Apparitions about your explanation was so simple and the protection health and the lessons and the mortal sin and original sin as the devotions to the First Fridays and First Saturdays before the Thursday about the chaplet and rosary as the answers to the dark night of the soul as the natural law about the charity and the salvation and the Divine Revelation also the Sacred Scripture and the gathering the homily also the Mass as the message of the priests and Archbishops and the seasons are the World Peace of Ukraine and Russia about the lectures and the examples also the questions on Inquisition as the Advent and Pentecost and Lent and Easter before the Ordinary Time and the novena as the liturgy and the portal about the new kings and the worship and baptism as possible to be good as the studying as the impossible to change about the inspiring majesty and the received as before the Christmas traditions. Thank you Brother Mark for assisting Fr Chris and Brother Alex also Brother Jason and Brother Ben as always. Praying for you, your family, Marian Helpers also your nephews and grandparents especially Mom and Dad and Sandy also Pam's completing healing. God bless you, your family, MIC and Staff Members at the National Shrine of Divine Mercy in Stockbridge MA.
Hi, Marie! I hope Fr Chris’ message resonates with our young people and that it bring them a true sense of hope. God bless you, my friend. 🙏
Thank you Fr Chris
Love. It 👍
Godspeed 🌹
Greatly appreciate to hear another inspiring topic today. Thanks you both🙂
I am grateful that Fr Chris is willing to discuss the current topics of our times. God bless you! 🙏
Father Chris Alar thank you for your insight and inspiration in details for te topic:- Addiction - Living Divine Mercy TV Show (EWTN) Ep.78
It was another winning episode!
May God bless you.
May I recommend reading THE BIG HUSTLE. As a Boston native, I’m so proud of Jim and all that he overcame. I had the honor of meeting him a few months ago, and he is as authentic as he comes across on screen.
@@tanyac.9005 We have to Pray for the Addicted people like my husband for smoking cigarettes..
@@ladangharimau5712 absolutely! I will keep him in my prayers. 🙏
Thank you for covering this big topic today.
Prayers 🙏✝️🙏.
For all those you struggle in various addictions and wanted to quit them.
Abba Father , help them who struggle with addictions in any ways , give them strength and your power to overcome them in "Jesus" name...i pray ...amen.
Prayers to Mother Mary and Saints to ask blessings and overcome the various addictions believers needed too . From Abba Father Almaighty in "Jesus" name ....amen
I really look forward to the Living Divine Mercy broadcasts and am never disappointed with your spiritual messages. Thank you for all your hard work. May God bless you all.
Thank you for watching with us and God bless you
Addiction has been the downfall of my family and my marriage too. When I found out my husband was an addict I cried so much. Why. Why am I surrounded by all this craziness? Adoration helps me deal with the addicts in the family. Also prayers to Mother Mary and Saints. This video came in perfect timing. Thank you for sharing story and resources.
Thank you Lord for showing me love through Father Alar and team. 🙏💖
Clara, I am so sorry to hear of your husband’s addiction. You have done the right thing by going to Jesus in adoration and invoking Mother Mary and the Saints. You and your husband are in my prayers. God bless you both! 🙏
Thank you for watching and God bless you and prayers for your husband
Thank you Fr Chris for this inspirational talk ,May God continue to bless and guide you on this spiritual journey 🙏
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Jim Wahlberg book is worth the read especially during Lent
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Please pray for Rick who passed away yesterday. May he be at peace in heaven. Thank you
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Thank you so much for this segment on, “ADDICTION.” We are currently dealing with addiction in our family and it’s extremely overwhelming! Please keep us in your prayers.
God bless you for all you do!!!
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In my prayers 🙏
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I can relate my son for over a decade had been an addict, started with alcohol, opiates, heroin and ultimately passed 6 years ago overdosed on fentanyl. He went thru many many rehabs, AA, as a family we all went thru it. I do have your book Fr Chris! Thanks Mr Wahlberg u are spot on what u know and wanted him to do doesnt mean he will want. All very familiar! Please pray for my son Thomas! Thank you both!
Thank you and prayers for your son. Thank you for having the book as well because although the title is about suicide it helps with any kind of suffering or loss. God bless you
It’s the hardest drug that I’ve ever kicked which I stopped doing heroin. Several times in my past I haven’t done heroin since 2003. Thanks be to Jesus Christ but it’s one problem after another father. I’ve been off her drugs for 10 years. There is no drug I have not done. Not been fun long long run but I got Custie back of my five sons and for them or adults and I got two grandchildren now thanks be to God that I’m still alive and then I survived
Thank you Fr. Chris and EWTN. I just shared this great show and resource of help to relatives with struggling children in addition. Please pray for them 🙏
Hi, Holly! Looking forward to seeing you soon, my dear friend. 💜
Think you Holly for watching with us and God bless you! And thank you for sharing this information as well. God bless you
God turn my disgrace into grace
Thank you Father Chris. It's nice to see Guisepi on this video. Go easy on him Father Chris ☺. Very blessed. God bless both of you. Looking forward to meet you guys in person and visit the Shrine one day. God's will.
Also, hi to all your staff, and Bro Camera, is he a MIC seminarian?? God bless him
Oops sorry I misspelled Bro Stephen Camara last name.
Br Stephen did a wonderful job reading from The Divine Mercy Bible. I also enjoyed hearing Jackie tell us what she is doing this Lenten season and will join her in walking long distances from my car in parking lots. And Cameraman Giuseppe - well, I hope Fr Chris goes a bit easier on him this Lent and gives him a box of Cocoa Pebbles when he is hungry as a Corporal Work of Mercy.
@Tanya C. agreed. So is he a seminarians?
@@ellenjimenez57 Stephen is a brother, not a seminarian. As I understand it, brothers and seminarians are different. A brother does not feel called to receive the sacrament of Holy Orders while a seminarian is discerning the priesthood.
@@tanyac.9005 thank you.
Facts pray for me I smoke weed daily. 🙏❤️☘️🌹
Dr. Anna Lembke’s “Dopamine Nation” explains addiction as the human condition well.
True I pray to always want with God wants more than what I want to put God first to break the curse and remove all either save the Earth. What’s the church break the curse?
It will be 10 years March 25 that I have not shot meth. I was 96 pounds. I went to prison in 2014. I lost custody of my children in Idaho. My mother got custody thank God and my sister of my sons in 2014 I was shooting meth I was on methadone. I was prescribed 210 mg of methadone for 10 years. Thank you God I’m not addicted to opiates. I thought that beast.
Addiction to prayer can grow a 🌹📿 rose where once a weed tried to reign over a flowerbed.
Wonder if Fr. Chris and Cameraman Giuseppe planned that part out 😂 it just seems too well timed to be coincidental. That, or they just know each other too well at this point.
One of the things I’m doing for Lent is the Fiat 40 with some gals in my friend group. Some of it is stuff I’m doing anyway and it’s going well, but some of it is pretty tough to get in the habit of. But, I think doing these things with a group is much easier and fulfilling, as they help me and I help them 😇
I know and am related to some people that have let various addictions control their lives, and have also seen some overcome it. I pray for them and hope they can be fulfilled by the only thing that can help them: God’s grace and mercy 🙏
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Offering prayers Jen for your family members who are struggling with addictions. May I ask, what is Fiat 40? Thank you.
@@alwaysmisskaryn thank you, Karyn! 😇
Fiat 40 is a women’s Lent program meant to help participants grow deeper in their spiritual journey during the Lent season. Guys do something similar, known as Exodus 90 or Exodus Lent.
The similar points are giving up social media (though spiritual nourishing like this channel and worship music is kosher), adding prayers, doing small sacrifices (like cold showers, limited meals, no snacking or sweets, etc), and offering up it all up for God. For Fiat, there’s more ‘girly’ things like giving up needless shopping, no gossip, no hitting snooze in the morning, exercising more, no tv/gaming stuff, things like that.
It also focuses on letting Mary be our guide, since she’s the perfect example of how to be a woman of God. Along with other Saints’ intercessions. There’s prayers in the morning/evening, daily Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet, frequent daily mass attendance, Confession, more mindfulness while praying in general, and adoration.
Been able to get things like the Rosary and DM back in my habit. Logging online for daily mass with the Marians since I get to work early and it’s not busy then. Getting into the swing of morning/evening praying (both what’s in the Fiat and I’m adding the Liturgy of the Hours as well). Confession hasn’t caught on with me yet, but I am doing a nightly examen while I’m going to bed, so hopefully this weekend or next week I’ll go. Would do more Adoration, but the timing of everything hasn’t worked out yet either 🙃
@@jendoe9436 thank you Jen. God bless you. Sounds like many of the things I am trying to do. How wonderful to have a support system as you receive a lot of spiritual church with this channel as well. Great to put a name to the behaviour.
We Marian Helpers are here to support and pray for each other as well. May God bless your Lenten journey, Jen. 🙏
Fr. Chris, there is another emptiness also. I have read that according to people who become addicted to opioids the feeling they get from that is like feeling love. People are starving for love, and often the messages they got from society is "you are not worthy of love." My son, also struggled with addiction and ended up killing himself. For some people the voice of society at large drowns out the voices of those who truly love us. And the enemy of our souls, Satan the liar, fosters that critical inner judge that tells us we are not good enough to be loved. I read another article that said according to a British study, the two most common words uttered by men about themselves before their suicides were 'useless and worthless.' Just interesting stuff.
Yes you are correct. And I am very sorry to hear of your son. God bless him and may He rest in peace
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I had been taking [prescribed] sedatives at night for 20yrs+..I managed to stop them in December last year. Was this prolonged use of night sedation a form of addiction? I now get relaxed by playing a low volume swishing watery sound. Is this better or have I simply switched from a physical addiction to a psychological one?
I found by chance this sound could help relaxation, although I did know water sounds could help relaxation [examples if you visit a water garden in the summer, or the sound of light rain on the window pane]. However I had never heard any thing like the swishing water sound on these vids. It s even better if I use one with a pulse in the background. .
I think many people use this “white noise“ to relax and fall asleep. It is very effective for newborns as well. Congratulations on kicking your addiction to sedatives! God bless you during this Lenten season, Michael. 🙏
@@tanyac.9005 Thank you and God bless. I hope that I do not have to return to sedatives {mirtazapine]. A trauma may force me, but hopefully not. I have had two very sad events within the last 2 years, y mother died June 2021, and my father a little over a year later, July 2022.
I had not heard this water/pulse combination before, I found it by chance.
Where should we focus when it comes to food addiction?
I’m going to try to pray more to say extra rosary as well give more to others I’m going to try to be loving and carnival and peaceful and not get angry and yell
I haven’t met with opiates in a long, long time, but yes, how old is very hard core on the street to Boston look up the methadone mile on mass Avenue. They call it mass cass.. it’s with the homeless live in tents
And when I yell, I’m going to say three Hail Marys
Venerable Matt Talbot should be canonized.
Facts my husband take Suboxone 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏🌹🌹☘️🌹
I also am on other mental health medication and I feel that marijuana is safer now then anything
Sweetheart, I've been exactly where you are. (No husband though). I was set free very recently and I feel like I can fly now! Thankyou God🌱🌿🌾
Where can we find the movie "If Only" by Jim Wahlberg? Thanks
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