Our Most TOUCHING Question EVER! w/ Mother Natalia

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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025

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  • @flamesfan1417
    @flamesfan1417 Год назад +139

    A priest once told me in confession, “You are not your sin… you’re a forgiven child of God.”

  • @kerstinpakka2385
    @kerstinpakka2385 Год назад +153

    As someone who had an abortion, went through years of suffering and thoughts that I was hated by God and that I was destined for Hell, and now as someone who is a joyful, grateful member of the Catholic Church and who works in a post abortion healing ministry, proclaiming the amazing mercy, love, and forgiveness of God daily...this touched my soul and made me so grateful for this person for having the courage to reach out. Immediately, I prayed a prayer of thanksgiving for them and for what God has planned for them. As Mother said, "The one who is forgiven much is the one who loves much." What a blessing. Thank you for this and all you do.

  • @kevinninja787
    @kevinninja787 Год назад +57

    Mother Natalia needs her own show like Mother Angelica

  • @Neb-ie5mj
    @Neb-ie5mj Год назад +225

    This channel is such a vehicle for healing. Thank you Matt. Never stop helping pull people out of the depths of sin.

    • @TheSecretProvidenceofGod
      @TheSecretProvidenceofGod Год назад

      This channel is a vehicle for Hellfire. Papists are vessels of wrath-prepared for destruction

  • @RicardoReyes
    @RicardoReyes Год назад +114

    Lord have mercy on us when we hear a sister or brother that has deep wounds and instead of crying with them and helping them, we judge them.
    Wow this question was so raw and real.

    • @imjustheretogrill9260
      @imjustheretogrill9260 Год назад +1

      Here’s the thing, I’ve never seen anyone judge someone actually unrepentant. I guess Christianity was very different before the 2000s.
      If anything, it was too weak and ecumenical while I grew up. People were even afraid to call out sin. Who knows.
      Just hard to imagine someone spitting in the face of someone like this earnestly trying to seek God.

    • @IONov990
      @IONov990 Год назад +2

      God forbid anyone judge someone suffering like this.

  • @changpahk6595
    @changpahk6595 Год назад +19

    only recently came back to the church...i still don't know what i'm going through, what i'm doing exactly, but ever since "i called you by name, you're mine." struck me so hard, my life's been changing drastically, to the degree that i'm just overwhelmed. i have so much to atone for, so many to forgive, so much to change, though, now i can't live without our Lord. every moment i come to realise how miraculous it is, i just beg him to let me walk with him, be with me. i'll pray the lady in the message will embrace the grace, even though i myself know that how difficult it is. but i believe, since he has called her, he won't let her go so easily, as well. and i hope, one day i'd be able to fully accept his love. i'm finally starting to live as a real and alive man. praise the Lord.

    • @Georgeanne17
      @Georgeanne17 Месяц назад

      One step at a time. Jesus is with you and a wonderful journey begins.

  • @reverendcoffinsotherson5807
    @reverendcoffinsotherson5807 Год назад +137

    As an upcoming Catholic convert from Protestantism, this channel is such a breath of fresh air! Thanks, Matt! I believe I will attend the RCIA classes at Holy Cross Catholic Church in my town!

    • @reverendcoffinsotherson5807
      @reverendcoffinsotherson5807 Год назад +3

      @Glenn Herron don't what?

    • @limoncellosmith7594
      @limoncellosmith7594 Год назад +20

      Yes please do! The Catholic Church is the True Church founded by Jesus. Protestants broke away from the Church in the 1500s. Come home!

    • @isblcrpld
      @isblcrpld Год назад +6

      Praise the Lord! Welcome home!

    • @reverendcoffinsotherson5807
      @reverendcoffinsotherson5807 Год назад +5

      @@isblcrpld Thank you!

    • @curt8652
      @curt8652 Год назад +12

      ​@glennherron9499
      It's the Catholic "universal" faith and church. We are Christian. What a ridiculous strawman argument that isn't based on fact.

  • @abbycatherine
    @abbycatherine Год назад +15

    When I want to judge others (and it's sadly often enough), I have to remind myself that I'm a sinner too - that mine may be private but they are still sins just the same. When my sins pain me (and that's also sadly often enough too), I have to remind myself that I don't deserve to sit in the shame of the past. That's what the devil wants me to do. Christ wants me to rise above it and walk into the light. Satan will always unearth the dirt of our pasts, but Christ can use that same dirt to plant the seeds of a beautiful future. What beauty and mercy grows from our pasts is our testimony. It's the testimony of saints, and we can join them no matter our pasts!

    • @kirsten8807
      @kirsten8807 Год назад +3

      “…but Christ can use that same dirt to plant the seeds of a beautiful future.”
      Oof! That one will stick with me forever. Thank you.

    • @abbycatherine
      @abbycatherine Год назад +2

      @@kirsten8807 You're welcome. God bless you.

  • @TheNewNoise7
    @TheNewNoise7 Год назад +25

    To the woman who asked this question… you are loved. Not just by Christ, but by all Catholics who TRULY practice the faith. We are called to LOVE the sinner, not the sin. We all recognize that sin is bad, and dangerous to the destiny of our souls, but we are also called to LOVE thy neighbor. Jesus did not condemn the woman caught in adultery and forgave her, and called her to sin no more. By repenting, and sinning no more, Christ’s heart would overflow with joy!

    • @rahawa774
      @rahawa774 8 месяцев назад

      Amen! Dear sister, Thank you for coming to the church and giving us the opportunity to know you and love you xx
      P.S.I am a sinner too, you know 😔 we’ll both push on past this together xx

  • @robertchapman6795
    @robertchapman6795 Год назад +28

    I pray for the best outcome for the woman who gave her story to you! As a cradle Catholic who left in my early twenties and returned in my early 50’s, I used to carry SOOOOOOO much “Catholic guilt”. Turns out I was looking at it all wrong! I was even an Alter Boy right up to around 20 yo, but when I look back, I realise that as much as I always knew and believed. I just didn’t understand! Now, I give myself, both good and bad to Jesus everyday, pray everyday. The Rosary, personal questions for intervention, and put Christ first in as much as I remember to. The more I do it, the easier acceptance of life in Christs love, grace and mercy gets (even though life’s getting harder in many respects). I think it’s because I looked outward for His presence. Now I look inward. I see my sins, past and present and it’s just like a door to my heart is opened and the sin agrees to no longer be present in me. The sin just goes and overwhelming love and peace fills me. It’s incredible. If I told the average person what it’s like, they’d call me a shrink. It doesn’t matter what your sin, repent and mean it. Process your sin through the Examination of Conscience and head down to confession. After 30 odd years away, I felt like the Prodigal Son when I finally went to confession. I’ll stop babbling now! ❤

  • @deebee9151
    @deebee9151 Год назад +36

    Mother Natalia is such a blessing to us. She is so wise and so empathetic.

  • @ViewerAnna
    @ViewerAnna Год назад +26

    Mother Natalia brought sweet tears to my eyes. Beautiful message. And the perspective she gave on the beginning of Jesus' ministry was some of the most powerful preaching I've ever heard. Thank you!

  • @courtneypollard2770
    @courtneypollard2770 Год назад +35

    This clip had me weeping. Sometimes I feel like Christians need our own Me Too movement so this precious woman doesn’t feel alone.
    You see me nowadays at the Latin Mass and praying and dressing modestly, but that’s only because Jesus Christ blast Himself into my sad and sinful life and bowled me over with His love. I am not proud of my past sins. Sex? Drugs? Pornography? Yep. Me Too. But have I been pursued and loved and forgiven by our merciful Father in heaven, and been transformed into a new creation? Yes! ME TOO!!!!
    I’ve struggled with feeling “less than” when I go to church and am surrounded with people who have walked the walk all their life. So maybe it’s important that those of us who have dark sins in the past speak up more so that we know we’re not alone.
    Mother Natalia is right. Our actions don’t define us, God does. And He calls you His precious child. No matter how the world looks at you, never forget that.

    • @amyruth11
      @amyruth11 Год назад +3

      Beautifully said. And definitely ME TOO!

    • @kirsten8807
      @kirsten8807 Год назад +2

      Yes!! Beautifully and bravely expressed! #me2📿

    • @isblcrpld
      @isblcrpld Год назад +2

      me too, dear friend!

    • @chanteusesanders
      @chanteusesanders 9 месяцев назад

      We are in our own personal journey of coming Home to our Lord each with different stories... One common denominator is that we are all loved and all welcomed by our Father💕

  • @aaronclark2599
    @aaronclark2599 Год назад +8

    Also sounds like the parable of the prodigal son? He says his sin makes him unworthy of being called his father's son. But his father immediately reminds him of his true identity with hugs, royal clothes, feasts, affirmations, etc.

  • @JP2GiannaT
    @JP2GiannaT Год назад +16

    Welcome home. We want you here. We want you to be healed. You are not your sin, your sin has wounded you and we want to help you heal.

  • @Inkflight
    @Inkflight Год назад +5

    I wish more teachers of the Christian Faith, would speak more about the conditions we need to meet, for God to forgive us. I hear many Christian teachers stating that “God forgives you” without saying that we need to repent, and have a contrite heart. We need to *ASK for forgiveness, and be sorry (remorseful) for what we have done, and fully intend to change those ways.
    “I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to sin no more
    and to avoid in the near occasion of sin. Amen.”

  • @sinfall5280
    @sinfall5280 Год назад +19

    I love how she phrased that. The “why we want to define ourselves with our sin” bit.

  • @jamesmonahan9408
    @jamesmonahan9408 9 месяцев назад +2

    Heard a priest once say to an alcoholic, asked him if he'd want to be catholic. The alcoholic say would you have me. Fr said, would we have you? Sure, we have alcoholics. We have all kinds!!! The church as liars, cheaters, stealers, pride lovers, alcoholics, adulterers, sloths, gluttoners, etc....... The church has all of them. To think were are all perfect is so not true. We need to church bc we are flawed.

  • @GM-kp3ux
    @GM-kp3ux Год назад +16

    I would really like to see an entire episode on just this question. So much in it for all of us. Please consider, and God Bless this woman.

  • @AnselmInstitute
    @AnselmInstitute Год назад +22

    If you fall back into sin as we all do, God's mercy will be there waiting for you. Don't give up even when you fail. Move toward God and He will sustain you and help you. Never give up on God's mercy which is infinite.
    Your friend and fellow sinner and in Christ's love,
    Michael

  • @kirsten8807
    @kirsten8807 Год назад +34

    Woosh! Both the question and Mother’s answer took my literal breath away. She offered a glorious answer to the most vulnerable testimony couched within a question that I’ve probably ever heard in my entire life. Her walk through her-and the Church’s-perspective on sin and healing is the most truthfully beautiful viewpoint that I’ve ever heard before, and I’m a cradle Catholic who constantly seeks out such things.
    Thank you, Mother. Thank you for your heart and your spirit. What a blessing!
    My takeaway: I am coming away from this truly magnificent gift with an even stronger call to offer the gifts of empathy, kindness, and open-heartedness in every moment of my hours. Not just when faced with devastating vulnerabilities, but also when my guard is down. Mother’s answer left me reenergized in my calling to be preemptively gracious.
    We never know who yearns for grace so, we need to endeavor to offer it up even within a sinner’s silence. This is now my 2023 mission.
    Sometimes-within a parish-it can feel like we’re in a fraternity rather than a confraternity. We-by “we,” I mean me too-must must must remind ourselves each and every single day that we don’t choose our “membership.” They choose us. We are neither granted the power to select nor to reject. This is quite honestly a difficult thing to remember, especially when we’re in a room peopled by only fellow Catholics. We say we’re welcoming to all-it’s literally posted on every Church billboard outside her doors as “Welcome home”-but then we snicker behind a sinner’s back, both about them as humans as well as their sin; we make those outside of our walls the butt of inside jokes; and we low-key expect them to follow us into the Church already perfect when-as we all so intimately understand-everyone is broken at some point, and healing begins in communion with the Church. Yet, how can we offer the grace of God’s healing if there isn’t a triage for all to enter through? How can we call ourselves welcoming if our messaging outside our walls isn’t also welcoming?
    Simply, we can’t say we offer grace with one hand whilst snatching a sinner’s dignity away with the other.
    Perhaps June is a good month to begin exercising such grace to all as we can never know which day will be *the* day for someone who is silently suffering in hopelessness regarding their sin.
    Blessings to all!

  • @Arctic-YK
    @Arctic-YK Год назад +13

    This truth is beautiful. This opens my heart to the mercy of God in new ways. He loved us before we were made clean. 😢

  • @Goncalo.
    @Goncalo. Год назад +45

    This video is unbelievably moving. I hope it reaches as many eyes as possible God willing

  • @bethpeyton661
    @bethpeyton661 Год назад +3

    Wow - what a wonderful response to this woman’s suffering.

  • @csongorarpad4670
    @csongorarpad4670 Год назад +7

    The one's most difficult to love are often the one's most in dire need of it. I loved Mother Natalia's answer! May God bless her and the woman the question pertains.

  • @TerrySilverhand
    @TerrySilverhand Год назад +10

    Wow what an answer too God Bless Mother Natalia and God bless this woman!

  • @jareapeek
    @jareapeek Год назад +12

    That connection is vital! Praise Jesus for this channel!

  • @charliego7375
    @charliego7375 Год назад +3

    That was such a profound answer I wasn’t sure where she was going with it at 1st but she tied it up beautifully

  • @joannamarie9791
    @joannamarie9791 Год назад +4

    Thank you so much for this Matt and Mother Natalia and for the one who shared. I could not stop my tears from flowing, i too struggle w my own vices and feelings of unworthiness bc of my actions. And I’m guilty for thinking so strongly that my actions whether bad or good define me and how much I am loved. I struggle a lot w the thoughts that I am not good bc of the things I have done. And after hearing Mothers words on our identity of beloved children of the Father, it really hit me and could not stop crying. i know I will continue to struggle in believing my identity as a beloved daughter bc I am weak but by the help and grace of God I will try my best to believe in the truth and keep reminding myself until I can fully embrace that I am good and that I am a beloved daughter of God 🙏🏻
    this is a very important message and I hope everyone who struggle w their identity will too come to know that they are a beloved child of God no matter the things they have done, good or bad, peace to you all and God bless 🫶🏼

  • @TimBryan
    @TimBryan Год назад +8

    This was such a good response, the veracity Faith is made so much more apparent by the responses to difficult questions like this.

  • @edujyoung
    @edujyoung Год назад +5

    Awh man, got me teary eyed at the end there, Matt. Such a beautiful walkthrough of our identity and how that’s constantly questioned.
    Bless that woman who asked that question, many are praying for you, including me. Blessings.

  • @Petroseni
    @Petroseni Год назад +3

    Matt… that question and Mothers answer could be quite possibly be THE MOST important thing I have ever heard on your program!!!! It is the key to understanding who we are in relationship to God. Way to go!!!!

  • @IONov990
    @IONov990 Год назад +2

    Ooh that level of regret and remorse is painful. The chains of shame must feel unbearable.

  • @teresahuston6650
    @teresahuston6650 Год назад +6

    Yes. When we sin, being a nice person isn't going to save us. Thank goodness for confession.

    • @theresalewis8665
      @theresalewis8665 Год назад

      What about Jesus?

    • @irishandscottish1829
      @irishandscottish1829 Год назад +5

      @@theresalewis8665 what do you mean?
      Jesus is present in the confessional.
      It is Jesus that forgives us our sins - the Priest is merely the visual vehicle that Our Lord uses.
      Remember Our Lord said:
      “Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” (Matt. 18:18 KJV)
      We can walk away assured our sins have been forgiven and that we have done a full and contrite interior inspection of all our sins and presented them to Our Lord for forgiveness.

  • @Hreodrich
    @Hreodrich Год назад +3

    Matt that was probably the most beautiful closing remark I’ve heard in a long time. Caught me by surprise and had me weeping in the kitchen as I listened.

  • @ivantavares2524
    @ivantavares2524 Месяц назад

    Amen!!! GOD BLESS you Mother Natalia!!

  • @marcosmina9842
    @marcosmina9842 Год назад +11

    St Mary of Egypt patron saint of sin addict pray for us 🙏

  • @josephgonzales9649
    @josephgonzales9649 Год назад +2

    This is so powerful. Much respect for the bravery of that woman to put her heart out there in her question

  • @thomasw95
    @thomasw95 Год назад +2

    These are some of the most important words I’ve ever heard. The reality of my being a son of God has finally started to make deeper sense. Thank you for sharing this.

  • @WestCoastWatchman89
    @WestCoastWatchman89 6 месяцев назад

    I am a year late but as a non-denominational Christian I found this very edifying! May God bless you for this wisdom Mother Natalia!

  • @tinat2967
    @tinat2967 Год назад +12

    This was so amazing.
    This question was so real. Thank you to the person who asked. God bless you.
    Thank you God for this podcast!
    I hope this reaches many.

  • @tenny37
    @tenny37 Год назад +2

    What a beautiful response! I'm in tears being reminded how much God truly loves us, loves me, and how we are freed to love others in Him. This is the Good News!

  • @ElizabethKautzmann
    @ElizabethKautzmann Год назад +6

    Praying 🙏🏼 for this woman, her mission must be tremendous. Her 29:11…& yes, to Sister’s point, not only did the devil question 🕎 His ✝️ identity…Satan conveniently left off/refused to acknowledge The Love Of God…❤️‍🔥

  • @Operation.sprinkled.donuts
    @Operation.sprinkled.donuts Год назад +11

    Amazing content ! A profound question posed, and profound answers given. Blessed channel.

  • @samanthaduggan9002
    @samanthaduggan9002 2 месяца назад

    I've been speaking with a friend who volunteers in a local women's prison about the difficulty of talking about our Catholic / Christian rules to people who are coming to the faith with very irregular life situations. I work with a lot of recovering (or recovery curious) addicts and alcoholics. It's so hard to be honest about Christian teachings like the nature of sin AND - what - say things that they will understand as reflecting God's love for them. So what to say to a woman in prison with a lesbian relationship when she asks directly if same-sex relationships are sinful! Sometimes it feels like these questions are setting us up to fail.

  • @lorimckenzie5553
    @lorimckenzie5553 Год назад +3

    Thank you for this beautiful message. It profoundly brings to light some thing a voice said on one of my morning runs when I was a specially down on myself, and in angst about the world… Suddenly the words came into my mind “Christian, raise your head“ I think that’s what Mother Natalia is saying. Remember your dignity as a son or daughter of the one true God. Matt, even with that knowledge, I still needed your words that the god who, for gave Moses and David and so on will forgive us if we see him. God bless you all. And thankful and praying for everybody involved in the show.

  • @ignacio5283
    @ignacio5283 Год назад +1

    Mother Natalia,
    That was so beautiful, so simple so powerful. Thank you

  • @blackhairedrubio
    @blackhairedrubio 9 месяцев назад +1

    Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant.

  • @paulakurtenbach445
    @paulakurtenbach445 Год назад +3

    This is both beautiful and very helpful. Thank you. I'm saying a prayer for the woman who asked the question that she can accept God's healing love.

  • @pdxnikki1
    @pdxnikki1 Год назад +5

    What a beautiful way to explicate Theosis. 🕊️

  • @philippbosnjak4183
    @philippbosnjak4183 Год назад +3

    Wow I didnt expect that. Im going through a rough time currently and it is such a fight to trust God when you dont feel it. Lets pray for one another the Father´s mercy is still bigger than all of our sins and failures.

  • @ks7343
    @ks7343 Год назад +1

    Oh, Mother Natalia! So beautiful! Thank you!

  • @zionlion4445
    @zionlion4445 Год назад +7

    💘God bless you Pints with Aquinas!
    💛Thank you for sharing with us this beautiful testimony!
    💘Praying for you and for your beautiful wife!
    💛From California with Love, Lara! 💘💛🙏💛💘

  • @elizabeth.annrose
    @elizabeth.annrose Год назад +1

    Beautiful answer from Mother Natalia.

  • @j0nb0y5
    @j0nb0y5 Год назад +1

    I’ve watch this video multiple times. I too really needed to hear that. Thank you, God bless.

  • @florenzb7
    @florenzb7 Год назад +2

    Oh my! very very edifying conversations/comments on top of Mother Natalia's words. So grateful to you Matt for your channel. God bless.

  • @beliciamathias
    @beliciamathias Год назад +1

    That woman's story reminds me of St Mary Magdalene's story.. so true that 'The one who has been forgiven more loves more' and truly Mary Magdalene loved Jesus more..she was there all thru out..Dont worry Beloved sister in Christ..the Lord is just waiting to heal you..Healing will go on because love never ends

  • @DontCallMeWilliam
    @DontCallMeWilliam Месяц назад

    What a beautiful question and profound answer

  • @cehson
    @cehson Год назад +2

    So much love and compation in this video, i feel the strugle of this lady. She has to believe that her sins are nothing by Gods mercy and love. If she repents, there is nothing that can stop her getting a biiiiggg hug from our dear Lord. And whole Heaven would rejoice for her faith and conversion. Hope she grabs our Lords saving hand!

  • @annmariemullen6080
    @annmariemullen6080 Год назад +24

    Whoa this was made for me! Unbelievable how God speaks to us in different ways

  • @sannyahmed359
    @sannyahmed359 11 месяцев назад +2

    I am Muslim and i respect this sister nun so much🎉

  • @melissagoetz8847
    @melissagoetz8847 Год назад +5

    You are a daughter of the Most High God and He loves you and is calling you home!🙏❤️

  • @joseluis-kd8xh
    @joseluis-kd8xh Год назад

    I love that in minute 4:45 she claims not knowing the philosophical meaning of the words "being" and "essence" and she is using them very properly in scholastic terms.

  • @MrDavidPuryer
    @MrDavidPuryer Год назад +1

    Thanks for that. It was just wonderful to hear. 🙇‍♂️

  • @stephenpohl
    @stephenpohl Год назад +1

    This answer by Mother Natalia was beautiful.

  • @oza1302
    @oza1302 Год назад +2

    That was powerful!

  • @ninarynae
    @ninarynae Год назад +1

    This was blessed! It encourages me to be louder about what I believe. It’s like she was saying the thoughts I’ve felt God’s given me. Things I believe have to be true, or else I’m not who I think I am. glad God had you share 😃

  • @jmcallion2071
    @jmcallion2071 6 месяцев назад

    Im watching this on my phone has NO power! God is giving oower for me to see this laus Deo!

  • @katinphilly1312
    @katinphilly1312 11 месяцев назад +1

    Mother Natalia is a a rock star

  • @ozziejohn571
    @ozziejohn571 Год назад +1

    Thanks to the writer of that letter. You have described the seemingly insurmountable. I hearing you

  • @pan79166
    @pan79166 Год назад +1

    Absolutely beautiful and inspired

  • @ubiveritasetamor
    @ubiveritasetamor Год назад

    Wow. Bless these people. Glory to our merciful God!

  • @whimsicalaubrey1413
    @whimsicalaubrey1413 7 месяцев назад

    This really touched my heart and soul

  • @WiltonGal
    @WiltonGal Год назад +1

    Thank you for this lesson. One of the best yet!

  • @nickovify
    @nickovify Год назад +1

    Matt great guests and show as always. What a beautiful answer. God Bless

  • @martinripka6898
    @martinripka6898 8 месяцев назад

    What a great revelation of this identity-aspect! Which only a female approach can contribute to the discussion. A man like me would't even have raised the question.

  • @dorotheaivanovna9457
    @dorotheaivanovna9457 Год назад

    Great answer from Matt about iconic Bible figures Moses, David, Rahab, Paul, Peter, who gravely sinned and yet had enormous impact on salvation history.

  • @SliderFury1
    @SliderFury1 Год назад +18

    Some of the most terrible, sinful people in the bible are people whom God used.

  • @mariawells8026
    @mariawells8026 Год назад +2

    What an excellent explanation! Thank you!!

  • @PilgrimMedieval
    @PilgrimMedieval Год назад +3

    One of my dearest Saint friends Isaac the Syrian said: “As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God.”

  • @Oi-kh9sp
    @Oi-kh9sp Год назад +3

    I needed to hear this today. Thank you so much! ❤️‍🔥

  • @johnmubanga8230
    @johnmubanga8230 Год назад +1

    Great video ,,," Love as beloved children of God comes before the mission because that is our identity "

  • @johntate8752
    @johntate8752 Год назад

    God bless these two guests. And God bless the person asking the question i have faith that we will meet in paradise!

  • @judithmurray6458
    @judithmurray6458 Год назад +1

    No-one is beyond redemption. Life is a struggle when we keep God out. We all have our shortcomings and yet we are all loved unconditionally by Him who made us. When we fall we can pick ourselves up again and keep on walking forward. God bless you on your journey 🙏

  • @blackriflehomestead
    @blackriflehomestead Год назад +1

    Wow. Mother Natalia, your words are speaking life into so many. ❤ What a beautiful and Christ-like response.

  • @patrickwimsatt7492
    @patrickwimsatt7492 Год назад +3

    Wow, tremendous insight.

  • @ThisIsMyRectangle
    @ThisIsMyRectangle Год назад

    Mother Natalia never ceases to bring me to tears

  • @carlosux
    @carlosux Год назад +1

    ughhhh i have been trying to find the time to listen to this episode. i know itll be straight fire. they are so amazing.

  • @jasonfernandez1386
    @jasonfernandez1386 Год назад +1

    Mother Natalia is the best!

  • @ozoz2931
    @ozoz2931 Год назад +3

    Beautiful! And thank you

  • @nicford1486
    @nicford1486 Год назад +1

    "Where sin abounded, grace abounded much more"

  • @batmaninc2793
    @batmaninc2793 Год назад +1

    Bless you and your wife.
    [Hugs]

  • @adacathy3018
    @adacathy3018 Год назад

    😮😮 wow an amazing explanation, it was quite illuminating in understanding the reasons why people fall into temptation and fall into sin

  • @fruzsimih7214
    @fruzsimih7214 Год назад

    Thank God for Confession!

  • @dystopian-future
    @dystopian-future Год назад +4

    I love how Mother Natalia says our identity lies in how God loved us into existence. That is so comforting, but at the same time I am not fully convinced because in the Christian faith, especially Catholic and Orthodox, it seems that a ''woman''s"" identity and value/worth lies in her virginity....everything "Virgin Mary this, Virgin Mary that" and then all the Virgin Martyrs who chose death over being raped and how they ascended into heaven as a purel clean virgin. This tears me apart on the inside. As a victim of child molestation and also rape later in my life, I feel valueless and gross and it traumatises me every day to the point of wanting to end my life. The flashbacks are unbearable. I really wish my identity was in God's love for me, not in my being dirty and used up and not pure....but I can not be convinced of what Natalia says. Any encouragement here please? I'm so broken and I need help. Im not a Christian, but I am looking into it because it sounds so amazing, the hope of my pain being gone one day for all of eternity....that's something for me that is worth living for now. Thanks friends.

    • @aisherwasher6959
      @aisherwasher6959 Год назад +1

      When I was struggling with unbelief in God (doubting that He was real or that He would care about me if he was real), a friend told me to pray and ask Him to be able to believe. It's worth trying even if you feel silly at first and even if you dont consider yourself Christian. Just asking God to let you understand how your value lies in him and how nothing and no one can limit how precious you are

    • @daisyviluck7932
      @daisyviluck7932 Год назад +1

      Thank you for being brave and reaching out. The spiritual journey can be a struggle but you’re fighting the good fight. The assertion that a woman’s identity in Christianity is equal to her virginity is a bit of a caricature. Christianity started in the middle of a hedonistic, pagan culture that held life cheap. The spiritual writers and martyrs at the time had to stand firm in the opposite virtues. However even St Augustine held that rape victims were not to blame.
      Please, if you haven’t already, please find a good trusted counselor to help you with healing your past trauma
      FWIW, I’ll remember you in my 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️🕊

    • @bok9201
      @bok9201 7 месяцев назад

      No one can fully understand the profound pain of the wounds you have sustained, except Jesus. Ask Him to lead you through healing. He will not let you down. As a doctor, I have witnessed many undeniable miracles showing me God's grace in action. I too sustained wounds such as yours, and also survived a stabbing murder attempt by my mother. The 7 Sorrows Rosary devotion was especially healing for me. I badly needed maternal love. Through the daily prayers I gradually came to understand the nature of my wounds and the effect of those wounds (i.e. was it fear of abandonment, sadness, rage, etc ). Healing came like Spring after a harsh Winter. When Mary saved my life in a moment of peril, the perfume of roses surrounded me. That is a fact. Grace comes from Jesus, and His mom can tug on His sleeve and ask for you to receive the healing you need. She can direct the graces you need to you and understands you with a human heart. Prayer begets what it signifies, meaning you and I need to ask specifically for healing. Pray the 7 Sorrows Rosary every day, and ask Jesus for healing. You will conquer the pain and heal the wounds and understand God more deeply than those who were never wounded. You will be amazed at how peaceful, wonderful, and joyous your life will become. Pray and have faith. Take it from someone whose wounds were also deep and who felt hopeless until I prayed for healing with faith. God let me witness events I knew were miracles in the lives of my patients so that I had the faith to know He would listen to my plea for healing. He is there for you, and His mom too! Listen to Father Chad Ripperger on healing of wounds and Our Lady of Sorrows on Tube videos. The answers are there. God Bless you and may you be healed and brought to a life full of joy, in Jesus' Name, with the intercession of Our Lady of Sorrows, Eternal Father hear our prayers! 🙏🙏🙏

  • @ZephrumEllison
    @ZephrumEllison 5 месяцев назад

    Mother Natalia had a challenge with this one. Fair, since it is such a nuanced topic and she didn’t appear to have much prep time. The sentiments trying to be expressed are this.
    To the wife:
    1. Moving forward even if only inch by inch is progress. It’s ok to feel discouraged, this too shall pass.
    2. We are indeed called to be in union with Christ. Look for Christ, Seek him in all things, for he is the way the truth and above all the light. He is the light you will find at the end of your tunnel.
    3. Try faithfully not to compare yourself to others, even those you may look up too. Look inward and acknowledge you have your own walk, your own cross to bare, but Christs yoke is light, take it upon you.
    4. The past has passed, leave it there.
    5. You have an incredible opportunity here to learn kindness to yourself, and others. And gentleness.

  • @Psalm51.
    @Psalm51. Год назад +1

    Beautiful message.

  • @JM-xq1vz
    @JM-xq1vz Год назад +2

    And that is how the Holy Spirit works through us. Beautiful, Mother Natalia. ❤

  • @cindyrobertson3798
    @cindyrobertson3798 Год назад +1

    I have recently been given the opportunity for answering some Christian questions , catholic questions . Good and evil ,and spirit life. Please pray for me to assist a fellow man in coming to faith. I'm afraid of over zealous, prostilization. . This person new in my life has been down the rough road. . I'm motherly in a way. .prayers please 🙏

  • @MS-ez1pe
    @MS-ez1pe Год назад +1

    Had me in tears