The Symptoms of Vanity (and the Surprising Cure)
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- "Vanity of vanities! All is vanity!" Okay maybe not everything, but probably more than you thought.
Vanity isn't just looking the mirror too much (although it could be). Vanity isn't just too much plastic surgery (although it could be). Vanity is "the inordinate preoccupation with what other people think."
Fr. Mike suggests we look at our lives a little more closely with this new definition-and to look at Jesus for the solution.
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Fr. Mike, you don't know how much I've needed to hear this. I'm going through a hard time in school mostly because I'm trying to fit in. But sometimes I need to remember who I am as a child of God and that I already fit in the story God has for me.
I’m having the same problem, praying for you🙏🙏👍🏻
Prayers for you
That’s very wise😊
Be true to God and a holy way of life. You will find friends who think the same as you do. Better to have a few good friends than those that are fake. Not easy but your well formed conscience will prevail & you will have more peace. Keep fighting the good fight and find those friends.
@@MartinGonzalez-rt5dd I'll be praying for you too as well
I am a very vain person. It comes out in trying to impress or people please. Having difficulty disagreeing with others or correcting them. Feeling embarrassed by criticism. Always wanting to be perfect. It's too much to worry so much.
I am the same way
Me too
Ditto
Deleting Instagram for the first time ever (since I got it in 2014) during this Lent. This video confirms it was a perfect idea. I’m not even done with the first day, and I feel so much happier already. It’s like I’m a kid again, wanting to be more creative with free time instead of scrolling on something.
How do you do it? I've tried to stop using social media for months but usually the lack of things to do outside always turns me back to a screen.
same
@@n4ughty_knight fill the void of social media with meaningful stuff, put books on your phone youve meant to read. carry a notebook or book around with you even. go deeper into that hobby you started to get into. i personally still use instagram but on my computer instead. twenty hours a week became maybe two. fortunately my friends agreed to move our group chat off of instagram for our benefit. it took me a year of cycles of redownloading and re-quitting but this year i feel im finally over it. your craving for that addictive instagram feed will diminish once you rediscover how much you can do with your free time
@@n4ughty_knightThe only solution I've found, and I am still struggling constantly with it as well, is just to find little things to do in place of the screens. Yeah maybe organizing pens in a drawer isn't the most productive thing to do, but if you have nothing else to do it's much better than staring at a screen. It's better to be able to not do anything, just to be still, but who am I kidding, nowadays that's almost impossible. Good luck, I hope that helps!
God bless ❤
Vanity - the inordinate preoccupation with what other people think. Thank you Father for teaching and guiding us.
Father Mike, the clever intro you were looking for is: "You're so vain, you probably think this video is about you."
At least, that's what I'm gonna tell my friends when I send them this video!
Thank you, and God bless!
Hey Penance 🌹🌹🌹
How are you doing??
To hear Father say that he had times when he didn't stand up for the Lord took so much weight off of my shoulders. Even though I confessed that sin it still weighed so so heavy on me. Thank God for Everyone here and for Father Mike. God bless.
I have never heard vanity explained like this, and it's SO much more powerful. I've been guilty of this. I AM guilty of this now. Thank you so much for exploring this unique perspective. 🙏🏿👏🏿✝️
Thank you so much Father Mike!! I have spent so many years of my life having this issue… From being a fashion model to now being a large social media influencer, i have succumb to this to such a high extreme. Finally, as God came and brought me back to him, and making my top priority to be like Jesus, I have stopped this and pray continuously about becoming a better person not just for me but with the humility to show others as well. Your lesson here was so important to me and I cannot thank you enough! If i could only put into words the freedom I feel not living my life based om what others think but now being focused on how I am viewed in the eyes of Jesus, i would yell it out constantly! Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
I didn't realize this. I had no clue that I was vain. I thought I got rid of what I thought was my vanity. I think everyone is pointing at me and laughing at me. Thanks for the info. I appreciate it, sir.
I used to be an attention monger who thrived for acceptance of others and than I came to a realization. If Jesus Christ, the son of God and the most perfect person who ever existed couldn't get everyone to like and accept him, so much so, that they crucified him than how could an ordinary person like myself do so? The answer is that I just can't ! It's impossible and it's okay. Now I just try to focus on impressing God.
Thank-you for a good teaching. No more of people please and remembering who I am in Jesus Christ
The fact that the light flickers @3:12 when he’s talking about God just shows how truly wonderful God is! He’s always present and so loving! ❤
I didn't notice that. Cute.
I’m 59 years old and still learning. Thank you for teaching us Fr. Mike, so we can all make better choices. I didn’t know the true meaning of vanity, until today. Thanks be to God ✝️🙏🏻🤗
Thank you Father Mike! I needed to hear this so much! As I am finishing my cancer treatments and I feel like I look nothing like I did before cancer, and I worried about others opinion about my new me…always thankful that God gives me another day of life, but my physical appearance did cause some emotional stress, but you are right….it doesn’t matter how I look….I should be thankful that God knows me, and God stood by my side through this journey! Blessings everyone!
You should not care what other people think, but you should always care what other people feel. I would say there's a difference.
God, please bless me and my children both of my sons are special needs, and I’m overwhelmed all the time because I’m on my own as a single mother I have no one to turn you, but you Heavenly father give me strength as I struggle to buy groceries, and I struggle to pay rent, and as I struggle, in my everyday life, and as I struggle with my faith keep me safe and protect me from the evil ones of this world in Jesus name, I pray!
Thank you father Mike from Colima Mexico. Since 6 years or so I've been watching your amazing videos and most of the time your energy is awesome and your message really really cool. You've been the father that regretfully we don't have in our churches. You and many others help me to love being catholic.
Bless you Father Mike (our Brother in Christ). Thank you deeply, powerful Word/Truth.
Our identity, before our destiny. Amen.
Mark (Rotorua, NZ)
All for one and one for All ⛪
Is this video about not wiping the ashes off the forehead for fear of what people might think 😂
This was recorded before lent !
Excellent example! Especially now when more and more people are unacquainted with Catholic practices and/or are critical of the ones they do know.
I’m pretty sure some Protestants are also practicing Ash Wednesday with ashes.
Usually, my family tells me to remove the ashes but I find it really cool!
😄 I had to laugh at myself this year. I normally do wash the ashes off right after mass. But this year is the first time Ever (i"m 65) that it actually looked like a cross and not a smudge. I felt I had to leave it on just to honor the sheer artistry. So hear I am in Panera getting my coffee with this huge cross on my forhead! Most looked at me strange. One said, oh, I forgot it"s ash wednesday". To which I replied "my church is having services all day". And we were several feet apart, so i" m sure the whole place heard us 😀
Wow. This hit home. I always thought I was “self conscious” but truly it’s vanity. I’ve never heard it like this and this really is sobering. Thank you for this ❤️
God bless you Father Mike. Our Lady of Guadalupe may protect you 🙏
The ego is the issue with a lot of us !
Thank you for your positivity
1 John 5 kJV
13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
1 Peter 1 kJV 🩸
18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
Thanks for your wisdom and your guidance, father Mike!
Good Lenten thoughts. There are many ways to be vain, will have to work on that. Thank you. God Bless. Claire.
Thank you Fr Mike this is amazing lenten reflection for me!
Yes, I think I am quite preoccupied with what other people think. I will pray to be less vain. Thank you!
This video was perfectly timed!! Thanks Fr. Mike!
Thank you Father, is scary I am learning so much about the status of my soul and relationship with my activities, I am learning and growing thank to you and your peers. So much to learn and correct.
Jesus loves you and is with you
That’s what is happening to me Instagram trying to define me, getting angry at people in relationships when I tried to be in one but they never liked me or never gave me a chance! And been hurt, betrayed & ignored for no reason. Lord help me in this Lent Season 💜💜💜😔 and comparing myself way too much and getting angry at people and their successes
Praying this Lent you will discover in a new way how very deeply Jesus loves you and longs for your company. ❤
Praying for God's help for you as well, my brother.
@@tracybrophy6767 thank you ❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@irismckay6472 thank you ❤️
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With a name Brophy, you must have Irish blood in you. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
May God bless Fr. Mike and Ascension Press(/Presents) ❤😊
I was just dealing with this! God speaks to me in so many ways ❤
Thank you Father ❤. Amen 🙏
Thank you Fr. Mike for this message. Definitely timely and needed. Great gift for first day of Lent.
Im driven also with preoccupations abt people thinking I stink like a skunk, or worse than that. It’s an enormous preoccupation indeed!
Fatehr Mike working up to a million subs 😊
Thank you Father Mike.
God bless you. I enjoy your wisdom. Pray for me.🙏
Thank you helping to clarify this for me. I believe too that fear and love of the Lord can help. I see now how much this has been playing in my life. Thank for truth that sets us free. 😊
Hey Anne🌹🌹🌹
How are you doing??
Praise be to You Lord Jesus Christ, our Lord our God, Holy is Your Name.
May God bless y’all prayers out for y’all. We humbly pray and wish all of this in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior’s Holy Name, Amen.
Hi Father Mike, starting my Bible in a year with you in Hallow as part of my Lenten devotion. Just finished the Introduction. Pray for me that I’ll persevere, that it will transform my interior life and have a deeper relationship with the Holy Trinity
Once you get going you won’t want to stop. I liked it so much that I did it twice. I learned so much about the Bible and myself. 😊
Wow
😊 I want to get better at this
What blurts out of my mouth is what other people want to hear
I find myself doing this and I don’t t like it
I am lazy in conversation 😊
I used to think and be very cautious before I speak . Trauma has changed me . I pray 😊I get the old me back . I want to be sensitive, kind and cautious when I speak always
A totally unrelated comment. I am an Kenyan African. Blue eyes are not the usual color of eyes here. I watched a movie as a child where the demon characters had blue eyes. I watched quite a good number of your videos including those with Dr. Scott Hahn but today this weird feeling have managed to distract me. I think I need more good people with blue eyes 🙂. Take it lightly but you can say a prayer for me. God will obviously grant graces.
"The inordinate preoccupation with what other people think = vanity." I only have my self control and self-management of my own faculties. I care about my friends, family, and strangers. But I need to self-care and focus on my own relationship with God, in order to be successful in my relationships with others. That's what I got out of this reflection. I hope that you work on a full-length homily on this, Father Mike. Thanks. God bless. Have a blessed Ash Wednesday.
I've never thought of vanity as being worried about what other people think of me but it makes sense since the only one who can judge us is God. Maybe that explains why many people are so dedicated to their appearance. They fear being judged by other people. Dust judging dust.
I worry about what other people think all the time!
Thank you for the clarification, Father Mike.
Amen! Thank you for sharing !❤
That is a new word for me.(vanity)
Identity in christ.
Didn’t expect to hear this point of view but it’s true where real “security” initiates from … God the Father. It’s a matter of me truly believing that to help me in my own insecurities.
Seems people are manipulated to desire too materially 'Belong'. Accepting that the reward for our existence is in the hereafter can really make the up's and downs of real life pale into insignificance, although still a major irritation, that's life. Inner peace is worth a thousand acquaintances. What better reason is needed to believe in our God. Thanks Schmitzy.
Thank you Father Mike for talking about this, I did think vanity was conceit and thinking too highly of yourself so I've always gone the opposite way. I've always been very self-conscious and worried about what people think. Thank you for setting me straight on this one. Love you very much
Thank you for another inspiring and thoughtful lesson!
Thank you so much father! I had been asking how exactly to name that’s excessive preoccupation about what others think…. It’s a problem I had dealt for about half my life. Now, you made realize that it’s actually a sin and that I must work on take it out of my life.
Wow! Eye-opening!
Father Mike you complete my day each time I listen to you.
I needed this. Thank you.
Thank you Fr. Mike.
Keep ‘em coming, Fr. Mike and AP! 🕊️🍇
The timing on this!
Wonderful!
I was always worried about what other people thought about me cus I wanted everyone to like me. But I don't care if people like me anymore I am who I am and I believe what I believe. Courage to be yourself
Your videos always teach me so much . I really appreciate your videos ❤❤
Thank you for this!
That's so helpful Fr. Mike!!!
Thank you
Thank you, Father Mike!!!
Fr. Mike well said . My friend say stop talking about Jesus Christ and I will stop talking about Jesus . Father make I actually listen to catechism in the year podcast Bible in a year and I really like it I always put on my headphones work on my GED school work and just listen to what I need to hear you are seriously amazing my minister I have two ministers I have one minister who is a Catholic priest and one minister is just a My Catholic priest Father sean he got me into watching watching your videos and listening to your podcast so keep on doing what you’re doing and changing peoples lives.
Thank you for this.
This hit me right in the heart. Excellent!
That was such a helpful definition. Thank you.
WOW! SO GLAD TO HEAR THIS. I thought because I got my grey colored & nails done that was vain. So happy. I understand now thank goodness 🙏🏻
Another great message. Thank you Father.
very well relayed message, thank you
Very insightful observations. Thanks
Thank you
You are such a healing person/ learning so much by your talks. Beyond refreshing!
What if what I fear is losing a friend? I don’t really care what other people think of me but the moment I make a friend I start worrying about what I say or do to not upset them….
So glad you have recovered from the cold Fr. !!❤️🙏☘️
This video was perfect timing and exactly what I needed today. Thank you
Thank you Father
Thank you Fr. Mike, good for thought. Needed to hear this. God bless
Thank You Fr. Mike, this was a Godsend ❤ Need to hear this today😊
Yes, Carly Simon. She wrote it for Mick Jagger.
Thanks.o had.fogotten about vanity and the lessons, also.its meaning, I found selflessness in thought, action and prayer the truth and salvation in removing vanity from my self.
great point
A good explanation of a conolex topic. Thanks Fr Mike.
Amen Father
Thank you thank you Father Mike. Very timely message I needed to here. Thank you again.
Thanks Father, I was praying for a video on this topic, my preoccupation with what others think was something I wanted to work on this Lent.
This is great!! As usual, Father Mike, you know exactly what to say which always makes sense and makes me feel so much better. Thank you for your wise words.
You cannot imagine how much this has helped....
Praise to you God and Jesus Christ😇🙏❤
I really needed to hear this, thank you! I've been going through layers of realizing that caring too much about what others think & trying to manage their expectations/ impressions & even not allowing them to reject me -- that all this is immature and doesn't allow for real connection and that I want to grow past this.
That the cure for vanity is being rooted in our identity, being firm: this resonates so much. 🙏🙏 Something I'm excited to explore during Lent & going forward 😊
EXCELLENT !!!!!!!
You have a GREAT way of explaining things, Gracias Father Mike GOD Bless YOU. 👍💯💯✌️💯
Best one by far
Don’t ever forget that you are loved more than you can imagine by a God who created you out of love. This NEVER changes even if friends do❤
father you were spitting facts with this one
24yrs Catholic….very devote as an adolescent… I’m struggling with faith as an adult…. I believe in God, sometimes I feel there is a selfishness in religion and I don’t understand…. I hate having questions because they distance me from God …. Any advise?
Are listening to Catechism in a Year? You may find the answers to your questions.
Jesus I love you. All I have is yours. Yours I am and yours I want to be. Do with me whatever you will. Amen