What am l to thee, that all thy mercies sweet, like sunshine fall so constant on my way! That thy great love should shelter me and guard my steps so tenderly through each and every day 😊🙏
I'm not afraid of God. I just can't figure out why he'd notice me at all. I'm nobody. I'm less than nobody; I'm an invalid, I'm old and poor and helpless. I'm a terrible servant! And yet God still loves me. That is amazing.
But you are not 'nobody', you are a child of God (although i understand your meaning) I am a terrible sinner and at the lowest point of my life, ready to exit by self harm, I heard a Church bell ring, I returned to Church and my new journey with God began, still on this road and when I doubt God's love I just sing, Jesus loves me, over and over. It works for me. How blessed we are to receive such love and forgiveness ❤️ 🙏 God bless you.
Being a mother has helped me 100% understand how God feels about us. If my kids messed up, I would never want them to hide from me. I would want to be the first person they came to so I can help them. I think that’s how God feels about us.
How did you learn it, or better how did it change your life - this realization that God loves you? I always had scrupulosity. In 2016 to the point I was diagnosed with OCD, so your input would be very much appreciated. Thank you.
Father Columba, I stopped going to mass due to the non-acceptance of my autistic/adhd son. Bottom line he just wasn't wanted at the school and was rejected by other parents as if this condition is contagious. He is a young adult now and has improved but he is still who he is. I had to walk away and teach him, that was not the way. He is very accepting of others but struggled with why he was not accepted. I had to take his formation into my hands as well as his education. He has done his communion but he isn't sure he wants confirmation. As luck would have it my oldest son has a son also on the spectrum which I also help take care of. I love that you get so real with us. I think Catholics in America could use some dose of reality.
Please pray for me and most importantly students and staff who are in great need of divine intervention. The company is firing me a teacher for not using gender preferred pronouns. Please pray for these folks to encounter the goodness and love of God!
A beaut! Excelled yourself, Father. I stopped going to mass for years because I was "too sinful" - which I was - and He kept holding the door open and inviting me in. The enemy is the antithesis of Love, but God IS Love, and that's what I forgot.
Hello Katie and Father Columba. I just want to say that I have been incredibly blessed by these videos and share them to my family. Religious people truly are a gift to people like me who get distracted by the world. With videos like this I can see plainly the kind of heart people who are close to God have which makes me more and more attracted to the Faith and want to continue being faithful. As soon as I am able I will help whatever I can. I continue to pray for you all.
This is exactly what I found out several years ago and changed my life. I was reading about st Theresa of Lisieux and when she explains about two children who sadden their father. One kisses his father telling him how much he loves him and the other runs away. I was the second one. And I thought at the time that the first one was cheeky. When I began to see that it wasn't true my heart almost burst into joy. I still have to remember this truth, but my relationship with God has totally changed for good. Sorry I'm Spanish and my English is not good.
When I see what Christ went through to redeem us it makes me wonder : How could he have gone through it all knowing in advance where this was all going. After losing my best friend I became scared of death, only to find out later that it was the fear of separation, the absence of love. If we were convinced of eternal love, we would no longer fear death. Lord give us that inner certainty so that we can nestle into your ever open arms, not later but right now.
Thank you Father. I can't say just how helpful this is!!!! I have never heard this all important point addressed so well, so deeply and so practically. May God keep blessing you abundantly so you can keep feeding us. We long for The Splendor of TRUTH.
When I came to faith I found great comfort in the parable of the Prodigal Son. Then, along the line I heard some priest (or other Christian "authority figure") say that "we begin as the prodigal son but at one point we need to accept that now we have been saved, so we have to learn to identify with the other son, only without feeling the envy that he did." It is several years ago, and it did something to me which I just only now as I hear this, begin to realize the impact of. Because I am the prodigal son and I can't in any honest way promise that I'll "stay at home" - so, I guess it's been creating a shame spiral instead of a trust spiral. Thank you, fr. Columba, for alerting me to this!
God IS our Father!❣️I love Him soo much! I'm not perfect, I have fallen. I go to Him as His child, I ask for forgiveness, and there is our Father, picking me up in His Loving Arms & Mercy. I also believe God has protected me from what (I thought) I wanted, & I am grateful. His Love & Mercy is everlasting! 💞This is awesome, you make me smile with your message & delivery.😊 God bless you & all!🙏
Dear Fr. Columba. I am gonna call you from now on ' MAN OF GOD'. Thank you. Fr, you spoke after you practiced and experienced the Love of God. This is so deep.. Dear Fr, please pray for us that we all experience this truth in depth.. Thank you ctm team.. 🌹
thank you! I needed this. It's hard still for me to think that God loves me as much as He does future saints let alone Christ. But by His Grace I'll be there
🙏🏻Thank you Father..AMEN to all you said! ❤️🔥+The turning point came when Jesus made it crystal clear….”Your love for Me wavers..My Love for you never wavers!”+❤️🔥
Thank you Fr. Columba! Please consider a video for people suffering from terrible scruples and how they might find a way out of them. This video seems like the first step for a scrupulous mind, but if you have more advice that would be great to hear as well. God bless and thank you for your videos.
Hello Father, Calling from Belgium and rejoycing every bit of your talks... One question : I'm convinced the Lord loves me, I feel like a Sunday child, walking through life with a light step even when my parents died very early in my life, even when my husband got a brain tumor (we have 4 children at the time quite young...), even when I lost my husband after almost 15 years of illness (which is very exceptional for cancer in the brain, but I asked that our children would have boh parents untill they would be able to look after themselves... which was literally the case!). So I really feel very loved, my question is: How do I know I love the Lord???? Sometimes I doubt that I do not love Him, does He really come in the first place when I get up in the morning,. During Mass we say that we want the thank Him always and everywhere... Well, this is certainly not the case. I feel comfortable with the knowledge that He is always there, caring for me. I doubt whether I care enough for Him, how can I show my love - or is it not really love.. maybe...??? Thank you for all your fine work!
Excellent fr culumba great message very clear love that jesus is our Lord hecis do loving ❤️ peace to all our brothers n sisters who know this in ghere hearts 💕 AMEN 🙏
Amen.Thank you Fr.,i struggle with accepting this truth:that i am loved by God,i carry around this huge feeling of unworthiness,& it is like a weight,a block .Thank you for this message today.,God Bless You Father.I think i will need to keep coming back to this message,here, until it sinks right into my very core;my heart,mind,body,my bones as u put it ,& my soul.Lord Jesus please help me to accept Your Divine Mercy,for i am a sinner,burdened by my past sin,please help me to let go of this.please Lord Jesus help me as i struggle to put my Trust in You.Amen.Thank you Lord Jesus.❤🕊
Hello Fr, I feel I keep messing up with God right before a breakthrough and then can feel Him backing off when I do... I hate my stupidity but always default to it so easily.
Could you do a video on how to live Sunday as the day of the Lord - while for our environment it's mostly a day of sleep and loneliness? This would be super helpful!
My heart can most easily know Mary's love, the motherly love. So yep, in light of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, I do have this obstacle you speak of. (....but thank God for Mary! although I'm not Catholic Christian, also a church obstacle going on here) But in the meantime Fr Columba would you pray for my horse, with respect to your namesake? My horse buddy is getting old and for awhile now I have wondered if he is well and I just want to know what to do and how I can help him. Huge thank you
So in Hebrews " bring many sons to glory" means not just accepting Christ as savior his mercy his love, but without becoming obedient learning how change life with repentance. Or learning how to turn a broken will over to Gods will? Learning how to "let God" do for us that which we cannot do for our-self? What if a person accepts Jesus as Lord and savior but never changer their sinful life will they go to hell?
Hmm interesting. Personally my biggest obstacle is the litergy. I would be much more inclined to go if it was sermons explaining things like these videos, but I find the repeated sayings back and forth (with a number of the congregation sounding not very interested) kill any engagement or dialogue. Its like jumping into a classroom at school half way through them memorising times tables.
That can be demoralising, I’m sorry that’s been your experience. Hopefully there is a better parish nearby, it may be worth having a scout around. Also, just remembering that although the sermons may be lacklustre at times, we’re there for the worship of God and we should try (even though it is difficult) to focus on giving Him what He is due.
Leaving in flocks, cause we pray,call out, weep and no answer, as if no-one there. Yet He said He wouldn't turn anyone away, I'm knocking n no-one home?
Marilyn do not give up the Eucharist and your mass because of your precious son.never First of all people do not think evil hthat son of yours makes our hearts turn to God because you let him be born.Today we need to see these happenings it let's us thank God for our life . Today they are able to get jobs big or small and really take him with you to church.you need the grace to take care of yourself and your son. I will keep all this in our prayers and you will thank God for this grace. I am Sr M Thecla Boston We are medis nuns and you can get us on RUclips and other places on the cellphone.
In my experience people don't go to Mass because they stopped believing. They realized religion is only a matter of tradition and didn't find Jesus "useful" in their everyday life.
A very good message Father.
What am l to thee, that all thy mercies sweet, like sunshine fall so constant on my way! That thy great love should shelter me and guard my steps so tenderly through each and every day 😊🙏
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As an abuse survivor, this video was so helpful in pointing to Gods love, in spite of evil circumstances
We are delighted that this video could help you! Thank you for watching.
Thank you for this. Beautifully explained. God bless.
I'm not afraid of God. I just can't figure out why he'd notice me at all. I'm nobody. I'm less than nobody; I'm an invalid, I'm old and poor and helpless. I'm a terrible servant!
And yet God still loves me. That is amazing.
He sure does, loves you more than you can comprehend!
But you are not 'nobody', you are a child of God (although i understand your meaning) I am a terrible sinner and at the lowest point of my life, ready to exit by self harm, I heard a Church bell ring, I returned to Church and my new journey with God began, still on this road and when I doubt God's love I just sing, Jesus loves me, over and over. It works for me. How blessed we are to receive such love and forgiveness ❤️ 🙏 God bless you.
Being a mother has helped me 100% understand how God feels about us. If my kids messed up, I would never want them to hide from me. I would want to be the first person they came to so I can help them. I think that’s how God feels about us.
Boy did i cry through this,thank you father,i needed this, especially when you think your not worthy many times,God bless🙏
You’re very welcome! God bless you.
Thank you for this beautiful message. I took me 60 years to learn these truths. You are often in my prayers.
it took me 40+
You’re so welcome!
How did you learn it, or better how did it change your life - this realization that God loves you? I always had scrupulosity. In 2016 to the point I was diagnosed with OCD, so your input would be very much appreciated. Thank you.
So helpful, so beautiful. Thank you Father. God bless you all
Really glad to hear that. Thank you! God bless.
Thank-you father. We don't want to loose our churches. God's house.
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SO helpful. Thank you Father.
You’re welcome.
Father Columba, I stopped going to mass due to the non-acceptance of my autistic/adhd son. Bottom line he just wasn't wanted at the school and was rejected by other parents as if this condition is contagious. He is a young adult now and has improved but he is still who he is. I had to walk away and teach him, that was not the way. He is very accepting of others but struggled with why he was not accepted. I had to take his formation into my hands as well as his education. He has done his communion but he isn't sure he wants confirmation. As luck would have it my oldest son has a son also on the spectrum which I also help take care of. I love that you get so real with us. I think Catholics in America could use some dose of reality.
Please pray for me and most importantly students and staff who are in great need of divine intervention. The company is firing me a teacher for not using gender preferred pronouns. Please pray for these folks to encounter the goodness and love of God!
Very sorry to hear that Kate, you are in our prayers!
One of the best in this series. I am so glad that I, as a new 67 year-old Catholic, found or was guided to (likely) Father Columba
So glad you found us!
A beaut! Excelled yourself, Father. I stopped going to mass for years because I was "too sinful" - which I was - and He kept holding the door open and inviting me in. The enemy is the antithesis of Love, but God IS Love, and that's what I forgot.
Thank you Father Col, you are so much sunshine to the square inch, bless you 👍🏻
Thank you!
Thank you. ❤
You’re welcome.
A pleasure 🙏
Hello Katie and Father Columba. I just want to say that I have been incredibly blessed by these videos and share them to my family. Religious people truly are a gift to people like me who get distracted by the world. With videos like this I can see plainly the kind of heart people who are close to God have which makes me more and more attracted to the Faith and want to continue being faithful. As soon as I am able I will help whatever I can. I continue to pray for you all.
You have no idea how much I needed to hear this, even as a churchgoer...thank you for your word and works. God bless you!!!
God bless you.
Powerful and beautifully practical, thank Fr Columba. 😊
You are so welcome.
This is exactly what I found out several years ago and changed my life. I was reading about st Theresa of Lisieux and when she explains about two children who sadden their father. One kisses his father telling him how much he loves him and the other runs away. I was the second one. And I thought at the time that the first one was cheeky. When I began to see that it wasn't true my heart almost burst into joy.
I still have to remember this truth, but my relationship with God has totally changed for good.
Sorry I'm Spanish and my English is not good.
When I see what Christ went through to redeem us it makes me wonder : How could he have gone through it all knowing in advance where this was all going. After losing my best friend I became scared of death, only to find out later that it was the fear of separation, the absence of love. If we were convinced of eternal love, we would no longer fear death. Lord give us that inner certainty so that we can nestle into your ever open arms, not later but right now.
Thank you Father. I can't say just how helpful this is!!!! I have never heard this all important point addressed so well, so deeply and so practically. May God keep blessing you abundantly so you can keep feeding us. We long for The Splendor of TRUTH.
Thank you. May God bless you!
When I came to faith I found great comfort in the parable of the Prodigal Son. Then, along the line I heard some priest (or other Christian "authority figure") say that "we begin as the prodigal son but at one point we need to accept that now we have been saved, so we have to learn to identify with the other son, only without feeling the envy that he did." It is several years ago, and it did something to me which I just only now as I hear this, begin to realize the impact of. Because I am the prodigal son and I can't in any honest way promise that I'll "stay at home" - so, I guess it's been creating a shame spiral instead of a trust spiral. Thank you, fr. Columba, for alerting me to this!
That’s great insight, Zenia, thank you for sharing ❤️
@@ctmcatholic Thank you :) I have returned to this video several times since it was posted. I'm very grateful to have found it, so thanks again :)
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Very beautiful and uplifting. God Bless you for doing these programs!
Glad you like them!
Thank you Father, God bless you. 🙏🕯🌹🕊❤️
You’re welcome. God bless you, Jane.
Thank you, as always, Father, for sharing your wisdom. God Bless you.
A pleasure, blessings to you, friend!
Thank you Father for all that you do. I am praying for you please pray for me. God bless you
Thank you Fr, a wonderful reminder of Gods love for us ❤️ 🙏 love and prayers from Kilkenny, 🍀🇮🇪
Thank you, Ann. 💙
I have newly found your channel and I absolutely love your videos and I’m thankful for them. This one really was needed!
So helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
I have been very blessed by many of the videos in the Little By Little series, and by this video in particular. Thank you 😊
Amazing to hear, thank you. God bless you!
Crowd out the doubt ... LOVE THIS
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lifechanging!
Amazing. God bless you, Beatriz!
Thank you, father! 💕🙏
You’re welcome!
God IS our Father!❣️I love Him soo much! I'm not perfect, I have fallen. I go to Him as His child, I ask for forgiveness, and there is our Father, picking me up in His Loving Arms & Mercy. I also believe God has protected me from what (I thought) I wanted, & I am grateful. His Love & Mercy is everlasting! 💞This is awesome, you make me smile with your message & delivery.😊 God bless you & all!🙏
Amen to this. May God bless you.
@@ctmcatholic Thank you! 😇🙏💕
Thank you father.
I'll meditate about this line:
"Prayer through will molds the heart"
You’re very welcome
Beautiful💖 Loved the scriptures at the end and turning them into acts of faith! I wrote them down. Thank you Father, God bless you!
Glad you enjoyed it! God bless you.
Dear Fr. Columba. I am gonna call you from now on ' MAN OF GOD'. Thank you.
Fr, you spoke after you practiced and experienced the Love of God. This is so deep.. Dear Fr, please pray for us that we all experience this truth in depth..
Thank you ctm team.. 🌹
So glad to hear you enjoyed this episode, Basil. Thank you. May God bless you!
Amazing grace Father ! Thank you !
You’re welcome!
thank you! I needed this. It's hard still for me to think that God loves me as much as He does future saints let alone Christ. But by His Grace I'll be there
He truly does!
Brilliant!! Thank you Father!🌸❤🌸
This is EXACTLY what I need too hear!!😃
Glad to hear it!
🙏🏻Thank you Father..AMEN to all you said!
❤️🔥+The turning point came when Jesus made it crystal clear….”Your love for Me wavers..My Love for you never wavers!”+❤️🔥
Amen
Thank you Fr. Columba! Please consider a video for people suffering from terrible scruples and how they might find a way out of them. This video seems like the first step for a scrupulous mind, but if you have more advice that would be great to hear as well. God bless and thank you for your videos.
That’s a great suggestion, thank you. We’ll bring it up at our next planning meeting.
Hello Father, Calling from Belgium and rejoycing every bit of your talks... One question : I'm convinced the Lord loves me, I feel like a Sunday child, walking through life with a light step even when my parents died very early in my life, even when my husband got a brain tumor (we have 4 children at the time quite young...), even when I lost my husband after almost 15 years of illness (which is very exceptional for cancer in the brain, but I asked that our children would have boh parents untill they would be able to look after themselves... which was literally the case!). So I really feel very loved, my question is: How do I know I love the Lord???? Sometimes I doubt that I do not love Him, does He really come in the first place when I get up in the morning,. During Mass we say that we want the thank Him always and everywhere... Well, this is certainly not the case. I feel comfortable with the knowledge that He is always there, caring for me. I doubt whether I care enough for Him, how can I show my love - or is it not really love.. maybe...???
Thank you for all your fine work!
Excellent fr culumba great message very clear love that jesus is our Lord hecis do loving ❤️ peace to all our brothers n sisters who know this in ghere hearts 💕 AMEN 🙏
Amen
Amen.Thank you Fr.,i struggle with accepting this truth:that i am loved by God,i carry around this huge feeling of unworthiness,& it is like a weight,a block .Thank you for this message today.,God Bless You Father.I think i will need to keep coming back to this message,here, until it sinks right into my very core;my heart,mind,body,my bones as u put it ,& my soul.Lord Jesus please help me to accept Your Divine Mercy,for i am a sinner,burdened by my past sin,please help me to let go of this.please Lord Jesus help me as i struggle to put my Trust in You.Amen.Thank you Lord Jesus.❤🕊
Bless you, thank you for writing these lovely words. You’re in our prayers!
divine mercy i trust in you amen thank you father bless you needed to here this
So beautiful and so SO helpful , thank you father .
Praise God, wonderful!
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Amen. Thank you. God bless you.
You are so welcome! God bless!
Thank you father.
A pleasure!
He is so loving ...
God bless you!
Hello Fr, I feel I keep messing up with God right before a breakthrough and then can feel Him backing off when I do... I hate my stupidity but always default to it so easily.
Amen...can you tell me what Bible version of Jerimiah 31:3 you were reading from...it is most beautiful...
Could you do a video on how to live Sunday as the day of the Lord - while for our environment it's mostly a day of sleep and loneliness? This would be super helpful!
That’s a great suggestion, thank you. We’ll bring it up at the next content planning session!
Love this, so true, Amen
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My heart can most easily know Mary's love, the motherly love. So yep, in light of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, I do have this obstacle you speak of. (....but thank God for Mary! although I'm not Catholic Christian, also a church obstacle going on here) But in the meantime Fr Columba would you pray for my horse, with respect to your namesake? My horse buddy is getting old and for awhile now I have wondered if he is well and I just want to know what to do and how I can help him.
Huge thank you
Will say a prayer of course!
@@ctmcatholic thank you for your prayer and service to God
So in Hebrews " bring many sons to glory" means not just accepting Christ as savior his mercy his love, but without becoming obedient learning how change life with repentance. Or learning how to turn a broken will over to Gods will? Learning how to "let God" do for us that which we cannot do for our-self? What if a person accepts Jesus as Lord and savior but never changer their sinful life will they go to hell?
Hmm interesting. Personally my biggest obstacle is the litergy. I would be much more inclined to go if it was sermons explaining things like these videos, but I find the repeated sayings back and forth (with a number of the congregation sounding not very interested) kill any engagement or dialogue.
Its like jumping into a classroom at school half way through them memorising times tables.
That can be demoralising, I’m sorry that’s been your experience. Hopefully there is a better parish nearby, it may be worth having a scout around. Also, just remembering that although the sermons may be lacklustre at times, we’re there for the worship of God and we should try (even though it is difficult) to focus on giving Him what He is due.
Leaving in flocks, cause we pray,call out, weep and no answer, as if no-one there. Yet He said He wouldn't turn anyone away, I'm knocking n no-one home?
Bless you, Frank. If it’s useful here’s a video Father did recently on how to always get what you pray for: ruclips.net/video/rX_QJpN3NiY/видео.html
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Marilyn do not give up the Eucharist and your mass because of your precious son.never
First of all people do not think evil hthat son of yours makes our hearts turn to God because you let him be born.Today we need to see these happenings it let's us thank God for our life .
Today they are able to get jobs big or small and really take him with you to church.you need the grace to take care of yourself and your son.
I will keep all this in our prayers and you will thank God for this grace.
I am Sr M Thecla Boston
We are medis nuns and you can get us on RUclips and other places on the cellphone.
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In my experience people don't go to Mass because they stopped believing.
They realized religion is only a matter of tradition and didn't find Jesus "useful" in their everyday life.
A shame to leave and not know!
Is fr. Talking directly to anyone else? Lol