"What is the Mark of a Humble Person?" + 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Mike's Homily)
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2022
- Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less.
The Book of Sirach makes the claim that the humble person is loved more than a giver of gifts. But what does it mean to be humble? Does it mean what most of us automatically think of? Or does it mean something deeper...something freer? True humility gives a person the ability to pay attention.
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Thank you Father, you just saved my relationship of 42 years. 😊
@17:57 "Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it's thinking of yourself less."
Thank you Fr. Mike. Words of wisdom.
I am SUPER impressed that Father Mike quoted Rick Warren.
HERE is Our Savior
YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins, NOT jesus, and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
I LOVE THIS STATEMENT! Thank You 🙏🏻
@@elizabethwightman4700 Fr. Mike delivers wonderful homilies. Thank you Elizabeth. God Bless you.
See C.S. Lewis's "Mere Christianity," the chapter "Pride"
Struck by the idea that Jesus is a humble person. He just listens when I speak to Him. He is always interested in us. He is truth/honesty. He models gratitude in prayer to the Father. He is love. Praise His Holy, Humble Name!
Amen
Amen Deborah!! Praise be to Him
Of course he listens. It's getting him (or anyone else dead) to talk back, that's the trick.
God gave us two ears and one mouth, that we would listen twice as much as we speak.
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Poor Hellen Keller.
Cannot begin to count the number of times I heard those words from my father. Thanks!
"Live in the eulogy virtue of humility. Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.. The mark of true humility is to just pay attention. To who? To someone who can't pay you back. Just pay attention and listen. Be honest. At the end of our lives, all we have left are the eulogy virtues." Thank you so much, Fr. Mike! God bless you and may you teach more people with humility, fun, honesty. 😊🙏
i am a.d.d. and really have to pray to listen well! When i do, i see such beauty in another!
thank you. such realistic and practical applications
{...To someone who can't pay you back...}
🙏🏿🙏🏾👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😌😭💞
Fr. Mike I loved this Homily. I've been away from the church for 52 yrs. I need help coming back. I need help.
Have you done Bible in a Year John? If not, get at it! It was a jump start for me. Actually, I was an atheist for well over a decade, started BiY, and months later enrolled in RCIA, April had my first communion.
Agree.. same here. BIAY and Father Mike brought me back. So incredibly grateful.. my heart is changed
Heaven is rejoicing 💗 ! Be patient with yourself. Spend silent time in front of the Holy Eucharist , read the Holy Bible, but if you start to talk negatively to yourself- get up and help feed the homeless, clean your local church , volunteer 🙏🏼 You are not alone in this walk 💗 God bless
Just GO to mass :) just be there :) that’s a start :)
Your in a great spot right now, Fr. Mike is a great preacher! Go to confession. Then go to Mass. And Pray, Pray, Pray. 🙏
"She held her ideal weight until the very end!" Bless you, Fr Mike, for helping us keep our eyes on the correct goal!
But this made me laugh!!
Laughed but REAL trap to be aware for women of this world!
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this right here made me bust out laughing
As the kids in ballet schools say, "live fast, die young, leave a pretty corpse."
If you can truly say sorry when you hurt others you are humble.
Eye contact in a conversation with your parents, spouse, children, friends, people you work with, grocery clerk, a homeless person is so important. It shows them they matter.
Yes you are right .give them your 5 minutes of affirmation!
But what if you are on the autism spectrum?
Good manors go a long way as well
I hear JPII had that super power, treated people as if they were the only other person in the world...in spite of all the people he met on a daily basis.
I went to mass this morning and couldn't wait to come home and listen to Father Mike's homily. I get so much more from Fr Mike. ❣️
Why do you think he is the "face" of the church? Good looking? Charming? Etc..
@@glennherron9499 because in his videos he gives you things you can really think about, so much that you could come back to it again and learn something else
@@veradux5580 Really? What I have learned over the past few months is that the catholic church claims to have been the only church in existence until the protestants broke away yet as the Apostles and Disciples criss crossed the regions they built thousands of churches proclaiming Jesus resurrected! In Acts they are first called Christians, not catholics. So Christian churches predate catholicism and has existed before, during, and after. The "protestant" movement happened when many realized that the catholic church was practicing false teachings, so many returned to Christianity. The catholic church claims they wrote the Bible, yet they proclaim that us "ordinary", "uneducated" aren't smart enough to interpret it! So apparently John 3:16 is is over our heads and so we can't read what's in the Bible, we have to have it explained to us at Mass. If the catholic church wrote the Bible, brag about writing the Bible, why don't they practice what's in the Bible?
The catholic church teaches that's it's ok to have graven images. Odd that they refused to list that warning in their 10 Commandments but warn against wanting your neighbor's stuff! Jesus said there is but one Father, yet aren't we taught to call the priest "Father"? In scripture when Jesus was asked how we should pray He said, "Our Father....", not once did Jesus pray to anyone except God. The catholic church teaches us to pray to Mary and yet cannot provide scripture showing us that she was taken to heaven and isn't asleep in Christ like other Christians. They proclaim that Mary is a perpetual virgin, that she not once had relations with Joseph but in Matthew 1:25 we are told that Joseph waited until Mary had Jesus before he knew her, had relations with her. In Matthew 12:46 Jesus is told His mother and brothers are outside and He pointed to the believers in front of Him and said, "Here are My mother and brothers"! In Matthew 13:55-56 we are told that He is the son of Joseph, son of Mary, and it lists by name all of His brothers and even mentions that He has sisters! Three solid scriptures showing us Mary did not remain a virgin. Name on verse that tells us she remained a virgin... Yet the church would have you stop praying to God and pray to her! In scripture where are we told to pray to anyone except for God?
In Matthew the catholic church teaches that when Jesus said "Peter, I will build My Church upon "this" rock" they explain it as Jesus is telling Peter since Peter means "rock" I am going to put all of My hopes on you to carry everything I am doing into the future. Nevermind in verse 23 Jesus destroys Peter and calls him, "Satan"! Nevermind that Peter denied Jesus three times! Nevermind that Paul chastized him for his false teachings! Nevermind that in all of Peter's writings he refers to Jesus the Rock, the Cornerstone! Not once mentioning that he (Peter) is the rock and that he is creating the catholic church.
Scripture tells us there is one Mediator, Christ Jesus! The catholic church teaches us to pray to Mary, to the saints.,.
On and on, verse after verse of scripture is ignored as church doctrine is pushed. Stop bragging about creating the Bible if you refuse to acknowledge what's in it. Stop demanding people don't read it and wait for your explanation of what's in it! The message of the cross is a simple one, Jesus came to be the Lamb of God, to endure the cross for our sins! The catholic church teaches doctrine that does it's best to make the gospel harder to understand so that the congregation will accept what's taught as the truth and give it more weight than actual scripture!
How about instead of coming back to his videos again and again you take that time and read your Bible, again and again? Take that time on your knees praying to God, again and again?
@@veradux5580 .
I agree , I actually sit in mass and think of Father Mikes words , I know I have to not do this, but my mind wanders
I listened to this 4 times and took notes to ponder further into this week. Great homily! Thanks for sharing it. 🙏🕊😇
Me too.
Yeah, Father Mike has a way of jam packing messages between the messages. I find I have to often listen at least twice.🙏🏻🙏🏻
Yes i take notes, too. Every monday i listen to several homilies of different priests in the internet on the Sunday gospel and take notes. Amazing to hear the richness of the gospel. Food for our soul indeed.
Humility is knowing your place before God.
Love this comment. Beautiful
Beautiful, thank you 🙏🏼❤️
Wow!! I am 70 years old and I learned so much from this homily on how to be humble. I am a retired social worker so I am a good listener but I lack something……….I am resentful when it is not reciprocated…….thank you, Father….. you always say it perfectly…..
We all are learning thank you for your authenticity ❤️❤️❤️
God bless You, Patricia, social worker. 💐❤️👑
@@zeljkabozic5781 😌thank you
Ditto... 😢😌🧔
Me too!
Whoa. What a powerful message “ She maintained her ideal weight” I feel called out …in a good way ❤️🙏❤️
There's a beautiful prayer called the "Litany of Humility.'. Also Jesus asked us to pray the chaplet of the Holy Face to defeat communism.
Left me crying!😭😭😭
Thank you brother Fr. Mike!
My Father, now in Coma, gave to much attention even won’t asked for, he made it know with music chosen or each individual, now we each pretty much remember how he would play it over and over the whole day for the individual. People take elders for granted while alive until it’s no longer there. A Father, a grandfather, a friend, a businessman, a. Brother always making the time to say “Hello, is there anything you need” to his kids. He was the perfect sample and teacher to humility. He gave the little retirement $ to help as much he could for others needs, he just wanted to help even though he was left broke and nothing to eat.
I really enjoyed your homily on humility. ❤
God Bless!
When you listen to someone you’ll see their eyes start to light up as they realize your listening. Especially the children.
Father Mike has just given one of the most important homilies in this modern age...
Thank you , Father. You are a saint sent by God to teach us to become like Jesus.
What a coincidence. My mum passed on 2 weeks ago. Haven't been to church since. Then I get online and hear this.
Thank 🙏 you.
May she rest well and may you adjust well.
Great message. I feel like a new hope at regular life.
Fr mike we love you
After 51 years away from my French Catholic 18 years of Schooling, I am in the process of seeing if I belong to this church, again. I am a recent widow of a non Catholic atheist. Due to complicated grief, I am looking for something outside of myself. Somewhere to take in for awhile, before I can give out again.
I have resumed my French prayers…Jeanne ( retired RN)
"The person who thinks of themselves less is free to pay attention to whoever is in front of them."
I absolutely love this. I realized the same about the gift of being present by being free of unnecessary distractions.
Thank you Fr. Mike
Always be humble, gentle, and patient, bearing with one another in love.
Ephesians 4:2
Thanks to my friends and family were worried about me the last six months. I’m sorry I put everyone through hell it had to be done. Father told me it had to be done this way. It was the only way we could get everyone to the table so we can get the questions answered about the truth, not the false
Another great message jesus is blessing us through you
Fr. Mike
Thanks for your teaching
Humility is a work in progress for many of us.
I hope to remember and live the words always
Pay attention to the person in front of me .
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Great video, Fr Mike Schmitz! I found it really helpful :)
So to be humble is to...
1. Be honest
2. Be grateful
3. Pay attention to others (think of yourself less and NOT less of yourself).
Something so simple yet so many times we get it wrong. I get it wrong. Thank you...
Being humble is willing to acknowledge the truth about one’s self.
I am not religious. This brought tears to my eyes
This is so powerful . Thank you for all your lovely clarifications
Love your approach to humility and bringing it down so that parishioners can relate to. Your enthusiasm shows. Be blest always
Thank you so much for this.. I have had it all wrong. Or more so, I had the definition of Humility, but not the whole thing. I struggle with self image, and I used to be so bad that it literally caused me physical pain to be complimented. Back in High School through my young adulthood. Thank God, he sent me people that helped me get over that.
Even with that help I was still missing understanding of true humility. I was still struggling with that self image... Until now. After all these years I finally heard what makes perfect sense. Thank you Father Mike. Because you are right, the other way.. the way I was doing it was not it. No wonder I still felt lost.
I have truly taken this to heart.. Thank you.
God Bless you and all your Works.
Viva Cristo Rey
Definitely needed this today! First day in New York City and it’s been overwhelming to say the least. It’s so funny how a homily about humility brightens my spirit more than anything else all day!
HERE is Our Savior
YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins, NOT jesus, and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
Bless you ... 🌿🙏🏾🌿
Bless me, Father, for I have loved your homily. This one spoke to me.
*To take up the yoke for the Lord.*
Amen.
Such are the folks who are like sheep dogs in the Military, First Reaponder, and Law Enforcement communities. It is a nobel profession to guard the Shepherd's sheep.
@@Tacit_Tern
To be in the service to one's country and community, is to be of service to the Lord.
@@CHINESE_PRIDE Do you have scripture telling us that?
I woke up with this parable of Jesus on my mind!
Every single person has value and a story.
We have to look for opportunities to listen and guess what? We are the ones who will be blessed.
That’s excellent and it’s so true! God bless you…
Can you be Pope already? Thank you so much for your message, Father!
I love you, Father Mike.
I love Fr. Mike and I did stop the video here to comment and will return to it after…BUT I have to say, Elon Musk will be remembered forever for some of the most impactful inventions of humankind! That’s a pretty distinctive headstone. I think Father’s point is certainly applicable to a billionaire banker, perhaps…someone who simply earned money. That’s not Musk’s MO. Having said all of that, I do get the overarching point. 🙏Word. 🙏
Beauty, intelligence, wealth and health must be used for the Kingdom of God’s triumph.
A great saint once said: To walk in humility is to journey in the truth.
Who is that saint?
@@commonsensecatholics I think it was St Therese of Lisieux, but I am not certain of that.
Especially give God attention. God deserves our praise thanks, love and time...
Prayer and read your Bible every single day!
I am so grateful that the Lord has led me to this channel. Thank you for taking the time to share your wisdom with us. I feel I have learned a great deal from this lesson in particular. This will be one I will come back to over and over again
This teaching on Humility! I have 3 books on Humility, and I still struggle! I love Fr. Dubay. He was wonderful. Thx for sharing the story about him. Oh, and I owned a nordatrack MANY years ago. 😂
This is incredible
No u hauls behind a hearse. Humility, Respect, Patience. Thank you Fr Mike
Padre con todo respeto. This sermon was amazing I watched twice and tomorrow I'll watch it again.
thank you for preaching this sermon. Amen✝
This is so strange as when I prayed last week the Holy Spirit clearly said to me humility. I pondered about this and then your u tube channel came into my sighting. God is always there we just need to remember to have our quiet 🤫 time and shut out all the turmoil in this wicked world.
Wow!!! Rich, deep, apt. Thank you, Fr Mike.
Time is valuable, and when we take the time to pay attention to someone to listen to what they have to say or share, we might learn something new, or seeing their adventures through their eyes, and be amazed of their accomplishments.
Thank you Father Mike. God bless you.
Fr Mike, keep up your great work. Listening to you from London, England
Another great lesson. Thank you Fr. Mark. References about humility were enlightening. Real world applications resonate between my ears well. Rick Warren is quite a warrior. Attention is a basic form of love, so true!
Many years ago, I had the privilege to meet Fr. Joe Martin (of "Chalk Talk" fame). He put it this way: the reason most of us like to visit grandma is because it is likely that she is a "You" person. What would You like to do; what would You like for dinner; what is Your favorite desert; etc . Grandma is all about You!
If you want to be complimented for being a wonderful conversationalist, develop your listening skills.
Your grandma sounds like my late mom. Shes so loved and still missed by us and all who knew and felt loved by her warmth, giving and loving nature. God bless her soul and all who worship God our Creator Abba Father and honor Mother Mary our Queen and Mother and all The Heavenly's in Jesus Christ Mighty all Powerful Name Amen. Luke1vs26-38. John3vs16,17,... God is Good, Love and Awesome. 🙏❤️
Thank you Father Mike 🙏😇 for your passion for loving us so much I have to pray more for you your so precious Father keep feeding us God bless you
I just want the Bible read at my funeral. I want people to pray. No eulogy. Nothing. That is my wish.
Thank you Fr Mike! I payed attention to what u said and will hopefully focus on others better now!
Thank you Fr Mike
I really, really like this video Father Mike Schmitz! Please don't misunderstand me I like all the videos that you do! But this video gave me a whole new prospective! It helped see things differently! I totally agree with what you said about humility! You explained everything so well! Thank you for that! Thank you for all that you do! Thank you to the people who help you make the videos! May God bless you all!
Thank you Father Mike. I will work on that more for sure! There are times where I do that, but then I get distracted like “So when is it gonna be my turn to speak?” So that’s a challenge to keep doing this. Thank you for the reminder 🙏🏽
I absolutely loved this homily 💜🙌🙏Thank you Fr. Mike!! God speaks so powerfully through you.
Absolutely beautiful, needed, and appreciated. Thank you Fr. Mike, praying for you.
I absolutely find such strength in your message. If only I could be a priest I have been a Catholic my whole life but I am a female
Thank you, Father. Please pray for me to live humbly.
Thank you Father.
I learned a lot .
Blessings
Beautiful homily. God bless you father.
I know that I am nothing without God. I can not do anything without His grace and strength. And so through prayers, fasting and praise! Eventhough I am not very good at those. 🥲
Thank you Father Mike for your words inspired by the God.
What a wonderful homily Fr Mike. I really needed to hear this and it helps me understand my late husband better. He was a truly humble man, a St Joseph kind of man whom I would get up and do things while listening to him and it would upset him even though I could repeat everything he said. I believe that our "undivided attention and our time" is something quite valuable. I need to do more this. Holy Spirit, help me be a better listener.
Wow this was powerful!!! 👏 Inspiring me to be more humble with my children, husband, family, friends and strangers
Lord have mercy 🙏🏼👍🏻🌸
I think one of the most powerful things you can do is take someone seriously and pay attention when they are opening up to you. There is a big reason why they share with you and no one else. It takes trust for someone to talk to you, so you have to act like everything matters. Most people like to be treated like they matter.
Humility is knowing and acknowledging our shortcomings. Humility is knowing that God is our creator and we are His creation. We don't have anything that we didn't receive. The seeds of yesterday is the fruit of today. The seeds of today is the fruit of tomorrow.🙏❤😊
I wanted to be humble. I tried my best thinking I can achieve it. After a year I realized it's not something I can earn on my own. It's grace.
So true! "I'm too distracted by me to pay attention to you," YESSSSSS.
I can't wait to have idle time to listen to my family. Love you Fr. Mike
Wonderful, yes there's a veryyyy good reason Catholics used to spend time contemplating the four last things ✝️🔥
The mark of true humility homie is believing that there is only ONE. Mediator Jesus Christ no go between good day little buddy
Amen. Thank you Father Mike. Caring for others and thinking more for their needs and greeting them with unconditional love.
Fantastic! Never described a sermon as "fantastic" before - but this one is! Thank you, Father Mike!
Thanks for clarification. Humility is a misunderstood virtue.
Fr. Mike you are gift to this world. Thanks for reminding me of how much God loves me and why I can find joy in every situation. God bless you!
Thanks!
Thankyou Fr Mike,,what a great lesson for us all amid so many distractions
HERE is Our Savior
YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins, NOT jesus, and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
preach!!! false humility vs true humility. thank you for speaking the truth, father mike!
I love everything I grasp & learn this week from at least 6 priests I've known online, what a blessing!
Will try my very best to continually apply everything I learned in my daily activities.
My soul is struggling as I go out, sins/ temptations is creeping me, worldly wise!
Thanks for being a faithful priest Fr, God Bless!
Father Mike it’s true the most common word for couples is “what”? It’s funny and a realistic interaction
Thank you Father!
The product of humility gives a breeze of peace
This is the best explanation on humility I have ever heard. Father Mike your amazing! God definitely speaks through you. 💜 ✝️
Wow! That’s so powerful message father. I will surely keep this Eulogy Virtue.👍👌🙏🙏🙏😇 God bless you more!
Thank you Fr Mike!♥
I like this. Pretty hard to not give away that we have one kind of regret we are not proud of when submitting a list of all the university classes we took and passed without ever earning any diploma or a degree when choosing to become a freshman again. Way easier to explain would be showing up there insead with the entrance requirments only along with some extra pounds on our frame. I have an idea plan to prepare myself for going back to school at age 66 with a long list of classes which I took and passed with nothing to show for it. Since I have 9 months to prepare I will lose weight and exercise enough to get my blood pressure down as much as I can to what it was the first time I entered college. While doing so for my health not for how I much better I might look to only a few now there.
After this Homily I’m hearing Jesus on Judgment Day ask, Did you pay attention to the poor? When I was lonely and afraid and needed someone to listen to my story, Did you pay attention?
This is so true 😇🙏👍
His homily reminds me of my confession I did with him 😭😭