Fr. Mike's Autobiography
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- This video is not a new autobiography by Fr. Mike Schmitz. It’s about everyone’s autobiography, which is-in a word-the crucifix. Jesus' dying on the Cross sums up every person’s life story because it shows what our sins did and God's power to forgive them, so our lives can be defined by love and not shame. This Good Friday, let God’s sacrifice be your identity.
Fr. Mike is also a presenter in these faith formation programs from Ascension:
Belonging: Baptism in the Family of God (bit.ly/2vQgGRx)
Chosen: This is Your Catholic Faith (bit.ly/2nCKKLK)
Altaration: The Mystery of the Mass Revealed (bit.ly/2vG9KX2)
YOU: Life, Love, and the Theology of the Body (bit.ly/2raspVB)
Get 18 of Fr. Mike’s best Ascension Presents videos in this exclusive DVD from Ascension:
Ascension Presents … Fr. Mike Schmitz (bit.ly/2sKUnJN)
Fr. Mike spoke at the Ascension Cafe during the World Meeting of Families. Watch him and other speakers get fired up over the gospel in the Ascension Cafe DVD (bit.ly/2sYtQaW).
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I thought I was going to hear about your journey to priesthood...I wasn’t ready for this.
Angel Me too! But it’s so true!
Thank you Father Mike for this amazing reminder of our very human and true condition. God Bless!
Amen @Angel-vt4mt I agree
Bro. I clicked on this video for the same reason. And then I see your comment at the top and was like “wait wha-“ and then was instead given a new view of the crucifix.
This was intense and I wasn’t ready for it.
Agreed
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*"This is my shameful autobiography. And I hate it. but I love it. because I need it"* 💘 so unexpected and refreshing and just what we need for holy week
S0 Incourageing.
This one gave me chills. Father Mike knows how to get the point across. Just shows me how much Jesus took my sin seriously. Wonderful video.
“Father”? Lol I thought it stood for “Friar”
This video made me cry big time.
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glad I'm not the only one
S. Zúñiga me too
Me too - it must be His Holy Spirit working!
I wish I cried. Love the Lord
Kurffy take heart! The desire itself is enough!!
Secular society wants us to transform shame into selfish desires. We're told happiness is the essential goal for a worthwhile life. Whatever is expedient and comfortable and easy is good. But the truth is that our shames are only quenched by selflessness, and best when that selflessness is in Christ.
Mike Cranston, it's true that all people can be nice to each other regardless of religion, we understand that "if i'm nice to others, others will be nice to me." But really only merely nice. Mother Teresa gave her everything for the poor, Maximilian Kolbe gave his life for a total stranger, and Jesus pleaded for his Father to forgive his murderers as he died. They loved, so "love others as you would like to be loved." As Carlos said, it's in selflessness, self-forgetful love that our hope and dignity is renewed, and this is possible only through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Mike Cranston so of course your redeemed but what we have to do is practice that redemption as Jesus will judge based on our love He will show us our life look for Gloria Polo she died and came back lol not as Jesus did but she was atheist and now is a good catholic..my point is if you love and follow the sacraments as Jesus said "those who eat my flesh and drink my blood will never die" John 6 says this its a garuntee but must be worthily taken if your catholic you probably know this so ignore my advice but try reading her experience its very compelling
What a special message... How do we even fathom something so profound? Father Mike so beautifully and painfully describes how each of our sins affected and afflicted Jesus and how ashamed we should feel... But only because of God's enormous mercy and love for us is the cross (crucifix) not a sign of shame but a sign of hope and redemption. Alleluia! Praise be Our God!
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Father Mike is incredible!! He reminds me in every video why I love being Catholic!!! Thank you for your testament of faith!!!
When St. Peter preached on Pentacost, people were 'cut to the heart'. This preaching did the same... God bless you Fr. Mike.
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I wasn’t expecting this! This really touched my heart. God Loves us so much ❤️
Same here, found it unexpectingly. Thank God for Fr. Mike Schmitz. Fr. means that he is a priest rigth? Father in other words.
My Lord and MY God PLEASE have mercy on me a sinner. God have mercy on us and on the whole world.
Thank you so much for this wholehearted message Father. Please pray for every wavering faith and every hardened heart.
I feel so guilty and ashamed in so many ways 😭. Thank you Father Mike for your truthful words in humbling and guiding me to be a better godly man. "Jesus, I Trust in You ❤️❤️❤️!!!"
There have been many videos I have teared while listening. This one, however, was really bad! I had to get the box of tissues. Fr. Mike this one was hard to take in but so necessary.
Jesus...I love Jesus very much but then the reality, 'I did that to Jesus', just broke my heart. My eyes hurt...I deserve that and more! Jesus is so good to me even when I don't deserve. My beloved Jesus ❤
Thank you Fr. Mike for bringing it home for me! 😢
Fr Mike keeping it real. I just learned his story today. He had a life. Was in love with a woman. Wasn’t sure what the right path forward was. He heard Gods voice and trusted in his ways. What a beautiful calling.
I watched The Passion of Jesus Christ for the first time tonight and it got me thinking and it made me feel a lot of emotions and then I watch this video and now I'm crying. This year for holy week week I'm going to care more, pray more, and not just take it as another mass. Thank you Fr. Mike for helping me, and pray that I can become better.
We bow down before your passion, O' Christ, and we bless you for by your Holy Cross you have redeemed the world.
"Jesus was able to transform the sign of our shame into the symbol of our hope." I now cry tears of sadness yet I have a sense of joy? I find myself confused and conflicted about life lately, but there is nothing in my life I am more certain about than Christ being King. Thank you for spreading His Goodness Father Mike.
Oh I cried like a baby just now.
The autobiography turned into whole new level.
Wow, thats so intense.
I am back after 2 years so much emotions 😭♥️💪✝️
Powerful message, thank you Fr. Mike!
I'm in tears. Thank you Father Mike. You are something else. Saving lives and saving souls.
I never thought about it that way, writing that story; so true. Thank you Father!
Father Mike you are a true blessing. I thank God for you being in my life. Thank you for all your insight. God bless you!
Wow 😭 God bless father Mike! ❤️❤️ forgive me my Lord and forever thank u for ur mercy!🧎🏽♀️🙌
Amen. I contributed too for Jesus's cruxifiction. I did and still do play a role in His death. I am ashamed of it. Yes. But what strikes me most is that He went through all that pain and torture and he did not embrace bitterness ir anger...He simply accepted all that horror silently, obediently and lovingly for my sake. Surely there will never be anyone who loved me more. Fr Mike... thank you for the great videos. Have a blessed Holy Week. In my prayers.
THANK GOD FOR U AND ALL SAINTS AND BODY OF CHRIST ON EARTH.MAY GOD FORGIVE KEEP US ALL
This video has an unexpected message... but each word pierces thru my heart.. and the voice of Fr. Mike had become the voice of Jesus crying out to me, shouting that He loves me that much... unworthy that I am, He always reminds me not to forget of His love for me...
Every video is better than the last. Thank you, Father Mike and Ascension Presents
WOW! This is sobering! The truth hurts, but oh so necessary to face it......Beautifully and honestly told!!
Oh my. Tears. You are speaking about me.
Oh Fr. Mike, my sentiments exactly. God be praised for using you to convey this powerful, horrible yet beautiful truth to those who might not yet realized. Amen, for it all.
wow, powerful message. thanks for pointing it out, fr. mike.
Pierced my heart with pain , shame and love 💕
"... symbol of hope". So beautiful, Fr. Mike. Thank you 🙏
What a privilege listening to this confession of sheer love. Thid man burns for God. Thanks.
Thank you Father Mike! This touched me deeply!
Wow, I pray before the Crucifix nearly everyday, asking Jesus for His forgiveness for putting Him on the Cross - yet the way you present this brings a whole new dimension to the impact on my heart, and I pray brings my soul closer to doing God's will.
Very powerful Father. What Great Love our Father in Heaven has for us that He sent His Son for each and everyone of us sinful people and gives us each day the chance to repent and change our lives. My God what love and mercy you show us Always! I love you God abs I need you Always! 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻❤️
Thank you so much, Father Mike. May God continue to bless you. Watching this video, you expect it to be a book, but it's about something else. A story we all helped to write. The Cross, I did that to Him. We all did. He bears all our shame. What Jesus did for me and all of us, that is the greatest gift.
Thank you Fr. Mike. This talk was so very profound.
Needed that reality check! God bless you Fr. Mike
Thanks to God for you Fr. Mike for a powerful preaching, cuts through our heart.
Thank you Fr Mike. Praise Jesus.
Thank you Father Mike! Thank you Jesus for rewriting my autobiography!
Lyrics to a song I sing , especially when I feel down :
I am somebody, because God loves me. I am accepted just the way that I am. His love is higher, it's deeper and it's wider. More than you or I will ever understand.
I remember hearing this song back when I was a protestant, it's appropriate for all Christians. I will be Catholic 19 years this Easter. Never got baptized until I came into the church at 30 years old.
I tried to get baptized for as long as I can remember, but God had a plan.
God bless you Fr. Mike and everyone this Easter.
I'm just speechless. It's true, we've done this. Such clear and truthful words ... Thank you ever so much, dear Father Mike, Thank you!
Glory be to God.
This tops the all saints day prep talk as his best video undoubtedly.
Definitely one of your best! Thank you. Blessings to you.
So very intense, and I needed to hear this. Thank you.
Fr.Mike, THANK YOU, the way you explained that made everything deeper for my walk in Jesus, thank you. Chillsxo
I came on this video totally not expecting the content, but God knows that it was absolutely everything I needed, especially with pulling through the rest of this Lenten season. How ironic that this day two years later is just the day before this video was posted? A shout out to my university president Fr. Dave Pivonka! Hearing Fr. Dave in person speaking of this heavy cross, Jesus, "transforming the sign of our shame to become the symbol of our hope" was inspiring and this video was a great and much-needed reminder of it. Thank you Fr. Mike!
Speechless! Thank you Fr Mike!!
Okay, gonna be honest. I am not religious at all but I could listen to you talk all day.
Charity shop Chic You don’t need to be religious or even a Believer in God to listen to Fr Mike’s lectures. His words is for a universals audience. 😊
No offense to anyone, but I'm baffled that any Catholic would consider it a negative thing to be "religious"??? I know it's "hip" and "cool" among Protest-ants to decry "religion" as somehow an impediment to their definition of "faith".
But we should know better. Christ himself gave us The Church and our Religion. Why would we be ashamed of anything Christ gave us?
No offense intended. God Bless All!!
Tom Landry Well, there’s a difference between religion and your relationship with god. Religion is following a set of rules or laws. But having a relationship with god is different because it’s not a law or a rule; it’s simply done out of love and reverence. That’s how I view it as a Catholic. =)
The Novice Jesus said true religion is taking care of widows and orphans... rules are for governments and board games. The dos and don'ts God laid out for us are for our benefit ("that you might live", or " that it might be well with you"),see?
The Novice - respectfully, Brother, I don’t believe I said religion was the same as faith, or in any respect a replacement for, or substitute for, a relationship with Christ.
All I’m saying is that I’m not ashamed of anything Christ gave us, and among those gifts are The One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, and the Religion we practice.
“Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi“
(IMO) That’s what “Religion” is.
No offense intended.
God Bless You!
💖💒🙏so much love for Father Mike...share the love of Jesus!
Amazing. Tears in my eyes and a smile on lips. So much love. Thank you.
Have mercy on us Lord. WOW that's pretty profound. Father Mike is so honest and respectful. This was heavy.
Thank you so much for sharing this... it is my autobiography too! We can barely begin to grasp the Love He has for us... it is beyond comprehension yet so REAL ❤️
This is so coincidental to me.
I was just reading Dr. Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life, and in the 2nd chapter, he speaks of Adam and Eve and their self-contentiousness of their nakedness; and how nakedness is a sign of shame and, really, a nightmarish thought to be exposed in public. To be stripped naked is one of the most degrading actions to person.
So at 3:29 -- wow, that revelation stuck hard. 'Cause it makes what he endured twenty times worse...
Ok ok how unfortable!how true ...the every second we can Give him Glory yet we place him on the cross😥
I could never imagine going through the pain being nailed to the cross I know that he died for my sins and for everybody's He will carry our weight and we will carry his love that goes beyond hate father Mike God bless you
So incredibly POWERFUL. You are God's gift to us also, Father Mike. I truly feel it, that He works through you in the most powerful, thoughtful, loving, relatable, and refreshing ways. Thank you, Father Mike, from Australia.
This video reminds me why I pray for forgiveness every night
...great reality check just in time for Easter!...Thanks, Father Mike.........
Yes, I did all of those things. I hate it, but I love it, but I have hope. Thank you.
As much as this is intense it is so true. Thank you Father!!
Here I am on Easter Sunday 2021 watching this video, feels like i just been slapped to wake up from all my selfishness
Thankyou Father, I hate the fact that everything you say is true, but indeed I love it because I need it, my life, our life have been saved by His grace
God bless you all who read this too 🙏🏻
Wow. I have no words. Thank you Father Mike. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💜
Thank you, thank you, thank you Fr Mike. I love Jesus so much, very appropriate for the week and the time we're in. Praise God.
Just wow! So moving. I want to watch this every morning, noon and night - lest I forget. Thank you so much, Father Mike. Pray 🙏
Thank you Fr. Mike
I dont know how to overcome my shame into hope...im so ashamed of my past but i found love, and in it peace for the first time in my life thank you for saying this father i didnt know he was actually naked, that station of the cross i bawl on the floor like a fool but i know im the worst of all i had the hardest time coming to accept that im accepted as i am
Natalia Marcondes we're all in it together...thinking the same thing. How do you think I felt when I went to confession and then the priest asks me did you do this or that!? I said "both." I was forgiven nonetheless. Don't lose hope
marinebulldog0309 thank you i appreciate your kind words God bless
Natalia Marcondes I have shame sometimes too. But remember some saints and even the disciples had backgrounds they weren't proud of. Nevertheless, they became holy people.
Derek Handson thank you for this i appreciate that please pray for me
Jesus’ death on the cross was not the end of his story; it gave way to his glorious resurrection! Your sins are not the end of your story either. Go to confession, and leave your sins and your shame there. You are a new creation in Christ!
Wow.... this was amazing
Have a blessed day everyone! God Bless
So powerful and moving. I do think about what Jesus went through, the last week of His human life. I think of it and cry - because I did it, my sins did it - He did it for me. I cry and I thank Him. You're such a blessing to me. 🙏💖
Hello, Father Mike: I did not know you until after Christmas 2020. Glad I found you on RUclips. The Sunday homily re Baptism of Jesus was beautiful!! I love the topic of the Cross. Your vivid explanation of all the sufferings of Jesus will always be on my mind.
Amen! Jesus paid a GREAT price for our sins, and for our salvation, so that one day we could enter into eternal life with Him.
Powerful! Thank you for sharing...
Wow.... That touched a raw nerve right there. It is not what I expected to hear but it has really humbled me. Thanks Fr. Mike for the inspiration.
Crying so much but you have made me think so deeply and I needed that. Thank you - peace be with you all 🙏🏻🕯❤️
Thank you so much for sharing, Father Mike. Straight from the heart, straight through the heart- your words pierced, I need to spend some time with my Jesus and the cross...
Father Mike there are times in my life when I just don't have any words, this is one of them. Beautiful Love will always light up our sullied souls. Sending you warm Love and Inner Strength. UK.x
Fr. Mike, God bless you, what a blessing you are to me and countless others. Thank you for answering God's call on your life, He is using you for His glory and the salvation of souls - BIG TIME!
Father Mike, this is a such a powerful message and you express it so beautifully. I haven't thought of the cross in such an incredibly personal way before I heard your words. Thank you, Father, for sharing your own struggles. Your testimony gives hope to me and many others.
Thank you Father for this video. It brought me tears
Beautiful. How tremendously honest Fr Mike you were made for this !
Satan is definitely fighting to destroy you
Be aware be strong be courageous
Remain stalwart as you will help save many souls!
What a very powerful and moving edition. Thank you Fr.Mike and Ascension Presents. Jesus Christ, God Incarnate, bears all of our sins and failings. None of us are worthy, but for Him. That first Easter weekend, when He was tortured, humiliated, mocked and jeered and beaten beyond all comprehension. He died for each and every one of us unworthy sinners. Each of us need to pick up our cross and to try to bear it as best we can. He will help us. He is always there. We just need to have faith and to try to live by the commandments and the rules set down by His church. God Bless us all.
This will never grow old. Thank you. I know that is my autobiography too. I am sorry Jesus. Thank You for not rejecting me.
This is...one of the most beautiful things I have ever watched. Thank you, Father Mike.
Very powerful! Thank you 😭🙏🏽❤️.... so much conviction! ✝️..:We did that but Jesus said forgive them for that don’t know what they are doing 😕!! I am thankful & Blessed to have such an amazing Father 😭🙏🏽❤️
No words can exactly described how this got through all of me. I love God and Jesus.
Thank you Fr. Truly inspired message. God bless our holy priests
Father Mike, you're amazing. Thanks that was an awesome video, we'de need to remember this more often
That honesty is what God expects of each one of us. Very brave testimony Fr Mike! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks Fr...intense and perfect reflection!
You are wonderful dear sir. 🕊
Thank you. I did that too. God Bless you Father Mike. My favorite video. I will watch it again and again.
Amen and thank you so much for what you do Father Mike GOD Loves you always and so do I Brother.
Wow, I mean wow. I’ve watched you for about a year now, looking for hope and trying to make sense of my life. I finally get it. Thanks!
During the movie "the passion", all that He suffered, each thing, I would say to myself those are your sins,He is paying for; then after the resurrection, you can feel that permeating love when you see that. There is a poem by e.e.cummings....I carry your heart. I will say that as part of my prayers. Fr. Mike, I am a convert of five years now. I spent over 50 years as a southern baptist, many of your homilies have helped me to understand more clearly. I also have been blessed with a great parish and priests who never tire of my endless questions. Peace be with you!
I clicked on this thinking that I would get to learn more about Father Mike. I thought, "oh this will be cool."
I don't have words... I have goosebumps. Wow God is good.