17DEC2024. Day 352. Oh Lord, teach us not to love the gifts you give us, more than You, the giver. Oh Lord, lift us up when we stumbled and fall. God have mercy. Amen
Father, may everything that I do this day, whether it be full of joy or pain, whether it be full of love or of grief, I ask that everything I go through today be offered to you just like Jesus offered everything to you. It is in his name we pray. Amen. 12/17/2024
Most people may not realize it, but the feast we celebrate this Sunday, the Feast of Christ the King, is a very new one on the church calendar. It was added by Pope Pius XI in 1925. He created this feast as a reaction against the prevailing attitudes of his day - a way to refute the growing threats of communism and secularism. Two “isms” that sought to make man, not God, the most powerful force in the world. Within a few years, of course, the world would have another “ism” to confront, totalitarianism - making this feast even more significant. A century later, those threats have been replaced by others that tend to marginalize God-”isms” like materialism or relativism. But here and now, this feast still stands in defiance of our culture. And it stands before us as a challenge. It asks us: “Who - or WHAT - really rules our lives?” That’s a question we could spend all of Advent asking ourselves, and praying over. And maybe we should. But today, I want to spend a few minutes considering not just Christ the King - but Christ’s kingdom. Because this feast reminds us what we pray for, day after day, week after week, when we pray “thy kingdom come.” This kingdom doesn’t have a castle or a court. It isn’t a place of royal fanfare. It isn’t even found on a map. It is a kingdom that dwells within the human heart. And its great defining landmark…is the cross. That is where we encounter Christ the King in today’s gospel reading. In fact, this reading may hit us as a shock. Usually, we hear this gospel during Holy Week. But on this feast, when we celebrate Christ’s triumphant presence in the world, we don’t meet this all-powerful King in a moment of splendor. We meet Him at his most humble - and most humiliated. Stripped. Beaten. Dying on a cross. Yet, this is part of what we pray for when we pray “Thy kingdom come.” We pray for a kingdom of peace and justice, of course. But we also pray for a kingdom of sacrificial love - a place where the greatest honor isn’t in how much you have or how much you control…but in how much you give up. A kingdom where true power lies…in being powerless. It is a place where we are called to love, and to give, until there is nothing left. It is where pure love reigns. And it is in that kingdom where the “good thief” wants to dwell. This exchange has a unique place in all of scripture. In this passage, Christ isn’t called “rabbi” or “teacher.” In the last moments of his life, someone finally calls Him, simply “Jesus.” It is the only moment in the gospels where this happens: this is the only time that someone calls him by his given name. The man hanging beside our Lord speaks to Him as a brother, as a friend. He talks to him, literally, man to man. “Jesus,” he says to Him, “remember me when you come into your kingdom.” Those words, passed down through history, have become our words - the plea of anyone who has ever felt abandoned, or lonely, desperate or afraid. We pray that God doesn’t forget us. And that He gives us, somehow, His grace. In other words: thy kingdom come. And Jesus answers that simple prayer: “Today, you will be with me in paradise.” The kingdom WILL come. One man’s faith, at the last moments of his life, saves him. It is something that should give all of us comfort and consolation. I mentioned at the beginning that this Feast is relatively new to the Church - but what it represents is as old as Christianity itself. A father of the Church, Cyril of Jerusalem, beautifully described how the first Christians received communion, saying that they “made their hands like a throne” to receive the Lord. The very title “Christ the King” has outlasted most of the world’s monarchies. Kings, of course, have fallen out of fashion - there are only about 40 real monarchs now ruling in the world. Most of them are just figureheads. But the one we honor and celebrate today, of course, isn’t. As Paul describes him today: he is the “firtborn of all creation…for in him all the fullness was pleased to dwell.” This is the one we celebrate. This is the one we prepare to welcome in a few weeks. And, this is the one we will greet this morning, with our hands outstretched like a throne. When I was a teenager, a popular hymn was “The King of Glory.” I won’t torture you by singing it. But I remember the lyrics so well: “The king of glory comes, the nation rejoices, open the gates before him, lift up your voices.” This morning, on this singular feast, this last Sunday of the liturgical year, we open the gates. We lift up our voices. We stretch out our hands. And we welcome this King of Glory into our hearts, praying like the good thief: Jesus, remember me, when you come into your kingdom.
I want to thank Fr. Mike for the comment he made about "just pressing play," and "just showing up." This has helped me immensely right at the moment, when I'm still able to go to Daily Mass, but sometimes (I'm not joking) I doze off during the homily. Ok, my hearing isn't what it used to be. But listen, today is Monday of Holy Week, 2024, and I actually zoned out during the reading of the (long) Gospel yesterday, which was Palm Sunday. Here I am, after more than 30 years as an enthusiastic on-fire convert to the Catholic Faith, and now pretty much feeling my age quite a lot of the time. It can be very disheartening. That's why I'm going to make a point of reminding myself every morning, Fr. Mike said: "Just show up." 🙌
No mater what is happening in our lives, we should hold on to God with all our strenght. I always try to remember, it could be worse and be thankful for the “little” bit of suffering He sends my way.
Tuesday December 17 2024 Day 352 of the BIAY. Lord thank you so much for this wonderful journey the words of encouragement from saint Peter and Saint Paul, and for Father Mike for his guidance explaining and understanding the words of our Lord God. Praying for all of us.🙏🙏❤️❤️
December 18: "He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree that we might die to sin and live in righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls." 1 Peter 2: 23-24 The wounds of Jesus are how Christians are healed and forgiven by God for our sins. We became unencumbered from sin and free to make our own choices. We have every option imaginable to live good lives. Our destinies have been laid out but our paths are still to be determined. May God be with me as my path unfolds according to His will. Amen.
“Desolation in prayer”. Oh my how wonderful, I have been going through a “dry” period for a while now…. I find myself forcing myself to say my daily prayers. I pray you are right Fr. Mike that the Lord is purifying my love for the Lord more and more.
I am a Nordic convert (I will join the Church Easter), and Father Mike is such a blessing. I seek Jesus face and what I do and say matters. I see Chris in suffering (and have suffered so much.). Tomorrow after Mass, I will see Jesus in my pastors face, his deacon and the sisters. You cannot be Catholic alone and I am grateful. Thank you Lord, and brothers and sisters.
Converts often make the best Catholics. Congratulations on your joining the Church this past Easter. You are not alone, We are all here for you! The Church is grateful to have you too.
O... LORD GOD, please, please help me to be a woman who has patience. I have no patience whatsoever. I want to be a better Christian. I am in need of the whole conversion of my whole family, friends and coworkers. 🙏
It helps me to have patience if I am living the moment in gratitude and remember that Our Lord died for that person and loves them so profoundly. And just think of it in small bits. From one small part of the day to the next.
December 19, 2023 Round Two Hello! When the Catechism is complete (or maybe even now), consider listening to Saint Faustina’s Diary in a year and/or EWTN Mother Angelica’s Classics to add to your Catholic learning! Oh my goodness so much life guidance in conjunction with Father Mike’s Bible and Catechism in a Year!
Great discussions today Fr Mike. Prayer is so good, I"m praying for all of you. Please join me in praying for the holy souls and most forgotten soul in Purgatory. Oh, can't wait for tomorrow, it's a palindrome day! 12/18/2022
Fr. I really liked your homily yesterday. I like how you spoke of even look at the products you buy. Consider there maybe slave labor involved. We are part oppressing poor & defrauding laborers of their wages if we are buying cheap slave labor goods. It will come back on us. It's hard often when you have few choices. Only so much can be gotten from thrift stores & garage sales. Thank you, & GOD bless!
Christmas-time plea for souls. "Jesus, Mary, I love you save souls!" Reparation prayer saves a soul & repairs 1000 blasphemies. James 5:20 Impirmatur Cardinal Fossati, Turin, Italy, 1949. GOD bless all of good will.
For the love of Jesus and Mary and the relief of the Holy souls..eternal rest grant unto them O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them, may they rest in peace Amen 🙏
I always pray for the people i know from co workers to friends and children and family as well as clients and people of other churches and the homeless and even my animals at home and the chickens in the coop in the yard. and then i go into apologies to my guardian angel, Mary, Joseph and the Holy Spirit and pray for the people that i have lost and pray for rain or sun which ever we need. I ask for mercy because the people around me are difficult. That is not denial, they really are. .. I hate snow but have been praying for it because we have had warm winters and i am afraid the wells are going to go dry. I know some people think animals have no rights but i pray that abuse will stop for animals and the land. After communion i feel so dumb because i am still praying after the tabernacle is closed and locked and everyone has sat down. I sit down at that point just not to draw attention. I PRAY FOR FATHER MIKE AND BIAY!
Thank you Father Mike for sharing the bible with all of us. It is a true blessing to be able to not only read but understand the words of God. Praying for Father Mike and anyone who is in need of prayers.
My daily link emails stopped coming a week ago. ? ? ? I can access directly from RUclips but it is not as convenient. I happily can now say I have read the entire Bible as the last few days I am familiar with
Praying for Father Mike, all at Ascension Press, Jeff Cavines and you my friends following along with BIAY each and everyday. I pray that we all keep showing up, so that we can love God for God! Praying for your spiritual protection as you grow in your faith!
Thank you dear Lord for Fr Mike so that we can glorify you everytime we listen to your sacred Scriptures. It has been a joy to hear his reflections on your words. Forgive us and our loved ones dear Lord everytime we fail to keep your words to make us holy like how you want us to be. Amen. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on us. Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us. Saint Joseph pray for us. All you holy Angels and Saints pray for us. Amen.
Fr, just in the last 2 months for Ascension press there have been over 4000 subscribers who have listened to you and clicked subscribed 😉 I typically listened on the Ascension website but wherever I can listen earliest in the morning, whichever is uploaded first I listen there. RUclips does have commercials in it but to see how many have subscribed on this media forum alone. Thank you for doing God's work and for all at Ascension to bring this BIAY podcast to so many listeners!!!!!
Oh my gosh..! 🌟🌟🌟 I CANNOT WAIT to hear you again..!! ❤️👍🏻 I am praying for you… ❤️👍🏻🙏🏻 Please pray for me.. as I show up..! 😔 Hopefully MORE than just ‘showing up’..! 🥰 Guilty of ‘dry prayer’..! ☹️ However, much less these days, since Fr. Mike..! 🥰😍❤️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Practicing gentleness, compassionate thinking, gracious speech is solely dependent on the strength of ABBA Father. O Lord, step by step please have mercy. Thank you 🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾❤️
December 19, 2023 Round Two Please, do you have just a moment in time to pray for Souls in Purgatory with me? According to tradition, St. Gertrude the Great, was told by Our Lord that each time she piously recited the following prayer, it would release 1,000 souls (or a vast number) from their suffering in purgatory: Eternal Father, I offer You the most precious blood of thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal Church, for those in my own home, and in my family. Amen. In her account of another vision, St. Faustina describes Purgatory as a "great crowd of suffering souls" undergoing purification. Further, she says that the souls are "praying fervently, but to no avail, for themselves; only we can come to their aid" (Diary, 20)
Thank you so much for such a wonderful delivery of Our Lord's word. Definitely words to live by, even as difficult as it may often be, we must try. God bless you Fr. Mike. You are always in my prayers. May God bless this entire community who are still with us on day 352!! Nicely done.
Well that was certainly Wonderful Tonight thank you can't believe I've made it to 352 thank you Lord Jesus for giving me the perseverance to do this and thank you Father Mike and thank you my community love to all God bless
The RSS feed for the podcast wasn't working today, so my podcast app couldn't download the daily episode. Thanks for putting it on RUclips where I could find it.
Proverbs 30 10 - Never criticize servants to their master. You will be cursed and suffer for it. 11 - There are people who curse their fathers and do not show appreciation for their mothers. 12 - There are people who think they are pure when they are as filthy as they can be. 13 - There are people who think they are so good -- oh, how good they think they are! 14 - There are people who take cruel advantage of the poor and needy ; that is the way they make their living. The Good News Bble Today's English Version (TEV). 📖🕯✝
That strikes a cord with me about gifts from God also come with trials. I have said God never answers my prayers but that made me think. He DID and has always answered my prayers but they always came with a serpent that i had to defeat. I have said He didn't answer them because they always came with strings attached BUT THEY DID COME! Some of them i am still trying to overcome.
December 17, 2024 Tuesday. Here I am.
17DEC2024. Day 352. Oh Lord, teach us not to love the gifts you give us, more than You, the giver. Oh Lord, lift us up when we stumbled and fall. God have mercy. Amen
Thanks!
Day 352..lead us Lord to learn how to follow your word together. Prayers for Father Mike and all the BIY family 🙏❤
Father, may everything that I do this day, whether it be full of joy or pain, whether it be full of love or of grief, I ask that everything I go through today be offered to you just like Jesus offered everything to you. It is in his name we pray. Amen. 12/17/2024
Amen
New here, thank you Ft. Mike, subscribed 17- December- 2024 thank you.🙏
Most people may not realize it, but the feast we celebrate this Sunday, the Feast of Christ the King, is a very new one on the church calendar. It was added by Pope Pius XI in 1925. He created this feast as a reaction against the prevailing attitudes of his day - a way to refute the growing threats of communism and secularism. Two “isms” that sought to make man, not God, the most powerful force in the world. Within a few years, of course, the world would have another “ism” to confront, totalitarianism - making this feast even more significant.
A century later, those threats have been replaced by others that tend to marginalize God-”isms” like materialism or relativism. But here and now, this feast still stands in defiance of our culture. And it stands before us as a challenge.
It asks us: “Who - or WHAT - really rules our lives?” That’s a question we could spend all of Advent asking ourselves, and praying over. And maybe we should.
But today, I want to spend a few minutes considering not just Christ the King - but Christ’s kingdom. Because this feast reminds us what we pray for, day after day, week after week, when we pray “thy kingdom come.”
This kingdom doesn’t have a castle or a court. It isn’t a place of royal fanfare. It isn’t even found on a map.
It is a kingdom that dwells within the human heart.
And its great defining landmark…is the cross.
That is where we encounter Christ the King in today’s gospel reading. In fact, this reading may hit us as a shock. Usually, we hear this gospel during Holy Week. But on this feast, when we celebrate Christ’s triumphant presence in the world, we don’t meet this all-powerful King in a moment of splendor. We meet Him at his most humble - and most humiliated. Stripped. Beaten. Dying on a cross.
Yet, this is part of what we pray for when we pray “Thy kingdom come.”
We pray for a kingdom of peace and justice, of course. But we also pray for a kingdom of sacrificial love - a place where the greatest honor isn’t in how much you have or how much you control…but in how much you give up.
A kingdom where true power lies…in being powerless.
It is a place where we are called to love, and to give, until there is nothing left.
It is where pure love reigns. And it is in that kingdom where the “good thief” wants to dwell.
This exchange has a unique place in all of scripture. In this passage, Christ isn’t called “rabbi” or “teacher.” In the last moments of his life, someone finally calls Him, simply “Jesus.”
It is the only moment in the gospels where this happens: this is the only time that someone calls him by his given name.
The man hanging beside our Lord speaks to Him as a brother, as a friend.
He talks to him, literally, man to man.
“Jesus,” he says to Him, “remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
Those words, passed down through history, have become our words - the plea of anyone who has ever felt abandoned, or lonely, desperate or afraid. We pray that God doesn’t forget us. And that He gives us, somehow, His grace.
In other words: thy kingdom come.
And Jesus answers that simple prayer: “Today, you will be with me in paradise.” The kingdom WILL come. One man’s faith, at the last moments of his life, saves him. It is something that should give all of us comfort and consolation.
I mentioned at the beginning that this Feast is relatively new to the Church - but what it represents is as old as Christianity itself. A father of the Church, Cyril of Jerusalem, beautifully described how the first Christians received communion, saying that they “made their hands like a throne” to receive the Lord. The very title “Christ the King” has outlasted most of the world’s monarchies. Kings, of course, have fallen out of fashion - there are only about 40 real monarchs now ruling in the world. Most of them are just figureheads.
But the one we honor and celebrate today, of course, isn’t. As Paul describes him today: he is the “firtborn of all creation…for in him all the fullness was pleased to dwell.”
This is the one we celebrate. This is the one we prepare to welcome in a few weeks.
And, this is the one we will greet this morning, with our hands outstretched like a throne.
When I was a teenager, a popular hymn was “The King of Glory.” I won’t torture you by singing it. But I remember the lyrics so well: “The king of glory comes, the nation rejoices, open the gates before him, lift up your voices.”
This morning, on this singular feast, this last Sunday of the liturgical year, we open the gates. We lift up our voices. We stretch out our hands.
And we welcome this King of Glory into our hearts, praying like the good thief: Jesus, remember me, when you come into your kingdom.
The comments express so many varied thoughts that give me courage that I am not alone. God bless Father Mike and all of us! ❤🙏🎄
I want to thank Fr. Mike for the comment he made about "just pressing play," and "just showing up." This has helped me immensely right at the moment, when I'm still able to go to Daily Mass, but sometimes (I'm not joking) I doze off during the homily. Ok, my hearing isn't what it used to be. But listen, today is Monday of Holy Week, 2024, and I actually zoned out during the reading of the (long) Gospel yesterday, which was Palm Sunday. Here I am, after more than 30 years as an enthusiastic on-fire convert to the Catholic Faith, and now pretty much feeling my age quite a lot of the time. It can be very disheartening. That's why I'm going to make a point of reminding myself every morning, Fr. Mike said: "Just show up." 🙌
It seems to have suddenly become a challenge to “just show up”.
No mater what is happening in our lives, we should hold on to God with all our strenght. I always try to remember, it could be worse and be thankful for the “little” bit of suffering He sends my way.
Lord, please help me to do what is needed , and not duck out.
Thanks Fr Mike S. 🙏❤
Tuesday December 17 2024 Day 352 of the BIAY. Lord thank you so much for this wonderful journey the words of encouragement from saint Peter and Saint Paul, and for Father Mike for his guidance explaining and understanding the words of our Lord God. Praying for all of us.🙏🙏❤️❤️
May everything i do today be offered to our lord Jesus Christ
December 18: "He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree that we might die to sin and live in righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls."
1 Peter 2: 23-24
The wounds of Jesus are how Christians are healed and forgiven by God for our sins. We became unencumbered from sin and free to make our own choices. We have every option imaginable to live good lives. Our destinies have been laid out but our paths are still to be determined.
May God be with me as my path unfolds according to His will.
Amen.
Many thanks for explaining God's Word Father Mike!
What a lovable child Fr Mike was, to be so attentive in church, listening closely to the Word proclaimed. God is blessing you always Fr Mike🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻
Praying that everyone has a blessed Advent where they become closer to Christ
Help us serve one another, we belong to each other so we must pray for each other!
St. Peter is awesome in his teachings as is St. Paul. Thank you for your words which enlighten me each day.
Thank you Father Mike finally ……taking time to keep following this awesome podcast…..praying for you Father Mike
Blessings
Thank you and God Bless you Father Mike, I'm praying for you and for all who Follow you on this Journey.....
Praying for you Father Mike and everyone on this journey Amen 🙏🙏
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God make me Holy
Great one today thank you. !
“Desolation in prayer”. Oh my how wonderful, I have been going through a “dry” period for a while now…. I find myself forcing myself to say my daily prayers. I pray you are right Fr. Mike that the Lord is purifying my love for the Lord more and more.
I am a Nordic convert (I will join the Church Easter), and Father Mike is such a blessing. I seek Jesus face and what I do and say matters. I see Chris in suffering (and have suffered so much.).
Tomorrow after Mass, I will see Jesus in my pastors face, his deacon and the sisters. You cannot be Catholic alone and I am grateful.
Thank you Lord, and brothers and sisters.
Beautifully said. Welcome.
Converts often make the best Catholics. Congratulations on your joining the Church this past Easter. You are not alone, We are all here for you! The Church is grateful to have you too.
Praying for all..🙏🙏🙏
O... LORD GOD, please, please help me to be a woman who has patience. I have no patience whatsoever. I want to be a better Christian. I am in need of the whole conversion of my whole family, friends and coworkers. 🙏
It helps me to have patience if I am living the moment in gratitude and remember that Our Lord died for that person and loves them so profoundly.
And just think of it in small bits. From one small part of the day to the next.
Something to ponder, “Never pray for patience, them only way to get them is to have them tested.”😉
Praying for you & your fam🙏🕊️
How is your battle with anger going. Add my prayers for you😊
Thank you Fr. Mike for your wisdom.
Proudly continuing my journey, Team Replay 💚🙏🏼😊
December 19, 2023
Round Two
Hello! When the Catechism is complete (or maybe even now), consider listening to Saint Faustina’s Diary in a year and/or EWTN Mother Angelica’s Classics to add to your Catholic learning!
Oh my goodness so much life guidance in conjunction with Father Mike’s Bible and Catechism in a Year!
Through dry prayer we benefit from the love of our God to continue our prayers!
December 21, 2022
Thank you Jesus. Fill us w your holy spirit
I’m with you Mia. For. Mike you have grown my awareness and passion for Christ. I am so grateful!
I look forward to this each and every day. Father Mike still makes me smile on day 352 when he says he can’t wait to see us tomorrow!
Great discussions today Fr Mike. Prayer is so good, I"m praying for all of you. Please join me in praying for the holy souls and most forgotten soul in Purgatory. Oh, can't wait for tomorrow, it's a palindrome day! 12/18/2022
Fr. I really liked your homily yesterday. I like how you spoke of even look at the products you buy. Consider there maybe slave labor involved. We are part oppressing poor & defrauding laborers of their wages if we are buying cheap slave labor goods. It will come back on us. It's hard often when you have few choices. Only so much can be gotten from thrift stores & garage sales. Thank you, & GOD bless!
Yes
By doing right, you silence foolish men :*******O Let us try, one and all :*******)
Christmas-time plea for souls.
"Jesus, Mary, I love you save souls!"
Reparation prayer saves a soul & repairs 1000 blasphemies. James 5:20
Impirmatur Cardinal Fossati, Turin, Italy, 1949. GOD bless all of good will.
For the love of Jesus and Mary and the relief of the Holy souls..eternal rest grant unto them O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them, may they rest in peace Amen 🙏
Mother Theresa and peace. So true. We need to get back to peace with each other.
Amen 🙏. 12/31/2024
Praying for Jen, Julie, Sue, Fr. Mike & for all who prepare & participate in BIAY. Also, praying for any thumbs down(ers)!!
🤲🏼🕊
I always pray for the people i know from co workers to friends and children and family as well as clients and people of other churches and the homeless and even my animals at home and the chickens in the coop in the yard. and then i go into apologies to my guardian angel, Mary, Joseph and the Holy Spirit and pray for the people that i have lost and pray for rain or sun which ever we need. I ask for mercy because the people around me are difficult. That is not denial, they really are. .. I hate snow but have been praying for it because we have had warm winters and i am afraid the wells are going to go dry. I know some people think animals have no rights but i pray that abuse will stop for animals and the land. After communion i feel so dumb because i am still praying after the tabernacle is closed and locked and everyone has sat down. I sit down at that point just not to draw attention. I PRAY FOR FATHER MIKE AND BIAY!
Steadfast in prayer for all Nations! God bless you all and especially father Mike and BIAY families!
For the second time this week, spotify failed to download the daily episode. I am so thankful you all put this up on RUclips!
Thank you Father Mike for sharing the bible with all of us. It is a true blessing to be able to not only read but understand the words of God. Praying for Father Mike and anyone who is in need of prayers.
My daily link emails stopped coming a week ago. ? ? ? I can access directly from RUclips but it is not as convenient. I happily can now say I have read the entire Bible as the last few days I am familiar with
Praying for Father Mike, all at Ascension Press, Jeff Cavines and you my friends following along with BIAY each and everyday. I pray that we all keep showing up, so that we can love God for God! Praying for your spiritual protection as you grow in your faith!
Thank you and God Bless you, Praying for you as well....
Thank you Fr . Mike.
Ave...
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Blessed Mother of the Eucharistic Christ, Queen of Virgins, please bless Fr Mike and his family.
Thank you father Mike for your steadfast commitment to “The Bible in a year” series. Thank you for enriching our lives
We have an obligation to each other from the very beginning, 'am i my brother's keeper'.
Thank you dear Lord for Fr Mike so that we can glorify you everytime we listen to your sacred Scriptures.
It has been a joy to hear his reflections on your words.
Forgive us and our loved ones dear Lord everytime we fail to keep your words to make us holy like how you want us to be. Amen.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on us.
Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.
Saint Joseph pray for us.
All you holy Angels and Saints pray for us. Amen.
❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Fr, just in the last 2 months for Ascension press there have been over 4000 subscribers who have listened to you and clicked subscribed 😉 I typically listened on the Ascension website but wherever I can listen earliest in the morning, whichever is uploaded first I listen there. RUclips does have commercials in it but to see how many have subscribed on this media forum alone. Thank you for doing God's work and for all at Ascension to bring this BIAY podcast to so many listeners!!!!!
Use BRAVE as your search engine and there aren't commercials.
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DAY 352 (14-JuNe-2024)
HapPy FriDaY
A❤m ❤E❤N ❤
Need this one ☝️ 😂❤
Oh my gosh..! 🌟🌟🌟 I CANNOT WAIT to hear you again..!! ❤️👍🏻 I am praying for you… ❤️👍🏻🙏🏻 Please pray for me.. as I show up..! 😔 Hopefully MORE than just ‘showing up’..! 🥰 Guilty of ‘dry prayer’..! ☹️ However, much less these days, since Fr. Mike..! 🥰😍❤️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Practicing gentleness, compassionate thinking, gracious speech is solely dependent on the strength of ABBA Father. O Lord, step by step please have mercy. Thank you
🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾❤️
Thank you Fr. Mike. I so needed this today
Hi Fr Mike, this is my 2nd year of reading BIAY with you and I look forward to reading CIY as well. I just ordered my guide to follow as we read.
December 19, 2023
Round Two
Please, do you have just a moment in time to pray for Souls in Purgatory with me?
According to tradition, St. Gertrude the Great, was told by Our Lord that each time she piously recited the following prayer, it would release 1,000 souls (or a vast number) from their suffering in purgatory:
Eternal Father,
I offer You the most precious blood
of thy Divine Son, Jesus,
in union with the Masses said
throughout the world today,
for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory,
for sinners everywhere,
for sinners in the universal Church,
for those in my own home,
and in my family. Amen.
In her account of another vision, St. Faustina describes Purgatory as a "great crowd of suffering souls" undergoing purification. Further, she says that the souls are "praying fervently, but to no avail, for themselves; only we can come to their aid" (Diary, 20)
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Thank you so much for such a wonderful delivery of Our Lord's word. Definitely words to live by, even as difficult as it may often be, we must try. God bless you Fr. Mike. You are always in my prayers. May God bless this entire community who are still with us on day 352!! Nicely done.
Wow, again astounding...showing up for prayer is " Our I do"!! Thank you Fr Mike for revealing this!!!!
Amen God bless you all and your beloved ones Jesus is king and God is great!🙏❤️❤️❤️
Well that was certainly Wonderful Tonight thank you can't believe I've made it to 352 thank you Lord Jesus for giving me the perseverance to do this and thank you Father Mike and thank you my community love to all God bless
Thank you God bleess Rev father our Loord Jeaus l words very power ful
Thank you father mike for sharing the wisdom of gods gifts God Bless
Thank you Fr Mike.
Praying for you and everyone in the team.
The RSS feed for the podcast wasn't working today, so my podcast app couldn't download the daily episode. Thanks for putting it on RUclips where I could find it.
Thank you 🙏 and God bless. Prayers for all!!
You are love🕊❤
God bless you all.
Proverbs 30
10 - Never criticize servants to their master.
You will be cursed and suffer for it.
11 - There are people who curse their fathers and do not show appreciation for their mothers.
12 - There are people who think they are pure when they are as filthy as they can be.
13 - There are people who think they are so good -- oh, how good they think they are!
14 - There are people who take cruel advantage of the poor and needy ; that is the way they make their living.
The Good News Bble
Today's English Version
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This video was meant for me Fr. Mike. It touched my heart profoundly. God bless you Father to the heavens and back. Thank you for these videos.
Thank you 🙏 Father Mike Schmitz. Prayers for you
The commentary was just so wonderfullly perfect to hear today...
Thank you, Father Mike, and thank you Father Joe Glab for introducing BIY to me. 🙏🙏🙏
Fr Mike
Thank you so much for the explanation of ‘dry prayer’ .
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Praying for you & in thanksgiving for this Bible in a year community 🙏❤🙏
Done ✅
'Do not slander a servant to his master. lest he curse you and you be guilty' -The Book of Proverbs chapter 30 verse 10-14
That strikes a cord with me about gifts from God also come with trials. I have said God never answers my prayers but that made me think. He DID and has always answered my prayers but they always came with a serpent that i had to defeat. I have said He didn't answer them because they always came with strings attached BUT THEY DID COME! Some of them i am still trying to overcome.
Merry Christmas!! 🎄
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Amen 🙏
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6/23/23 🕊
God bless you Father Mike
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Day 352, 7/18/2022
Beautiful
So good!
23 feb 2024
Thank you Fr. Mike
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