This was a really good reminder and wakeup call that lent is not about self-help, but rather dying to self. This brought to mind a prayer by St. Augustine “Let me Know Myself”. It’s perfect for saying daily, but especially as we approach lent and throughout. This is the prayer I mentioned… Lord Jesus, let me know myself and know You, And desire nothing save only You. Let me hate myself and love You. Let me do everything for the sake of You. Let me humble myself and exalt You. Let me think of nothing except You. Let me die to myself and live in You. Let me accept whatever happens as from You. Let me banish self and follow You, And ever desire to follow You. Let me fly from myself and take refuge in You, That I may deserve to be defended by You. Let me fear for myself, let me fear You, And let me be among those who are chosen by You. Let me distrust myself and put my trust in You. Let me be willing to obey for the sake of You. Let me cling to nothing save only to You, And let me be poor because of You. Look upon me, that I may love You. Call me that I may see You, And for ever enjoy You. Amen. -St. Augustine
That is a beautiful prayer. It reminds me of the saying "Noscam Te, Noscam me", help me to know you, help me to know myself. I first found it in Humility of Heart and ever since then, it has resonated.
@@brandonpalmer5436 Thank you for sharing that quote from Humility of Heart. I was not aware of that saying. It’s really nice. I’m currently reading Humility of Heart and will keep an eye out for that part.
I was not good with Lent last year. I'm new to the Church, and I hope this year a part of me I do not want anymore can be given up to God and lost forever. He can do all things for nothing is impossible for my God. I know I am nothing without God.
I heard today even if everyday you offer up your works joys and suggesting for sinners thats is a good lentern thing you can easily do. I find starting prayer as soon I I rise and go to bed most useful to gain your protection during each day. God sees you trying keep going 🙏
I would find a church that offers Eucharistic adoration. Just go in, find a dark corner, kneel and let your mind go blank. Know that youre in front of God. Its amazing what comes to mind.
Lent is about suffering, withstanding suffering, as Christ did, it is about enduring pain, avoiding temptation, it is about discipline, it is about becoming closer to God and understanding better Him and ourselves.
Thank you for the good explanation, I am not long a Catholic and finding my way in the Faith. Not many people around me explaining me what is Lent all about. Now I can repair better for lent Praise Jesus Christ our Lord and savior ♥️✝️ hallelujah
Also, stay away from pagan (hindu) content. If you're doing yoga, stop. 'Mantras' and these things can open portals to the demonic. Start simply: change that profile pic (it's a pagan idol/deity/demon). Delete all your pagan, 'new religion', pantheist, heresy junk. And I say this out of love for Christ Jesus. And if it offends you, good. It shows you still have some knowledge of right and wrong.
For me it was always just a reminder, the hunger is a constant reminder of the fact I value God's grace above my own comfort, "man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God"
Someone asked me this year "What am I going to give up forbLentvthis year?" I simply put it this way I came out of a almost 20 year active addiction....so I realize while I am in a 90 day rehab that I gave up those drugs for Lent this year.All I can say no such thing as self help but dying to self. Amen.
Strip away the crutches we use to support ourselves! So we can only rely on God. ❤️ Ask God when we need help throughout through our day. Fasting in quality, not quantity. Almsgiving, giving away our material goods. Through Him With Him In Him Don't get too attached to the Lent Plans Because then God has us destroys them. He tests our will, are you willing to take apart of this. Then God gives us something else, an interior trial. God knows what penance we need. We should examine our conscious, do I rely on myself more than God? Ask Our Lady of Sorrows what are our biggest obstacles standing in the way of our relationship with God? And how can we overcome them. Thank you!
WOW!!!!!! That was one of the BEST explanations of insight into how to approach lent but also how to approach life!!!! Every word said is Absolutely so true!!!!!! Thank you! I wanted this lent to be special… I had my plan… now I am going to start the surrender BEFORE Lent and ask Our Lady for insight needed for my spiritual growth and God on how HE wants me to do it! His Divine Will, not mine! God Bless!❤
This is the best explanation I have heard for Lent. I am keeping lent simple this year and this week is the last full week of pre lent season and hopefully by Ash Wednesday my body, heart, soul and mind will be ready. 🙏
I'm going to save this to rewatch this every year before Lent. I've been using Lent as self-help for years without knowing the proper meaning of the season. I hope to make use of this new to me information.
Love yourself. God wants you to love yourself. If you have strong desire for escape with drugs/alcohol, probably there are things missing from your life. Find the healthy and good ways to meet that need, but recognize that something is missing. Remember, one step at a time. Don't abuse yourself with damaging substances... but if you do, don't add more abuse to yourself because of that... thats where the cycle of addiction traps us, the shame and self-attack.
@@JakeDanczyk YES I DID this and I had the holy Spirit and got Destruction I hate I did this and harm myself. I feel sins have mess me up with God and not OBEYING. Why did I do this. I had GOD THE HOLY GHOST and now feel sick and miserable. BODY DEFILE no armor and beIN in the world. He told em to let this GO. I WASN'T LISTENING. WHAT TP DO. I WANT him back OVEREATING and aNot fasting and praying.. Spiritual attackes mess me up doing sin and now I feel battered and CUT OFF FROM GOD. PLEASE what to do. God didn't have to save me. I don't want cancer. God was in me. I was DISOBEDIENT. Noe WAY OFF. PLEASE PRAY AND help me sins was FOOLISH I feel DESTROY by demons and invisible forces. Hurt me. I NISS OUT. WHY DIDN'T FEEL mess up and dysfunctional .the Lord HATE ME. I am mess up fooled on the Wrong side Destruction. WHY DID HORRIBLE ...
That was a very good homily, Father. It brought the wisdom of the scholastics into our modern world effortlessly and eloquently. Have a great Lenten Season everyone.
I really needed to be reminded of this. I wrote out my list of Lenten goals (for lack of a better word) and now I'll be revisiting it to align myself with a deeper relationship with Christ.
Thank you so much for this, recently I have been having trouble on focusing to much on the strictness of the law (which is good). However, it has strayed me away from the spirit of the law, complete reliance on God's saving grace, love and faithfulness. I needed to hear this before Lent/Great Fast.
Thanks for this. This is the third post I've read since yesterday calling for a return to the tradition of fasting, almsgiving and praying more focused on relying on God instead of a form of self-help.
Very good message. I often wondered about fasting and if fasting would increase pride in that fast. There ARE proven health benefits to 18+ hours of fasting. I include some kind of service during the time that I would normally eat. It gets my mind off myself and towards God’s people. It makes fasting a happier and peaceful experience.
Who was that monk/ perhaps saint for whom Lenten fasting became a competition? He was therefore ordered each day to eat a chocolate bar and gained 10 pounds by Easter.
I used to do this growing up and am still combating it. I used lent as a self improvement challenge which really just fed my self reliance and ultimately just more failure.
Help me Lord. Help me Morher Mary. Please make it not about Mr Gif PLEASE! PlEase! Please! Gif I want to serve you. Teach me so I can be useful. Please God! Please trash me to love Ypu so You are all I want! Please give me this grace. I'm so selfish. Lord help me. Please Lord. I want to love YOU alone.
As a child in 2nd grade, I recall we'd each get a shoebox in which every form of candy was placed until Lent was finished. Even kids took it seriously. I only had 2 grades in parochial school but have fond memories of it. The age of reason was 7. Is that the same anymore or did Vatican II mess that up too?
Dying to self and prepare for heaven to prayer almsgiving offer reparations contrite more hungry for God fasting fiat pray for graces canon of mass depend on God fiat are we willing to give up which God gives what he chooses for us. Dying to self is important rely on God divine providence fiat. Amen Allelluia give it all to the lord.❤
How to get back to God and not be in world and sins I feel His Enemy and lost I wasn't this way and blood on my hands I don't want sickness and diseas. please someone pray for me. I sit here fooled and Destruction why do this please I shouldn't have played
This sermon is life changing. Who is it? I want to listen to more from this priest. The problem I've had with priests in the Canadian Catholic Church is they can't explain Catholic teaching where it's easily understood or they focus so much on Jesus and NEVER mention God that it's questionable who it is they are actually worshiping.
I went to my first and only ash wednesday mass as a complete novice, not confirmed or anything. Didn't even know fasting was a thing you guys did until I was 1,800 calories deep at mcdonalds on the way home from the long drive, starving since I missed a meal earlier in the day. Record for shortest lent ever? Great start.
@@genxx2724 oh it doesn't. It was my last cheat fun meal before 9 months of diet prep for a body building show. A rare occurence for me but it was probably the worst timing possible because I didn't know.
Often times overcoming bad habits can be include over coming the self and doing good self help. Why make them seem the opposite? Lent is not for extreme practices; neither the Church or Christ say that is healthy or good.
Self help and self esteem are by their very titles and practice ruses which seek to sway our vision and priorities away from God and His sovereignty to our own desires. No where in the Bible are we told to be concerned with how we feel about ourselves. God gives us our worth and is the Potter who forms us into His likeness, if we keep our reliance on Him. Both (self help/esteem) are snares of the Devil.
Anywhere in the world where one chooses to follow the Lenten practices of 40 days prior to Easter. Pray - then go to any Catholic Church and ask a priest for guidance.
Fasting to lose weight is not the correct overall motivation. Lent is about letting go of supports so we can rely better on God. More Prayer, more of giving our reliance to be on God. The soul becomes more hungry for God. How do things taste Give away something of material goods. That is Almsgiving. Through Him, With Him, In Him. Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving..to set out the things to Give to God.
True, but be careful not to fall into miserbalism. Lent IS about self-improvement, via self-denial. Solidifying our faith is self-improvement. Evangelising is about promoting the faith, no? Let us not brow beat too much.
I gave milk up once for Lent a couple of years ago..And couldn't wait to drink a glass of cold milk..When the time ended...The Milk tasted terrible..And I had been drinking a jug a day.
There are no false or true Popes in the Catholic Church. Holy Spirit allows "bad" popes to humble and sanctify us the Church. Because of our pride, it is hard to submit ourselves to imperfect people, yet Jesus Christ did exactly that. Catholic Church is not built or kept by holy popes but by the mercy of God and Him only. Do not think you know better than God what or who Church needs. Maybe hard times and hard popes or church leaders are what we need to purify us from pride.
@M. The Church teaches that truly bad Popes, heretics, cease to be Popes because they're no longer in the actual Church. Same goes with all Catholics. If you deviate from the 2,000 yr old magisterium on one small point, you're outside of the Catholic Church. To be saved one must be a Catholic who is not a heretic. Heretics are the Gates of Hell. That's how Christ says the Gates of Hell will not prevail. Heretics are automatically outside the Church, mystical body, when they preach heresy. This ensures the UNITY of faith.
@John in So Ca: Anti Pope Jorge Mario Bergolio [Francis] is the last precursor to the entrance of the Anti-Christ whom is alive this day but not manifested yet.
@@ghoststarstalk Anti-Christ is he who denies that Jesus is the Christ. That would include Anti-Pope John XXIII thru Anti-Pope Francis. They are all Anti-Christs. 1John 2:22.
Lent is NOT in Scriptures and is at the very least just a very bad tradition that distracts from God. Its origins would shock most and turn others away from the FALSE teachings of Roman Catholicism.
Lent's *actual* historical origins, despite the pseudo-historical nonsense you've apparently read about it, are quite biblical, and the accusation that it is, at its best, a bad tradition that distracts from God is among the most stupid things I've ever seen anyone write about Lent.
Wow, clearly Jesus advocated many many times prayer, fasting and alms giving, so a tradition of a period where those things are emphasised and practiced as a lead up to thanking God for his gift of salvation (Easter) is considered by you as a bad tradition???? I think that you have missed the point and have let your prejudices overcome reason.
According to an online search, the word Repentance appears 75 Times in the New Testament, Alone! 21 times in the Old Testament... This You call a " bad tradition"?? Sackcloth and Ashes were a form of repentance, in the Bible, Thousands of years Before the Catholic Church! "
This was a really good reminder and wakeup call that lent is not about self-help, but rather dying to self. This brought to mind a prayer by St. Augustine “Let me Know Myself”. It’s perfect for saying daily, but especially as we approach lent and throughout. This is the prayer I mentioned…
Lord Jesus, let me know myself and know You,
And desire nothing save only You.
Let me hate myself and love You.
Let me do everything for the sake of You.
Let me humble myself and exalt You.
Let me think of nothing except You.
Let me die to myself and live in You.
Let me accept whatever happens as from You.
Let me banish self and follow You,
And ever desire to follow You.
Let me fly from myself and take refuge in You,
That I may deserve to be defended by You.
Let me fear for myself, let me fear You,
And let me be among those who are chosen by You.
Let me distrust myself and put my trust in You.
Let me be willing to obey for the sake of You.
Let me cling to nothing save only to You,
And let me be poor because of You.
Look upon me, that I may love You.
Call me that I may see You,
And for ever enjoy You.
Amen.
-St. Augustine
That is a beautiful prayer. It reminds me of the saying "Noscam Te, Noscam me", help me to know you, help me to know myself. I first found it in Humility of Heart and ever since then, it has resonated.
@@brandonpalmer5436 Thank you for sharing that quote from Humility of Heart. I was not aware of that saying. It’s really nice. I’m currently reading Humility of Heart and will keep an eye out for that part.
Ah! That's my favorite prayer!
@@AddictedToCandyx it’s my new favorite too!…I just discovered it a few months ago in the Biretta Books TLM Missal.
What a beautiful prayer. Thank you for sharing ❤
I was not good with Lent last year. I'm new to the Church, and I hope this year a part of me I do not want anymore can be given up to God and lost forever. He can do all things for nothing is impossible for my God. I know I am nothing without God.
Beautiful. We all need that attitude.
God bless.🙏✝️
I heard today even if everyday you offer up your works joys and suggesting for sinners thats is a good lentern thing you can easily do.
I find starting prayer as soon I I rise and go to bed most useful to gain your protection during each day.
God sees you trying keep going 🙏
So…go a little deeper this year. See what happens. Of course ask Holy Spirit to guide you.
I would find a church that offers Eucharistic adoration. Just go in, find a dark corner, kneel and let your mind go blank. Know that youre in front of God. Its amazing what comes to mind.
Phew needed to read this
Lent is about suffering, withstanding suffering, as Christ did, it is about enduring pain, avoiding temptation, it is about discipline, it is about becoming closer to God and understanding better Him and ourselves.
Amen.
Whatever it takes to get closer to God...
May God help me to become detached to things other than God. Pray for me to depend more on God than myself.
Jesus Bless our Lent 🙏🏻🛐⛪️✝️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Such powerful words. I pray for everyone , including myself to seek God first.
Wow, solid advice!
Thank you for the good explanation, I am not long a Catholic and finding my way in the Faith. Not many people around me explaining me what is Lent all about. Now I can repair better for lent
Praise Jesus Christ our Lord and savior ♥️✝️ hallelujah
Search and you will find.
Also, stay away from pagan (hindu) content. If you're doing yoga, stop. 'Mantras' and these things can open portals to the demonic. Start simply: change that profile pic (it's a pagan idol/deity/demon). Delete all your pagan, 'new religion', pantheist, heresy junk. And I say this out of love for Christ Jesus. And if it offends you, good. It shows you still have some knowledge of right and wrong.
please come home brother
Check out the video "Growing in Virtue by small, Sustained mortifications" it is also on the Sensus Fidelium channel. It is even more detailed.
Come back to your first love, Jesus is waiting for you. 🙏
For me it was always just a reminder, the hunger is a constant reminder of the fact I value God's grace above my own comfort, "man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God"
Someone asked me this year "What am I going to give up forbLentvthis year?" I simply put it this way I came out of a almost 20 year active addiction....so I realize while I am in a 90 day rehab that I gave up those drugs for Lent this year.All I can say no such thing as self help but dying to self. Amen.
Strip away the crutches we use to support ourselves!
So we can only rely on God. ❤️
Ask God when we need help throughout through our day.
Fasting in quality, not quantity.
Almsgiving, giving away our material goods.
Through Him
With Him
In Him
Don't get too attached to the Lent Plans
Because then God has us destroys them. He tests our will, are you willing to take apart of this. Then God gives us something else, an interior trial. God knows what penance we need. We should examine our conscious, do I rely on myself more than God?
Ask Our Lady of Sorrows what are our biggest obstacles standing in the way of our relationship with God? And how can we overcome them.
Thank you!
WOW!!!!!!
That was one of the BEST explanations of insight into how to approach lent but also how to approach life!!!!
Every word said is Absolutely so true!!!!!!
Thank you!
I wanted this lent to be special… I had my plan… now I am going to start the surrender BEFORE Lent and ask Our Lady for insight needed for my spiritual growth and God on how HE wants me to do it!
His Divine Will, not mine!
God Bless!❤
My total submission to GOD is the Grace given. I am GOD'S puppy to follow the Creator. I am nothing without GOD.
Thank you Father!
This is the best explanation I have heard for Lent. I am keeping lent simple this year and this week is the last full week of pre lent season and hopefully by Ash Wednesday my body, heart, soul and mind will be ready. 🙏
I'm going to save this to rewatch this every year before Lent. I've been using Lent as self-help for years without knowing the proper meaning of the season. I hope to make use of this new to me information.
God IS OUR HELP. MANY PEOPLE WILL BE BLESSED Throughout LENT
I need soooo much help with this. Please keep talking about Temperance. 🙏
Love yourself. God wants you to love yourself.
If you have strong desire for escape with drugs/alcohol, probably there are things missing from your life. Find the healthy and good ways to meet that need, but recognize that something is missing.
Remember, one step at a time. Don't abuse yourself with damaging substances... but if you do, don't add more abuse to yourself because of that... thats where the cycle of addiction traps us, the shame and self-attack.
@@JakeDanczyk YES I DID this and I had the holy Spirit and got Destruction
I hate I did this and harm myself. I feel sins have mess me up with God and not OBEYING. Why did I do this. I had GOD THE HOLY GHOST and now feel sick and miserable. BODY DEFILE no armor and beIN in the world. He told em to let this GO. I WASN'T LISTENING. WHAT TP DO. I WANT him back OVEREATING and aNot fasting and praying.. Spiritual attackes mess me up doing sin and now I feel battered and CUT OFF FROM GOD. PLEASE what to do. God didn't have to save me. I don't want cancer. God was in me. I was DISOBEDIENT. Noe WAY OFF. PLEASE PRAY AND help me sins was FOOLISH I feel DESTROY by demons and invisible forces. Hurt me. I NISS OUT. WHY DIDN'T FEEL mess up and dysfunctional
.the Lord HATE ME. I am mess up fooled on the Wrong side Destruction. WHY DID HORRIBLE ...
I REALLY NEEDED THIS - THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
That was a very good homily, Father. It brought the wisdom of the scholastics into our modern world effortlessly and eloquently. Have a great Lenten Season everyone.
I really needed to be reminded of this. I wrote out my list of Lenten goals (for lack of a better word) and now I'll be revisiting it to align myself with a deeper relationship with Christ.
God Bless🙏
Blessings
Thank you so much for this, recently I have been having trouble on focusing to much on the strictness of the law (which is good). However, it has strayed me away from the spirit of the law, complete reliance on God's saving grace, love and faithfulness. I needed to hear this before Lent/Great Fast.
Make it about love ❤️ not the law. You’ll see a clearer path.
This is the most meaningful explanation of what lent is all about. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for this. This is the third post I've read since yesterday calling for a return to the tradition of fasting, almsgiving and praying more focused on relying on God instead of a form of self-help.
Deo Gratias for you, Father.
Amen. 🙏🏿
Powerful teaching and just what I needed to hear. Thank you and God bless you Father.
Eye opening homily, so ell spoken! Thank you, Father🙏🏻🐾
Very good message. I often wondered about fasting and if fasting would increase pride in that fast. There ARE proven health benefits to 18+ hours of fasting. I include some kind of service during the time that I would normally eat. It gets my mind off myself and towards God’s people.
It makes fasting a happier and peaceful experience.
Who was that monk/ perhaps saint for whom Lenten fasting became a competition? He was therefore ordered each day to eat a chocolate bar and gained 10 pounds by Easter.
Thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you Fr.
I used to do this growing up and am still combating it. I used lent as a self improvement challenge which really just fed my self reliance and ultimately just more failure.
i have more clarity now, exactly whats happening to me.
Help me Lord. Help me Morher Mary. Please make it not about Mr Gif PLEASE! PlEase! Please! Gif I want to serve you. Teach me so I can be useful. Please God! Please trash me to love Ypu so You are all I want! Please give me this grace. I'm so selfish. Lord help me. Please Lord. I want to love YOU alone.
Ave maria!
As a child in 2nd grade, I recall we'd each get a shoebox in which every form of candy was placed until Lent was finished.
Even kids took it seriously. I only had 2 grades in parochial school but have fond memories of it.
The age of reason was 7.
Is that the same anymore or did Vatican II mess that up too?
It is still the same.
The promise of lent is normally a basket of candy. Having kids put something in there every day or once a week might make sense. That's a great idea!!
Hey, this is Lent, not Christmas...
What an amazing homily and description of Lent! Can you please share the name of this priest in the video? Thank you.
Dying to self and prepare for heaven to prayer almsgiving offer reparations contrite more hungry for God fasting fiat pray for graces canon of mass depend on God fiat are we willing to give up which God gives what he chooses for us. Dying to self is important rely on God divine providence fiat. Amen Allelluia give it all to the lord.❤
How to get back to God and not be in world and sins I feel His Enemy and lost I wasn't this way and blood on my hands I don't want sickness and diseas. please someone pray for me. I sit here fooled and Destruction why do this please I shouldn't have played
This sermon is life changing. Who is it? I want to listen to more from this priest. The problem I've had with priests in the Canadian Catholic Church is they can't explain Catholic teaching where it's easily understood or they focus so much on Jesus and NEVER mention God that it's questionable who it is they are actually worshiping.
To me it's a second chance at a new year's resolution. And really what's wrong with that? We all have our own motivation!
🙏🏻✝💟
@Miluka: 'Where is it happening?' ❓️❓️❓️
I have to keep correcting people who tell me: "Oh, you'll be so slim by the end of Lent!" What is it about fasting that people just don't get?
Very nice homily. May I know the name of this priest?
I went to my first and only ash wednesday mass as a complete novice, not confirmed or anything. Didn't even know fasting was a thing you guys did until I was 1,800 calories deep at mcdonalds on the way home from the long drive, starving since I missed a meal earlier in the day.
Record for shortest lent ever?
Great start.
You didn’t know. Start now. And please don’t let McDonald’s take away your health anymore. Pack a cooler of water healthful snacks for the car. 💕
@@genxx2724 oh it doesn't. It was my last cheat fun meal before 9 months of diet prep for a body building show. A rare occurence for me but it was probably the worst timing possible because I didn't know.
you can still eat while fasting
@@jdn1015 it was my second meal, massive and meat. Thats supposed to be a no for ash Wednesday and every friday of lent right?
@gainsofglory6414 yah no meat on those days. get filet o fish next time ;)
RUclips warns me, of foreign music? Really? It's my Religion. Traditional Catholicism.
❤🙏
Often times overcoming bad habits can be include over coming the self and doing good self help. Why make them seem the opposite? Lent is not for extreme practices; neither the Church or Christ say that is healthy or good.
Self help and self esteem are by their very titles and practice ruses which seek to sway our vision and priorities away from God and His sovereignty to our own desires.
No where in the Bible are we told to be concerned with how we feel about ourselves. God gives us our worth and is the Potter who forms us into His likeness, if we keep our reliance on Him.
Both (self help/esteem) are snares of the Devil.
🙏♥️🇻🇦
🙏🇻🇦✝️
Where is it happening?
huh?
@@zachsmith5515 Sorry. I mean city.
Anywhere in the world where one chooses to follow the Lenten practices of 40 days prior to Easter. Pray - then go to any Catholic Church and ask a priest for guidance.
It's self denial.
Lent is like a race, but the humble and lowly will win, not the proud and masterful.
Fasting to lose weight is not the correct overall motivation.
Lent is about letting go of supports so we can rely better on God.
More Prayer, more of giving our reliance to be on God.
The soul becomes more hungry for God.
How do things taste
Give away something of material goods.
That is Almsgiving.
Through Him, With Him, In Him.
Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving..to set out the things to Give to God.
True, but be careful not to fall into miserbalism. Lent IS about self-improvement, via self-denial. Solidifying our faith is self-improvement. Evangelising is about promoting the faith, no? Let us not brow beat too much.
Lent is .........
Lent is not BIBLICAL ! It's traditional. 🤷♂️
I gave milk up once for Lent a couple of years ago..And couldn't wait to drink a glass of cold milk..When the time ended...The Milk tasted terrible..And I had been drinking a jug a day.
This video is so funny ahahahaha
Video ends with last true Pope, Pope Pius XII. That is a deception. The Vatican II church isn't the religion of the Pope that is shown.
There are no false or true Popes in the Catholic Church. Holy Spirit allows "bad" popes to humble and sanctify us the Church. Because of our pride, it is hard to submit ourselves to imperfect people, yet Jesus Christ did exactly that. Catholic Church is not built or kept by holy popes but by the mercy of God and Him only. Do not think you know better than God what or who Church needs. Maybe hard times and hard popes or church leaders are what we need to purify us from pride.
@M. The Church teaches that truly bad Popes, heretics, cease to be Popes because they're no longer in the actual Church. Same goes with all Catholics. If you deviate from the 2,000 yr old magisterium on one small point, you're outside of the Catholic Church. To be saved one must be
a Catholic who is not a heretic. Heretics are the Gates of Hell. That's how Christ says the Gates of Hell will not prevail. Heretics are automatically outside the Church, mystical body, when they preach heresy. This ensures the UNITY of faith.
@@m.935 Well said. Ave Maria!
@John in So Ca:
Anti Pope Jorge Mario Bergolio [Francis] is the last precursor to the entrance of the Anti-Christ whom is alive this day but not manifested yet.
@@ghoststarstalk Anti-Christ
is he who denies that Jesus is the
Christ. That would include Anti-Pope John XXIII thru Anti-Pope Francis. They are all Anti-Christs. 1John 2:22.
Lent is NOT in Scriptures and is at the very least just a very bad tradition that distracts from God. Its origins would shock most and turn others away from the FALSE teachings of Roman Catholicism.
Lent's *actual* historical origins, despite the pseudo-historical nonsense you've apparently read about it, are quite biblical, and the accusation that it is, at its best, a bad tradition that distracts from God is among the most stupid things I've ever seen anyone write about Lent.
Wow, clearly Jesus advocated many many times prayer, fasting and alms giving, so a tradition of a period where those things are emphasised and practiced as a lead up to thanking God for his gift of salvation (Easter) is considered by you as a bad tradition???? I think that you have missed the point and have let your prejudices overcome reason.
Actually, A Lenten retreat Is Biblical
Moses
Elijah
Noah
Even Jesus
We're tested for 40 days..
@@cabellero1120 yes excellent point.
According to an online search, the word Repentance appears 75 Times in the New Testament, Alone!
21 times in the Old Testament...
This You call a " bad tradition"??
Sackcloth and Ashes were a form of repentance, in the Bible, Thousands of years Before the Catholic Church!
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says the catholic. misguided.
Does anyone know who this priest is? This homily was amazing. Brought tears to my eyes and showed me a different way of how to look at lent