I thought I would be praying for thirty years like Monica. I had faith it would happen, but it was shocking how fast when I turned it over to God and His Mother. I wasn't nagging them for three months before my son went for his adult confession, and he's now a devout Catholic saying the rosary every day. Anyone reading this, this is wonderful advice.
2)🕋THE GOSPEL OF THE WORD OF ALMIGHTY GOD "the last age in which God is saving man from the imminent destruction of this old world" (In the beginning I created mankind; that is, I created the ancestor of mankind, Adam. I gave him a form and an image, full of strength, full of vitality, and, moreover, with My glory. That is the glorious day that I created man. Adam was originally born from My hand and he represents My image. He is the only one, who has a spirit, capable of representing Me, bearing My image, and My breath. In the beginning, Eve was the second person endowed with breath whose creation I ordained, so the original meaning of "Eve" was a being who would perpetuate My glory, full of My vitality and in addition endowed of My glory. Eve came from Adam. Therefore she also bears My image, because she is the second person created in My image. However, the evil one trampled and captured the offspring of the ancestors of mankind, and brought down the world of man in complete darkness, and it was done so that the offspring would no longer believe in My existence. Even more abominable is that, while the evil corrupts people and tramples them, it cruelly robs My glory, My testimony, the vitality I give them, the breath and the life I give them, the All My glory in the human world, and all the heart blood I have spent on mankind. I will take back My glory, I will take back My testimony that exists among people, and everything that was Mine and that I gave to mankind in the old days-I will completely conquer mankind. Therefore, I inform humanity that all I want are those created by My hand, the saints whom I love and do not belong to any other being. I accept only My testimony as the development of Myself as the object of My pleasure. This is My will.) Almighty God said In the BEGINNING I created mankind; that is, I CREATED the ancestor of HUMANITY, ADAM. HE HAS A FORM and IMAGE, full of STRENGTH, full of vitality, and, moreover, with My GLORY. That was the GLORIOUS DAY when I CREATED MAN. After that, Eve was MADE from Adam's BODY, and she was the ancestor of man, so the people I created are full of My breath and full of My glory. 🙏 Adam was ORIGINALLY BORN from My HAND and he REPRESENTS My IMAGE. Thus the ORIGINAL MEANING of "Adam" is a being that I CREATED, filled with My PRECIOUS POWER, filled with My GLORY, with FORM and IMAGE, with SPIRIT and BREATH. He is the only being, possessing a SPIRIT, with the ABILITY to REPRESENT Me, BEAR My IMAGE, and RECEIVE My BREATH. ☀️🙏 In the BEGINNING, Eve was the SECOND BREATHFUL PERSON whose CREATION I ORDAINED, so the ORIGINAL MEANING of "Eve" is a being who will PERSUITE My GLORY, full of My vitality and moreover endowed with My glory. Eve CAME FROM Adam, so she also HAS MY IMAGE, because she is the SECOND PERSON CREATED in My IMAGE. 🙏 The ORIGINAL MEANING of "Eve" is a LIVING PERSON, with SPIRIT, FLESH, and BONES, My SECOND TESTIMONY as well as My SECOND IMAGE to mankind. They are the ancestors of mankind, the PURE and PRECIOUS WEALTH of MAN, and ORIGINATED from the FIRST and LIFE of SPIRIT-INHABITED CREATURES. 🙏 However, evil trampled and captured the offspring of the ancestors of mankind, and plunged the human world into complete darkness, and made it so that the offspring would no longer believe in My existence. 😪 Even more abominable is that, while the evil corrupts the people and tramples them, it cruelly takes away My glory, My testimony, the vitality I give them, the breath and the life I give them , My entire glory in the human world, and all the heart blood I spent on humanity. Humanity is NO LONGER IN THE LIGHT, and PEOPLE HAVE LOST EVERYTHING I GIVEN to them, and they have THROWN AWAY the GLORY I GIVEN. ☀️ How can they recognize that I am the LORD of ALL CREATIONS? How can they DEFINITELY BELIEVE in My EXISTENCE in HEAVEN? How will they DISCOVER the manifestations of My GLORY BELOW THE EARTH? ☀️ How will these grandchildren treat the God their own ancestors revered as the Lord who CREATED them? These poor grandchildren have fully "exposed" to the EVIL the GLORY, the IMAGE, and the testimony I GIVEN to ADAM and EVE, as well as the LIFE I GIVEN to mankind and upon which they depend for existence ; and, they are TOTALLY NOT CONCERNED with the PRESENCE of EVIL, and GIVE MY FULL GLORY to it. 😪 Isn't this itself the origin of the title "garbage"? How can such mankind, such WICKED demons, such WALKING corpses, such SHADES OF SATAN, such ENEMIES of Mine, POSSESS My glory? 😪 I WILL RECOVER My GLORY, I WILL RECOVER My TESTIMONY that EXISTS FROM the PEOPLE, and ALL that was Mine and I GAVE to mankind in the FIRST TIME---I will completely CONQUER mankind. ☀️🙏 However, you must KNOW that the PEOPLE I CREATED are HOLY PEOPLE WHO BEAR MY IMAGE and MY GLORY. 🙏 They were not counted to Satan, nor were they trampled upon by him, but only pure manifestation of Me, FREE from the slightest stain of SATAN'S POISON. Therefore, I INFORM mankind that the ONLY thing I want is those who are CREATED by My HAND, the HOLY ones whom I LOVE and do NOT belong to any other being. 🙏☀️ Besides that, I will be DELIGHTED with them and I will consider them My GLORY. However, what I want is not the humanity corrupted by SATAN, which belongs to SATAN now, and is NOT what I originally CREATED. ☀️ Because I intend to RECOVER My GLORY EXISTING in the HUMAN WORLD, I will completely CONQUER the REMAINS of humanity, as PROOF of My GLORY in DEFEATING SATAN. 🙏 I ACCEPT only My TESTIMONY as the DEVELOPMENT of MYSELF as the OBJECT of My PLEASURE. This is My WILL. 💐🙏 From "The Meaning of Being a Real Man" Fulfillment of "When I looked up, someone handed me a book wrapped in a scroll. I opened it and I read on both sides the prayers, sorrows, and curses." (Ezekiel 2:9-10). (Rev. 19:13). 📩 Calling and leading everyone to His lowered Kingdom or Church because it is still standing on earth in the holy place in the air/ youtube "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD 💐 this is the fulfillment of what He said to Peter 2,000 years ago, recorded in (Matthew 16:18'19). This is the the only Church of each one of our spirit that we must listen to or eat and drink like how we eat, dress and sleep every day so that He can guide us and change us by rejecting the evil attached by Satan so as to be perfect, having attained eternal life that will enter the coming replacement of the New Heaven and New Earth. 📥 👉 Note💌 The coming of the Spirit of God incarnated in His second and last incarnation is the fulfillment of what was prophesied in the great book of Revelation so the last day or last age has come and His coming is to judge and punish unrighteousness of a person so that the pure or perfect person will be able to enter the approaching New Heaven and New Earth in the final judgment that all souls at that time will be reborn to receive the appropriate corresponding punishment (the one that will be destroyed and will no longer exist ) orthe reward of living forever in the New World. 💟
As a former atheist I can tell you that threatening an eternity in hell did not work. This is an argument that will work on very few people. Why? Because they don’t believe in hell in the first place. You know what worked? Seeing people of faith do the right thing, to act honorably, to care for the poor, engaging in charitable works, and being a good person-in other words, seeing Christians who were not hypocrites in action. It was the hypocrites who turned me away from Christianity in the first place. So always be a good person. You never know who is watching you.
Depends on the type of atheist, as a former atheist not raised in the Faith, I agree. But someone who may be a lapsed Catholic who still believes but doesn't practice, it can be very effective. - Edward
Very good point about being an example by living the faith. CS Lewis talks about the issue of people actually living the faith as the measure, not people who are Christian in name only. And another truth that is very often completely unknown is the 2,000 years of miracles, even miracles that are happening in our current times. People will say "why haven't I even heard of this?" . It's not a panacea, but it is more truth that says there is something miraculous about Christianity.
About 7 years ago I had an epiphany and returned to the Church after over 30 years of agnosticism and atheism. I raised my two sons without religion and they were adults when I returned to the Church. We talked about what I was doing and the time, and I told them what I thought, but it was them who asked me if they could come to mass with me. Each in their own time. We talked, but no pressure whatsoever. Both are now baptized, confirmed and practicing Catholics. I think it's often enough for people to see us live as practicing Catholics to get the ball rolling.
I live in Sweden and basically almost everyone around me: Family, friends and the whole society is very secular and mostly atheist or agnostic. My brother converted to Catholicism with me and has been a huge source of strength for me. It's hard sometimes when i know that most of the good people i know probably won't go to heaven. I've been praying for my friend who has shown some interest in attending church and she actually might come now on Sunday which i'm very happy about. If you can pray for her i'd appreciate it. Thanks and God bless.
I converted two years ago. My whole family are fallen away Catholics. My dad is very anti-Catholic, and my mum has a lot of religious trauma because her own mother was very Catholic but also very oppressive. She also had a bad experience wjth a priest who was very innapropriate with her. I often cry thinking where my poor parents are heading. I try to pray for them often, offer up communions and my sufferings. I often despair because I am not good at apologetics and I don’t know how to choose the right words to proclaim the Gospel. I am terrified of saying the wrong things and represent our faith badly. I feel like recently my mum is making progress though. She says I have changed for the better since converting and I think this impresses her because I used to be a difficult person to be around. I try to be empathetic of the religious trauma she experienced and explain to her that God is merciful and loving and the Church is necessary for our guidance. There is still a long way to go, but I have hope for her. 🙏🏻
Hello Nelly, thank you for sharing your experience with sharing the faith within your family. Some great resources for Catholic apologetics are: 1. Catholic Answers (www.catholic.com/) 2. Pints with Aquinas (via RUclips or Spotify) Or, if you have the time, Franciscan University offers a great online Theology degree that allows you to dive into the understandings of the Catholic faith (spt.franciscan.edu/programs/aa-theology-online/). I hope some or all of these resources help! Keep up the great work, Nelly!! You and your parents are in our prayers. God bless you! Luke 12:12
I’m twenty years old and recently became catholic. Living an example of practicing our faith and taking it seriously ourselves is itself a powerful witness to others!
The pain in our hearts for our children saying No to God is also a grace. That should bring us closer to the heart of God and to the understanding of the infinite effort to bring us back home.
Thank you. This is exactly what I am doing for a nephew. Forty-some yo, scoffing atheist since he could talk, and life is falling apart. He needs God. Today.
Thank you Father for the video. I am a recipient of God's grace from my family's prayers. It took almost 20 years before I was able to accept the grace of God and return to my faith a year and half ago. I also am now praying and offering up sacrifices for my wife and oldest son's conversion. It is a painful wound when your loved ones live their life without love of God and especially when I failed my eldest in raising him up in the faith. On a positive, I am blessed that my youngest is fully embracing this journey with me. God bless.
About the most evangelical friar I've ever heard. This popped up on my feed just after bawling through the latest last episodes of the chosen. I've been praying for my son every day, I'm like that annoying widow lifting up my son in prayer to God, praying that he would strengthen his guardian angel and protect him from the devil. Thank you friar for this.
I’ve invited my husband to join me in fasting this lent so far he’s been on board. I was surprised at the response as I extended the invitation. He’s not participating in any other aspects but I still count this as a win and pray to God to give me the wisdom to help bring him closer to the faith.
Spend the next Lenten Season praying the Sorowful Mysteries of the Rosary daily for your husband's conversion. I did this, and just a couple years later, out of the blue, he said to me, "I want to die Catholic." That was 2016, and he was aged 60. He was received into the Church the following spring. Waiting a couple more years was simply a test of my faith, hope, and patience. And of course, I continued praying for him during that time.🙏🌹 Oh, as I recall, I learned of this method of praying for someone's conversion from a guest on the Women of Grace program on EWTN.
I was in much pain this evening over my elder relatives rejecting the faith (they were once all Catholic) and then, I saw this video on my recommended - I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT. Praise be to God that he led me to this video by Fr. Jordan. Thank you *so much* Father for your advice, it was genuinely needed. God bless 🙏📿💙
I pray for my son Christian's conversion every day and I have for well over 20 years. I pray Saint Jude and Saint Rita of Cascia for their intersession. We named him Christian so he would never forget that he's a Christian. Unfortunately he rejected God, and later he disowned his whole family on August 3, 2007. We haven't heard a word from him since that infamous date. The worst pain in the world is knowing your child is choosing hell. I fear so much for his soul! You don't give life to someone only to have them go to hell. I would rather sacrifice never seeing him again if I knew he would convert and go to heaven. To me, the salvation of his soul is much more important than me ever seeing him again. Please pray for him!
Respectfully (and I acknowledge I don't know your particular situation), there must be a reason that he has cut off contact. It is not an easy thing for a son/daughter to do. He is probably very hurt. I might start by asking myself, how can I take responsibility for my part in our relationship? Is there something I need to acknowledge and genuinely apologize for? What can I do to make my child feel safe in a relationship with me? I would start with that. Forgive me if this advice was unwanted.
@@jeromeherold6292 My son was brainwashed two years after he left home by his Jewish girlfriend and her parents. The last time I saw him he was nothing like the good son we raised and were proud of. What ever turned him against God and us was not of our doing.
Aye Father C. I am a new Catholic as of 2023 Easter Vigil. My wife Ann of 45 years was raised by Irish Catholic parents in Coventry England. She attended Catholic girl’s school growing up. She rejected God decades ago. She cites the problem of evil, mean nuns at school, and seeing the sectarian violence in Belfast first-hand. How do I approach this talk? She has started watching THE CHOSEN with me on Sunday evenings. That was her idea. You could have knocked me over with a feather! I was actually rescued from outer darkness in Season 1, Episode 4 with repenting Simon (at end of the fish scene). I am deeply prayerful about her.
My advice is pray for them, and become as saintly as you can. Genuinely act out the Christian life, and those around you will start to get curious. I brought my mom back into the church by just being honest about my own journey. Since she and I have been going back to church, praying our rosary, etc, our other family have been noticing and asking questions on occasion. It’s only a matter of time now… 😊
One of the problems with sharing the faith with family and friends is that they don’t really believe in the existence of hell. If I start to talk about it then I have to use the Bible and Gospels as references, etc… and that’s where they say that believing in writings so ancient and wrote by too many people is really not objective thinking and borderline with delusional personality.. I just don’t talk about it anymore.. just pray, pray and pray 🙏🙏🙏
I wonder if you mentioned what exorcists do and why and how evil is alive and well. Evil is very much in our modern world. Exorcists deal with it directly everyday. Our souls live forever but the body is temporary. And what we do and believe in our earthly life determines where our soul will go, forever. I hope this helps. 🙏
@@dogcatmom5877 done that… mentioned all that you are saying also shared first hand testimony that I had in my life… unfortunately, all is seen as examples of mental illness, schizophrenia or attention seeking.. as I said, I pray daily the Rosary and the Liturgy of the hours and I lift them to the Lord to touch them 🙏 I would greatly appreciate also your prayers. I will be praying for you and your dear ones 🙏
I would love to thank the person or persons, that prayed for my husband and I to convert almost 24 years ago. When someone asks why we did I just say the Holy Spirit led us here. We both have some Irish ancestry too. We're American.
My drug addict daughter lives under my roof. She can be violent and always argues, taking my compassion for weakness. I am destroyed financially and after she totalled my car I cannot get to Mass. I pray six hours a day. I do pray for her specifically to come back to Jesus. It has been three years now. Advice? Afraid of having another stroke. I am disabled
Goodness Robin, that doesn’t sound easy and thank God for people like you. Is rehab an option for your daughter? It’s great that you’re helping her but perhaps there’s more help needed, for you and her. God bless you friend!
@@ctmcatholic She has been in a rehab facility six times and uses a day after leaving. Her longest rehab was seven weeks. Flat refuses professional help or 12 Steps or sponsor or meetings or psychiatric help. All I have is my rosary. May be facing eviction.
Robin I feel for you. Keep asking , keep praying. I’m in a similar situation. She and her husband have taught my grandchildren to disrespect me, to hate me. It is horrible, they are so blatantly hateful and rude.
Sometimes love means showing tough love and setting limits on a person's behaviour in view of their long term good. If you can, try to get a copy of Peter Lyndon James' book 'Tough Love's. He explains about how to deal with addicted loved ones
@Called to More Hi thanks for this video you did. Iam rostered adoration quiet a bit through each week here in Brisbane Queensland Australia. I have been on for Couple of years , but I never could have anticipated I would come to learn my very own twin sister has been a practising witch or even Satanist, Im just not sure just yet. After learning our older sister was a most powerful sorcery witch in 2019. That came as a huge shock and the attacks she puts out on focusing all her powers on myself and her only son beggar to believe, but now my own twin sister. She stays with me for 5 weeks now and is due to leave in 5 days, but what attacks she has done daily, I just cant begin to unravel in words! Praying St. Patricks Lorica and breastplate have served most powerful for myself and st Benedict over the years since 2019, Precious Blood litany and Rosary of course. St Patricks had written these prayers himself for he and his monks to say daily. Undoing hexes incantations etc.. from druids, smith's and woman. Anyway as I lean into my reality of the weight of eternal salvation I am to carry on my own shoulders daily. I mainly turn now the last year to singing praises and singing my prayers to Our Lord. Its most powerful to instantly put a steel wall of Grace up against Satan. Tiny Angels on my vocal chords I saw for a nano second later last year out of the blue as I sang. That was something to behold. I was surprised for sure. They're names are Karen and Lynette my twin sister.
It made me smile at the beginning saying who listens to you- you are my favorite RUclips person to follow from here in the USA and if I could meet someone , it would be you Fr Columba 🙂
It’s not easy Donna, don’t be too hard on yourself. As father says, let your heartache motivate you to pray for them. The fact that you want Heaven so badly for them is a beautiful thing. ❤️
This is exactly what I'm going through with my loved one . I pray for her conversion . May the Lord hear all our prayers and may we be filled with understanding to help lead those he placed in our lives closer to Christ .
Amazing advice, thanks Father! I just started a St Monica prayer group for fallen away loved ones, and it struck me that I wasn’t sure I believed God could reach them or if I truly cared. You have answered my prayers.
I pray daily that my 5 adult children will return to the Church and the sacraments, and that they might bring their families with them. I don’t nag them, but occasionally will bring the subject up. My sons shut me down immediately. One daughter wants to return, but wants the church to accept her on her terms. Another says I am frightening her with stories of prophecies that I think are coming to pass. The thing that frustrates me most is 3 of my kids took their families when their kids were preparing for reconciliation, First Communion, and Confirmation. But once they received these sacraments they all stopped going to church. Don’t they care about the eternal souls of their children? I just don’t understand.
Roberta, I would keep the prophecies to myself, because they’re not dogma and as you said, they’re your opinion. My only daughter is away from the Church so I understand the pain. I think our only recourse is prayer for our children, and keeping holy hope alive. That our children’s sacraments will become alive in their hearts and that they return.
That’s very difficult to bear Roberta, I’m so sorry. Please God the ache in your heart can inspire your prayer even more and hopefully they return to their faith in time, however much time that is. Praying for you and your family.
Thank you so much Father. I join the other parents in praying daily for our son to return to the practice of the faith. I also pray for St. Monica’s intercession and I have also entrusted him to Our Lady of Lourdes (my name sake).
That is beautiful, @luluq01! Keep up the prayers and I will be praying for him, too. St. Monica is the perfect saint to ask for intercessions in this case. You may have read it already, but The Confessions by St. Augustine is a beautiful book. God bless you! Hope
Please pray for my family for conversion. Especially my mother in law! She is going blind 😢 Please pray for her conversion & that she may see clearly again 🙏
Thank you ❤️ This gentle shepherding is all I can do with my sons & a cousin of mine. It’s a pain filled concern. I appreciate your kind encouragement & help. Blessings from a Pentecostal sister 🙏🏻❤️✝️
My parish priest told me his two twenty something nephews are not baptised....his sister in law wouldn't have it but that they're "lovely lads". This conversation came about because my own teen isn't. I have returned to my faith and mentioned the need for baptism recently and he (my son) told me he would call the police if I continued! He does, however have a faith himself...he told me just the other day so there is hope and he attended church led groups throughout his C of E schooling. Please could you pray for my son? Thankyou.
Thank you for this - it’s a truly wonderful way to approach a serious issue like this. Please keep this video posted because I plan to watch it over and over. God bless you!
Praying for my dad..he was confirmed in The Church when I was a kid but since fell away from his faith with a few years exception. I love him dearly and only want the best for him
Can't hurt to have several Masses said for them and also pray Novena often for them. Thanks Father for the reminder regarding Jesus' parable about the perseverance of prayer. I like what St. John Avila said, he tells us to "Pray like Hannah!!!"
Thank you Fr. I've been praying for my family to return to the faith, but was letting the frustration get the better, instead of patience and meekness. Ironically, our home town Church is named St Columba Catholic Church. Named after the patron Saint of the bride I've been praying for them to return to, this was EXACTLY what I needed to hear! Thank you Father Columba, Thank you God the Father, Thank you Jesus, Thank you most glorious Holy Spirit, Thank you Our Lady and the entire heavenly court. Ask and you shall receive. Thank you ❤️ God bless you 🙏 ✝️🕊❤️
Thank you Father! The pains of children rejecting God is so indescribable and so very, very real. I offer my sons back to God and pray that He help me guide them. It is through the words, like your's, that I know He hears me. Thank you for these guiding words as it is easy, out of desperation, to nag. With good intentions, but you are right, it turns them away. Thanking the Lord for your gift, Father, in providing guiding words. I'm going to save this video and review it....often! Do you know, other than asking for her intercession, if there is a prayer of specific intercession to St. Monica or St. Augustine?
Hello Valeria, thank you for your comment! Your prayers for your sons are incredibly powerful, just like St. Monica's prayers for St. Augustine. Keep up the hopeful perseverance! We will be keeping your intensions in our prayers also. One thing I can think of is the Novena to St. Monica: (www.stthomasaquinas.org/sites/default/files/pdflibrary/StMonicaNovena.pdf). I hope this helps! God bless, Hope
Pray for other people to come into your sons' lives who will influence them in a good way. Even St. Monica needed St. Ambrose to help with her son St. Augustine. Sometimes it takes someone else other than a parent.
Please pray for my brother. He is 70 and listening to Christian newscasters on utube. I feel he has moved a very long way from aetheism. Thank you Father
I decided to “nag” God instead of family. I figure, God will, definitely, get so sick of me, prayer may be answered! Seriously, though, Lent is the time to pray harder, fast more, and reconcile in the confessional, at every opportunity. There may be a time when access to good priests becomes the norm.
That's exactly what I need to hear right now. I had run out of steam praying for my children, I'll pray with a renewed spirit now. Thank you and God bless 🙏🙏
This is very helpful, Fr. Columba. As other commenters have said, living the faith is a strong testimony. I pray for family and friends but acknowledge that ultimately, it is only by the grace of God that they will come. With gratitude. 🙏
Thank you so very much Fr Jordan...it's exactly what I needed to get to know at this stage. May God bless and protect you and all religious, who are helping by being beacons during such challenging times.
Oh my, this came across my feed...what a blessing you are Father. I am here in Canada praying for my family and needing guidance and here you are speaking right to the matter. I am not sure if you read these but please remember the Twas and Sakowskis in your next Mass...I know a lot to ask but if it be God's will it shall happen.
Hi Shelly, Father Columba regularly prayers for those who watch and engage with the content he makes. I will forward on your specific request. God bless 🙏
It's good to say Peace. Especially from a Fr. It is such a blessing. Please continue to say it to people. I really appreciate your encouragement. I will continue to pray and offer up all I can. Your talk is the encouragement I needed to keep going. Thank you very much
Thank you. I really need guidance with this. I am inclined to be somewhat "dogmatic"if I get on a roll! I just try to show the way to Truth by living as decently and truthfully as I can, and by serving others. Very tricky one for me, this.
Dear father I just came across your channel as I told myself to only watch video's regarding our catholic faith during this lent. I needed so much to hear this to bring my loved ones closer to Jesus. You explained so well how we need to approach this in the right way. Thank you so much. I loved hearing you say when you were seventeen and asked Jesus: if you're real, I really want to know. I asked Him the very same question a long time ago. May the Lord bless you. Lovely greetings from Belgium
Hello friend, so glad you came across our channel and hope it can continue to be a source and love and truth for you. Praying for you and your loved ones.
Thank you very much Father. Your message is a blessing to me at the right time as I am struggling with my loved ones to get them to the faith. God bless you!
We are delighted these videos are a help in hard times. Keep up your perseverance in prayer! St. Monica's prayers are a testimony to how powerful they are. God bless you, too!
Brother! That's awesome! I love Traditional Catholicism, but I get tired of the bookishness and this thing, approach, where everything is about correcting errors rather than teach the Gospel of Redemption and be positive. So many people don't seem to want to face up to their own negatives because they seem to think it's the end of the story... RATHER THAN THE BEGINNING! God bless you, Brother/Father!
Thanks Fr Columba.... we can convert those around us by being shining examples of the Gospel. The little things we do, and make seen in our day to day being, sends very clear signals to those around us. As our Seraphic Father says - "Preach the Gospel at all times, and use words only if you have to". Our St Bonaventure was big on this too! Great video! Cheers to you Father Brother Man in da Hood!
@@dersturmerofjewery6038 when we refer to a priest as Father, were thinking in terms of a spiritual fatherhood. It's entirely biblical. We could go into lots of Old testament examples but for simplicity in the letters of Peter, James and John you find them writing to my dear children. Now clearly they weren't writing to their biological children here. The implication that their role was one of spiritual fatherhood is clearly implied here. The Catholic church continues this beautiful tradition and gift of spiritual fatherhood.
@@dersturmerofjewery6038 agreed I think we would agree on that. However, I didn't mention St Paul. Your comment doesn't deal with what I said. I mentioned Peter, James and John implying they were spiritual fathers by addressing the Christian communities as their dear children.
@@dersturmerofjewery6038 Yes certainly. Actually I retract what I said about St Paul, he also used the practice many times. "I do not write this to you to make you ashamed but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. (1Cor 4:14-15) Peter followed the same custom referring to Mark as his son "She who is at Babylon who is likewise chosen sends you greetings; and so does my son Mark. (1Peter 5:13) The apostles sometimes referred to entire churches under their care as their children. Paul writes, "Here for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden for I seek not what is yours but you, for children ought not to lay up for their parents but parents for their children. (2Cor:12-14) See also Gal 4:19, 1 John 2:1, 3 John 4...1 Cor 4:17, 1Tim 1:2, 2 Tim 1:2) I should have said Peter, Paul and John not James and John..
@@dersturmerofjewery6038 I refuted what you said about none of them say father when addressing themselves using scripture. You asked for a verse, I gave you many. I'm very confused by your replies. There's no engagement with what I've demonstrated to you. I understand it's very hard to change our minds about things. I wish you well.
Please help me pray for my family. Our hearts are so breaking because our children have left the church. Your daughter is not going through a terrible divorce and I know if she came back to the sacraments God would surely lighten her burden she goes to evangelical church, the sacraments would truly heal her, so yes, we pray night and day forFather to here our cry 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼we also make Masses for them 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
May Lemke, adoptive mother of musical savant, Leslie Lemke told God, " I know You perform miracles, and I'm going to keep on You until You do!" Look her or Leslie up. There's a wonderful little interview/documentary about them, plus two books. The first one is May's Miracle.
Please pray for me, my family is Catholic but stopped practicing almost ten years ago. Since then they’ve begun to reject not only the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist but the authority of the Church on individuals, seeing the Church as nothing more than an institution and not its constituent people. My dad especially presents very convincing reasoning for why he believes what he believes, but I haven’t yet found a way to get through to him on these matters and bring my family back into a place where we at least go to Mass every Sunday and regularly attend confession.
@sanalzam 1 pray St. Rita's, St. Monica's and St. Jude's novenas. Actually read about Sts. Rita & Monica lives...& St. Mary of Egypt - very humbling & inspiring 😢.
Key work from you Father is "DO IT OUT OF LOVE". I do find it does help when I say that to my family when I tell them about my journey in growing my love for GOD. :)
Father Columba, thank you for talking about this.. The problem is, My husband and I are both devout Catholics, we go to daily mass, Sunday mass, always pray together and live as a Catholic family should.. the problem is, once our teenagers are away from us, they are surrounded by the evil of this world… One example, we always taught our children to kneel and receive the Lord on their tongue, but now in their schools nobody does that, And when I saw my daughter on Sunday receiving in the hand I was so so sad.. i asked why, she said everyone receives this way. How are we to teach this generation the REAL presence of Jesus, when they see adults acting like this… There are so so many other evil forces including social media that is playing against us. No matter how pious and faithful the parents are, at some point, we get this feeling of ‘surrendering’ and just praying for them, and praying that we have planted the seeds.
Good video! Thank you, Father. A lot of my family have turned away from their Catholic faith and to New Age. They believe in reincarnation and don't think of the soul going to Heaven, Purgatory, or hell. 😮 I I am nagging Jesus through my prayers and sacrifices for them every day. Could you please do a video on any practical ways to find common ground with these opposing views. It's definitely caused a strain on relationships. Thank you for considering this in Jesus's name. Amen 🙏
@@ctmcatholic Any chance of doing a video on the topic I mentioned above about talking to someone who believes in reincarnation and believes their soul is not in danger of going to hell?
I suggest speaking with them about NDE's - Near Death Experiences. Fr. Robert Spitzer has videos and interviews on this topic. NDE's are proof of the transcendent soul, and of heaven and (in some cases) hell. *No one* who has had an NDE has experienced reincarnation. Rather, ALL of them experience an afterlife.
I was confirmed last Easter, my wife thought it was all a midlife crisis. It broke our hearts a little because we used to go to church together and do Bible study. Now she doesn’t trust me with the word or the kids. My daughter is 4 and loves doing the rosary and talking to Mary, she has such a love for our lady. My wife finds it blasphemous and isn’t interested in apologetics at all. I tried to show her rev 12, the miracles of our lady, she won’t even look. The worst part is baptism, I want to get both of our kids baptized and she wants to do everything she can to prevent it. Again she won’t look at the scriptures, church history. The only middle ground she’s willing to meet me on is having them baptized by a Protestant church. I tried to tell her how wrong that would be. I mean think about it, she’s a Protestant that doesn’t believe in baptizing children at all, I’m a catholic. What faith would we be baptizing them in?! Is she going to convert to Methodist or Anglican to solve the issue? Idk. She hasn’t picked up scripture since I began my conversion 2 years ago. Nor has she attended any church. I feel like my conversion broke my family in half and I selfishly wonder does god want this for my family? I pray to him to send her some sign, some grace, and mercy. Many couples I talk to are in mixed denominational relationships. Sorry to vent with you guys, I don’t really have anyone I can talk to about it. My priest is stretched so thin I barely get 5 mins to talk to him outside of confession a month. He has hundreds of parishioners over 2 churches and it’s the only parish within an hour land he’s in his 70s so I feel I don’t want to lay additional burdens on him. Any advice from you wonderful people would be very welcome!
Please pray for those in narcissistic relationships. Being a Christian married to a narcissist can be a head banging life. They cannot be trusted, and flip-flop so one does not know who is coming in the room, a best friend or worst enemy. They love bomb and then destroy the love. They try the patience to the very limit. The only hope of any sanity is the peace of Christ...let this mind be in you that is in Christ Jesus. It makes the situation of imprisonment a sanctuary for atonement of sin. Pray, pray, pray.
Oh boy, nagging and fear mongering would be a surefire way to cause me to avoid spending time with that person. The simple fact is that people don't believe in hell anymore
I thought I would be praying for thirty years like Monica. I had faith it would happen, but it was shocking how fast when I turned it over to God and His Mother. I wasn't nagging them for three months before my son went for his adult confession, and he's now a devout Catholic saying the rosary every day. Anyone reading this, this is wonderful advice.
2)🕋THE GOSPEL OF THE WORD OF ALMIGHTY GOD "the last age in which God is saving man from the imminent destruction of this old world"
(In the beginning I created mankind; that is, I created the ancestor of mankind, Adam. I gave him a form and an image, full of strength, full of vitality, and, moreover, with My glory. That is the glorious day that I created man. Adam was originally born from My hand and he represents My image. He is the only one, who has a spirit, capable of representing Me, bearing My image, and My breath. In the beginning, Eve was the second person endowed with breath whose creation I ordained, so the original meaning of "Eve" was a being who would perpetuate My glory, full of My vitality and in addition endowed of My glory. Eve came from Adam. Therefore she also bears My image, because she is the second person created in My image. However, the evil one trampled and captured the offspring of the ancestors of mankind, and brought down the world of man in complete darkness, and it was done so that the offspring would no longer believe in My existence. Even more abominable is that, while the evil corrupts people and tramples them, it cruelly robs My glory, My testimony, the vitality I give them, the breath and the life I give them, the All My glory in the human world, and all the heart blood I have spent on mankind. I will take back My glory, I will take back My testimony that exists among people, and everything that was Mine and that I gave to mankind in the old days-I will completely conquer mankind. Therefore, I inform humanity that all I want are those created by My hand, the saints whom I love and do not belong to any other being. I accept only My testimony as the development of Myself as the object of My pleasure. This is My will.)
Almighty God said
In the BEGINNING I created mankind; that is, I CREATED the ancestor of HUMANITY, ADAM. HE HAS A FORM and IMAGE, full of STRENGTH, full of vitality, and, moreover, with My GLORY. That was the GLORIOUS DAY when I CREATED MAN. After that, Eve was MADE from Adam's BODY, and she was the ancestor of man, so the people I created are full of My breath and full of My glory. 🙏
Adam was ORIGINALLY BORN from My HAND and he REPRESENTS My IMAGE. Thus the ORIGINAL MEANING of "Adam" is a being that I CREATED, filled with My PRECIOUS POWER, filled with My GLORY, with FORM and IMAGE, with SPIRIT and BREATH. He is the only being, possessing a SPIRIT, with the ABILITY to REPRESENT Me, BEAR My IMAGE, and RECEIVE My BREATH. ☀️🙏
In the BEGINNING, Eve was the SECOND BREATHFUL PERSON whose CREATION I ORDAINED, so the ORIGINAL MEANING of "Eve" is a being who will PERSUITE My GLORY, full of My vitality and moreover endowed with My glory. Eve CAME FROM Adam, so she also HAS MY IMAGE, because she is the SECOND PERSON CREATED in My IMAGE. 🙏
The ORIGINAL MEANING of "Eve" is a LIVING PERSON, with SPIRIT, FLESH, and BONES, My SECOND TESTIMONY as well as My SECOND IMAGE to mankind. They are the ancestors of mankind, the PURE and PRECIOUS WEALTH of MAN, and ORIGINATED from the FIRST and LIFE of SPIRIT-INHABITED CREATURES. 🙏
However, evil trampled and captured the offspring of the ancestors of mankind, and plunged the human world into complete darkness, and made it so that the offspring would no longer believe in My existence. 😪
Even more abominable is that, while the evil corrupts the people and tramples them, it cruelly takes away My glory, My testimony, the vitality I give them, the breath and the life I give them , My entire glory in the human world, and all the heart blood I spent on humanity.
Humanity is NO LONGER IN THE LIGHT, and PEOPLE HAVE LOST EVERYTHING I GIVEN to them, and they have THROWN AWAY the GLORY I GIVEN. ☀️
How can they recognize that I am the LORD of ALL CREATIONS? How can they DEFINITELY BELIEVE in My EXISTENCE in HEAVEN? How will they DISCOVER the manifestations of My GLORY BELOW THE EARTH? ☀️
How will these grandchildren treat the God their own ancestors revered as the Lord who CREATED them? These poor grandchildren have fully "exposed" to the EVIL the GLORY, the IMAGE, and the testimony I GIVEN to ADAM and EVE, as well as the LIFE I GIVEN to mankind and upon which they depend for existence ; and, they are TOTALLY NOT CONCERNED with the PRESENCE of EVIL, and GIVE MY FULL GLORY to it. 😪
Isn't this itself the origin of the title "garbage"? How can such mankind, such WICKED demons, such WALKING corpses, such SHADES OF SATAN, such ENEMIES of Mine, POSSESS My glory? 😪
I WILL RECOVER My GLORY, I WILL RECOVER My TESTIMONY that EXISTS FROM the PEOPLE, and ALL that was Mine and I GAVE to mankind in the FIRST TIME---I will completely CONQUER mankind. ☀️🙏
However, you must KNOW that the PEOPLE I CREATED are HOLY PEOPLE WHO BEAR MY IMAGE and MY GLORY. 🙏
They were not counted to Satan, nor were they trampled upon by him, but only pure manifestation of Me, FREE from the slightest stain of SATAN'S POISON. Therefore, I INFORM mankind that the ONLY thing I want is those who are CREATED by My HAND, the HOLY ones whom I LOVE and do NOT belong to any other being. 🙏☀️
Besides that, I will be DELIGHTED with them and I will consider them My GLORY. However, what I want is not the humanity corrupted by SATAN, which belongs to SATAN now, and is NOT what I originally CREATED. ☀️
Because I intend to RECOVER My GLORY EXISTING in the HUMAN WORLD, I will completely CONQUER the REMAINS of humanity, as PROOF of My GLORY in DEFEATING SATAN. 🙏
I ACCEPT only My TESTIMONY as the DEVELOPMENT of MYSELF as the OBJECT of My PLEASURE.
This is My WILL. 💐🙏
From "The Meaning of Being a Real Man"
Fulfillment of "When I looked up, someone handed me a book wrapped in a scroll. I opened it and I read on both sides the prayers, sorrows, and curses." (Ezekiel 2:9-10). (Rev. 19:13).
📩 Calling and leading everyone to His lowered Kingdom or Church because it is still standing on earth in the holy place in the air/ youtube "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD 💐 this is the fulfillment of what He said to Peter 2,000 years ago, recorded in (Matthew 16:18'19).
This is the the only Church of each one of our spirit that we must listen to or eat and drink like how we eat, dress and sleep every day so that He can guide us and change us by rejecting the evil attached by Satan so as to be perfect,
having attained eternal life that will enter the coming replacement of the New Heaven and New Earth. 📥
👉 Note💌
The coming of the Spirit of God incarnated in His second and last incarnation is the fulfillment of what was prophesied in the great book of Revelation so the last day or last age has come and His coming is to judge and punish unrighteousness of a person so that the pure or perfect person will be able to enter the approaching New Heaven and New Earth in the final judgment that all souls at that time will be reborn to receive the appropriate corresponding punishment (the one that will be destroyed and will no longer exist ) orthe reward of living forever in the New World. 💟
As a former atheist I can tell you that threatening an eternity in hell did not work. This is an argument that will work on very few people. Why? Because they don’t believe in hell in the first place. You know what worked? Seeing people of faith do the right thing, to act honorably, to care for the poor, engaging in charitable works, and being a good person-in other words, seeing Christians who were not hypocrites in action. It was the hypocrites who turned me away from Christianity in the first place. So always be a good person. You never know who is watching you.
This is so very true!!
Depends on the type of atheist, as a former atheist not raised in the Faith, I agree. But someone who may be a lapsed Catholic who still believes but doesn't practice, it can be very effective.
- Edward
The nagging fear hell moved me to look more closely at Jesus and the Gospels.
Very true. However, it is also true there are those who might fear this even if they don't believe
Very good point about being an example by living the faith. CS Lewis talks about the issue of people actually living the faith as the measure, not people who are Christian in name only. And another truth that is very often completely unknown is the 2,000 years of miracles, even miracles that are happening in our current times. People will say "why haven't I even heard of this?" . It's not a panacea, but it is more truth that says there is something miraculous about Christianity.
About 7 years ago I had an epiphany and returned to the Church after over 30 years of agnosticism and atheism. I raised my two sons without religion and they were adults when I returned to the Church. We talked about what I was doing and the time, and I told them what I thought, but it was them who asked me if they could come to mass with me. Each in their own time. We talked, but no pressure whatsoever. Both are now baptized, confirmed and practicing Catholics. I think it's often enough for people to see us live as practicing Catholics to get the ball rolling.
God bless your family 👪
God is so good. Blessings. 😊
You have recieved an immense blessing from the Father!
It hurts.
You must be living it really well! 😇💗
I live in Sweden and basically almost everyone around me: Family, friends and the whole society is very secular and mostly atheist or agnostic. My brother converted to Catholicism with me and has been a huge source of strength for me.
It's hard sometimes when i know that most of the good people i know probably won't go to heaven. I've been praying for my friend who has shown some interest in attending church and she actually might come now on Sunday which i'm very happy about.
If you can pray for her i'd appreciate it. Thanks and God bless.
Not a catholic, but I'll feel Lord speaking from this video.
God bless you.
Then please convert.
I converted two years ago. My whole family are fallen away Catholics. My dad is very anti-Catholic, and my mum has a lot of religious trauma because her own mother was very Catholic but also very oppressive. She also had a bad experience wjth a priest who was very innapropriate with her.
I often cry thinking where my poor parents are heading. I try to pray for them often, offer up communions and my sufferings. I often despair because I am not good at apologetics and I don’t know how to choose the right words to proclaim the Gospel. I am terrified of saying the wrong things and represent our faith badly.
I feel like recently my mum is making progress though. She says I have changed for the better since converting and I think this impresses her because I used to be a difficult person to be around. I try to be empathetic of the religious trauma she experienced and explain to her that God is merciful and loving and the Church is necessary for our guidance.
There is still a long way to go, but I have hope for her. 🙏🏻
Hello Nelly, thank you for sharing your experience with sharing the faith within your family.
Some great resources for Catholic apologetics are:
1. Catholic Answers (www.catholic.com/)
2. Pints with Aquinas (via RUclips or Spotify)
Or, if you have the time, Franciscan University offers a great online Theology degree that allows you to dive into the understandings of the Catholic faith (spt.franciscan.edu/programs/aa-theology-online/).
I hope some or all of these resources help!
Keep up the great work, Nelly!! You and your parents are in our prayers. God bless you!
Luke 12:12
@nelly, what has helped with your conversion and changing?
Please pray for my family
Invite her to a Catholic Retreat. Emmaus has been a blessing to many.
Jesus I struggle every day. But I know I am not alone and I will do everything I can for I know you are with me. I Jesus name Amen 🙏🏽
I’m twenty years old and recently became catholic. Living an example of practicing our faith and taking it seriously ourselves is itself a powerful witness to others!
So true!
God bless you, i hope you all the best in your journey to know our God, Jesus 🙏
The pain in our hearts for our children saying No to God is also a grace. That should bring us closer to the heart of God and to the understanding of the infinite effort to bring us back home.
Absolutely true.
Thank you. This is exactly what I am doing for a nephew. Forty-some yo, scoffing atheist since he could talk, and life is falling apart. He needs God. Today.
You're so welcome. We'll pray for him today.
Look up the “Surrender Novena” on RUclips. Very powerful!
Thank you Father for the video. I am a recipient of God's grace from my family's prayers. It took almost 20 years before I was able to accept the grace of God and return to my faith a year and half ago. I also am now praying and offering up sacrifices for my wife and oldest son's conversion. It is a painful wound when your loved ones live their life without love of God and especially when I failed my eldest in raising him up in the faith. On a positive, I am blessed that my youngest is fully embracing this journey with me. God bless.
We are praying for you and your family, Pete. Praise God for the two conversions so far.
About the most evangelical friar I've ever heard. This popped up on my feed just after bawling through the latest last episodes of the chosen. I've been praying for my son every day, I'm like that annoying widow lifting up my son in prayer to God, praying that he would strengthen his guardian angel and protect him from the devil. Thank you friar for this.
Glad you found it helpful. God bless you and your son, Mia.
Keep rhending the heavens Momma
Mia-I join you in this battled for my sons. St. Monica and Our Blessed Mother to interceed for us.
I love the Chosen as well. Such graces flow to us through it and wonderful evangelists like Fr Columba
I’ve invited my husband to join me in fasting this lent so far he’s been on board. I was surprised at the response as I extended the invitation. He’s not participating in any other aspects but I still count this as a win and pray to God to give me the wisdom to help bring him closer to the faith.
Great job!
Nicely done!
Spend the next Lenten Season praying the Sorowful Mysteries of the Rosary daily for your husband's conversion. I did this, and just a couple years later, out of the blue, he said to me, "I want to die Catholic." That was 2016, and he was aged 60. He was received into the Church the following spring. Waiting a couple more years was simply a test of my faith, hope, and patience. And of course, I continued praying for him during that time.🙏🌹 Oh, as I recall, I learned of this method of praying for someone's conversion from a guest on the Women of Grace program on EWTN.
I was in much pain this evening over my elder relatives rejecting the faith (they were once all Catholic) and then, I saw this video on my recommended - I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT. Praise be to God that he led me to this video by Fr. Jordan. Thank you *so much* Father for your advice, it was genuinely needed. God bless 🙏📿💙
God is good. I am delighted this video could help you in a hard time. Your intentions are in our prayers - keep up the perseverance in prayer!
Me too! Sometimes I want to give up- then I see this video.
I pray for my son Christian's conversion every day and I have for well over 20 years. I pray Saint Jude and Saint Rita of Cascia for their intersession. We named him Christian so he would never forget that he's a Christian. Unfortunately he rejected God, and later he disowned his whole family on August 3, 2007. We haven't heard a word from him since that infamous date. The worst pain in the world is knowing your child is choosing hell. I fear so much for his soul! You don't give life to someone only to have them go to hell. I would rather sacrifice never seeing him again if I knew he would convert and go to heaven. To me, the salvation of his soul is much more important than me ever seeing him again. Please pray for him!
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Keep hoping your son will return to you and the church
Add in prayers to Saint Helen
Respectfully (and I acknowledge I don't know your particular situation), there must be a reason that he has cut off contact. It is not an easy thing for a son/daughter to do. He is probably very hurt. I might start by asking myself, how can I take responsibility for my part in our relationship? Is there something I need to acknowledge and genuinely apologize for? What can I do to make my child feel safe in a relationship with me? I would start with that. Forgive me if this advice was unwanted.
@@jeromeherold6292 My son was brainwashed two years after he left home by his Jewish girlfriend and her parents. The last time I saw him he was nothing like the good son we raised and were proud of. What ever turned him against God and us was not of our doing.
Aye Father C. I am a new Catholic as of 2023 Easter Vigil. My wife Ann of 45 years was raised by Irish Catholic parents in Coventry England. She attended Catholic girl’s school growing up. She rejected God decades ago. She cites the problem of evil, mean nuns at school, and seeing the sectarian violence in Belfast first-hand.
How do I approach this talk? She has started watching THE CHOSEN with me on Sunday evenings. That was her idea. You could have knocked me over with a feather!
I was actually rescued from outer darkness in Season 1, Episode 4 with repenting Simon (at end of the fish scene). I am deeply prayerful about her.
My advice is pray for them, and become as saintly as you can. Genuinely act out the Christian life, and those around you will start to get curious. I brought my mom back into the church by just being honest about my own journey. Since she and I have been going back to church, praying our rosary, etc, our other family have been noticing and asking questions on occasion. It’s only a matter of time now… 😊
One of the problems with sharing the faith with family and friends is that they don’t really believe in the existence of hell. If I start to talk about it then I have to use the Bible and Gospels as references, etc… and that’s where they say that believing in writings so ancient and wrote by too many people is really not objective thinking and borderline with delusional personality..
I just don’t talk about it anymore.. just pray, pray and pray 🙏🙏🙏
I wonder if you mentioned what exorcists do and why and how evil is alive and well. Evil is very much in our modern world. Exorcists deal with it directly everyday. Our souls live forever but the body is temporary. And what we do and believe in our earthly life determines where our soul will go, forever. I hope this helps. 🙏
@@dogcatmom5877 done that… mentioned all that you are saying also shared first hand testimony that I had in my life… unfortunately, all is seen as examples of mental illness, schizophrenia or attention seeking..
as I said, I pray daily the Rosary and the Liturgy of the hours and I lift them to the Lord to touch them 🙏
I would greatly appreciate also your prayers. I will be praying for you and your dear ones 🙏
I would love to thank the person or persons, that prayed for my husband and I to convert almost 24 years ago.
When someone asks why we did I just say the Holy Spirit led us here. We both have some Irish ancestry too. We're American.
That’s incredible, praise God, He really is at work! Also great you’re partially from Ireland :)
My drug addict daughter lives under my roof. She can be violent and always argues, taking my compassion for weakness. I am destroyed financially and after she totalled my car I cannot get to Mass. I pray six hours a day. I do pray for her specifically to come back to Jesus. It has been three years now. Advice? Afraid of having another stroke. I am disabled
May God richly bless you. You’re in my prayers. ❤
Goodness Robin, that doesn’t sound easy and thank God for people like you. Is rehab an option for your daughter? It’s great that you’re helping her but perhaps there’s more help needed, for you and her. God bless you friend!
@@ctmcatholic She has been in a rehab facility six times and uses a day after leaving. Her longest rehab was seven weeks. Flat refuses professional help or 12 Steps or sponsor or meetings or psychiatric help. All I have is my rosary. May be facing eviction.
Robin I feel for you. Keep asking , keep praying. I’m in a similar situation. She and her husband have taught my grandchildren to disrespect me, to hate me. It is horrible, they are so blatantly hateful and rude.
Sometimes love means showing tough love and setting limits on a person's behaviour in view of their long term good. If you can, try to get a copy of Peter Lyndon James' book 'Tough Love's. He explains about how to deal with addicted loved ones
Thank you father. This is the hardest thing in the world. I won't give up.
God bless you.
Thank you for all the wise words delivered in the kindest manner!!
I have been praying for my children and will continue to pray!
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Dear Father, you hit the point with me! Thank you so much and God bless you!
Constant prayer and "silence" is the way!
You are very welcome.
I believe we ought put fasting with prayer together for them. Adoration also, praying intensely
Lots of prayer and lots of fasting needed.
@Called to More Hi thanks for this video you did. Iam rostered adoration quiet a bit through each week here in Brisbane Queensland Australia. I have been on for
Couple of years , but I never could have anticipated I would come to learn my very own twin sister has been a practising witch or even Satanist, Im just not sure just yet. After learning our older sister was a most powerful sorcery witch in 2019. That came as a huge shock and the attacks she puts out on focusing all her powers on myself and her only son beggar to believe, but now my own twin sister. She stays with me for 5 weeks now and is due to leave in 5 days, but what attacks she has done daily, I just cant begin to unravel in words! Praying St. Patricks Lorica and breastplate have served most powerful for myself and st Benedict over the years since 2019, Precious Blood litany and Rosary of course. St Patricks had written these prayers himself for he and his monks to say daily. Undoing hexes incantations etc.. from druids, smith's and woman. Anyway as I lean into my reality of the weight of eternal salvation I am to carry on my own shoulders daily. I mainly turn now the last year to singing praises and singing my prayers to Our Lord. Its most powerful to instantly put a steel wall of Grace up against Satan. Tiny Angels on my vocal chords I saw for a nano second later last year out of the blue as I sang. That was something to behold. I was surprised for sure.
They're names are Karen and Lynette my twin sister.
I have my brother who I’m trying to motivate to church. Thank you father I got a lot from your advice
So glad to hear it. God bless you.
"Is it really my motivation or do I just want to win?"
I played tough love with my teen and lots of prayer for her.
Your intentions for your daughter are in our prayers. Keep up the perseverance in prayer! God is good.
🙏🏻🕊❤️🔥AMEN! We pray
and we have great hope!❤️🔥🕊🙏🏻
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Nag away, nag the right person, nag God. Words to live by.
It made me smile at the beginning saying who listens to you- you are my favorite RUclips person to follow from here in the USA and if I could meet someone , it would be you Fr Columba 🙂
That’s so kind, thank you. God bless you.
My heart cries every day, I think it has to do with me cause my faith should be so much stronger! Pray for me
It’s not easy Donna, don’t be too hard on yourself. As father says, let your heartache motivate you to pray for them. The fact that you want Heaven so badly for them is a beautiful thing. ❤️
This is as realistic as it can be. Especually in that your job is to pray for them but first of all thry are free...key to understand.
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This is exactly what I'm going through with my loved one . I pray for her conversion . May the Lord hear all our prayers and may we be filled with understanding to help lead those he placed in our lives closer to Christ .
Amazing advice, thanks Father! I just started a St Monica prayer group for fallen away loved ones, and it struck me that I wasn’t sure I believed God could reach them or if I truly cared. You have answered my prayers.
So glad it was helpful.
Thank you, Father! Most helpful with eternal consequences at stake. 🙏
Thank you!
I pray daily that my 5 adult children will return to the Church and the sacraments, and that they might bring their families with them. I don’t nag them, but occasionally will bring the subject up. My sons shut me down immediately. One daughter wants to return, but wants the church to accept her on her terms. Another says I am frightening her with stories of prophecies that I think are coming to pass. The thing that frustrates me most is 3 of my kids took their families when their kids were preparing for reconciliation, First Communion, and Confirmation. But once they received these sacraments they all stopped going to church. Don’t they care about the eternal souls of their children? I just don’t understand.
Roberta, I would keep the prophecies to myself, because they’re not dogma and as you said, they’re your opinion. My only daughter is away from the Church so I understand the pain. I think our only recourse is prayer for our children, and keeping holy hope alive. That our children’s sacraments will become alive in their hearts and that they return.
That’s very difficult to bear Roberta, I’m so sorry. Please God the ache in your heart can inspire your prayer even more and hopefully they return to their faith in time, however much time that is. Praying for you and your family.
Thank you so much Father. I join the other parents in praying daily for our son to return to the practice of the faith. I also pray for St. Monica’s intercession and I have also entrusted him to Our Lady of Lourdes (my name sake).
That is beautiful, @luluq01! Keep up the prayers and I will be praying for him, too. St. Monica is the perfect saint to ask for intercessions in this case. You may have read it already, but The Confessions by St. Augustine is a beautiful book. God bless you!
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@@ctmcatholic Thank you so much. Yes, I have read St. Augustine’s The Confessions. A masterpiece.
This is beautiful! Thank you.. I’ll stop nagging my adult kids and remain steadfast in prayer.
God bless you.
Thank you father !
Very thankful Father. Have three teens... not easy. Pray and fast. ❤
Amen. Will pray for them and you today.
@@ctmcatholic thank you so much Father. 💕
Please pray for my family for conversion. Especially my mother in law! She is going blind 😢 Please pray for her conversion & that she may see clearly again 🙏
Praying 💙
@@ctmcatholic Thank you Father 🙏
Thank you ❤️ This gentle shepherding is all I can do with my sons & a cousin of mine. It’s a pain filled concern. I appreciate your kind encouragement & help. Blessings from a Pentecostal sister 🙏🏻❤️✝️
You are so welcome. God bless you.
My parish priest told me his two twenty something nephews are not baptised....his sister in law wouldn't have it but that they're "lovely lads". This conversation came about because my own teen isn't. I have returned to my faith and mentioned the need for baptism recently and he (my son) told me he would call the police if I continued! He does, however have a faith himself...he told me just the other day so there is hope and he attended church led groups throughout his C of E schooling. Please could you pray for my son? Thankyou.
Oh boy does it hurt when your loved ones don't believe. Especially when you feel responsible for it.
Don’t beat yourself up. Pray for them and hopefully some of Fr Columba’s advice in the video is helpful.
I hear you. I feel very responsible for my grown children for not believing. I was a spiritual mess-and that is what they have seen. 😢
@@LynneC44 sadly we are not alone. I'll be praying for you and all of us, please pray for me
@@mattberg916 I will indeed.
Thank you for this - it’s a truly wonderful way to approach a serious issue like this.
Please keep this video posted because I plan to watch it over and over.
God bless you!
So glad you found this helpful, and we will indeed keep it right where it is 😍
@@ctmcatholic Yay! Thank you so much Fr. Columba! 🤩
Praying for my dad..he was confirmed in The Church when I was a kid but since fell away from his faith with a few years exception. I love him dearly and only want the best for him
That’s difficult. Keep praying.
It really does hurt,as my family don’t believe any more. I do hope and pray 🙏
Keep faith! 💙
Can't hurt to have several Masses said for them and also pray Novena often for them. Thanks Father for the reminder regarding Jesus' parable about the perseverance of prayer. I like what St. John Avila said, he tells us to "Pray like Hannah!!!"
Amen.
Thank you Fr. I've been praying for my family to return to the faith, but was letting the frustration get the better, instead of patience and meekness. Ironically, our home town Church is named St Columba Catholic Church. Named after the patron Saint of the bride I've been praying for them to return to, this was EXACTLY what I needed to hear! Thank you Father Columba, Thank you God the Father, Thank you Jesus, Thank you most glorious Holy Spirit, Thank you Our Lady and the entire heavenly court. Ask and you shall receive. Thank you ❤️
God bless you 🙏 ✝️🕊❤️
Bless you Daisy 🙏
Thank you Father! The pains of children rejecting God is so indescribable and so very, very real. I offer my sons back to God and pray that He help me guide them. It is through the words, like your's, that I know He hears me. Thank you for these guiding words as it is easy, out of desperation, to nag. With good intentions, but you are right, it turns them away.
Thanking the Lord for your gift, Father, in providing guiding words. I'm going to save this video and review it....often!
Do you know, other than asking for her intercession, if there is a prayer of specific intercession to St. Monica or St. Augustine?
Hello Valeria, thank you for your comment! Your prayers for your sons are incredibly powerful, just like St. Monica's prayers for St. Augustine. Keep up the hopeful perseverance! We will be keeping your intensions in our prayers also.
One thing I can think of is the Novena to St. Monica: (www.stthomasaquinas.org/sites/default/files/pdflibrary/StMonicaNovena.pdf).
I hope this helps!
God bless,
Hope
@@ctmcatholic thank so very much!!! My prayers for you as well!!!
Pray for other people to come into your sons' lives who will influence them in a good way. Even St. Monica needed St. Ambrose to help with her son St. Augustine. Sometimes it takes someone else other than a parent.
@@julieelizabeth4856 beautiful! YES!!!
Thank you! I completely agree!
Please pray for my brother. He is 70 and listening to Christian newscasters on utube. I feel he has moved a very long way from aetheism. Thank you Father
I decided to “nag” God instead of family. I figure, God will, definitely, get so sick of me, prayer may be answered! Seriously, though, Lent is the time to pray harder, fast more, and reconcile in the confessional, at every opportunity. There may be a time when access to good priests becomes the norm.
This is so good, thanks Maria!
That's exactly what I need to hear right now. I had run out of steam praying for my children, I'll pray with a renewed spirit now. Thank you and God bless 🙏🙏
Bless you.
This is very helpful, Fr. Columba. As other commenters have said, living the faith is a strong testimony. I pray for family and friends but acknowledge that ultimately, it is only by the grace of God that they will come. With gratitude. 🙏
All good points Father, thank you!
Very welcome
Thank you so very much Fr Jordan...it's exactly what I needed to get to know at this stage. May God bless and protect you and all religious, who are helping by being beacons during such challenging times.
Thank you for watching.
Oh my, this came across my feed...what a blessing you are Father. I am here in Canada praying for my family and needing guidance and here you are speaking right to the matter. I am not sure if you read these but please remember the Twas and Sakowskis in your next Mass...I know a lot to ask but if it be God's will it shall happen.
Hi Shelly, Father Columba regularly prayers for those who watch and engage with the content he makes. I will forward on your specific request. God bless 🙏
It's good to say Peace. Especially from a Fr. It is such a blessing. Please continue to say it to people. I really appreciate your encouragement. I will continue to pray and offer up all I can. Your talk is the encouragement I needed to keep going. Thank you very much
Thank you for your comment, Helenia! We are delighted that this video and Father's wisdom has helped you. God bless you!
Thank you Father. ❤
You're welcome.
Thank you. I really need guidance with this. I am inclined to be somewhat "dogmatic"if I get on a roll! I just try to show the way to Truth by living as decently and truthfully as I can, and by serving others. Very tricky one for me, this.
Dear father
I just came across your channel as I told myself to only watch video's regarding our catholic faith during this lent. I needed so much to hear this to bring my loved ones closer to Jesus.
You explained so well how we need to approach this in the right way.
Thank you so much.
I loved hearing you say when you were seventeen and asked Jesus: if you're real, I really want to know.
I asked Him the very same question a long time ago.
May the Lord bless you.
Lovely greetings from Belgium
Hello friend, so glad you came across our channel and hope it can continue to be a source and love and truth for you. Praying for you and your loved ones.
Thank you so much, father.
Keeping you in my prayers too.
Thank you very much Father. Your message is a blessing to me at the right time as I am struggling with my loved ones to get them to the faith. God bless you!
We are delighted these videos are a help in hard times. Keep up your perseverance in prayer! St. Monica's prayers are a testimony to how powerful they are. God bless you, too!
Thanks!
Thank you for your generosity, Denise. God bless you!
THANKYOU FR COLUMBA AND GOD BLESS xx
God bless you, Frank.
Thank you so much for this Father. I found your video at the exact time that I needed it.
Praise be to God.🧎♀️📿✝️🙏🏻
Praise God!
Thank you. Great wisdom in your words.
Glad it was helpful!
This was wonderful, thank you Father!
You are very welcome.
Brother! That's awesome!
I love Traditional Catholicism, but I get tired of the bookishness and this thing, approach, where everything is about correcting errors rather than teach the Gospel of Redemption and be positive. So many people don't seem to want to face up to their own negatives because they seem to think it's the end of the story... RATHER THAN THE BEGINNING!
God bless you, Brother/Father!
Amen Beautiful thank you Fr God bless you ✝️ 🙏❤️🙏
You are so welcome.
Wow that was just beautiful and saying "peace" at the end was perfect and funny..thankyouuuu
You’re so welcome.
Thanks Fr Columba.... we can convert those around us by being shining examples of the Gospel. The little things we do, and make seen in our day to day being, sends very clear signals to those around us. As our Seraphic Father says - "Preach the Gospel at all times, and use words only if you have to". Our St Bonaventure was big on this too! Great video! Cheers to you Father Brother Man in da Hood!
Thank You Father
Fiat Voluntas Tua
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Thank you Father! Just what I needed. I pray God blesses you and this channel!
@@dersturmerofjewery6038 when we refer to a priest as Father, were thinking in terms of a spiritual fatherhood. It's entirely biblical. We could go into lots of Old testament examples but for simplicity in the letters of Peter, James and John you find them writing to my dear children. Now clearly they weren't writing to their biological children here. The implication that their role was one of spiritual fatherhood is clearly implied here. The Catholic church continues this beautiful tradition and gift of spiritual fatherhood.
@@dersturmerofjewery6038 agreed I think we would agree on that. However, I didn't mention St Paul. Your comment doesn't deal with what I said. I mentioned Peter, James and John implying they were spiritual fathers by addressing the Christian communities as their dear children.
@@dersturmerofjewery6038 Yes certainly. Actually I retract what I said about St Paul, he also used the practice many times. "I do not write this to you to make you ashamed but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. (1Cor 4:14-15)
Peter followed the same custom referring to Mark as his son "She who is at Babylon who is likewise chosen sends you greetings; and so does my son Mark. (1Peter 5:13)
The apostles sometimes referred to entire churches under their care as their children. Paul writes, "Here for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden for I seek not what is yours but you, for children ought not to lay up for their parents but parents for their children. (2Cor:12-14)
See also Gal 4:19, 1 John 2:1, 3 John 4...1 Cor 4:17, 1Tim 1:2, 2 Tim 1:2)
I should have said Peter, Paul and John not James and John..
@@dersturmerofjewery6038 I refuted what you said about none of them say father when addressing themselves using scripture. You asked for a verse, I gave you many. I'm very confused by your replies. There's no engagement with what I've demonstrated to you. I understand it's very hard to change our minds about things. I wish you well.
Thanks for watching, Eliza.
Much needed! Thank you For.Columba. 🙏🏽✝️
You are so welcome.
Thank you so much❤
You’re welcome!
So grateful for this! God bless Father Jordan and the CTM team!
Thank you. God bless you.
Please help me pray for my family. Our hearts are so breaking because our children have left the church. Your daughter is not going through a terrible divorce and I know if she came back to the sacraments God would surely lighten her burden she goes to evangelical church, the sacraments would truly heal her, so yes, we pray night and day forFather to here our cry 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼we also make Masses for them 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
May Lemke, adoptive mother of musical savant, Leslie Lemke told God, " I know You perform miracles, and I'm going to keep on You until You do!" Look her or Leslie up. There's a wonderful little interview/documentary about them, plus two books. The first one is May's Miracle.
Will have a look, thanks.
Please pray for me, my family is Catholic but stopped practicing almost ten years ago. Since then they’ve begun to reject not only the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist but the authority of the Church on individuals, seeing the Church as nothing more than an institution and not its constituent people. My dad especially presents very convincing reasoning for why he believes what he believes, but I haven’t yet found a way to get through to him on these matters and bring my family back into a place where we at least go to Mass every Sunday and regularly attend confession.
Example is everything.
Great video, thank you and god bless
God bless.
I give up! It is a fight every time I try!
Don’t give up!
@sanalzam 1 pray St. Rita's, St. Monica's and St. Jude's novenas. Actually read about Sts. Rita & Monica lives...& St. Mary of Egypt - very humbling & inspiring 😢.
Key work from you Father is "DO IT OUT OF LOVE". I do find it does help when I say that to my family when I tell them about my journey in growing my love for GOD. :)
Thank you Father
You’re welcome.
I needed to hear this today. Thank you.
Thank you, Father. God bless you.
God bless you.
Good video! 🎯
Thanks! 😃
Father Columba, thank you for talking about this..
The problem is, My husband and I are both devout Catholics, we go to daily mass, Sunday mass, always pray together and live as a Catholic family should.. the problem is, once our teenagers are away from us, they are surrounded by the evil of this world…
One example, we always taught our children to kneel and receive the Lord on their tongue, but now in their schools nobody does that, And when I saw my daughter on Sunday receiving in the hand I was so so sad.. i asked why, she said everyone receives this way. How are we to teach this generation the REAL presence of Jesus, when they see adults acting like this…
There are so so many other evil forces including social media that is playing against us.
No matter how pious and faithful the parents are, at some point, we get this feeling of ‘surrendering’ and just praying for them, and praying that we have planted the seeds.
Surrender them to Jesus, every day, and He will take care of them
what a great channel thank you God bless you!
Thank you.
I need this!💯❤🥰
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@@ctmcatholic ❤💕
Good video! Thank you, Father. A lot of my family have turned away from their Catholic faith and to New Age. They believe in reincarnation and don't think of the soul going to Heaven, Purgatory, or hell. 😮 I I am nagging Jesus through my prayers and sacrifices for them every day. Could you please do a video on any practical ways to find common ground with these opposing views. It's definitely caused a strain on relationships. Thank you for considering this in Jesus's name. Amen 🙏
Glad it was helpful.
@@ctmcatholic Any chance of doing a video on the topic I mentioned above about talking to someone who believes in reincarnation and believes their soul is not in danger of going to hell?
I suggest speaking with them about NDE's - Near Death Experiences. Fr. Robert Spitzer has videos and interviews on this topic. NDE's are proof of the transcendent soul, and of heaven and (in some cases) hell. *No one* who has had an NDE has experienced reincarnation. Rather, ALL of them experience an afterlife.
Thanks Father- good advice
Pax vobiscum
Thanks for listening
Thank you so much.keep up the good work!!
You’re welcome.
Thank you 🌹
You’re welcome 😊
Why did you say peace? Because we need peace. There is so much to worry about in our upside down world. I pray for peace. Jesus, I trust in you!
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Ask for St. Monica's intercession
Great suggestion.
....and St. Rita's....& St. Jude's....& St. Mary of Egypt
I was confirmed last Easter, my wife thought it was all a midlife crisis. It broke our hearts a little because we used to go to church together and do Bible study. Now she doesn’t trust me with the word or the kids. My daughter is 4 and loves doing the rosary and talking to Mary, she has such a love for our lady. My wife finds it blasphemous and isn’t interested in apologetics at all. I tried to show her rev 12, the miracles of our lady, she won’t even look.
The worst part is baptism, I want to get both of our kids baptized and she wants to do everything she can to prevent it. Again she won’t look at the scriptures, church history. The only middle ground she’s willing to meet me on is having them baptized by a Protestant church. I tried to tell her how wrong that would be. I mean think about it, she’s a Protestant that doesn’t believe in baptizing children at all, I’m a catholic. What faith would we be baptizing them in?! Is she going to convert to Methodist or Anglican to solve the issue? Idk. She hasn’t picked up scripture since I began my conversion 2 years ago. Nor has she attended any church. I feel like my conversion broke my family in half and I selfishly wonder does god want this for my family?
I pray to him to send her some sign, some grace, and mercy. Many couples I talk to are in mixed denominational relationships. Sorry to vent with you guys, I don’t really have anyone I can talk to about it. My priest is stretched so thin I barely get 5 mins to talk to him outside of confession a month. He has hundreds of parishioners over 2 churches and it’s the only parish within an hour land he’s in his 70s so I feel I don’t want to lay additional burdens on him. Any advice from you wonderful people would be very welcome!
Please pray for those in narcissistic relationships. Being a Christian married to a narcissist can be a head banging life. They cannot be trusted, and flip-flop so one does not know who is coming in the room, a best friend or worst enemy. They love bomb and then destroy the love. They try the patience to the very limit. The only hope of any sanity is the peace of Christ...let this mind be in you that is in Christ Jesus. It makes the situation of imprisonment a sanctuary for atonement of sin. Pray, pray, pray.
I always try to show by actions and open if anyone has questions.
Oh boy, nagging and fear mongering would be a surefire way to cause me to avoid spending time with that person. The simple fact is that people don't believe in hell anymore