Surviving the Dark Night of the Soul - Explaining the Faith
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- Опубликовано: 9 дек 2022
- We all must go through it. But what is the "Dark Night" of the senses and Dark Night of the Soul? Fr. Chris Alar explains that we will all face deep desolation and dryness and what the difference is between depression and something spiritual that God may be doing in us. This critical teaching in moral theology of St. John of the Cross and Theresa of Avila is paramount to growing in holiness and preparing for death.
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Please pray for us who want a spiritual director and cannot find one.
Amen 🙏
Respectfully, you do not need a spiritual director. There's no person who can do that. Anyone holding himself out as someone to follow will inevitably prove himself a disappointment. Go into your prayer room and seek the Lord with all your heart. "Be Still and Know that I Am God". Seek Him every day with praise and thanksgiving. Ask and it shall be opened to you.
Your priest is your spiritual director as I was told by a friend. Took on her word and consulted with my priest during confession or asked for a meeting. God is with you.
Holy Spirit is sent as a councellor+ Pray
Phone a monastery and ask for the most humble monk🙏❤️🙏❤️
I went to prison where I made bad decisions now it my mission to win the race to see Gods face pray 🙏 daily for his grace no one ☝️ takes my place
God bless you Gia Rose. 🙏
@@annieemm Godspeed blessings Shalom family 💯☘️🙏😘🌹💪🩸🇺🇸
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A very blessed Christmas to you @Giarose
God bless you. Share the faith
@@cindycoates3045 Amen 🙏 🙌 God bless you ❤️🔥
Father chris i was blown away by this talk when i seen it. Im in ireland i was talking with you about a year ago, so im in trouble with drugs and i honestly think god is getting me ready through rehab. So it was a fantastic talk thanks brother, say a prayer for me my name is gordon from dublin ireland. Thank you father
Thank you, I'm happy to hear that it made sense. Thank you and God bless you
I offer prayers for you Gordon and your perseverance and a successful rehab. May God be with you and at your side as you’re in treatment.
@@alwaysmisskaryn thank you so much
Praying for you Gordon from Arizona in the USA🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻
@@joydicksen5914 thank you god
I know when its cloudy or dark that the Sun is still shining....
I literally just came out of the dark night. I could not forgive a priest that hurt me a few years back. I hated him . I became oppressed. Satan was having his way. This week I was reading about our Lady of Guadalupe. I could hear her tell me” you belong to me”. It was instantaneous relief.
The same thing happened to me around Christmas with St. Therese of the child Jesus! He lives 🙌🏻
Amen!!
Happened to me from November-Early bits of January. I have just came out of it, and I feel very liberated and relieved
I’ve had similar things happen to me as well. But years ago, I met Jesus in a dream. He’s so cool, y’all. But he’s intense! He called me by my name. He forgave all my sins. That dream left such an impression on me. He was calling me. I’ve been on a journey since. I’ve had moments of consolation and moments of complete desolation. But I know God listens to my prayers. It’s weird how I know it, but he responds, even to small little things.
Currently experiencing this. Pray for me please, as I pray for all of you, especially the ones also going through this.
Thank you, Father Chris. I pray the Priest's Prayer for you and the Marion Brothers: "O Jesus, I implore Your devine assistance for Your faithful and fervent priests; for Your unfaithful and tepid priests; for Your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields; for Your lonely and desolate priests; for Your young priests; for Your dying priests; for the souls of Your priests in purgatory. But above all, I commend to You the priests dearest to me; the priest who baptized me; the priests who have absolved me from my sins; for priests whose masses I assisted and who gave me your Body and Blood in Holy Communion; the priests who taught and instructed me; all the priests whom I am indebted in any other way. O Jesus, keep them close to Your Sacred Heart, and bless them abundantly in time and eternity. Amen." God Bless you, Father.
Me too!
That’s a lovely prayer! I pray that one as well. Our beloved Marian priests need our prayers! 🙏
Amen! A wonderful prayer .
Amen
Thank you so much and prayers for you too and God bless you!
My husband is struggling right now as he was diagnosed with flu a. In our 29 years married I have never seen him this sick and scared. I know God surrounds us always I pray he feels Gods divine mercy and gets physically well soon. Thank you thank you thank you.
Thank you Vicky and God bless you and prayers for your husband
Prayers of healing for your spouse and prayers that all family doesn't get it.
onion soup, tonic water with quinine vitamin c d probiotics also fruit smoothies with proteins (egg yoke) is how I treated my 93 y.o dad no sweets
Mother Teresa is still saving souls like Saint Faustina and all of the other saints in heaven 🛐❤️🕊️😇
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Faustina was a real Saint, so humble but not sure about Teresa.
@@SlavicGirl. I am sure about Mother Teresa and so is the church 🛐❤️🕊️
It is always darkest just before the Dawn.
Father Alar.
I found this on my Audiobook, I randomly picked this sermon,.. Your describing my life.
Everything I’ve known is gone, now it’s solitude & Silence.
My 2 year depression is unlike any I’ve had before.. there is no break.
Then I found this and I knew this is what I’m going thru.
So many tears, pray for me please to stay strong. Bless you
God bless you and keeping you in prayer
@chermayo Be Still and Know I Still Am God. Stay the course. Hang on to God’s hand. God is still with us during this path. Hold on to your Faith by staying close to God keeping His word in your ear.
Having gone through this, with God’s guidance, brother in Christ, I am waiting for you on the other side; I’m praying for you in the name of Jesus. Amen. Be Still and Know I Am Still God.
(God is intentional, strategic; does not leave us nor forsake us. We are only required to surrender OUR way. Be like a leaf floating on the water down river of His will.)
Praying 🙏 for you to Jesus Christ only begotten SON OF GHE FATHER In Heaven,the Savior of the world By His life death on the cross The precious Blood 🩸 of Jesus your redeemed,in His blood,amen
@@dani323. Bless you🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@@DivineMercy_Official Amen & Bless all
Oh my heart, I went through dark night of the senses for almost two years. I had no idea what was going on, nothing helped and I felt so abandoned. At the same time I could not get a priest to respond to phone calls, emails etc. Most of it happened during the pandemic when the parishes were closed. Watching this helps me understand what happened. Lord have Mercy, thank you Fr. Chris!!!
The way the pandemic and lockdown ruined people's minds is just _brutal_
I’ve been there. That’s the one thing I feel the church doesn’t do effectively. And it’s not the priests’ fault. They are overworked. But they really ought to allow them time to build relationships with parishioners and set time aside to assist people. Not everyone is literally dying or sick, but some do get spiritually sick, and they need as much help as someone who is physically dying.
@ntmn8444 oh my goodness for sure. I could not get anyone, it really impacted me so much.
That's just stress....!
You will not enter the Dark Night of the Soul until you DIE TO A MATERIAL EXISTENCE as being reality!!! Then, and only then will Omnipresence(God Consciousness)begin filling the void, causing much darkness along the way through the human intellect(Satan) attempting to regain its foothold upon your existence!!
God make my fear disappear without God is despair no one ☝️ else can compare… God come near don’t leave me alone I can’t make it on my own please bless my home 🏡 remove all evil and sins
Father Chris Thank you Im hear because of you I went to church you had a huge push in me going to church ⛪️
God bless you for returning to the sacraments!
@@DivineMercy_Official 🌹🌹🌹
Priase The Lord!!!
@@DivineMercy_Official 😊
The church is the problem, and Jesus actually showed you why, yet people still think they need to go to church where not even the pastors understand the truth of the message of Jesus......!
"If I speak of myself I bear witness to a lie"....meaning that material life is an illusory sense of existence, and therefore, humans have no power to do anything!
"I and My Father are One"....meaning, my Consciousness is Infinite, Omnipresent Consciousness.
"My Kingdom is not of this world"....again, Jesus is saying that this illusory world is not his world. He demonstrated that life is illusory through what we've come to know as the Resurrection, but that is a false narrative because our True Incorporeal God-Hood cannot die, The real Resurrection was 3 years earlier when he Recognized God Consciousness as his Own Individual God Consciousness!
We are Infinite, Incorporeal Omnipresence, and our reality is The Invisible Infinite, or God Consciousness!
This came at exactly my dark night. Thank you, Jesus.
Feels like all my prayers are empty sometimes. He says He will guard but then dangers and suffering come through. It makes one wonder if He is really there. But there are sudden brief moments when I feel His presence and comfort. The desolation and abandonment feeling hurts, but the belief that He is there even when He is seemingly quiet and not there is highly necessary.
Praying for anyone in a similar situation
The Holy Spirit is w you Brother, just pour out your heart to Gd…and listen…
Don’t give up ,God answers all our prayers in His time ,you will see His Mercy and Healing,I waited for such a long time to see my son receive God’s grace and Mercy,I’m truly blessed and grateful 🙏
@@audreynaidoo2797 Can you give a brief testimony if you would like of course, it is encouraging to hear from fellow Catholics what they have experienced and how God came through
I am in the same exact situation. I can’t live like this anymore! 🥺🥺
@@catalinacampos5952 Please do not lose heart and fall into discouragment I was where you are and still do experience moments like this but the Lord is closer to you than the air that you breath! Do not abandon hope because the darkness that you feel and pain of not finding God can be birthpains of seeking Him more intimately. When in such a state pray to the Holy Spirit A lot and my personal advice would be, declare and praise God as hard as it seems, just thank Him for everything, do the opposite from what you maybe did before when you felt down or afraid or hopeless, go to Mass as often as you can even if you feel like you aren't getting much consolation out of it, the Lord sees your heart and desire to be with Him. The Lord loves you with an everlasting love, He is with you, He is your light, do not be afraid!
Great talk Father Chris on The Dark Night. You saved my family & myself during covid in 2021. I started watching your masses around Christmas of 2020 was lost needing answers. During my Dark Night my oldest daughter was admitted in a mental hospital on Thanksgiving 2020 & got bad after that. When I started watching your mass it changed my life for the better took time but its getting there. God doesn't answer that second. But he does help you continuously. It was hard but it got better. Praise God & you Father Chris & rest of the Marian Brothers & Marian Helpers.
Fr Chris has changed my life as well. So thankful for all of these livestreams which have deepened my faith. God bless you, Sofia!
Thank you Sofia so much for sharing that and may God bless you and your family!
Amen 🙏
Thank you 🙏
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We adore you, Father Chris!
Much love & respect to you always 🙏♥️
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My brother took his life in February. It has been a difficult journey. It was only a few years ago when my nephew took his own life. I wrestle with the work I do because I meet with people daily whom contemplate taking their lives because of mental illness or substance use. I have been so grateful to your healing words. Thank you and Amen
God bless you and may your brother rest in peace🙏
I am very sorry about the loss of your brother and nephew.
God love you x. That is a heavy cross. I will pray for you xx.
As a Secular Carmelite, I am very thankful for this talk that helps me understand my vocation. God bless. ❤
God bless you!
I am just beginning as an aspirant in the OCDS within the Community of the Holy Innocents. Perhaps our paths will meet sometime. God be with you!
Could a third order OCDS wear a habit even outside the eucharistic celebration?
@@vernferns.8711 The habit of a Secular Carmelite (3rd Order) is the Brown Scapular. It should be worn next to the skin all the time. The Carmelites stopped using 1st, 2nd & 3rd orders to refer to friars, nuns & seculars all are considered equals. No one having priority in importance but each having his own specific identity.
@@nievaconsing3344 i wear a brown scapular, and i had our parish priest enroll me, but fr said it wasnt necessary, and that it's enough that i had it blessed and i wore it. Thank you for the information. ❤️
During my dark night, I was tempted to join the Freemasons and live a life of luxury. Thank the Lord for keeping me from such a horrendous path! I found Our Lady in my time of trouble and my family now abounds in graces.
Note: I also had dreams of judgment day and wrestling with the enemy in Heaven prior to making it out of the dark night of my soul. It was very scary but very enlightening to know for certain which side I stand by.
The Dark Night is purgatory on earth 🤯 I have never heard it expressed so succinctly. Thank you Fr Chris
Thank you and God bless you
Praying for all who need prayers 💯🙏💯🙏💯🙏☘️🌹
@jill stebbins prayers for God’s favor coming down on you and your family
You really are doing God's work, Father. Thank you so much and may God continue to bless you. (Melbourne, Australia)
St John of the Cross, December 14th, pray for us Amen
I’m not a depressed person but I’ve had panic attacks… i woke up ⬆️ shakes for years so I chased death because of fear of death so I’d get high to run from fear of death… insanity
YESHUA 🤍 is our LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!🤍❤️🔥🕊️
Fr. Chris, I'm admitted in the hospital right now. Please pray for me. Thank you. 🙏 And thank you again for this excellent talk. God bless.
Yes, I'm sorry to hear that. Will everything be okay? Trusting God and prayers for you
@@DivineMercy_Official I'm hoping everything will be alright after the procedure is done. I leave everything to our Lord Jesus, who we trust. Amen. Thank you so much for your prayer, Fr. Chris! Praying for you too. God bless. 🙏
Offering prayers for your healing Dee. Prayers for your doctors and nurses as well.
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@@alwaysmisskaryn Thank you so much. May God bless you.
Fr Chris more likes please!
I am in the midst of the dark nights of the soul. It has been a very difficult time for me. Lots of tears and prayers. I will come out of this a better person.
Father Chris, Your like that Angel that shows up in the nick of time..God Bless
Mother theresa was and is a saint God bless you father alar ✝️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🦁🌹😺♥️😇
Father Chris, you really hit it on the nose how I feel right now!
I pray one day I will love my crosses
Yes
Worship over worry
My soul has been dark for many time of many years , last night i was sad and doubt , this morning i hear you Fr. Chris i know that Jesus and Mary send message to me through you and you awesome
Yes, stay strong
Thank you and please pray for me
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As I listened to your message. It inspired me to write this poem.
As I knelt in prayer, I know You'll meet me there.
My soul pines for Thee,
On Who's face I can't yet see.
To hear Your laugh, and to see You smile,
I'm willing to endure the weight of this trial.
This cross of mine, I'll gladly bare,
Lord give me strength in this world of cares.
For the glory that awaits,
I long to see Heaven's gates.
Not just to see the people or the beauty in store,
But to see the face of My Savior, On sweet Heaven's shore.
That gives me hope for what comes my way,
Even in this moment, as I kneel to pray.
Wow, that is awesome! Thank you so much for sharing
@@DivineMercy_Official To God be the glory always.😊
Beautiful
@@paulineohagan5900 To God be the glory. Thank you so much.❤️
Very nice poem thank you for shari g it with us God Bless everyone on this page and the priests and Bishops may God guide them always! And God Bless and protect Israel!
Blessings amen 🙏
Thank you Father Alat. Your homilies are spiritual treasures. Deo gratias.
God help me want what you want more than what I want and do it Remove all evil and sins from me my family 💯🙏💯🙏💯🙏☘️🌹
God, Let Your Will not mine be done.
for i am weak yet i look towards you.
i cannot see you yet my heart searches.
if this darkness is what pleases you then forever i shall remain. use me to my full capacity.
Amen
@@smbdyall I was raised to pick up your cross no matter the cost no matter the loss be a boss.. Godspeed
I am currently going through this at the moment. This is helping. Thank you Fr. Sometimes I think God thinks I am strong.
Basil, 😊well, if God thinks you are… you are! Remember Gideon?? God sees you as He made you. He knows you better than Anyone!!! He sees your future! Just begin walking in it. ❤ one step at a time!
@@elizabethking5523 Thank you.
Same here 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I needed this today. I went to mass and my priest reluctance to promote divine mercy made me mad. I told him 'shame on you father' [I find it hard to keep my mouth shut] I guess cuz im so on fire for spreading divine mercy i dont get it when a priest dont feel the same. I need to find a spiritual director but when you have priests here that dont bother with first saturdays and dont want to spend more than 5 minutes in confession then its hard. You are my online spiritual director. Thanks for everything xxxxx
Hi Suzanne, you have great spirit and zeal. Prayers for you and for your local priest that he has a more open mind to your enthusiasm to promote the Divine Mercy devotion.
I am also interested in finding a spiritual director but I don't any here that would be one for me all the ones I want are not near here
One thing I might suggest is see what your priests are up to. They may honestly have too much going on at the parish that they barely have time for the basics.
My home parish has a school and a missionary church that requires a lot of focus on top of normal priestly duties at the main church. My current parish is one priest handling multiple orgs, spiritual needs of local prisoners, and normal functions.
Priests are human as well and are tasked with a great duty and responsibility that eats up a lot of time. Not helped if volunteers are too sparse to properly assist and the resources are stretched.
Might I suggest begin with a small Divine Mercy group that meets around the church where you or another leader can organize. This way you can grow the DM message, help the priest provide something for the parish, and maybe inspire others to step up as well.
That’s what a group I’m with did with a Marian study and praise/worship at the church. If God has lit your fire for DM, then maybe it is you who is being called to start it, not the priest.
You make me laugh Fr. Chris, in a good way. I am older than you but with a similar background. Your down to earth teaching is wonderful.
I agree, Father Chris is a gifted speaker, and makes serious points with a big dose of appropriate humor and tons of humility.
@@alwaysmisskaryn Yes, as a teacher and acolyte i appreciate sound teaching and Christians who dont suck lemons all day.
@53:20 the pleade... I felt that and it brought tears to my eyes
Be content in all situations
This is astounding & vital for our Salvation! What A BLESSING to learn this in order to have an understanding of WHAT CAN & WILL happen to us on our Narrow Road HOME. You are such a magnificent Shepherd, Fr. Chris! May God protect you completely. Thank you!
Wow Thank you SO MUCH for this talk. This makes me feel not alone, I think this is what I’ve been going through.
About two months ago I suddenly lost all appetite for my sins (hating others, not praying, food etc.) i just lost my appetite for all those things. I replaced all the things that used to make me sin with prayer, I got so much consolation I was in love, I was actually somewhat happy I no longer had those desires, not being angry does amazing things for your mental health.
But about a week ago, everything went dark. The consolation stopped and I started doubting the existence of God and because of my pride I felt like such a fool. I know in my heart God exists but my rational brain couldnt and still has a hard time comprehending it. I began toying with atheism again, and saw the emptiness, feeling like life has no purpose my future is empty and meaningless. Not having God and thinking He doesn’t exist made my world crumble, it led to depression and I have felt physically sick and unable to sleep at night. Today Im getting some consolations, and hearing this talk shows me this is just God preparing me and makes me somewhat believe in Him more, since the stages of the experience is so on point with how you described it. Please pray for me as I still have those doubts, my challenge is the need for faith and that I can’t know 100%. Please pray for my strength to get through. Thank you so much for this talk
God bless you and prayers for you
I am with you sister and experiencing similar emptiness and hopelessness for my future. I am comforted by Father Chris and his timely message of spiritual dryness leading me closer to our Father. God bless you:)
I’ll pray for you. Did you get over it?
Father Chris this teaching brings my me back to it altho I've left some of these stages but I want to get closer to Our Heavenly Mother and Jesus. I pray for the fire of Jesus' love and I feel that there's more I should do. I'm learn to improve myself to jump up from the dark side. I Trust in Jesus, Saint Monica, Mary, Saint Faustina, and St Theresa laFluer. I 🙏 I'm willing to carry & embrace my cross as long as I have to. I'm struggling from depression but grateful to Jesus for sending me wonderful people into my life to decrease my depression. My spirit is very weak. I want to be believe to get up every time Zim down. AMEN. 🙏 🙇 ➕
God bless you and all the MIC. pray for me and for my family
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Sometimes I get so scared because since I was a little girl my soul will flee away from my body I heard my name being called in my ears I was confused and scared but the family brings that dark night of the soul and your own sins too I’d been through it God bless everyone that’s has being through it and they don’t understand why God bless them all
Father Chris, I felt you were speaking to me. I got up Saturday morning and was asking God why my prayers are never answered and asked him if he was still there listening to me.I also agree with you things that I thought I couldn't live without now mean nothing to me. I got rid of so much stuff that I wondered why I had to have them in the first place. So much good has happened to me since I have watching your videos I can't even begin to tell you but I feel like a new person and I don't even recognize myself. All of you talks have helped me soo much. After 40 years of not going to Mass I now go to Mass, observe all of the Holy days and go to confession once a month I feel wonderful! Thank you so much for all that you do for us. You have helped me in ways you will never know. You Fr. Chris, have been Truly Blessed.
Thank you so much Linda for being part of our Marian family and God bless you!
That is awesome!!! ❤😀 keep waking that walk!
Marie Solomon , I join you in this Prayer. Amen 🙏🔥🕯️✝️
Yes Patricia we want to pray for Fr Chris and his family.
God bless you Father Chris!
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Very true Fr. Cris. I feel it at times.
Love listening to you, your a natural born teacher... you can keep the momentum going... good on you... 👍😁
God bless u dear Father. Please pray for me dear Father, my name is Susan from India, as for decades iam struggling with my faith and this can be really very despairing n discouraging. At times i feel so close to God and other most of the times iam back to square one n this is going on with me since decades. I feel so sorry for myself at my lack of faith. One thing that i honestly desire in this life is to be close to Christ. God please help me 🙏🙏
Sujata, it sounds like you're a good person. Please don't take this wrong as I mean no disrespect to you. If you pray for someone else, if you pay less attention to yourself and more on others who need it desperately, your life will become much better. If you feel that the world is falling down on you, it's also falling down on someone else. May I suggest that you take your worries about yourself to confession. You don't need to have what some counselors would call, ego.
May God surround, embrace and richly bless you.
Fr.Alar you a loyal and faithful servant of God ✝️🙏🦁♥️😇🌹
I really appreciate this talk. The part about being put into the dark so we can see reminds me of a story Jim Lovell told. Before he entered the astronaut program, he was flying missions off an aircraft carrier. Coming in for a night landing, he suddenly found himself in pitch black darkness. Night carrier landings are extremely difficult and dangerous; you can't do them in the dark! As he was wondering and praying how he would ever land safely, he noticed a green arrow in the water, pointing directly toward the ship. It was the algae that luminesces palely when stirred up by a ship's propeller. It was only visible because ALL of the lights, including the small instruments lights inside the cockpit, had gone dark.
Yes, that was a great story. Thank you for sharing
God Bless you Fr. Chris!
I'm deep in it. Sleepless nights, questioning, asking, grieving. I feel like in a dark room trying to find the light switch but to no avail, bumping against furniture pieces, hurting myself, crying for a helping hand that guides me to that light switch.
Wow for the past year I have been going exactly through this along with spiritual warfare and just Today while spending time with God I felt his warmth in my heart how I truly miss him so much it hurts i desire to see his holy face and I treasure the moments we united together. Everything you teach is truly coming from the Holy Spirit. Im so glad God has put you in my path you have no idea how much you have helped me understand the teachings of the Catholic Faith thank you. Truly another Grace from God.
Thank You Heavenly Father.
Thank you for watching and God bless you
May God bless you Father Chris🙏🏼❤️
I'm not Catholic, I go to Pentacostal churches. I found this very helpful and I feel God brought me to this video. And here I thought Catholic services were boring. God has been telling me to fast and the scripture about certain demons coming out only through prayer and fasting has been coming up a lot so I know what I need to do. It's not just food that I need to fast from I have to give up a bunch of things.
The refining of the soul is grace.
You are very welcome here!
Please pray for all who have listened to this video and God be with you always 😊
This is not a service. It’s a talk. We call our service “mass”. It’s only boring if you have no idea what’s happening. It’s possibly the most beautiful thing in the world. I really recommend you go to a Catholic Church near you. Don’t worry, we don’t bite! Do not take communion, please. But feel free to join us in prayer. And afterward, you can go up to a priest and ask questions.
Proud to be the 1000th person to like this video 🙃
Thank you!
That’s very cool. God bless you.
Prayers for America and our freedom, protect us Lord with thy Divine Mercy!
I'm one of those people who has been afflicted with all three........Trials, temptations and desolation. Its been brutal. I've actually cried out to God and asked him to dial it back a notch or two, I felt like he was pushing me too hard. But i did this only in a very weak moment, most of the time I just say, "Though he slay me yet I trust in him". I just finished reading St. John of the cross's book, the dark night of the soul and also the ascend of mount carmel and these two books have been a God send.
God bless you and God will provide the grace to persevere
Thanks to your talk. I understand why I feel sometimes I have no faith, but still go to church and do my daily prayers.
Thank you father, God bless your ministry
Father, your opener with all of those questions are my questions. I have gone through those questions over and over again and sometimes, I lose Faith. I know I'm a sinner because I think I've fallen. But I'm trying my best to not lose my Faith. I always ask forgiveness but I know I have to go to confessions often to be forgiven. Father, your talk always make me realize how lucky I am that I am healthy and alive. Thank you, Lord!
Hang in there Lori because God is working in you with his grace
AMEN ❤️
Thank You Father Chris 🙏🏽!
Thankyou Fr Chris. Really needed to hear this. REALLY. This talk explains many things happening. I have St. John of the Cross books, etc, but off the bat, you hit a homer for me. Thankyou.
Wonderful explanation Father Chris. St. Padre Pio went through the same darkness, as well as most Saints. God bless you.
Thank you Fr.Chris God blessed you ..! ❤
Fr Chris thank you so much for your excellent talks today your teachings are so good it is important to survive the dark night as sleeping because as wonderful devotions to the First Fridays and First Saturdays i like Thursday and Friday because it is my favorite day to preaching and prompting in the gospel readings to offer Mass on Sundays which everyone goes to be true and Holy Spirit preparing for the death as prayers for peace as Ukraine and Russia war as the Chaplet and Rosary to purgatory as explained is simple on Christmas Day and New Year's Eve on December 31, 2022 before started as traditions to many liturgical year and Precepts of the Church and domestic church and also the priesthood as Saint Faustina prays for us and Staff Members. Praying for you, your family and Marian Helpers and especially your Mom and Pam and Sandy also your Dad's healing of the grandparents. God bless you, your family, Pope Francis and Deacons and Marian Priests. Amen!
Thank you for joining us and God bless you and prayers for you too!
Bless you, Fr. Chris. It’s been very hard to the limit these past 2 years of Covid lockdowns working in the hospital none stop. I just got home, having some rice and watching this talk. I finally feel that I have the permission to rest, I can rest and I should rest. Sending you and your community of priests a lot of love and hugs from Boston. Now I just need a bucket to cry in for a few moments.
Thank you and God bless you
Praise Jesus for you Fr. Alar...you have no idea how much you have helped me!!! I was feeling so alone and becoming desperate in that perhaps God had turned away from me...
No Mary God is with you in all the great things you are doing. God bless you!
OMG!!! I made a story with same title in 2012😊🙏 All about my struggle as one of GOD's children who was lost and came back 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you, Fr. Chris, thank you!❤️❤️❤️
Oh , I love you, Father Chris! I could listen to you all day !
Thanks for listening
God Bless You, Fr. Chris! Thank You So Much, Fr. For this knowledge regarding the Dark Night of the soul&senses!!🙏😍❤️
Yes purgative.. yes father thank you. I m home less room w blind priest. He's sick stomach bug Bowels 3 days,.. thank you for the reminder. My husband deceased alchoholic said " I don't care about you or health I don't live you," .. Lol eft me home less. And I hate shopping!!
I really enjoyed listening to this talk Fr. Chris, because with all Catholics, as well as other Christians, who have experienced this you reassure us that it's never the end of the world and that we should never give up on God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and Mother Mary. God bless you Fr. Chris now and always.
Yes Tara, as easy as it sometimes is to say “that’s it” we hear an inspiring talk like todays, and we have hope again. May God bless you.
Amen 🙏🏻✝️
Thank you for this one right now 🙏
I just find these talks so transforming !! May God bless you always Fr Chris ! 🙏 🙏🙏♥️
Thank you for joining us and God bless you
Thank you for a great talk, father. I’m thankful for your priesthood too.
Thank you Claudia and God bless you
I believe this is where we loose allot of people to Protestant churches because they get lost to the “feel good “ sensation.
The 3 days of darkness past already
I thank you Fr.Chris deep from my heart may God bless you and always be by your side and makes you holly as you are !
You too!
It’s so easy to become attached to our spiritual consolations. They are so wonderful, I think most of our lives are spent in the dark night
Father Chris Alar, thank you for another powerful, insightful and inspiring Explaining of the Faith Talk:
Moral Theology: The Dark Night of the Soul, The Dark Night of the Senses!
God bless you, in all that you do, abundantly! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
And you Fr.Chris are Jesus and Mary 's priest
Thank you Jesus, for feeding many souls within this marian helper family, through the teaching and ministry of your devoted MIC shepherds Fr Chris and his brothers. Mother Mary keep protective watch over them and us 🎚🌷
Thank you for being with us and God bless you
I'm in tears. God Bless you Fr. Chris.
I'll pray for you so that our Father continues working through you.
You are helping so many of us.
Praise be to God
AMEN❤️
Thank you Father Alar for bringing me back to my faith. You are truly an inspiration.
Wow, thank you
I pray my children come back to Catholic Church before I die.
,,,GOD Bless You Father Chris
Great Stuff Father Chris, as always
Thank you, I walked back to where I was listening to rosary and this was playing, never listened to you before and I heard your first words, I stood there surprsed, as I thought it was me, as I have felt Divine Presence but lost it again,:but your first words spoke to me, as I felt God was gone from me. So I listened, it is not just me for seems we all feel abandoned at times. Thank you
God bless you Mary and hang in there, God is with you! And thank you for joining us
Very good, pray Mary Immaculata
,God love Mariana, USA!!!hol
This was an excellent presentation Father Chris. I never understood this (I only knew “kinda”). Thanks Father for making this so clear.
Thank you for letting me know I am glad to hear that. God bless
All of Father Chris’ talks are so I formative, and I always learn something new.
God bless us Amen.
Fr. Chris I have been trying to tell you for a long time now that this is what I have gone through. The best way I can possibly put this. Is when this happens to a person it’s very hard to put it into words cuz that would and is really impossible and very arrogant of me to even think I can explain God and His ways to anyone what truly happens in the dark night of the senses and then dark night of the soul. The only way I can describe it is it was the hardest thing I have ever been through. It is beyond gut wrenching and agonizing!!! Our Father strips you of everything. What He is doing is preparing you for what He placed you here for. The dark night teaches you or me at least is to trust Him no matter what and love Him just for Him. Not for what He can give you, but rather realize and have confidence in Him alone. And no matter what comes your way in this world He is all that matters. I guess that’s why I have been so persistent with you. I couldn’t agree more that mental health should always always be looked at first and foremost. And the Church should and must look at this as the first possibility. Man did I learn my lesson man you tell one person that you met your guardian angel at 6yrs old and they go absolutely crazy. When I was little I thought that everyone knew their angel. Sadly I was so naive 😢. I was always taught to look for Christ in everyone (boy oh boy) I have gotten burned so many times with that one. But yet still can not help myself but to still do it. Ppl tell me I’m to trusting and maybe I am. I have even run into problems with some clergy really 2 priest out of many. Growing up in a military family we had many priests as friends. Oh how I loved when they would come for dinner and just sit and listen. There is nothing I would rather do. I know I’m not perfect nor will I ever claim to be. I’m only as perfect as God wants me to be. I know I can obtain nothing without Him. A lot of the time on the outside I’m kind of a good ball but on the inside I cry for the world and Holy Mother Church. I also have very vivid dreams sometimes beyond beautiful but sometimes beyond horrific and I have had them my whole life. I have had way more than my share of blessings but have had to walk through fire more times than I can count. But even when I thought I was failing not knowing at the time God was preparing me for now.
As of the age of 8 I was telling my dad (who also had the gift of knowing his angel) which I did not know till I was older. But I would tell him Vatican 2 killed us. I didn’t even know what Vatican 2 was and why I knew these things. When I told him abt my angel he said said he knew that I was going to be different than other kids. Later he explained to me why. 😢he’s been in heaven now for 22years I am very happy for him and others that get called home. Still I miss him sometimes. Thankfully God has always put ppl in my life to guide me and continue Gods work in me. I could go on but I’m not aloud to share more cuz according to His plan I’m not supposed to yet. I know sounds weird and crazy but who am I to question Him. Why He would give me such a blessing I have no idea cuz I do have a big mouth. I just wish everyone could share this gift with me. I will forever cherish (not even strong enough word) Our Father beyond the world’s wildest dreams. I will say to behold Him crying for humanity I can’t even say there are simply no words to express how much it hurts. Even now just typing this part I’m starting to cry and my heart is breaking so bad it hurts. So I will go now. But plz keep up your great work. I know you are truly chosen. God bless 🕊💜🕊
Thank you and God bless you
Thank you Lord and God bless Fe.Chris 💖✌🏼
Thank you Father Chris. I need this
Thank you for watching with us and God bless you
Clean 🧼 my heart ♥️