God allows parents to have disobedient children to help parents understand what He, our Father, in long suffeiring endures with each one of us. He has given us the example to endure long suffering of our disobedient children. We will rejoice when our prodigal children return to God.
Thank you father Mark for all these inspiring sermons you gave throughout 2023 and I pray you will continue to instill in our hearts the love of Jesus🙏🙏🙏🕯🕯🕯
How much we need to hear this today and always. Thank you Fr. I will share this with my family especially my grandchildren. Even as a Grandma every day is a school day. Blessings from our family in Scotland 🏴 to yours in America 🇺🇸 🙏💕
Father Mark, Thank You for sharing your wisdom and your training, I've learned so much from you this year, God Bless you always and keep you strong and willing to speak the truth that we need.
Father Bernhard's sermon just hit me that, in the last 30 years or so, we live in a highly disposable and clickable society, and that's no wonder the younger generation now finds dissatisfaction in marriage, family life, routine work, etc. If we don't like viewing a certain tv channel, we just click the remote and change channel, if we don't like our employer or colleagues we change jobs and if we don't like our electrical appliances we just throw it out and get a new updated version. It's no wonder that family and marriage life also take a hit. Let's pray that God will open our eyes and touch our hearts so that we can change our ways.
There's a theory that Joseph was without sin by the time he was born. I can't call Joseph a sinner. He was worthy to be God's Foster father and to have authority over Him.
Why is there this determination to make the Holy Family just no different from any other family? I don't get it. I once read a book in which the author was pointing out that the mistake made in so many schools (here in the UK) is to make the families in stories just as "messed" up as the families of the pupils in the school. So little understanding of the need of those children to think that somewhere there is a rosy-faced mother who loves to bake for her children, in a cosy warm home where everybody loves every other member of the family. Instead, they have to spend time reading garbage about "messiness" with every family member engaged in drug-taking or promiscuity, you name it, families riddled with problems "just like theirs" - no escape from it not even in literature. Tragic. Let's please show devotion to the Holy Family and make assumptions about their virtue, not assumptions about their "messiness" - for Heaven's (literally) sake. We even have ignorant priests still peddling the lie that Our Lady was an unmarried mother, showing their total ignorance, not just of theology (as if God would use sin to bring Our Lord into the world) but also Jewish marriage customs at that time. So, I've not watched Fr Bernhard's sermon all the way through because I don't need another model of a "messy" family with problems and issues - I'm surrounded by them. I want to reflect on the Holy Family, so named because that was the reality - Jesus, Mary and Joseph, were a beautifully Holy Family bound together by their acceptance of God's Will, His Plan of Salvation and their central role in it. Imagining the details of their family life is a waste of time. We stick with what we know for certain - and priests should be preaching that way of perfection, not undermining it.
Thank you, Fr. Mark, for a wonderful and important homily. May you be abundantly blessed in 2024.
You’re a good priest Fr. Bernhard. Stay strong and courageous. Keep speaking the truth. I will pray for you and all religious. Jesus bless ✨♥️✨
Fr Mark Bernhard very great homily happy new year 🎉 may ✨️ your new day new blessings Amen fr I wish your family too.
God allows parents to have disobedient children to help parents understand what He, our Father, in long suffeiring endures with each one of us. He has given us the example to endure long suffering of our disobedient children. We will rejoice when our prodigal children return to God.
The children (and adults) are so blessed to hear your homilies Fr. Mark.
Thank you father Mark for all these inspiring sermons you gave throughout 2023 and I pray you will continue to instill in our hearts the love of Jesus🙏🙏🙏🕯🕯🕯
May GOD bless you Father, year will bring you Full of wisdom, Grace and wonderful health.
You are true calling from GOD .HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU 🙏✝️❤
What a blessing to be able to hear your homilies thru technology. Praying for all priests❤
How much we need to hear this today and always. Thank you Fr. I will share this with my family especially my grandchildren. Even as a Grandma every day is a school day. Blessings from our family in Scotland 🏴 to yours in America 🇺🇸 🙏💕
Amen. 🙏🏿 Family is the building block of society and the foundational unit of the Church.
Thank you so much Father Mark Bernhard. Happy new year 2024. God bless you.
Father Mark, Thank You for sharing your wisdom and your training, I've learned so much from you this year, God Bless you always and keep you strong and willing to speak the truth that we need.
Amen.
Father Bernhard's sermon just hit me that, in the last 30 years or so, we live in a highly disposable and clickable society, and that's no wonder the younger generation now finds dissatisfaction in marriage, family life, routine work, etc. If we don't like viewing a certain tv channel, we just click the remote and change channel, if we don't like our employer or colleagues we change jobs and if we don't like our electrical appliances we just throw it out and get a new updated version. It's no wonder that family and marriage life also take a hit. Let's pray that God will open our eyes and touch our hearts so that we can change our ways.
It happens to Filipino families here in the Philippines too. Our youth mimic what they watch on television. It hurts.
There's a theory that Joseph was without sin by the time he was born. I can't call Joseph a sinner. He was worthy to be God's Foster father and to have authority over Him.
Why is there this determination to make the Holy Family just no different from any other family? I don't get it. I once read a book in which the author was pointing out that the mistake made in so many schools (here in the UK) is to make the families in stories just as "messed" up as the families of the pupils in the school. So little understanding of the need of those children to think that somewhere there is a rosy-faced mother who loves to bake for her children, in a cosy warm home where everybody loves every other member of the family. Instead, they have to spend time reading garbage about "messiness" with every family member engaged in drug-taking or promiscuity, you name it, families riddled with problems "just like theirs" - no escape from it not even in literature. Tragic. Let's please show devotion to the Holy Family and make assumptions about their virtue, not assumptions about their "messiness" - for Heaven's (literally) sake. We even have ignorant priests still peddling the lie that Our Lady was an unmarried mother, showing their total ignorance, not just of theology (as if God would use sin to bring Our Lord into the world) but also Jewish marriage customs at that time. So, I've not watched Fr Bernhard's sermon all the way through because I don't need another model of a "messy" family with problems and issues - I'm surrounded by them. I want to reflect on the Holy Family, so named because that was the reality - Jesus, Mary and Joseph, were a beautifully Holy Family bound together by their acceptance of God's Will, His Plan of Salvation and their central role in it. Imagining the details of their family life is a waste of time. We stick with what we know for certain - and priests should be preaching that way of perfection, not undermining it.