You are such a good prayer leader, and I give all glory to GOD for your gift and for you. GOD bless you, and all my Christian brothers and sisters, and all GOD'S beloved children, Amen.
I would love a "day in the life of a Friar" video. My 9 year old son talks of maybe becoming a "brother" some day and I think a video of a typical day would be amazing to have him view. Thanks!!
I really want to say thank you once again. This morning the Holy Spirit of gratitude welled up in me and rather than just singing under my breathe, I began to sing out loud 'As the deer pantheth for', then when I came to 'to You alone may my spirit yield', I suddenly realised that this is my prayer and meditation and heartfelt appeal to the Lord to take away a mortally sinful desire...that my spirit by His merciful grace and in upholding me, shall no longer yield to it. The Word is alive. Thank you Fr.
I truly want to develop my prayer life! It's something that's been totally foreign to me growing up unfortunately, even though I come from a devout Catholic family. I'm truly blessed to have God directing me to improve myself in this way! So much fruit can come from the individual devoted to prayer!
Father, I'm in RCIA and this video, as well as your last one, is so important. I've been trying to improve my prayer life after converting from atheism (and so not praying at all for decades) and doing this daily, as well as what the priest teaching me suggests, will only bear fruit in the long run. Thank you so much.
@@TheBr8kdownjunkie Thank you, and you're right. It's been brilliant so far, but patience and humility are vital. I wish you all the best in your journey.
Each time I watch Fr, I want to do a Jonah 😅. When he says and infers that God will reveal Himself I know for a fact that He will and fear and trembling besets my heart. I always know that the Lord is asking me to have enough faith to jump off the cliff. Am still struggling to follow the suggestion to ask God directly what He wants me to do on a particular day for the ridiculous reason that I know He will answer. But okay, I guess I stumbled on Father and his brothers not by accident. I can feel the fire already. I already scare myself with stuff that happens to me. Thank you Fr. Okay...let's throw everything to the wind and jump...the Word is God.
Best thing I ever did was memorize the beatitudes. There's a systemic coherency to it that needs to be swallowed whole, yet each detail shines brighter the more I sit with it and recall it through various episodes in my life. Great tips!
mamaedina1 Here's my personal understanding that helps me: Meditating on my animalistic passions, and my material desires help me feel my utter poverty in Spiritual things. I can't sorrow and weep until I comprehend my sinful nature fully. Coming to that moment of repentance, I am aided. But I can't move forward until I comprehend that the kingdom will be inherited from above. So for now I must be humble, gentle, meek, trying to be aware still of my material limitations and weaknesses. So I feed and feast on God's word and living water. That's where true righteousness comes from. If I allow spiritual things to be my source of strength, then I can give AND receive mercy. Discarding feelings of contempt and repentening I am filled with more and more mercy, creating in me a pure heart to see God. A proof of my being a son of God is my works of peace upon this world (that's actually a big differentiator of true discipleship). The world dispises Christ. So now we've come full circle. He promises the Spiritual kingdom to those who suffer and are persecuted in his name. Name meaning more that simply saying his name, but I'm his character. Knowing all parts of the beatitudes is important, because it's self-correcting. Each part depends on the other. It balances itself. It cleans you from the inside out. It asks you to see your poverty, repent, feed on his word, etc... It's so beautiful. I learn more and more every time I meditate on it.
I came bqck to watch this again First to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. Second to take notes and write down the steps. Am starting right now. Thank you. Thank you.
Just finished a bible study on Lectio Divina. It started off so inviting & then it got tougher each passing lesson BUT at the end of the class it was all so worth it! It’s exactly what I needed to grow & now reading scripture is much more meaningful. Every verse is full filling, I could spend so much time on just one sentence ❤️
This was great Father. You are a great leader in prayer. I struggle and I know other people struggle with knowing how to pray. Keep up these prayer videos. Very inspirational. Also, love that you use español, I enjoy learning new words
Father thank you for this video I’m going to do this . Again thank you for being a priest if you could keep me in your prayers as well as my intentions. You are in my daily prayers
Reine Youmbi exposes you to the scriptures? How about actually opening the scriptures because you can’t get more exposed than actually reading them! 🤦🏼♂️
Nicholas James you understood what you wanted to understand.smh. I might not have expressed myself effectively, but I did not say I never open the scriptures asides the Liturgy of the hours. Stay blessed
It's so ironic to have seen this vid today, where the reading actually is the transfiguration account from the Gospel of Mark. I'm definitely going to do this tonight. Thanks Fr. Mark!
Thank you for this! I am going to practice asking those questions. Thank you for your explanation of contemplation. I pray lectio divina most days but I've been unsure what to make of the contemplation step. To be honest, I've been kind of cheating... I ask God for the grace of contemplation, then read the Gospel another time looking for an attribute of Jesus that I can praise and I write a sentence like, "Jesus I praise you because you are God's beloved Son." Or whatever I noticed... Then I look for a reason to trust him... "Jesus I trust you because God the Father said to listen to You, He came and said you are trustworthy." Every once in a while I'll read through and feel kind of obsessed with a word or phrase for a while and I think maybe sometimes that is contemplation. Basically all this to say I find the contemplation part of lectio divina intimidating but your explanation has given me new ideas. Thank you!
Fr. Mark-Mary Ames Many souls comment on his wonderful videos, in this day of the secular culture taking over, these men of God are a lifeline for many and so I see people reaching out for guidance. It would be nice to take his message off stage so to speak and walk down to the audience of souls and answer maybe one or two a week. Thanks for asking.
Thank you. I would pause the video and apply your method and it greatly opened up the Gospel for me. It is the best and most practical explanation I have read/heard on L.D.!
You mention journalling and I like to do it. But how long do you keep a journal and when do you find yourself reading through it again? Thank you and ! At God continue to bless you.
Thank you for the video and the message. Not to derail from the topic too much but I love the image of Our Lady with the candle holder. Does anyone know where I can find one?
Hi Angela, any Catholic Bookstore or on line store such as EWTN religious catalog, Catholic Company, Leaflet Missal..will all have many items will the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. It's a beautiful story of how she appeared to Juan Diego outside of Mexico City. When Juan told the Bishop Our Lady requested a chapel to be built, the Bishop wanted proof of flowers that did not grow in that area. Our Blessed Mother told Juan where he could find the flowers ...he scooped them into his tilma and brought them to the Bishop. When he let the flowers fall from the tilma the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared on the tilma. The tilma, a cactus cloth which should have disintegrated in about 50 years... is still intact with the image, which can still be viewed at the Shrine today... Millions were converted in Mexico.
Thank you Father, I guess you did tried to do it shorter for video, you didnt write 5. Actio but you did say we act. Also do you know where Pope Benedict wrote about this, in which document?
Fr Mark Mary, im i newish Catholic is there a reason I sometimes feel a coolness like a breeze on my face when i pray or go to confession? Its peculiar and i don’t want to read more into it than what should be but it has me wonder.
I know this a year later but yes, Gospels are best to start with. I hope you’ve already made a habit of doing Lectio Divina so you know how awesome it is!
I love this! I’m assuming this works better for solo scripture prayers, not so much bible study groups? So me and my loved one will be starting a bible study and would like tips on how to start or how to pray thru it, any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you and God bless you
I've had people lead lectio divina in a group. They explained the first step, read the passage slowly, gave us time to ponder, explained the second step, read the passage, gave us more time, then at the end gave us time to discuss it...
What Jessica Barton describes is a modified Lectio Divina -- my parish has one on Friday mornings, led by a spiritual director. He explains that he's leading a modified version, and that ideally each of the participants will pray a solitary Lectio Divina through the rest of the week. It was useful to me to get me jump-started (and it happened to come at the right time in my life, when I had Friday mornings off - "funny that"). I think you very well CAN use Lectio Divina techniques in a Bible Study Group, and encourage participants to make a habit of praying it at least a few days each week. Here are my suggestions/"idears" -- If you're taking one Book of the Bible to study during a particular time frame, you'll usually "assign homework," where participants read a certain amount of the Book before the next session. If it's a Gospel, they can pray Lectio Divina with the assigned passage as their homework. If it's an OT Book, take some preparation to point it to the Gospels, and assign a smaller portion of the OT Book, followed by the relevant Gospel passage as Lectio Divina. Remember, the OT foreshadows the NT, and the NT fulfills the OT. You will probably have to look for the connections, but it's so worth it -- it really opened my faith. If it's an Epistle, Acts, or Revelation, take the preparation effort to point it back to the Gospels, and do the same as above. The Apostles were given the Tradition orally -- they *heard* the Word proclaimed. There was no New Testament Bible yet, except for one written Gospel that's described in Acts. They taught the oral Tradition, but as clarification was needed, they wrote the Epistles. There is more oral Tradition that was given to and written by the Church Fathers, but that's not in the Bible. Even so, you might bring some of that writing in so as to clarify the Gospels and the Epistles, Acts, and Revelation. All of these point to the Gospels, so you can fit Lectio Divina in as homework. Finally, this prayer is for lectors, but you can modify it for your Bible Study Group: Begin with a Scripture passage, such as Romans 10:8, Hebrews 4:12, Proverbs 30:5, or 2 Timothy 3:16. + In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Come Holy Spirit, into my mind and my heart as I read these Sacred Scriptures. Inspire me with your grace to Proclaim this Living Word with sincerity and reverence. Help me to focus on the word and discern its meaning so that I can communicate it clearly and enthusiastically. Each time I approach the Ambo, remind me that I am on holy ground and that the Ministry of proclaiming the Scripture is a sacred trust. I place all my trust in you, that through your power, the people of god will hear and accept the word into their hearts. Amen. +In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
KA Fleury so our first time was alittle all over the place... when it came down to it I forgot all the steps to lectio divina. We will try again next week. Do u by any chance know catholic bible study questions for the Gospel off John. I seem to find a lot of non catholic Christian sites but not necessarily catholic ones
Jessica Barton thank u so much, I don’t know how to tag multiple people on a comment but I just asked our dear friend for a possible bible study question site for Catholics, if u happen to know one it’s greatly appreciated God bless
This is an interesting scenario. If you believe in traditions more than you believe in the Bible where does it leave you when you say how to pray with scripture. Shouldn't you say we only use the Bible little bit and then we use tradition mostly. And I'm not being critical and I'm not being disrespectful I'm just telling you how it is. In actual fact the 1940 catechism tells it exactly the same and also the great document that the Roman Catholic Church wrote. is called Romes challenge. And Romes challenge states anyone who practices and teachers the Roman catholic doctrine will receive the full wrath of God". The Roman Catholic Church has stated many times that they have change the day from the Sabbath to Sunday. And the book of Daniel states and I quote at the end of time there will be a man standing as the vicar of Christ that will change gods law and time. So if we pray with scripture and if we read scripture shouldn't we have red flags now standing if we look at Sunday. Because what did Daniel do when they had a Sunday law. He refused to obey. He kept the sabbath as scripture taught. If you are an ambassador for Jesus Christ. And ambassador. has an enormous responsibility and commitment. First they must obey the law of the kingdom. Second they must obey the head of the kingdom. Thirdly they must know where the kingdom is. This is the sale of the kingdom. Every kingdom on planet Earth has a legal seal. In the 10 commandments the fourth commandment which is the sabbath commandment has the legal seal. That's why Jesus said if you love me keep my commandments it's only a love response. If you make all the excuses not to keep it then what are you actually saying to Christ.
Aric DeLaGrange yeah if you say so .. but I bet on judgment day Christ will have something different to say especially after he calls someone else Holy father, Mathew 23:9! Jesus Christ is very jealous and tells people not to do that! He means what he says and says what he means! You should believe what he said in Revelation 22:18-19, just saying!
@@nicholasjames5181 😂 I couldn't help myself. Were you referring to him being a clown because of his rap though? I myself found it hard to take him seriously when he began "rapping"
I put this into practice and OH MAN I FELT THE MOVEMENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN MY HEART!!!
You are such a good prayer leader, and I give all glory to GOD for your gift and for you. GOD bless you, and all my Christian brothers and sisters, and all GOD'S beloved children, Amen.
Sounded like a dope rap at the beginning!
If I do this everyday, it can actually change my life!
I would love a "day in the life of a Friar" video. My 9 year old son talks of maybe becoming a "brother" some day and I think a video of a typical day would be amazing to have him view. Thanks!!
pray the Rosary with him
Thank you and greetings from Germany!
I really want to say thank you once again. This morning the Holy Spirit of gratitude welled up in me and rather than just singing under my breathe, I began to sing out loud 'As the deer pantheth for', then when I came to 'to You alone may my spirit yield', I suddenly realised that this is my prayer and meditation and heartfelt appeal to the Lord to take away a mortally sinful desire...that my spirit by His merciful grace and in upholding me, shall no longer yield to it. The Word is alive. Thank you Fr.
I truly want to develop my prayer life! It's something that's been totally foreign to me growing up unfortunately, even though I come from a devout Catholic family. I'm truly blessed to have God directing me to improve myself in this way! So much fruit can come from the individual devoted to prayer!
Father, I'm in RCIA and this video, as well as your last one, is so important. I've been trying to improve my prayer life after converting from atheism (and so not praying at all for decades) and doing this daily, as well as what the priest teaching me suggests, will only bear fruit in the long run. Thank you so much.
Ashley McNally Welcome home Ashley! I will be praying for you! 🌹
I am on a similar journey, take you’re time, don’t be to hard on yourself. Humility is key, you got this!
@@theresemartin3075 Thank you so much! I'll include you in my prayers as well.
@@TheBr8kdownjunkie Thank you, and you're right. It's been brilliant so far, but patience and humility are vital. I wish you all the best in your journey.
Each time I watch Fr, I want to do a Jonah 😅. When he says and infers that God will reveal Himself I know for a fact that He will and fear and trembling besets my heart. I always know that the Lord is asking me to have enough faith to jump off the cliff. Am still struggling to follow the suggestion to ask God directly what He wants me to do on a particular day for the ridiculous reason that I know He will answer. But okay, I guess I stumbled on Father and his brothers not by accident. I can feel the fire already. I already scare myself with stuff that happens to me. Thank you Fr. Okay...let's throw everything to the wind and jump...the Word is God.
Best thing I ever did was memorize the beatitudes. There's a systemic coherency to it that needs to be swallowed whole, yet each detail shines brighter the more I sit with it and recall it through various episodes in my life. Great tips!
I think I should do this too but there are some of them am yet to fully understand what they actually mean
mamaedina1 Here's my personal understanding that helps me:
Meditating on my animalistic passions, and my material desires help me feel my utter poverty in Spiritual things. I can't sorrow and weep until I comprehend my sinful nature fully. Coming to that moment of repentance, I am aided. But I can't move forward until I comprehend that the kingdom will be inherited from above. So for now I must be humble, gentle, meek, trying to be aware still of my material limitations and weaknesses. So I feed and feast on God's word and living water. That's where true righteousness comes from. If I allow spiritual things to be my source of strength, then I can give AND receive mercy. Discarding feelings of contempt and repentening I am filled with more and more mercy, creating in me a pure heart to see God. A proof of my being a son of God is my works of peace upon this world (that's actually a big differentiator of true discipleship). The world dispises Christ. So now we've come full circle. He promises the Spiritual kingdom to those who suffer and are persecuted in his name. Name meaning more that simply saying his name, but I'm his character. Knowing all parts of the beatitudes is important, because it's self-correcting. Each part depends on the other. It balances itself. It cleans you from the inside out. It asks you to see your poverty, repent, feed on his word, etc... It's so beautiful. I learn more and more every time I meditate on it.
Awesome teaching ! Keep shining out the light of Christ. God Bless you! I like your way if teaching it’s very user friendly and inspiring.
As a pastor I do this everyday. It changed my preaching and all my ministry
I came bqck to watch this again
First to say thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Second to take notes and write down the steps. Am starting right now. Thank you. Thank you.
yes 🎉i agree!
My favorite quiet prayerful place in at Church during Adoration 🙏
Mine too! Nothing better. 😊
Mine, too!!
Always😊spending an hour or more just sitting, listening to Christ
Thank you for this. I am doing an adapted version of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises and I found this super helpful. God bless you Fr. Mark Mary!
Awesome video and instructions! Thanks Brother Mark Mary and may God continue to bless you in your ministry!🙏🏻
Just finished a bible study on Lectio Divina. It started off so inviting & then it got tougher each passing lesson BUT at the end of the class it was all so worth it! It’s exactly what I needed to grow & now reading scripture is much more meaningful. Every verse is full filling, I could spend so much time on just one sentence ❤️
🙏 really, really, really, really great teaching simple instructions thank you so much, God Bless ... off to pray! 😁
Thank you father
this is so helpful .we do this but need for improvement and i will add this to it.thank you
Father working on his mixtape
This was great Father. You are a great leader in prayer. I struggle and I know other people struggle with knowing how to pray. Keep up these prayer videos. Very inspirational. Also, love that you use español, I enjoy learning new words
interruptedable interruptedable Agreed!
Father thank you for this video I’m going to do this . Again thank you for being a priest if you could keep me in your prayers as well as my intentions. You are in my daily prayers
I thank God and you Fr. Mike-Mary for your message. Thank you. God bless you and your community.
Thank you!! Praying for you♥
Gracias padre por tus enseñanzas, thank you father for your teachings
Saludos desde México, SOMOS PEREGRINOS !!!
Thank you so much for this. It was tremendously helpful!
Amen, same chair same time daily, journal, rosary and Bible at hand. Alleluia God is amazing. He loves our effort in our worship 🛐 ✝️ !
I downloaded the breviary app on my phone and I love it. Really exposes me to scripture! thanks so much for the advice
Reine Youmbi exposes you to the scriptures? How about actually opening the scriptures because you can’t get more exposed than actually reading them! 🤦🏼♂️
Nicholas James you understood what you wanted to understand.smh. I might not have expressed myself effectively, but I did not say I never open the scriptures asides the Liturgy of the hours. Stay blessed
Reine Youmbi and I never said you didn’t, I said nothing can expose you scripture except for actually reading the scripture. Not some ridiculous app!
Reine Youmbi can you or anyone reading this give me the gospel for the church?
Nicholas James thanks stay blessed
Thank you. Looking forward to putting this into action... Peace & Blessings.
Pray the scripture, and according to the scripture. Praise God !!!!
Thank you so much for leading us in this type of prayer. I’m certainly going to try. God bless you
Thank you so very much Father!
It's so ironic to have seen this vid today, where the reading actually is the transfiguration account from the Gospel of Mark. I'm definitely going to do this tonight. Thanks Fr. Mark!
Thank you ❤
Thank you for this! I am going to practice asking those questions. Thank you for your explanation of contemplation. I pray lectio divina most days but I've been unsure what to make of the contemplation step. To be honest, I've been kind of cheating... I ask God for the grace of contemplation, then read the Gospel another time looking for an attribute of Jesus that I can praise and I write a sentence like, "Jesus I praise you because you are God's beloved Son." Or whatever I noticed... Then I look for a reason to trust him... "Jesus I trust you because God the Father said to listen to You, He came and said you are trustworthy." Every once in a while I'll read through and feel kind of obsessed with a word or phrase for a while and I think maybe sometimes that is contemplation. Basically all this to say I find the contemplation part of lectio divina intimidating but your explanation has given me new ideas. Thank you!
Thanks Father!
Thank you for this, it helps alot. I will be doing this. Bless you.
Thank you for making videos. So inspiring!🙏🏼
I do wish one day you could engage the people behind the comments who support this channel.
He does sometimes!
What did you have in mind?
Fr. Mark-Mary Ames
Many souls comment on his wonderful videos, in this day of the secular culture taking over, these men of God are a lifeline for many and so I see people reaching out for guidance. It would be nice to take his message off stage so to speak and walk down to the audience of souls and answer maybe one or two a week. Thanks for asking.
Jessica Barton
Thanks Jessica, I never saw that but that’s great to hear!
Awesome. Well shared. Inspiring, doable, and potentially life changing!
Thank you. I would pause the video and apply your method and it greatly opened up the Gospel for me. It is the best and most practical explanation I have read/heard on L.D.!
Thank you father mark-mary, I will def look into doing this
😎thank you...🙏
Awesome video!!!
🔥🔥🔥♥️🙏🙏🙏
You mention journalling and I like to do it. But how long do you keep a journal and when do you find yourself reading through it again? Thank you and ! At God continue to bless you.
Do you ever have retreats that lay persons can attend?
Thank you for the video and the message. Not to derail from the topic too much but I love the image of Our Lady with the candle holder. Does anyone know where I can find one?
It's an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, you should look it up, it's an amazing story! 😁
Hi Angela, any Catholic Bookstore or on line store such as EWTN religious catalog, Catholic Company, Leaflet Missal..will all have many items will the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. It's a beautiful story of how she appeared to Juan Diego outside of Mexico City. When Juan told the Bishop Our Lady requested a chapel to be built, the Bishop wanted proof of flowers that did not grow in that area. Our Blessed Mother told Juan where he could find the flowers ...he scooped them into his tilma and brought them to the Bishop. When he let the flowers fall from the tilma the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared on the tilma. The tilma, a cactus cloth which should have disintegrated in about 50 years... is still intact with the image, which can still be viewed at the Shrine today... Millions were converted in Mexico.
what makes a good potential Franciscan Brother?
First
Thank you Father, I guess you did tried to do it shorter for video, you didnt write 5. Actio but you did say we act. Also do you know where Pope Benedict wrote about this, in which document?
What's a good app with the word of the day?
Where did you get your Rosary Father?
Gospel of matthew Chapter 1 , the first 10 or 12 verses are the genealogies?
Fr Mark Mary, im i newish Catholic is there a reason I sometimes feel a coolness like a breeze on my face when i pray or go to confession? Its peculiar and i don’t want to read more into it than what should be but it has me wonder.
Hi Marcus - it wouldn’t surprise me if it was the Holy Spirit! Just enjoy it and thank Our Lord for His presence!
Forgot to ask...pls are we to stick to the Gospels for this, the New Testament alone or the entire Bible. Beginner never done this...so gospels right.
I know this a year later but yes, Gospels are best to start with. I hope you’ve already made a habit of doing Lectio Divina so you know how awesome it is!
I love this! I’m assuming this works better for solo scripture prayers, not so much bible study groups? So me and my loved one will be starting a bible study and would like tips on how to start or how to pray thru it, any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you and God bless you
I've had people lead lectio divina in a group. They explained the first step, read the passage slowly, gave us time to ponder, explained the second step, read the passage, gave us more time, then at the end gave us time to discuss it...
What Jessica Barton describes is a modified Lectio Divina -- my parish has one on Friday mornings, led by a spiritual director. He explains that he's leading a modified version, and that ideally each of the participants will pray a solitary Lectio Divina through the rest of the week. It was useful to me to get me jump-started (and it happened to come at the right time in my life, when I had Friday mornings off - "funny that"). I think you very well CAN use Lectio Divina techniques in a Bible Study Group, and encourage participants to make a habit of praying it at least a few days each week. Here are my suggestions/"idears" --
If you're taking one Book of the Bible to study during a particular time frame, you'll usually "assign homework," where participants read a certain amount of the Book before the next session.
If it's a Gospel, they can pray Lectio Divina with the assigned passage as their homework.
If it's an OT Book, take some preparation to point it to the Gospels, and assign a smaller portion of the OT Book, followed by the relevant Gospel passage as Lectio Divina. Remember, the OT foreshadows the NT, and the NT fulfills the OT. You will probably have to look for the connections, but it's so worth it -- it really opened my faith.
If it's an Epistle, Acts, or Revelation, take the preparation effort to point it back to the Gospels, and do the same as above. The Apostles were given the Tradition orally -- they *heard* the Word proclaimed. There was no New Testament Bible yet, except for one written Gospel that's described in Acts. They taught the oral Tradition, but as clarification was needed, they wrote the Epistles. There is more oral Tradition that was given to and written by the Church Fathers, but that's not in the Bible. Even so, you might bring some of that writing in so as to clarify the Gospels and the Epistles, Acts, and Revelation. All of these point to the Gospels, so you can fit Lectio Divina in as homework.
Finally, this prayer is for lectors, but you can modify it for your Bible Study Group:
Begin with a Scripture passage, such as Romans 10:8, Hebrews 4:12, Proverbs 30:5, or 2 Timothy 3:16.
+ In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Come Holy Spirit, into my mind and my heart as I read these Sacred Scriptures. Inspire me with your grace to Proclaim this Living Word with sincerity and reverence. Help me to focus on the word and discern its meaning so that I can communicate it clearly and enthusiastically. Each time I approach the Ambo, remind me that I am on holy ground and that the Ministry of proclaiming the Scripture is a sacred trust. I place all my trust in you, that through your power, the people of god will hear and accept the word into their hearts. Amen.
+In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
KA Fleury so our first time was alittle all over the place... when it came down to it I forgot all the steps to lectio divina. We will try again next week. Do u by any chance know catholic bible study questions for the Gospel off John. I seem to find a lot of non catholic Christian sites but not necessarily catholic ones
Jessica Barton thank u so much, I don’t know how to tag multiple people on a comment but I just asked our dear friend for a possible bible study question site for Catholics, if u happen to know one it’s greatly appreciated God bless
This is an interesting scenario. If you believe in traditions more than you believe in the Bible where does it leave you when you say how to pray with scripture. Shouldn't you say we only use the Bible little bit and then we use tradition mostly. And I'm not being critical and I'm not being disrespectful I'm just telling you how it is. In actual fact the 1940 catechism tells it exactly the same and also the great document that the Roman Catholic Church wrote. is called Romes challenge. And Romes challenge states anyone who practices and teachers the Roman catholic doctrine will receive the full wrath of God". The Roman Catholic Church has stated many times that they have change the day from the Sabbath to Sunday. And the book of Daniel states and I quote at the end of time there will be a man standing as the vicar of Christ that will change gods law and time. So if we pray with scripture and if we read scripture shouldn't we have red flags now standing if we look at Sunday. Because what did Daniel do when they had a Sunday law. He refused to obey. He kept the sabbath as scripture taught. If you are an ambassador for Jesus Christ. And ambassador. has an enormous responsibility and commitment. First they must obey the law of the kingdom. Second they must obey the head of the kingdom. Thirdly they must know where the kingdom is. This is the sale of the kingdom. Every kingdom on planet Earth has a legal seal. In the 10 commandments the fourth commandment which is the sabbath commandment has the legal seal. That's why Jesus said if you love me keep my commandments it's only a love response. If you make all the excuses not to keep it then what are you actually saying to Christ.
This guy is a clown! Seriously? He thinks he’s funny too, which is hilarious!
Let's not talk like that my brother. This man is a true Man of God. So please, please if you have nothing nice to say,don't say it.
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Seriously.
Aric DeLaGrange yeah if you say so .. but I bet on judgment day Christ will have something different to say especially after he calls someone else Holy father, Mathew 23:9! Jesus Christ is very jealous and tells people not to do that! He means what he says and says what he means! You should believe what he said in Revelation 22:18-19, just saying!
BitsyBeth well at least you know emoji’s, that’s something!
@@nicholasjames5181 😂 I couldn't help myself.
Were you referring to him being a clown because of his rap though? I myself found it hard to take him seriously when he began "rapping"