Lord Jesus, I humbly pray for myself, Father Mike, & all the people participating in the Bible-in-Year podcast. I do not know all their needs, but you do, Lord. I offer them to you with confidence that you hear our prayers. May your word take deep root in our hearts & transform our ways of thinking, discerning, and acting. May your grace open our ears to hear & understand and revere & treasure both the Old & the New Testaments which God has prepared for all who desire to enter his kingdom. May the Holy Spirit give us the Spirit of Knowledge, that we may know God and know ourselves. Give us the grace to approach the Word of God with meekness & humility, & with an eagerness to do everything God desires. Please give me the grace to set aside my intellect and my know-it-all attitude and let your Word speak to my heart and my soul. Help us to be diligent students & faithful disciples of your Word. May our hearts never grow dull & may our ears never tire of listening to your voice. Thank you and praise you for the gift of perseverance and for nourishing us with your word! Amen.
This prayer of Judith really touched my heart. What praise and trust in the Lord! Help me Lord Jesus to be more like Judith when I pray and speak to you.
O LORD God we need Many Judith who are full of Your Wisdom and people who can pray on behalf of their people by giving you GLORY and HONOR for any situation your people are in bondage. Our World really needs people who sacrifice their time and their effort to be reconciled from our sinful lives. Amen Amen Amen.
I say thank you God for giving us the person of Fr. Mike who helps us understand your WORD better and better each day of this journey. An incredible gift to us. Praise God !!
Give me the strength of Judith! What an inspiration to live long enough to still be learning at age almost 95. God be with me! Blessings to you all and especially Dear Father Mike! 🙏❤️
Father, may everything that I do this day, whether it be full of joy or pain, whether it be full of love or of grief, I ask that everything I go through today be offered to you just like Jesus offered everything to you. It is in his name we pray. Amen. 9/5/2024
I know you said the Book of Judith might not be historically real, but it just seems like it's happening in the time of Jeremiah too. Thank you Fr. Mike for taking us through this journey.
Even in round two of listening, praying, and learning, Fr Mike’s words are fresh, invigorating, and prayerful! The is one of the best parts of my day! Thank you, Fr Mike and all those who help us with BIAY!
Day 249 - Thursday September 5th, 2024 Prayer of Judith. The readings are Jeremiah 37-38, Judith 8-9, and Proverbs 17:5-8. My Lord and my God. My Lord and my God. My Lord and my God. Praise The Lord O My Soul. Praise The Lord O My Soul. Praise The Lord O My Soul. 🙏😇🇭🇳❤❤❤🇺🇲😇🙏🙏🙏 Thank God for all His faithful Priests, Nuns, and His faithful laity. Deo gratias 😇❤❤❤
September 7, 2023 Round Two Let us use what time we have left to pray, go to Confession, receive the Holy Eucharist, tell others about the good Lord, pray the Rosary, and Chaplet. Consider Saint Faustina’s Diary in a year and Mother Angelica’s Classics on EWTN.
Thank you Father Mike for your time to bring these beautiful blessings and teachings to all of us. Thank you for your prayers and and praying for you and all on this beautiful journey of a beautiful learning experience! God less you abundantly in your beautiful ministry which we are so blessed to be a part of your priesthood! We are truly blessed🙏✝️🙏
Father Mike, I cannot wait to hear tomorrows Bible in a Year. Thank you for sharing with everyone tuning in. Praise God for you Father Mike. More people young, and like me very old people, can hear you and understand you explaining the Bible verses. I love this podcast and for a new Catholic really it means so much to me and must mean a great deal to God!
“And when we praise God, we honor Him for who He is. When we thank God, we honor Him for what He’s done.” WOW! I don’t know if I ever understood praise/thanks like this or in this way. Praise the Lord, for He is good always! Thanks Fr. Mike and Ascension Presents!
Thank you so much father Mike for explaining things the way you explain things and I am praying for you and thank you for praying for me and I pray for everyone in this community good night and sleep well blessings
We must always remember only what God’s will is will be. Even in evil His will, will come to be. We like our own children must be admonished at times, and this can cause them pain or suffering, but we punish them because we love them.
Father Mike, your teachings and insights make ALL the difference! I cannot tell you how life changing this journey with you has been and continues to be for me. ALL the difference!
& for the disposition of hearts following this study!! & loved " God, you are the one who crushes war"!! & finally, St Judith pray for all of us to be disciples of praise & intercession🤗🙏😇
““…for thou art God of the lowly, helper of the oppressed, upholder of the weak, protector of the forlorn, savior of those without hope. Hear, O hear me, God of my father, God of the inheritance of Israel, Lord of heaven and earth, Creator of the waters, King of all thy creation, hear my prayer!” Judith 9:11-12 RSV-CI
Judith's prayer of praise and her womanly courage are models of goodness. Jeremiah's commitment to the truth and loyalty to God are inspiring. Thank you, Father Mike, for guiding us well on this journey thru the Bible. God bless you.
Thank you so, so much Father Mike. God bless you for the Bible in a year podcast. I am so thankful that you are giving us the incredible words of the Bible... coming to life thanks to you. 🙏🙏😇👼❤️💙
Dear Fr Mike, This is my first day on your channel. I loved it. I always enjoy hearing about the Women of the Bible. Everything was great. Yes, I will pray for you. Gayle I New Jersey. 🕊
I can really understand that sometimes we suffer. I was so stressed out last night. Could not sleep troubleshooting many times because of my stress issues. I was in the traffic accident. I was so scared losing my license. Because how i'm according to my kids to their school if I cannot drive. I was looking at how many points I have on my driving record. Just being really stressed. But i'm really need to put it in the hands of god to father. I'm a practicing catholic I go to mass at every sunday and Holy Day of obligation. I take the holy communion every sunday. Ago to confession. Once a month. And I confess. Eve n venial sins. I am in the state of Greece. I'm not scared to die. Because I know I'm going to purgatory. And I wanna see my Papa a 900% year. My dad's in Portuguese whenever I think about it. I pray for his release from purgatory.
Thanks Fr..............! Through today's Bible readings....... I want to thank God almighty, for all good, goodness, blessed, right, just, inocent things and people given to each one of us. Also want to thank God for all my babies boys and girls and for my father and husband, thanks God for my whole family, members living and deceased, working and not working. ........I pray for myself a girl, my all boys son's, my all girls daughters, my father a boy ,my husband a boy. My whole family, members boys and girls. May God bless us all. Keep us always as he created us and blessed us to live and be good goodness, inocent, blessed, right, love each others in own family and others, be non hells and out of hells.......... May God keep us away from all evils wicked's, bad, completely hells everything's and everyone's and there all hells powers and there attacks , also keep us away from all our individual, family members enemies, hatful, jealous, rotten on us all, bad evil eyes,mouth, words on us.etc. ....... truly remember all who truly, really, purely needs complete prayers, deliverence, protection and exorcism. ...........God truly, really, purely be glorified, honnored, respected, loved, praised. .
I love Judith and her prayers.She's an inspiration to all of us. Thank you Father Mike for all you do.I appreciate all the hard work you put into this great video . ( My comment will be shorter from now on )
@@christinevandenbrink7644 Thank you, Christine, but I posted a long one last night under number 248 and someone deleted it.I felt my effort and time I put into typing that post came to nothing, so better not do it again.
Sorry to hear your comment was deleted. I very much appreciate you, and everyone else, taking the time to add their thoughts, reflections, and prayer requests. We have a very unique online community here. 🥰
Powerful message about the character of Judith» We Can not give God a timeline» this a big deal message to my heart. Thank you Fr. Mike. Nairobi Kenya celebrates you
Thank you Fr. Mike. God bless you for your dedication and inspiring everyone to do the same. The Scriptures come alive with your reflections. Thankful and grateful to God at the end of each day in His presence. I love you dear Lord.
An amazing episode about praise and how God's time is the right time. *_ Proverbs truly make us improve ourselves. Mocking the poor is like insulting the Maker. Laughing or being happy at the calamity of others is not good. Definitely shows how we need to be kind to even those whom we disagree with and those who are not nice to us. Like Jesus, we must pray for our enemies while also being careful around them. *_ Jeremiah sinking in the mire in the Cistern is literally and also symbolically- meaning suffering with others in Jerusalem instead of going to Babylon in exile (as he already knew what God wanted everyone to do). He stayed and tried to warn people to save them all. Indeed like Jesus suffered for us instead escaping his death. *_Judith is a great example to follow for not only women but men too. Giving a timeline or a deadline to God is not good as God gives us what is right at the right time. *_ Fr. Mike is right. Heart positioned at the right place is important. Knowledge is not wisdom when data or facts are the only way to see the level of knowledge one has. *_ Judith and Judah- both meaning praise shows that praise should be a part of our daily prayers. We praise God for who He is and thank God for what He did for us. Thus, both are important. Judith's praise is ideal as it shows how God is a helper to everyone who is in need and vulnerable. Thank you, Fr Mike and Team Ascension. God bless you and the fellow listeners
So Judith is quite the bees knees ( not sure if that is just an English saying or not) I like it so what the heck, impressive anyway, this series for me is fascinating, because she is not in my Bible I have just ordered a book on Martin Luther, me thinks he may have something to do with it. Not only that Fr Mike I have bought the boxed set of C.S Lewis, thanks to you, as you quote him so often I feel as if I am missing out on something. Lots of winter night reading for me, sure am going to miss these when they end. Thankyou for all that you do, so pleasing to have like minded people to share with.
Judith 9 Judith's Prayer 7 - ....."They ( the Assyrians) rely on their weapons, but they do not know that you, O Lord, are a warrior who ends war. The Lord is your name." 10 - ....." Let a woman's strength break their pride. 11 - Your power does not depend on the size and strength of an army. You are a God who cares for the humble and helps the oppressed. You give support and protection to people who are weak and helpless ; you save those who have lost hope. 12 - Now hear my prayer, O God of my ancestor Simeon, the God in whom Israel trusts, ruler of heaven and earth, creator of the rivers and the seas, king of all creation. Hear my prayer and 13 - let my deceitful words wound and kill those who have planned such cruelty against your covenant and your holy Temple, against Mount Zion and the land you have given your people. 14 - Make your whole nation and every tribe recognize that you are God, almighty and all-powerful, and that you alone protect the people of Israel !" 📖🕯 The Good News Bible Today's English Version
How true that, we give dad a timeline for the things we want for our own selfish purposes. That’s not how we honor him. Thank you so much for explaining this father Mike! Why do some of us get pleasure out of other peoples suffering? I don’t think I do that but I’ll be more mindful when such thoughts come to my head. We all fail and stumble sometimes.
Judith 9 Judith's Prayer 4 - ...... "O my God, listen to my prayer, the prayer of a widow. 5 - Your hand guided all that happened then, and all that happened before and after. You have planned it all - - what is happening now, and what is yet to be. Your plans have always been carried out. 6 - Whatever you want to be done is as good as done. You know in advance all that you will do and what decisions you will make. " 📖🕯 The Good News Bible Today's English Version
I made a correlation of Jeremiah's word of the Lord and the hippie prophets during the Vietnam War. They were staunchly against the war efforts seeing their breathern dying in a senseless war the United States had no right waging. The leaders of the nation and the leaders of the war machine would not heed their words and threw many of them in prison. Because of the slaughter of many young many women have gone unwed to this day because of the massive slaughter of young men of that generation. They have become young widows taking marriage to older men. Some have even done the abominable and taken women for their selves to ease their loneliness. This tragedy not only affected the generation of the war but even to this day. You can't make a nation great with the history of a terrible war decisions made only decades ago. As long as we fight wars against terrorism without God on our side there will be terrorists plotting against us and a house divided will fall. There is a time to make war yet may peace be our greater portion. May we have those like Judith intercede for us as Our Lady intercedes for us and gives us warning and encouragement to pray her Rosary. Mother Mary pray for us; pray for our leaders to heed the word of the Lord and make us great among the nations; favored by God. May God alway be our guard again. Amen
Proverbs 17 5 - If you make fun of poor people, you insult the God who made them. You will be punished if you take pleasure in someone's misfortune. 6 - Grandparents are proud of their grandchildren, just as children are proud of their parents. 7 - Respected people do not tell lies, and fools have nothing worthwhile to say. 8 - Some people think a bribe works like magic ; they believe it can do anything. 📖🕯 (TEV) Today's English Version The Good News Bible
God bless you abundantly, I'm Rev.Father Maximus. Welfare director catholic Humanitarian response plan(CHRP). would you like to save souls and alleviate suffering, to be more used by God?
Whilst this story is inspiring, there is a lot of doubt that it is true, lots of the place names are not recognised, and it can probably be seen as more of a parable, which I think you alluded to Fr Mike at the start, so to see her as a prefigurement to Mary might be a little dubious🤔 If the Jews did not include it in their cannon, then you have to wonder. Whenever I pray with that image of the cloud of witnesses, it makes me tear up, I always think of my mum and dad❤❤
Lord Jesus, I humbly pray for myself, Father Mike, & all the people participating in the Bible-in-Year podcast. I do not know all their needs, but you do, Lord. I offer them to you with confidence that you hear our prayers. May your word take deep root in our hearts & transform our ways of thinking, discerning, and acting. May your grace open our ears to hear & understand and revere & treasure both the Old & the New Testaments which God has prepared for all who desire to enter his kingdom. May the Holy Spirit give us the Spirit of Knowledge, that we may know God and know ourselves. Give us the grace to approach the Word of God with meekness & humility, & with an eagerness to do everything God desires. Please give me the grace to set aside my intellect and my know-it-all attitude and let your Word speak to my heart and my soul. Help us to be diligent students & faithful disciples of your Word. May our hearts never grow dull & may our ears never tire of listening to your voice. Thank you and praise you for the gift of perseverance and for nourishing us with your word! Amen.
Jesus give me wisdom.
Most precious blood of Jesus Christ save us and the whole world.❤
Wow! just Wow! God is God! Praise Him!
This prayer of Judith really touched my heart. What praise and trust in the Lord! Help me Lord Jesus to be more like Judith when I pray and speak to you.
I give GoD Praise and thanks for you
Father Mike! Blessings handsome brother in Christ. Special you ARE ❤
Amen
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Blessed Mother of the Eucharistic Christ, please bless Fr Mike and strengthen him to carry his cross.
September 5, 2024 Thursday. Here I am.
Thanks!
Thank you for your generous gift!
O LORD God we need Many Judith who are full of Your Wisdom and people who can pray on behalf of their people by giving you GLORY and HONOR for any situation your people are in bondage. Our World really needs people who sacrifice their time and their effort to be reconciled from our sinful lives. Amen Amen Amen.
Judith my fav. Story.. courage, faith, trust in the Lord.
I say thank you God for giving us the person of Fr. Mike who helps us understand your WORD better and better each day of this journey. An incredible gift to us. Praise God !!
Oh Lord pls give me the courage of Judith ❤
That you Fr. Schmitz for everything you do.
Lead us Lord to learn how to do your will for each and every one of our lives. Prayers for Father Mike and all the BIY family 🙏❤
Praise God for everything...pray pray pray
Give me the strength of Judith! What an inspiration to live long enough to still be learning at age almost 95. God be with me! Blessings to you all and especially Dear Father Mike! 🙏❤️
❤🙏 Thank you for the blessings and may God bless you also and keep your mind alet until He calls you home to heaven.
Father, may everything that I do this day, whether it be full of joy or pain, whether it be full of love or of grief, I ask that everything I go through today be offered to you just like Jesus offered everything to you. It is in his name we pray. Amen. 9/5/2024
It really does make you think how often you enjoy other people's suffering.
Many Blessings for you Father Mike and your ministry all who are part of it.🕊️🙏😇✝️🕊️
I know you said the Book of Judith might not be historically real, but it just seems like it's happening in the time of Jeremiah too. Thank you Fr. Mike for taking us through this journey.
Even in round two of listening, praying, and learning, Fr Mike’s words are fresh, invigorating, and prayerful! The is one of the best parts of my day! Thank you, Fr Mike and all those who help us with BIAY!
Thank you and God Bless you Father Mike. Praying for you and for all who follow you on this Journey....
05SEP2024. Day 249. Oh Lord, help me really thrust you above all things. Amen
Day 249 - Thursday September 5th, 2024
Prayer of Judith.
The readings are Jeremiah 37-38, Judith 8-9, and Proverbs 17:5-8.
My Lord and my God. My Lord and my God. My Lord and my God.
Praise The Lord O My Soul. Praise The Lord O My Soul. Praise The Lord O My Soul. 🙏😇🇭🇳❤❤❤🇺🇲😇🙏🙏🙏
Thank God for all His faithful Priests, Nuns, and His faithful laity. Deo gratias 😇❤❤❤
Long but beautiful lesson.
DiA 249 ❤❤❤
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Father Mike, beloved, thank you for your wisdom!
Blessings
Thank you, God for such a wonderful priest like Father Mike and the BIAY community. 😊
September 7, 2023
Round Two
Let us use what time we have left to pray, go to Confession, receive the Holy Eucharist, tell others about the good Lord, pray the Rosary, and Chaplet. Consider Saint Faustina’s Diary in a year and Mother Angelica’s Classics on EWTN.
Praise you God❤❤ ❤prayers Father Mike Amen 🙏
Thank you Father Mike for your time to bring these beautiful blessings and teachings to all of us. Thank you for your prayers and and praying for you and all on this beautiful journey of a beautiful learning experience! God less you abundantly in your beautiful ministry which we are so blessed to be a part of your priesthood! We are truly blessed🙏✝️🙏
Thank you Lord and Holy mother for all our beautiful blessings and prayers answered!🙏✝️🙏❤️
Praying for you Father Mike and everyone on this journey Amen 🙏
Father Mike, I cannot wait to hear tomorrows Bible in a Year. Thank you for sharing with everyone tuning in. Praise God for you Father Mike. More people young, and like me very old people, can hear you and understand you explaining the Bible verses. I love this podcast and for a new Catholic really it means so much to me and must mean a great deal to God!
So many stumbles! But here I am!
Thank you Lord God, take all the Glory and the Praise. Bless our dear Fr. Mike. I am grateful for the gift of Fr. Mike.
“Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!”
Psalms 139:23
Ha! My journey has been almost entirely stumbles. Thank you, Father!
I give thanks to God for you, for you have helped me know God a little better. Praise the Father!
Blessed are You Lord God, Lord of heaven and earth! I always include you and the BIAY team in my daily rosary by God's grace. God bless you all.
“And when we praise God, we honor Him for who He is. When we thank God, we honor Him for what He’s done.” WOW! I don’t know if I ever understood praise/thanks like this or in this way. Praise the Lord, for He is good always! Thanks Fr. Mike and Ascension Presents!
I keep hearing the words my mother and grandmother used. Someone taught them well.
Thank you so much father Mike for explaining things the way you explain things and I am praying for you and thank you for praying for me and I pray for everyone in this community good night and sleep well blessings
Praise God and thanks God for the gift of giving us priests like Father Mike
Thank You Father Mike for sharing the bible with all of us. It is a ture blessing. Praying for Father Mike and all who are in need of prayers.
We must always remember only what God’s will is will be. Even in evil His will, will come to be. We like our own children must be admonished at times, and this can cause them pain or suffering, but we punish them because we love them.
Greetings from southcentral Texas USA 🇺🇸
Greetings: thank you; again, thank you.
Greetings: 🤗 hug, love ❤️ and be very, very safe...
Thank you much Father Mike for your kind words and encouragement! God bless you and all the people listening to the BIAY! 🙂
Thank you for the blessing and may God Bless You also.
Father Mike, your teachings and insights make ALL the difference! I cannot tell you how life changing this journey with you has been and continues to be for me. ALL the difference!
Oh so so much, first, God , we praise YOU for creating Fr Mike & for his continued willingness to lead us on this fantastic journey!!🙏❤❤❤🙏
& for the disposition of hearts following this study!! & loved " God, you are the one who crushes war"!! & finally, St Judith pray for all of us to be disciples of praise & intercession🤗🙏😇
““…for thou art God of the lowly, helper of the oppressed, upholder of the weak, protector of the forlorn, savior of those without hope. Hear, O hear me, God of my father, God of the inheritance of Israel, Lord of heaven and earth, Creator of the waters, King of all thy creation, hear my prayer!”
Judith 9:11-12 RSV-CI
"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing that a tomato does not belong in a fruit salad."
Lol, what a good example 👍
😂 good one 😆
Brilliantly put.😂
LOL
Love it!!🍅😂
Happy Labor Day to all:) God Bless... 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Amen
Thank you Fr Mike. Praying for you and everyone here. God bless 🙏 ❤️ 🙏
We must pray for him regularly and for other priests to take an example 🙏
Judith's prayer of praise and her womanly courage are models of goodness. Jeremiah's commitment to the truth and loyalty to God are inspiring. Thank you, Father Mike, for guiding us well on this journey thru the Bible. God bless you.
Good morning 🌷 , pray for me father so I can devote my self to Mary pure heart & help my family and society.
My name is suhail & I live in Dubai 💗💗💗
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Prayers for you 🙏 ❤
What a beautiful Prayer of Judith. Amén 🙏🏼
God bless you Father Mike. Praying for you. I thank God for you and Ascension for this Bible readings and your commentaries
Thank you so, so much Father Mike. God bless you for the Bible in a year podcast. I am so thankful that you are giving us the incredible words of the Bible... coming to life thanks to you. 🙏🙏😇👼❤️💙
Rev father thank you God bless Holy Bible built a good catholic community in the world god thank you
Praised be God. Thanks for today's Bible in a year podcast session.
Thank you for another wonderful Bible lesson. Many great lessons today. 🥰😎🙂
Thank you , Fr Mike. ❤️🙏🏼🌞
Dear Fr Mike, This is my first day on your channel. I loved it. I always enjoy hearing about the Women of the Bible. Everything was great. Yes, I will pray for you. Gayle I New Jersey. 🕊
I can really understand that sometimes we suffer. I was so stressed out last night. Could not sleep troubleshooting many times because of my stress issues. I was in the traffic accident. I was so scared losing my license. Because how i'm according to my kids to their school if I cannot drive. I was looking at how many points I have on my driving record. Just being really stressed. But i'm really need to put it in the hands of god to father. I'm a practicing catholic I go to mass at every sunday and Holy Day of obligation. I take the holy communion every sunday. Ago to confession. Once a month.
And I confess. Eve n venial sins. I am in the state of Greece. I'm not scared to die. Because I know I'm going to purgatory. And I wanna see my Papa a 900% year. My dad's in Portuguese whenever I think about it. I pray for his release from purgatory.
God bless you Father Mike and may he bless all who listen to His word seeking Him.
Thanks Fr..............! Through today's Bible readings....... I want to thank God almighty, for all good, goodness, blessed, right, just, inocent things and people given to each one of us. Also want to thank God for all my babies boys and girls and for my father and husband, thanks God for my whole family, members living and deceased, working and not working. ........I pray for myself a girl, my all boys son's, my all girls daughters, my father a boy ,my husband a boy. My whole family, members boys and girls. May God bless us all. Keep us always as he created us and blessed us to live and be good goodness, inocent, blessed, right, love each others in own family and others, be non hells and out of hells.......... May God keep us away from all evils wicked's, bad, completely hells everything's and everyone's and there all hells powers and there attacks , also keep us away from all our individual, family members enemies, hatful, jealous, rotten on us all, bad evil eyes,mouth, words on us.etc. ....... truly remember all who truly, really, purely needs complete prayers, deliverence, protection and exorcism. ...........God truly, really, purely be glorified, honnored, respected, loved, praised.
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I love Judith and her prayers.She's an inspiration to all of us.
Thank you Father Mike for all you do.I appreciate all the hard work you put into this great video .
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Don't worry if your comment is long, that is what the comment section is about. God bless.
@@christinevandenbrink7644 Thank you, Christine, but I posted a long one last night under number 248 and someone deleted it.I felt my effort and time I put into typing that post came to nothing, so better not do it again.
Sorry to hear your comment was deleted. I very much appreciate you, and everyone else, taking the time to add their thoughts, reflections, and prayer requests. We have a very unique online community here. 🥰
Powerful message about the character of Judith» We Can not give God a timeline» this a big deal message to my heart. Thank you Fr. Mike.
Nairobi Kenya celebrates you
God bless you Fr Mike! 🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️
Tha nk you father Mike
Praying for Jen, Julie, Fr. Mike & all who participate in BIAY. God's blessings to all! "C-ya tomorrow!" ♡
Thank you Fr. Mike. God bless you for your dedication and inspiring everyone to do the same.
The Scriptures come alive with your reflections.
Thankful and grateful to God at the end of each day in His presence.
I love you dear Lord.
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Give God thanks and praise
An amazing episode about praise and how God's time is the right time.
*_ Proverbs truly make us improve ourselves. Mocking the poor is like insulting the Maker. Laughing or being happy at the calamity of others is not good. Definitely shows how we need to be kind to even those whom we disagree with and those who are not nice to us. Like Jesus, we must pray for our enemies while also being careful around them.
*_ Jeremiah sinking in the mire in the Cistern is literally and also symbolically- meaning suffering with others in Jerusalem instead of going to Babylon in exile (as he already knew what God wanted everyone to do). He stayed and tried to warn people to save them all. Indeed like Jesus suffered for us instead escaping his death.
*_Judith is a great example to follow for not only women but men too. Giving a timeline or a deadline to God is not good as God gives us what is right at the right time.
*_ Fr. Mike is right. Heart positioned at the right place is important. Knowledge is not wisdom when data or facts are the only way to see the level of knowledge one has.
*_ Judith and Judah- both meaning praise shows that praise should be a part of our daily prayers. We praise God for who He is and thank God for what He did for us. Thus, both are important. Judith's praise is ideal as it shows how God is a helper to everyone who is in need and vulnerable.
Thank you, Fr Mike and Team Ascension. God bless you and the fellow listeners
Father thankyou for sharing your outlook on the world with the youth, you are a great influence in my life keep it up
And I give thanks to God for you and the whole team at Ascension Presents. I cannot wait to see you tomorrow too. 😊
Blessings another one ☝️
So Judith is quite the bees knees ( not sure if that is just an English saying or not) I like it so what the heck, impressive anyway, this series for me is fascinating, because she is not in my Bible I have just ordered a book on Martin Luther, me thinks he may have something to do with it. Not only that Fr Mike I have bought the boxed set of C.S Lewis, thanks to you, as you quote him so often I feel as if I am missing out on something. Lots of winter night reading for me, sure am going to miss these when they end. Thankyou for all that you do, so pleasing to have like minded people to share with.
Fr. Mike makes Holy Scripture better than LOTR. I hate when the video ends
Amen! ❤
Judith 9 Judith's Prayer
7 - ....."They ( the Assyrians) rely on their weapons, but they do not know that you, O Lord, are a warrior who ends war. The Lord is your name."
10 - ....." Let a woman's strength break their pride.
11 - Your power does not depend on the size and strength of an army. You are a God who cares for the humble and helps the oppressed. You give support and protection to people who are weak and helpless ; you save
those who have lost hope.
12 - Now hear my prayer, O God of my ancestor Simeon, the God in whom Israel trusts, ruler of heaven and earth, creator of the rivers and the seas, king of all creation. Hear my prayer and
13 - let my deceitful words wound and kill those who have planned such cruelty against your covenant and your holy Temple, against Mount Zion and the land you have given your people.
14 - Make your whole nation and every tribe recognize that you are God, almighty and all-powerful, and that you alone protect the people of Israel !" 📖🕯
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Let Judah go up first
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How true that, we give dad a timeline for the things we want for our own selfish purposes. That’s not how we honor him. Thank you so much for explaining this father Mike!
Why do some of us get pleasure out of other peoples suffering? I don’t think I do that but I’ll be more mindful when such thoughts come to my head. We all fail and stumble sometimes.
I think people are just thankful it's someone else and not them suffering. This definitely is not right🙃
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Judith 9 Judith's Prayer
4 - ...... "O my God, listen to my prayer, the prayer of a widow.
5 - Your hand guided all that happened then, and all that happened before and after. You have planned it all - - what is happening now, and what is yet to be. Your plans have always been carried out.
6 - Whatever you want to be done is as good as done. You know in advance all that you will do and what decisions you will make. " 📖🕯
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I made a correlation of Jeremiah's word of the Lord and the hippie prophets during the Vietnam War. They were staunchly against the war efforts seeing their breathern dying in a senseless war the United States had no right waging. The leaders of the nation and the leaders of the war machine would not heed their words and threw many of them in prison. Because of the slaughter of many young many women have gone unwed to this day because of the massive slaughter of young men of that generation. They have become young widows taking marriage to older men. Some have even done the abominable and taken women for their selves to ease their loneliness. This tragedy not only affected the generation of the war but even to this day. You can't make a nation great with the history of a terrible war decisions made only decades ago. As long as we fight wars against terrorism without God on our side there will be terrorists plotting against us and a house divided will fall. There is a time to make war yet may peace be our greater portion. May we have those like Judith intercede for us as Our Lady intercedes for us and gives us warning and encouragement to pray her Rosary.
Mother Mary pray for us; pray for our leaders to heed the word of the Lord and make us great among the nations; favored by God. May God alway be our guard again. Amen
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Proverbs 17
5 - If you make fun of poor people, you insult the God who made them. You will be punished if you take pleasure in someone's misfortune.
6 - Grandparents are proud of their grandchildren, just as children are proud of their parents.
7 - Respected people do not tell lies, and fools have nothing worthwhile to say.
8 - Some people think a bribe works like magic ;
they believe it can do anything. 📖🕯
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God bless you abundantly, I'm Rev.Father Maximus. Welfare director catholic Humanitarian response plan(CHRP). would you like to save souls and alleviate suffering, to be more used by God?
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Whilst this story is inspiring, there is a lot of doubt that it is true, lots of the place names are not recognised, and it can probably be seen as more of a parable, which I think you alluded to Fr Mike at the start, so to see her as a prefigurement to Mary might be a little dubious🤔 If the Jews did not include it in their cannon, then you have to wonder.
Whenever I pray with that image of the cloud of witnesses, it makes me tear up, I always think of my mum and dad❤❤
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A prophet said this man will die within the year and this man died on the 365th day!