I agree. When we are in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, it doesn’t matter what we are feeling. He is present whether one feels His presence or not.
Excellent podcast. It takes effort and it takes more effort - to place our minds present at Mass to be 100% aware that we are in the presence of Jesus Christ, God Incarnate. Every Sunday I try to make myself filly present and make myself fully aware, that I am going to be in the actual presence of Jesus Chist. It takes effort but its worth the effort.
@@MsMounen I do believe that the Eucharist is Christ. If I am in a state of mortal sin, I consciously decide not to receive the Eucharist as I do not wish to offend God further.
Thank you Robert. Great podcast. This is the issue i have with a good few people in the faith. Our relationship with Christ fills the void. He gives us so much peace. Knowledge of Christ is much different from knowing him from within. Fears, anxieties, resentments, lack of humility etc is deterrent to know God on a personal level. This is the issue i have with people going to Medjugorje. You hear people say i go there 4 times a year. I get great peace there. I don't get that back home. Spiritual fix, quick fix. Why don't they have peace at home if they know Christ? It's an interior peace and contentment that fills your mind, body and soul with the truth. This is the danger when we become spiritual junkies and can be led by the wrong people. Go to Christ, look at your broken self, and leave Christ heal you. Amen.
Greetings from Singapore 😄 I couldn't agree with you more, Robert. Yes, I too am wary of "following my heart" (aka feelings) in things spiritual. More often than not it is precisely during those 'dry' periods that we need to soldier on, by the grace of God of course. For it is only by God's grace that anything of lasting good can come from us. Too often I meet those who profess admiration for a certain priest because 'he preaches so well' (or is charismatic) or because of his personality. If so, then where is our Blessed Lord in all this? At every mass we have the (wholly undeserved) greatest miracle right in front of us, when the bread and wine becomes the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. And then we get to receive Him fully at Holy Communion. What more could we ask for? "Help me Jesus to always place you Front and Centre in my life; above and before all things, all men and things of this world, so that nothing ever comes before You."
This is one of THE most important messages about how to live out our faith. The Mass is not entertainment. The Mass is the Holy Sacrifice and our role there is to participate and join with the priest in praying the mass. I have asked people what they got out of a particular funeral. Of course they say "i wasn't there for me, I was there to support the family". Yes! Exactly! We are at the mass to join the priest in praying it , singing it, offering it to Our Lord! And in the sacrifice of the mass and receiving the Eucharist, we pray that we are blessed as God knows we need blessing since He knows us completely.
Protestants get into that entertainment emotional hype ...I was brought away from that back to my catholic faith 27 yrs ago ...I'm so very grateful 🙏 to GOD ... rescued me
I totally agree and never had ot on my heart to run to marion site's. I love Our Lady and i pray she knows that. I believe she does... If i want that personal relationship with Christ its all down to me and Him. The time we spend together. Especially in Adoration or receive the Most Holy Eucharist. Ive never been called to Medugorie or Fatima for example. God bless those that have! Ive no doubt if that draw ever comes nothing will stop me getting there. I enjoy mass as often as i can in the week. I enjoy Adoration... I enjoy bible study. Prayer. Grouping with men. Im trying to strike a realistic balance. Exciting times not without its hiccups on my part. Padre Pio would tell us to dust the house weekly.
You are 100% spot on. It breaks my heart that many in the church do not realize how lucky they are that they may receive the Eucharist communion. And that Jesus Christ give this to them with so much love. And what does he get? Nothing back in return not even a thank you. But let we proclaim the Faith and try to teach them when we talk to them about the present of Jesus in the sacrament and the Eucharist adoration. They will listen and we have to put that seed in them so Christ may touch their hearts to open.❤
The way you describe taking the Eucharist is the way I do - not touching it. Some in our congregation take it on the tongue and some kneel in front of the priest. No compulsion any way we want to take it and that's the way it should be imo.
There is nothing to stop us from going forward and growing in Holiness!!! That is to say when the soul longs for more it becomes only natural that we long for more Holiness.. so taking the host on out tongue is an outworking of the longing . The soul knows ...then it's up to us to choose the better higher path
In the early church the hand was veiled and then a housling cloth was used, eventually it was placed on the alter rails and a paten and receiving the Eucharist on the tongue became the norm.. Now the laity has been elevated to the priestly roles and now the God is received by the laity rather than the laity receiving God.
Thanks for reading the gospel. So true we need to listen to The Word of God. I wish when you talked about daily spiritual habits that you mentioned the importance of daily reading of God's Word in the bible. You mentioned other rituals but reading the Bible daily is something we should be doing everyday. It's food for our souls. Surely it's the most important daily ritual we can do each day? Sometimes at mass the priest doesn't explain or reference the readings which is a big mistake.
The sacraments are not enough prayer is not enough the mass is not enough we need to speak in tongues and be cured of some ailment or the mass is not enough, the mass needs to be a social club,because the mass is not enough. The Eucharist is the consummation of the groom Jesus and his church the bride, the sacrifice of the mass is God offering God To God, at the sacrifice of the mass heaven and earth become one and the Holy Spirit Spirit descends with the sacrifice of his son and then offers up the sacrifice of his son to the father. This should be enough for all Catholics.
The only thing we should be striving for in our spiritual life is God's righteousness to manifest in us, to become his righteousness in actuality rather than by some false notion of imputation by faith alone. And why? Because peace, God's peace, is impossible without attaining his righteousness in the core of our being. God will send you into the desert to purge you of the world, the false Eden, to bring this about. Everyone wants heaven, both good and bad, believer and unbeliever, catholic and protestant, and nobody bar none wants hell, but few want a heaven with God in it, and the irony is he created it, and it belongs to him. Because we are so deeply unrighteous, loving God is hard, near impossible, and utterly impossible without grace. If we don't see ourselves as criminals pleading for pardon with nothing to bring to the table that might justify a pardon, but rather see ourselves as ones asking to be restored to our righful place, then we don't really know what the Christian faith is all about. This is why the warning to repent is issued to all, and only those who believe the message, respond, and live in the obedience of faith, hope and charity will enter heaven. We come to God through fear, and NOT love, since if we loved him, he wouldn't have to issue a dire warning to repent. But once we respond, and he redeems us and straightens out our crookedness in the fires of trial, and are cleansed by his grace, we stay out of love. We must forfeit paradise in this life to attain it in the next.
In our Baptist Church we stay far away from this spiritual experiences from the charismatic movement. We believe in the presence of Jesus. That is enough. Plus the preaching on Gods Word, the Bible.
@@thecatholicman I'm still trying to understand the literal way Catholics eat Jesus' body and drink His blood. Nobody went to the cross after He died and drank His blood. Nobody went to His body and took some flesh and eat it. They all understood during the easter meal it was a sign. I prefer to go back to the first tradition. Pass the bread from one to the other, take a piece off and eat it. Pass the cup of wine from one to the other and drink all from one cup.
Robert, thank you for your gentle, charitable reflections.
I agree. When we are in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, it doesn’t matter what we are feeling. He is present whether one feels His presence or not.
Excellent podcast. It takes effort and it takes more effort - to place our minds present at Mass to be 100% aware that we are in the presence of Jesus Christ, God Incarnate. Every Sunday I try to make myself filly present and make myself fully aware, that I am going to be in the actual presence of Jesus Chist. It takes effort but its worth the effort.
Do you feel the presence of Jesus at the altar when you take the Eucharist?
@@MsMounen I do believe that the Eucharist is Christ. If I am in a state of mortal sin, I consciously decide not to receive the Eucharist as I do not wish to offend God further.
Thank you Robert. Great podcast. This is the issue i have with a good few people in the faith. Our relationship with Christ fills the void. He gives us so much peace. Knowledge of Christ is much different from knowing him from within. Fears, anxieties, resentments, lack of humility etc is deterrent to know God on a personal level. This is the issue i have with people going to Medjugorje. You hear people say i go there 4 times a year. I get great peace there. I don't get that back home. Spiritual fix, quick fix. Why don't they have peace at home if they know Christ? It's an interior peace and contentment that fills your mind, body and soul with the truth. This is the danger when we become spiritual junkies and can be led by the wrong people. Go to Christ, look at your broken self, and leave Christ heal you. Amen.
Don't stop making videos Robert, don't stop. We need you. 🙏📿😊
Greetings from Singapore 😄
I couldn't agree with you more, Robert. Yes, I too am wary of "following my heart" (aka feelings) in things spiritual.
More often than not it is precisely during those 'dry' periods that we need to soldier on, by the grace of God of course. For it is only by God's grace that anything of lasting good can come from us.
Too often I meet those who profess admiration for a certain priest because 'he preaches so well' (or is charismatic) or because of his personality. If so, then where is our Blessed Lord in all this?
At every mass we have the (wholly undeserved) greatest miracle right in front of us, when the bread and wine becomes the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. And then we get to receive Him fully at Holy Communion. What more could we ask for?
"Help me Jesus to always place you Front and Centre in my life; above and before all things, all men and things of this world, so that nothing ever comes before You."
Great take on all this. God bless you, I really enjoyed this. 🕊️
Allow God to experience you. I like that. ❤ ✝️
This is one of THE most important messages about how to live out our faith. The Mass is not entertainment. The Mass is the Holy Sacrifice and our role there is to participate and join with the priest in praying the mass. I have asked people what they got out of a particular funeral. Of course they say "i wasn't there for me, I was there to support the family". Yes! Exactly! We are at the mass to join the priest in praying it , singing it, offering it to Our Lord! And in the sacrifice of the mass and receiving the Eucharist, we pray that we are blessed as God knows we need blessing since He knows us completely.
Protestants get into that entertainment emotional hype ...I was brought away from that back to my catholic faith 27 yrs ago ...I'm so very grateful 🙏 to GOD ... rescued me
I thought protestant church was serious and solemn. Very English.
I totally agree and never had ot on my heart to run to marion site's. I love Our Lady and i pray she knows that. I believe she does... If i want that personal relationship with Christ its all down to me and Him. The time we spend together. Especially in Adoration or receive the Most Holy Eucharist. Ive never been called to Medugorie or Fatima for example. God bless those that have! Ive no doubt if that draw ever comes nothing will stop me getting there.
I enjoy mass as often as i can in the week. I enjoy Adoration... I enjoy bible study. Prayer. Grouping with men. Im trying to strike a realistic balance. Exciting times not without its hiccups on my part.
Padre Pio would tell us to dust the house weekly.
Beautifully articulated sir ❤
Feelings = New Age
You are 100% spot on. It breaks my heart that many in the church do not realize how lucky they are that they may receive the Eucharist communion. And that Jesus Christ give this to them with so much love. And what does he get? Nothing back in return not even a thank you. But let we proclaim the Faith and try to teach them when we talk to them about the present of Jesus in the sacrament and the Eucharist adoration. They will listen and we have to put that seed in them so Christ may touch their hearts to open.❤
The way you describe taking the Eucharist is the way I do - not touching it. Some in our congregation take it on the tongue and some kneel in front of the priest. No compulsion any way we want to take it and that's the way it should be imo.
Thank you Robert 🙏🏼 and above all thanks, honor and glory be to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost AMEN 🙏🏼
Amen! Robert,Amen!
There is nothing to stop us from going forward and growing in Holiness!!! That is to say when the soul longs for more it becomes only natural that we long for more Holiness.. so taking the host on out tongue is an outworking of the longing . The soul knows ...then it's up to us to choose the better higher path
💯 very true.
Top catholic podcast.
Thank you Robert, you hit the nail on the head 😮I needed to hear this again and again 🙏
Jesus Jesus Jesus 🙏❤️
Yes Jesus One with the Father. Where He is present, the whole of heaven is present.
All of the communion of Saint are there
Good word!
In the early church the hand was veiled and then a housling cloth was used, eventually it was placed on the alter rails and a paten and receiving the Eucharist on the tongue became the norm..
Now the laity has been elevated to the priestly roles and now the God is received by the laity rather than the laity receiving God.
Amen!!!
Discipleship means discipline.
Thanks for reading the gospel. So true we need to listen to The Word of God. I wish when you talked about daily spiritual habits that you mentioned the importance of daily reading of God's Word in the bible. You mentioned other rituals but reading the Bible daily is something we should be doing everyday. It's food for our souls. Surely it's the most important daily ritual we can do each day? Sometimes at mass the priest doesn't explain or reference the readings which is a big mistake.
IMHO: Jesus isn't IN the Eucharist, the Eucharist IS Jesus.
There are no words to describe the depths of the Eucharist
@@thecatholicman Lutherans say the Jesus is present IN the Eucharist. I guess that's why it bugs me.
Praying the rosary once a day helped me get into the practice of praying. Unfortunately though, my epilepsy has got in the way of doing that.
Practice the presence of GOD ...by brother Lawrence...have u read this classic
The sacraments are not enough prayer is not enough the mass is not enough we need to speak in tongues and be cured of some ailment or the mass is not enough, the mass needs to be a social club,because the mass is not enough.
The Eucharist is the consummation of the groom Jesus and his church the bride, the sacrifice of the mass is God offering God To God, at the sacrifice of the mass heaven and earth become one and the Holy Spirit Spirit descends with the sacrifice of his son and then offers up the sacrifice of his son to the father.
This should be enough for all Catholics.
I aggree yes 4 sure ❤
The only thing we should be striving for in our spiritual life is God's righteousness to manifest in us, to become his righteousness in actuality rather than by some false notion of imputation by faith alone.
And why? Because peace, God's peace, is impossible without attaining his righteousness in the core of our being. God will send you into the desert to purge you of the world, the false Eden, to bring this about.
Everyone wants heaven, both good and bad, believer and unbeliever, catholic and protestant, and nobody bar none wants hell, but few want a heaven with God in it, and the irony is he created it, and it belongs to him.
Because we are so deeply unrighteous, loving God is hard, near impossible, and utterly impossible without grace.
If we don't see ourselves as criminals pleading for pardon with nothing to bring to the table that might justify a pardon, but rather see ourselves as ones asking to be restored to our righful place, then we don't really know what the Christian faith is all about.
This is why the warning to repent is issued to all, and only those who believe the message, respond, and live in the obedience of faith, hope and charity will enter heaven.
We come to God through fear, and NOT love, since if we loved him, he wouldn't have to issue a dire warning to repent. But once we respond, and he redeems us and straightens out our crookedness in the fires of trial, and are cleansed by his grace, we stay out of love.
We must forfeit paradise in this life to attain it in the next.
God does not need AI technology.
In our Baptist Church we stay far away from this spiritual experiences from the charismatic movement. We believe in the presence of Jesus. That is enough. Plus the preaching on Gods Word, the Bible.
Unless you eat his body you won’t fully know him
@@thecatholicman But we do.....
@@thecatholicman I'm still trying to understand the literal way Catholics eat Jesus' body and drink His blood. Nobody went to the cross after He died and drank His blood. Nobody went to His body and took some flesh and eat it. They all understood during the easter meal it was a sign. I prefer to go back to the first tradition. Pass the bread from one to the other, take a piece off and eat it. Pass the cup of wine from one to the other and drink all from one cup.