"Do not let us fall into temptation, but deliver us from the Evil One. Amen."

I just would like to say that I'm in my sixties and have heard many sermons in my life, but the last two sermons you did on your online Sunday masses were probably the two best sermons I have ever heard in my whole life and I just wanted to tell you that. Thank you!

The Spanish interpretation is " Do not let me fall into temptetion."

This couldn't have come at a more perfect time. This morning I came upon an extreme test. After an internal battle, I turned away and said a rosary. My answer was in this video. God bless and keep you Fr Mike 🙏

Your words are specially comforting in these days, thank you!

ohhh myyy goodness. I've been so DISTRACTED in my own home the past few weeks - thank you so much for opening up the virtual lenten retreat for everyone. can't wait!

I used to get anxious when saying this part of the prayer, so very much appreciate this video father! Hope you homies in the chats grow in faith, hope, and love as well! 🙏🏼👍🏼💯

Love your spirit father Mike, it's contagious!! Thank you and of course God bless you!!

Thank you! I've found myself feeling a bit icky when I prayed this part of The Lord's prayer, because I didn't really understand what I was praying exactly😅 Glory be to our Lord Jesus Christ!

Pope Francis says that the actual translation is "do not let us fall into temptation" or "do not let us be overcome by temptation". Hope this helps. :)

I failed,yet i saw this video. God bless.

very helpful father exactly what i needed to hear

your insights on the Our Father are REALLY inspiring to learn more about prayer and our Catholic Faith:) Thank you Father!

Thanks Father Mike, you really speak God's word. May God bless you. Keep up your great work.

Thank you so much father Mike!!

Thank you and God bless you 🙏🕊️

Thank you very much Father you are a spot of light during the Corona crisis תודה רבה

Fr Mike Schmitz, I had registered for a Marian retreat at our parish but when that couldn't go as planned I saw this and was present in your online retreat this weekend. It was my birthday and my family, primarily my 7 yr old daughter, had lots of plans. I had no idea how I would get peace, stillness, quiet prayer during their waking hours, but possibly because of the busyness and our all knowing God, I did. THANK YOU so very much! You helped me and taught me a lot in this short time. Thank you for these new tools. Fern E.

Giving up a self justifying mindset for fulfilling usual expectations & uplifting word of God through his message in the gospel brings the necessary change to correct what is overlooked from quite a long time.

God Bless You Fr. Mike. Stay Safe and Healthy!! 🙏💙

Thank you Father Mike, this really help me to confirm my understanding of the prayer. God bless you ☺️

I love listening to you father mike stay safe 🙏

Thank you for all you do Father. I love these videos so much. God bless you 😇

Thank you for this explanation as it really makes sense to think of the Lord's Prayer in this way.

Oh How wonderful a retreat - I am missing a retreat for divorced Catholics in April and was so sad - this is wonderful!!! thank you!

Your doing great work Father!

I think this is a wonderful explanation and teaching. Thanks Fr Mike!

Wow Father Mike puts things into a great perspective

Thank you Father Mike

this is fantastic, thank you!

Hi, Father Mike! My 12 year old son and I have been watching your masses on Sundays since the stay at home order started. We are from Kansas and we think you are AWESOME!!! We love listening to you and especially love your bloopers! My son asked if you could explain Joseph to us and the relationship we have with him as Catholics??? Thanks for all your do and your positive words of wisdom that bring us closer to Jesus! YOU ROCK! God bless you!!! Peyton and Lindsay

NEVER GIVE THUMBS DOWN TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE LORD!!

God Bless you Father Mike!

Thank You Father

I love your videos they always make me feel more positive

Thank you, Fr Mike!! I am looking forward to the virtual weekend retreat - this is wonderful news! I was trying to imagine what this Palm Sunday was going to be like without Holy Mass - and no palms to attach to my sun visor :-) - but this sounds wonderful - again, thank you for putting this together. My Bible translates that line as 'let us not be led to hard testing' - which does not have the implication that God is doing the 'leading' - but rather 'life' can lead us to a hard test - that we may fail at - and we are asking God not to let that happen. I know the Mass version always says the 'lead us not into temptation' - which is kind of confusing; so I say that one at mass and the other during my regular prayer time. :-)

Thank you so much Father Mike.

Thank you Father

Amazing father!

Thank you Fr. Mike. We are under total lockdown for 21 days. Your videos give me hope and bring smile on my face. (From India).

God bless You Too Father Mike

The Lord’s Prayer is that of a total surrendered heart. It recognizes God for who he is, us for who we are, and our total dependence on God. The answer I believe to the question is very simply, don’t give me what I deserve, but deliver me from evil. It is a plea for mercy,when it is not merited.

Been waiting a long time for this!! Thanks Fr.Mike!!

Hi Ascension team, Thank you for the Lenten Retreat I would like to thank you all for this great blessing of invitation to prayer. Please do convey my big thanks also to father Mike. Though he may be far away and helped in a small way, it played a very very big part in my spiritual direction and growth. To be still in the presence of God is truly beautiful I came up with this prayer. I call in the prayer of my crucible. And may it help you through your hard times and give hope to you like the hope this retreat has given me. Dear Lord... I will drink from the cup you have given me... I will carry this cross... For this is your will that you have cast upon me... For this pain and agony is the instrument of your grace that you have given to me as my inner and spiritual growth... This is my crucible... I take enlightenmet from the suffering that you have given to me... For it is a test of my strength to steel my mind, my heart and my soul. It has indeed made me closer to you than I have ever been. I am glad dear Lord that through this pain I have come back to you as they were the work of your grace. Every struggle and everything that happened to me was to get me here at this moment which is to be with you. I thank you dear God my father. Through Jesus' Name. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy spirit. AMEN!!! With love, Jacob Sigar Sammy

Deliver us from evil dear Lord. Amen.

Seasoned warrior but still get tested .Still learning and loving ,strengthen, So we can help others .When I am week he is strong .lived through a lot .New test coming up .I'm as hard as shoe leather .lol blessing Father great mass on Sun thank you

So Jesus was lead by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil at the start of his earthly ministry. And Jesus taught us to pray to the Father that we never endure such an ordeal (lead us not into temptation) towards the end of his earthly ministry. Dunno if it’s right or wrong but it’s simple and lines up nicely for me

LORD HELP ME AND FIGHT FOR ME AND MY FAMILY AGAINST THE EVIL ONE🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Gonna miss Palm Sunday going to church was something I enjoyed doing..But I shared how God bless me threw my addiction .And was treated like I was condemed all over again so I left ... But I'll find another church to go to....

Testing can reveal our spiritual weaknesses also and where we need to improve.

Thank you, Fr. Sitting around a fire tonight, bored...and counted all your “test...” mentions. 39. lol but good! Maybe I’ll remember the concept of being tested because of it!

Thanks!

Thank you!

Rejoice in temptation! Rejoice in suffering! They are only opportunities to glorify His name! When you are faced with temptation and suffering, through your faith, the Lord will deliver you from them and in turn testify to the truth of His character! That is our purpose everybody! Our only purpose in life is to glorify the Lords name by testifying to the truth of His character in every word we speak and every action we take! When your source of joy comes from glorifying His name(fulfilling your purpose) than you will be joyful all the time! Every moment of every day is an opportunity to glorify His name! Hallelujah! Praise and glory to God!

test me into choosing Jesus always. I pray

Thank you for your service Father Mike, we love listening to you and are inspire by your faith and preaching. My husband and I wanted to sign up for the retreat but it is full, is there any other retreats we can do please? .

I love your videos

When you said "Please God do not test me beyond my ability" it reminded me of a very popular verse of the holy book Quran (which is also sent from God unlike many Christians and Jews believe). The verse goes like this : "God does not charge a soul except [with that within] its capacity. It will have [the consequence of] what [good] it has gained, and it will bear [the consequence of] what [evil] it has earned. "Our Lord, do not impose blame upon us if we have forgotten or erred. Our Lord, and lay not upon us a burden like that which You laid upon those before us. Our Lord, and burden us not with that which we have no ability to bear. And pardon us; and forgive us; and have mercy upon us. You are our protector, so give us victory over the disbelieving people."

It's a form of English that isn't understood as easily anymore. As an Anglican in England, our traditional liturgy comes from Elizabethan English, itself a reorganised translation from the Sarum Rite. These old phrases can take time to get used to. It just means 'lead us away from' much like other comments have said. Another word we change these days is 'indifferent'. It used to mean 'impartial' but now has connotations of not caring.

Don’t know if this is the place to make video suggestions. But it would be amazing if you could do a video on praying the mass through live stream. Cause I know for me it’s been something that’s definitely weird to get used to and would love some wisdom. 🙏🏻❤️🥰

1:09 james 1:13 When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone;

I'm so sorry I missed out on this. Now it's full. I hope to see a recording later. Watch for a letter I'm sending you!

Thank you Father! The retreat is full but maybe you will put it on You Tube ? It filled up very fast... no surprise!🙏🏼✝️

I wonder what is the correct translation. In Spanish it says ," don't let us fall into temptation" then it does not say But deliver us from evil. It says AND. So the Spanish translation says don't let us fall into temptation And set us free from Evil.

in my experience, this part of the prayer means when i am tempted, grant me the grace, whether spiritual or circumstantial grace, to not give in to the temptation. 😊

I think it would be easier to switch from "do not lead us into temptation" to "do not let us into temptation." That is the exact translation from the Our Father Prayer, in the Spanish version. ❤ 🙏 The Creed was corrected a while back, due to translation conflict as well.

I am sick, worried that is the Corona virus, please pray for me.

The Lord gave me a word one day before church. From. I was like, From? From what? So I was pondering this, when we said the Our Father. Then it clicked. Lead us FROM temptation, and deliver us from evil. (the evil one) It says in the Bible that GOD doesn't lead us to temptation.

That is correct !🙏💓 thank you Father Mike and Dear Pope Francis for this much needed good correction. Our Pope is not doing something evil, actually he's correcting the original translation. When I say it in English I sometimes jump to Spanish and say: " No nos dejes caer en la tentacion y libranos del maligno. Amen" or I do say it in English : "do not let us fall into temptation but deliver us from the evil one. Amen"

Please record that Adoration with Fr. Mike, we are many people that could n t register...I think i could use that recording also in in the Holy Thursday, one hour 😢🙂 Thank you for all what you re doing, God bless you and stay strong each one of you, Ascension team .

I am sad I tried to sign up for your Lenten Retreat, I was full? PS you are an amazing teacher. Thank you

God knows my faith needs a lot of work. I am so easily distracted.

In Spanish it is "no nos dejes caer en la tentación", which is like do not let us fall into temptation

I chastise those whom I love. I alone do all of the things.

The Malayalam translation goes something like "Don't let us fall into/give into temptation" and I think that's beautiful.

Would you kindly record and upload the zoom session to KZfaq? I was not able to register in time. Thank you.

Hey Father Mike! 😀 Could you do a video on slavery in the Bible and why it doesn't say slavery is a sin. Maybe talk about which sins are in the Bible and how we interpret the 10 commandments.

Thank you for all offerings, Father Mike, especially now. Retreat is already at capacity - will it be shared on KZfaq afterwards? 🙏🙏🙏

Pray for me father today , my name is suhail =su+hail and I live in dubai. Blessings . ⚘⚘⚘

I was initially excited to participate in the silent retreat and then just as quickly disappointed that it was already full. Please find a way to create more space or to make this available again.

Thanks Fr. Mike. How do we start again if we have woefully failed the tests God has given us?

if you could please make a video about the maronite catholics

Thank you Fr. I just have a question. What led you to making this video? Because for the past two days, the last few words of the Our Father, “Lead us not into temptation” have made me think a lot about the nature of God. I find it quite odd how the timing correlated just perfectly. Could you possibly make a video explaining the 3 Days of Darkness prophecies and your thoughts about it. Thanks!🙏🏽

I always thought that since it’s God incarnate telling us to ask God the Father not to lead us into temptation, the phrase “lead us not into temptation” couldn’t have meant literally “don’t lead us to be tempted”, because that is God’s will to lead us to be tempted at times. One obvious example would be when God the Holy Spirit leads God the Son to be tempted in the wilderness by Satan. I would think it means “do not lead us to succumb to temptation”, which is something God would not will to happen as He wills the salvation of all souls and for us to resist the temptation to sin. As for why we would be told to ask God not to do something that already isn’t His unchanging will, it must be the same reason that in the Old Testament there are verses like Psalm 10:12 which tell God to “forget not the afflicted/poor/humble” (one of those three words depending on translation) even though we know God is omniscient and omnibenevolent and therefore couldn’t forget their suffering. I’d suppose this reason also extends to why we pray in the first place knowing that God’s will is unchanging and us asking Him to do something isn’t going to make Him do it unless He wills it; God gave us free will and the ability to participate in His will. By asking him to do something that is in his nature (have mercy, punish evil, protect the righteous, forgive, love etc.) or to not do something that isn’t in his nature (willing us to succumb to temptation), we aren’t trying to change His will, only to participate in it and show we accept it.

The seminar doesn’t accept any new participants :( Wish there were still spots available. Great idea anyways!

👍🏻👍🏻’s up!

I’m so sad I watched this too late! 10 hours after it was posted and the retreat is already at full capacity☹️😣😩

Thk you fr. Explained wonderfully as usual! But i have a question to you pls clarify. Does this translation " LEAD US NOT INTO TEMORATION " is the best possible one for the original Greek words? As you know there are many things in the Scripture when compared to the original Greek word the meaning completely changes like pulling the rug! pls clarify! thk you

What happens when you fail a major test and the consequences of the sin are catastrophic and it ruins my life...so broken right now... actually terrified.

Oh no 🙉! Webinar is full 😢😢😢 any chance it can be accessed during Holy Week??? I really needed this!

Fr. Mike, can you comment on the revision of "lead us not into temptation" to "do not let us fall into temptation." Does it have different meanings and what are its implications? Thanks and greetings from Philippines!

Can u do a video abt the rapture and confess and rwpent before the rapture?

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the french version says do not let us fall into temptation

Hello Father Mike, I would be so interested if you made a video response to Ariana Grande's music video "God is a Woman." God Bless!

Fr. Mike, the webinar is already at capacity😔😔😔I was really excited for this retreat. Any chance it will be posted later or live?

Does God help strengthen you and fill you with faith and the holyspirit

So sad the retreat is full😥

for sure god never demands perfection from any one of us duing a trial in which we are continuing to do our best to follow his ways. Only Satan does that.

Hi! My hubby and I would really like to join the retreat but it's at capacity :( Is there any chance to secure a spot? Maybe double it as a KZfaq live event as well for an increased participant limit?