"Imagine you're God. You have an opportunity to use 33 years to save the world. To redeem the world. What do you do? You could go out as far and wide as possible. And Jesus did travel. You could speak to as many people as possible, and Jesus did speak. You could heal everybody, and Jesus did heal. Or, you could invest deeply in just a few, and promise your Holy Spirit and teach them to do what you do. Teach them to live how you live... 80% of His public ministry at that time was within a 5 mile radius. Why? Bc He wasn't going far and wide, He was going narrow and deep. He was investing deeply into these few people. He was saying I'm going to share My life with you so that you can share your life with others... This becomes the model for Christianity". -Fr Mike. Profound.

Fr Mike is a hero for us Catholics. What a great guy.

I found you when I was about to change my religion,my mum was in pain...

I’m not Catholic and almost skipped this video once I saw a priest but glad I didn’t because it was a very good evangelism teaching.

God bless you, Fr. Mike. I'm Indian catholic and so thankful that the saints came here.

My soul truly rejoice In LORD MY SAVIOR . Thanks Fr Miki for wonderful lessons!

He brings joy and laughter wherever he goes, a fresh new approach to Christian teachings.. Very inspiring!! 😍😍

Yes. God given gift to us the Catholics. Guys , let's pray for him please.

Father Mike, thank you for all you do, thanks the Lord 🙏 for your gift and talented, love to listen to your teaching , very profound and inspiring ! Your sense and humor is so awesome 😎. We Catholic love you. You are amazing 🤩 God Bless 🙏✝️

Lord Jesus use me! Fr. Mike enlist me with your new humane group. I am a catechist for 10 years prior to my migrating. I have a Missio Canonico from my bishop from the Philippines. Please pray for me to be able to serve here in Canada. I expressed my intention to my parish priest about 2 years ago. He told me he will look into it. But I have not been summoned yet. I will follow it up. Thank you father for being an inspiration. Love your enthusiasm. Godbless

Great opening prayer. Other lecturers and religious speakers should listen to Fr's admirable intro.

God bless u Father Mike in Jesus Name Amen 🙏

I am so honored to listen to your talks. God bless you

I have been lost for so long. I love you and thank you Father Mike. When I don't know what to do. God speaks through you perfectly clear.

You rock fr. Mike God has blessed you with amazing talent. Thank you for the tools

God bless your ministry.

Was wondering why I haven't seen this video yet, and just noticed it was posted like a day ago. Seriously powerful. Thank you for challenging us Father Mike. I have been a catholic for the entire 23 years of my life, but in a large part because of your talks, especially your talk on the Eucharist and talks on the Mass, I have really fallen in love with being a catholic and have fallen much deeper in love with Jesus in the Eucharist, and I want to be the best I can be for Him. Please keep challenging us.

Fr. Mike you are a blessing. I’m from Western Australia listening to you in my car when I’m on break at work, when I’m cooking that’s deliberately so my family can hear your teaching. I’m learning so much from you and father’s of mercy at 58.

Thank you Father for Fr. Mike!!!

Fr. Mike, you're my hero, seriously

I love you fr mike and I love the work you are doing. You are in my every prayer for success

I feel that true evangelization comes when we befriend people without investing in them. It's not a failure on my part if I bring Christ to someone and they reject Him, in fact God's will may be for me not to do it all myself. Perhaps I'm only watering the seed a little. I know the plant needs water and sun but if I try to give as much water and sun as I can give I may kill it. Rather I should ask God (the gardener) what each persom (seed) needs from me at that time and give that of myself. If we are worried about numbers we will often treat people as projects because it's become more about us and what we can do rather than about them and how we can bring Christ to them

Your words are very powerful my friend. Your message is straight from God . I love watching your videos, they are very uplifting and inspiring

Beautiful, Father Mike. God bless you. I will do my part.

BOOM! This man is like thunder!

Love this priest, great talk Fr Mike!! Lots of inspiration for a talk I am planning, the theme being "Made for Mission." perfect

What a great speaker and teacher! Thank you Fr. Mike of Fr. Schmitz!

Father Mike was a great priest. 3/17/19 listening to him speaking from his heart. I was energized just watching him talked. Thankful to God that he was His ministerial priest. We need more priests like him.

My Parish has 1500 families, we are the 5th largest in our diocese. Unfortunately this year there are only 10 people in RCIA vs 20 last year. Lord, help us. Thank God our parish is doing well in other ways.

St. James went to Spain, and Spain went to the Philippines (with sword and cross: colonizers), 300+ years we've suffered, but we also learned (so much). Now, colonizers are gone, but Filipinos kept the faith. We rejected the sword, but kept the cross. We forgave those who abused us. Now, Filipinos are going to all places in the world, and they bring their faith with them. They bring only the cross; no sword. God bless us all!

Praise God for Fr. Schmitz!! The Catholic Church is so blessed to have a father Mike as one of her faithful shepherds! Way to go Fr. Schmitz!!!

Thank you Fr. Schmitz, I really appreciate you. Perfect timing to discover your channel. You've already been blessed but may God keep blessing you. Look after your self. Lots of love.

Oh man God have mercy on us.give us another chance 💖

It’s okay to fail. It’s not okay to give up. Fr. Mike, don’t give up on us. Fr. Mike, keep praying for us and evangelizing. I myself do not know the word well enough to evangelize, but I’m learning. Please Lord use me in any way you see fit. You are good. If there is an opportunity to help another, please let me recognize it. 🙏

Thank you for helping me understand and fully embrace being Catholic Christian. You are amazing and may God Bless you! I Love Jesus so much too❤️

Such a breath of fresh air!

These are great videos. I have taught RCIA for A LOT of years. But what we don't teach as part of the program is Evangelization. We really need to teach this in our churches. I agree that it is a bit intimidating to walk up to a stranger and say- Let me tell you about Jesus. So I have a couple simple ways to begin. 1) Go to the Dollar Store and buy some of those pocket sized New Testaments. Now 2) hand them out and say: My Boss would like you to get to know him. Do it on the city bus, or put a tip in one for the waiter, or whenever you are going to be with people. You never know when God will give you an opportunity. I'm a biker and attend a lot of motorcycle rallies. I'll get 2 cups of coffee or sodasand walk up to noher biker and hand him/her the drink with compliments of my Boss and hand them the little Bible. It always opens up conversation. I admit that a biker in leather can be a it intimidating but it certainly opens up lines of communication specially since people don't expect to be evangelized by a Catholic Biker. It works in plain clothes too. And remember, Catholic are the ORIGINAL CHRISTIANS! Don't forget to as if you may pray with them (the Holy Spirit will tell you what to say so don't worry) and invite them to ask questions and welcome them to investigate further. After a couple times it will gt easy to do.

Thank you (from someone going through RCIA right now to become Catholic) for giving people the chance to see this side of the Church and of a spiritual leader. Fun, quirky, honest, loving, and on fire for God.

This dudes theology is on point! I think Catholics can benefit dearly from this Pastor.

St. James went to Spain, and the Spanish crown evangelized the Philippines when every nation in the Asian world seemed to forget about us.

God Bless You Fr Mike! Greetings form Poland 😊

God bless you fr. Mike great job, great evangelization... s2

Thank you Fr. MIKE you opennedmy heart more to Jesus.Godbless us In Jesus name.thank u for sharing the fire of the Holy Spirit within you Fr. Mike.

A colleague of mine before was on the verge of looking for a church that she will try to go to a lively one. I invited her to come to my church. I asked her what’s your religion? She said, “I’m a Catholic but not attending for years & years.” “I am a catholic too,” I said. Go to a confession and I will go with you. She did after 30 + years. 🙏

How timely was this video for me.. wow. I just went to a meeting of the Catholic University students in my country yesterday and honestly it made me feel so depressed. I was given a message that there is a meeting for Catholic students in univerisities and I joined them despite being a major introvert. Because afterall these are people who are supposed to share the passion for the Lord with me. I wanted to experience the Lord's love everyday in every form I can get and thought that was what they were here for too. But only a 5 minute prayer ever talked about Jesus. Imagine! You bring Catholics together in a country in which Catholics are in the minority and you just leave God out of the meeting! Right away they went onto singing popular songs, having refreshments and playing games. It was fun, it truly was. But I thought since it was exclusively for Catholics that it had much more than that. It didn't bring me closer to Jesus than I was the day before. Didn't make friends who knew what it was like to be a passionate Catholic. It was the first meeting I attended but I asked the ones who regularly went and they said that was the norm. They have priests offer masses every now and then but no they dont actually sit and talk about Jesus. I am a leader for young girls at a Catholic Charismatic movement and I know how deeply I wanted to share the good news and how grave the responsibility of leading the flock really is. To see many exploit the role of Catholic leadership they get to simply make people have a good time and essentially please them with more worldly things instead of sharing the faith.. is just frustrating. Please keep the Catholic youth in your prayers. God bless you

Powerful - a hard teaching - and yet entertaining

You bring joy to my heart

I’m not sure what “my faith” is called, but I fully believe and feel god with me and everything you say makes complete sense. Thank you for being here.

I hope this priest is living a pure holy life...

I might just start beliving 😍

We love you father mike..

It's important as individuals because we have learned that the grace and holiness is not obvious at the top right now.

Father Mike, May the Lord answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you. May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion. May he remember all your sacrifices and accept your burnt offerings. May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.

WAW man this guy.... JUST INSANE GLORY TO JESUS

Sometimes I tend to forget the 'love' part.... I get so excited with all this knowledge that I forget to be prudent and take it slow.

THE PROTECTION OF LORD MOST HOLY NAME AND BLOOD OVER U ALL IN JESUS NAME

My sister, laying in a hospital bed, dying, surrounded by family, only two catholics in the room. No one else, of the twenty other souls, even went to church. They were seeking so much, they needed direction, someone who could share God with us all. I failed. I wasnt confident enough. I asked for a priest,in the. Catholic hospital, to please come help my sister and pray. The entire room wanted this too. They were scared for my sister, and their own mortality. The priest didnt come he sent a deacon. The first thing outve the mans mouth was, No one is Catholic? Well i dont know what i can do. ( We prayed the our father and he turned to me, invited me to attend mass the next morning. Nothing else, left in a rush, like we gad cooties,) There was an opportunity to bring an entire room closer to God; we Catholics failed. Not one of my family now wants anything to do with Catholics, they only remember this about the church, and they scowl that no one made time for them or her.

Amen

Wow. Hard hitting. Come Holy Spirit, and actualise in our lives what Jesus made possible by laying down his.

THE START OF THIS VIDEO IS CLASS - OK NEED TO WATCH THE REST NOW LOL

open your eyes and ears to God . this man is a very quick talker

9:31 it isn't a numbers game Fr.Mike... it IS a success, an immense one in the eyes of God, but we could indeed be doing more.

Long live Father Mike!!!

Born and raised in MN and Fr Mike does a wonderful MN accent -- yes I know that he is from MN but sometimes people lose thief accent when they travel and/or speak professionally.

Divine mercy

Amusing. Born-again Catholics.

I chose Francis Xavier as my Confirmation name. It was also the name of the church in Indiana where my parents were married.

22:24 woah. this whole talk hits hard, but that line

Amazing

Amen…

AMEN

HAPPY EASTER!

I see the sincerity and passion of this homily but I still want to know more how you can apply this in real life for us who live in a secular world where we have jobs and social pressures. I have struggles with faith and I don't see how I could talk about faith in an authentic way without it being shallow or out of character. The people around me are busy and concerned with other thing, an opportunity to talk about such things is rare. How do we "evangelize" truly in an authentic and effective way?

My greetings to Fr Mike and i do really appreciate what he is doing.Because of his videos i am becoming a true catholic.But i have a question.Can we not move or make non believers to change their ways and become christian through our behavior. Because as a christian i am not couragous enough to speak to people about God. I am not couragous at all.

❤️❤️❤️❤️

The great commission; Go and make disciples of men.

Minnesota nice=Canadian nice I gotcha 😀👍 UNDERSTAND THAT 😀

Hi Father I'm 75 years old and I can't see well and so nobody wants to help me they think that's not a disability I guess. The thing that bothers me the most about my life in California is there is not one one normal Catholic priest that I can find they're all modernist it's so disheartening so finally I got the courage to start speaking up to them and tell him when they were giving a bad homily or when they were how can I say it when they were changing the words of Christ like once this priest told me he wasn't going to give me a blessing and I said why father and he goes because you know before the Eucharist I said this to King of King's father and you don't want me to nail before he goes no and I said father you are not a friend to Jesus he goes I know you know another time he said that he called on the mountain on the mountain where the three disciples went and Jesus on the transfiguration he said that Saint Elijah and Saint Moses were there with Jesus so I corrected and then I told him they weren't saints that Jesus hadn't died on the cross yet that they were in the place called jail or a dark place and I said they were in there with the Adam and Eve and everybody waiting much longer than we ever had to wait to get the Gates of heaven so what they were talking about Jesus was they were talking to him about what his Exodus from Jerusalem anyway this is just the same priest but every one of them say this they all speak heresy and they all speak blasphemy it's tiring and I don't I don't know if I'm just quit going to church then I can't receive you cuz I don't even know if they can bless you Chris cuz they came in through the Communist party I'm old enough to remember that so they were told they couldn't have any devotion to God they couldn't have a calling all these different things but father why doesn't anybody want to step into California and help us we're the biggest victims here I have a they won't help us with anything with all these immigrants and over me I have a man that to a Freemason and for it's been 20 almost 21 months he's been putting people in there to hurt me and cause me trouble and nobody in the leasing office will do anything and because I don't have much sight that's put me just in a terrible position and they throw bugs and dirt under my mental door frame that they took the screws off and nobody will the police are communist so nobody will do anything father I pray a lot can you help me help me Father be careful if you come here God bless you

Something interesting that I just noticed. No negative comment was written in this section. I think that this is because they have no good reason to do so. Because they agree with Fr. Mike Schmitz, but they don't have the courage to say otherwise; to say anything rude or rash, because deep in their hearts, they know that they will regret going against their own human nature.

As Mike said Jesus said in Matthew chapter 28 verse 19 " Go, therefore, make disciples of all nations." Verse 20 "and teach them to observe ALL the commands I give you." Jesus talking to his disciples commanded in Matthew chapter 23 verse 9 " YOU MUST CALL NO ONE on earth your FATHER !" My Catholic friends the Catholic priesthood are not disciples of the True Christ as they teach the opposite of what Christ simply commanded. Please open your Bibles and read the passages. I pray God opens your eyes and heart to His Truth and grant you repentance by His Grace. God Bless.

Being beautiful sometimes can be a liability. Make sure they fall in love with Jesus.

I loved this. But I hated that you sort of pulled the trigger before u left father.

4:44 RIP Jon Benet Ramsey :'( #Sorry..just reminded me of her when you said "beauty pageants"

MCHS GANG

But I am lonely, Fr.

8:48 Answer: Not just no, but Hell no.

His pants though.

Narrow is the gate to salvation, there is no salvation outside of the Catholic church and most adult baptized Catholics go to hell unfortunately. A very small minority are saved. Always strive to walk the narrow path of salvation, and never ever presume that you are saved. We should always pray, do penance and carry our cross.

si Dios me ama sinceramente y se preocupa por mi vida física, entonces envíame un milagro de mil millones de dólares ahora, febrero de 2022, para este año de verano, prueba el cien por ciento, sin excusas.

Did the thief on the cross fail? He never evangelized. He only talked to Jesus.

THERE IS ONLY ONE JESUS WHO IS THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE:::::WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT A POPE AND A VATICAN.....

Faith? How is faith a reliable way to know anything?

Very good, however, the background looks like hell.

REALLY? Fr. Mike!

Leadership is service. Washing dirty feet

KYRIE ELEISON

What a turn off this guy is. He would be better off headlining in Vegas.

Well I hope you escorted them to church and not to the back office

Christians pray to the Crist son of the living God . sorry but catholics are just praying to the pope .Research the holy word of God you'll see

Fear of fire Bisharat, whom you call Jesus, Jesus Christ, the son of Mary, with the seal of the Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, from your book The Gospel. (1) In the Gospel of John (14-15): "If you love me, keep my commandments, and I ask the Father to give you another comforter, so that He will stay with you forever." And the comforter is Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him (2) In the Gospel of John chapter (16-16: 7) on the tongue of Christ - peace be upon him - he addresses his disciples before leaving: "But I tell you the truth, it is better for you to go, because if I do not go, the comforter does not come to you", then Christ continues - Peace be upon him - talking about that comforter, saying: “I have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear now, but when that spirit of truth comes, it guides you to all truth, because he does not speak from himself, but whatever he hears speaks to him , And tells you things to come. " And the evangelization of Essa Muhammad in the Qur'an, the last of the heavenly books after the Bible {Taking Jesus the son of Mary said: O children of Israel, I am the Messenger of Allah to you confirming the hands of the Torah and promising a Messenger to come after me, named Ahmad when he came to them with clear proofs they said the magic shown} (Surah grade, verse 6). And in the Noble Qur’an, the book in which a word or letter has not been changed for 1,400 years, and God has challenged mankind and the jinn to do the same. God Almighty said in the Qur’an by the tongue of Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him (He who disbelieves those who said that God is the Christ, the son of Mary, said: Christ serve God, my Lord, and your Lord, that He who engages in God, God has forbidden Heaven and his centenary fire) And God said: (He who disbelieves those who say that God is the third of the three) And God Almighty said: “God would not have taken from the Lord Almighty.” (Fear of fire Find and read the Quran.)