Has anyone else watched so many Fr. Mike videos that they feel like they know him personally? I bet a lot of people feel this way. He has helped so many of us!

Father Mike, when you said that God let’s broken hearts happen so that it can be healed by Him, man, I couldn’t take it and broke down. It hit home and I think this is God’s way of saying, “you’re on the right path.. chose Me” thank you so much Father. Honestly. 🙏

Please pray for us. I’m a widow and my son goes to Kennedy Catholic high school. ✝️ Please pray for Pam and my son, Gavin. ✝️🙏. My son wants to go to Saint Martins University. Please pray for us.

Father Mike, I've commented to most people I know that I've seen more families biking or walking together, Dad's playing with kids, kids playing outside, or just people walking their dogs than I have in the last 10 years combined. Also, the earth is cleaning itself up from our pollution. Yes, bad things are happening but there's a lot of good coming out of this crisis if we have eyes to see it

Thanks so much Father for my journey of faith.

You're such a blessing, Father Mike! 🙏🙏🙏

I realized now a true heartbreak I had 2 years ago and took this long to recover from was Gods way of showing me how to get thru it the right way thru him and not thru drinking or going out with others to numb the pain ...thank you Lord🙏

God always finds a way to answer those doubts and questions through those who allow him to work through them. Thank you!!!

I like this man , he knows how to explain the faith

FATHER!!!!!...........NOBODY HATES PIZZA 😂😤 Love ur vids father God bless u and everyone have a great day y'all😂❤

Message from the Lord: "He is not a God that abandons his people. It is not his nature, it is not his nature. He is ever present, ever present. God is our ever present help in time of trouble. Call upon the name of the Lord and be saved. The only name by which people are saved. He cannot look at his people and look away. God will answer his people. He is their God. God is always present, do not forget that, child of God. It is not his nature to look away." 🙇‍♂️

I'm not catholic but am very religious in my own denomination and I love that the Lord inspires Fr. Mike to have a message that I most always needed

Thank you Father 😘

Yesterday I sent my small biography to a religious community that I want to join. This was perfect timing. Thanks Father.

Instead of "I don't care" say "I don't have any good ideas right now" or even better, if you realized the mood you were in, "I honestly don't know if I feel like anything right now."

Father Mike, THANK YOU for this video! I’m a recent convert (2 years ago, 4/1 was my Catholic birthday!) and come from a secular family, so I’ve been kind of on my own with studying and practicing my religion in general. Your videos have been a great help to me all throughout the process. I turned this on to help me focus before saying my nightly prayer, something I’ve been struggling with recently, and what you said in this video just completely, specifically clicked with what I’m struggling with right now. This was exactly what I needed to here and just gave me a major break through in my relationship with God. Thank you for all you do! (:

Great message. It all begins with accepting where we are and figuring out how we can use that to draw closer to God.

Father Mike you have so much positive energy,I enjoy watching your videos,I get Inspiration for life from your videos.God bless you

I've never heard this perspective before and it is exactly what I needed to hear. In 2018 I lost my mom to cancer, in 2019 I had to walk away from my "dream job" amidst depression and a toxic work environment, in 2020 my child was diagnosed with special needs. I work to trust God every single day and I fail more than I succeed...but this perspective is so inspiring and is helping me cope with the why's. Thank you.

There was an old TV show called "Father Knows Best" staring Robert Young as the father. The children always had questions and conflicts. The father (Robert Young) never gave a easy to follow answer. There was a process, his children had to learn by doing. I think that a common story line in many 1950's and 1960's TV shows. You made me realize about that process going on between God and my life. Part of the process is hearing from Father Mike.

"The relationship people!?" Too funny! God Bless you, Fr. Mike.

I've had two awful, painful, brutal heartbreaks within the past year, but this process has brought me profoundly closer to God. Before, I would've said God hated me and was punishing me, but I've learned through the accidental discovery of Fr Mike's videos that's not the truth at all. God allowed me to suffer through these heartbreaks, so I could learn about His love for me and respond accordingly when He called me to Him. I no longer believe God hates me when I suffer; instead, I feel His love and try to understand what He is teaching me. Opening my heart this way has been life changing, and it makes this suffering less painful. It still hurts, but I feel I am loved throughout. And I know it's all in His plan, so I surrender over and over. Thank you Ascension and Father Mike! You are doing God's work!

Wow just what I needed. I asked God make me love in the ways you do. Got my heart broken and now I'm growing in ways I've never loved myself or others before. At first it was hard, my hope and truth is that this has happened for me to grow and go to a place with God that I have never been to. Thank you for the reassurance and clarity Father Mike.

Father Mike. The Lord has blessed you with such wisdom. Thank you for these insightful videos!

We do need it! But it huuuuurts! I'm like those disciples who screamed for help during the storm. Jesus, we're drowning, save us!!!

The moment that what is said is so accurate and so good that you actually ugh in frustration at your screen. Sometimes it is hard to do this, but more notably, I find it hard to do this joyfully and with a heart full of love. Mama Mary wrap us in your mantle and comfort us.

Praise God

Yup, that's basically what Eckhart Tolle said too, don't resist the experience, don't judge it but abandon yourself to it completely and you will be able to overcome it. God is with us. That's something I'm just learning super painfully in the midst of it all but I get kinda excited, seeing where I'm going and looking forward to getting into that trust. What a challenge but what an immeasurable gift in the end! 🙏🏼🌟💜

We did that with our kids. We let them figure things our for themselves through trial and error because in life, they - now 19, 21, and 23 - are being rewarded with this ability. Great homily!

God has the most perfect timing!! I needed to hear this today 🙏🏼

this is so spot on Fr. Mike. thank you for the message

Very interesting point Father Mike. I have understood and appreciated it.

WOW. Thank you 🙏🏻

Thank you Father for your wonderful Heart !!!

Am I the only one crying right now?

Father Mike...you have just described me down to a tee...Merci Father...Ave Maria ...⚜️🥀🙏

This is shocking how suitable this message was for me to hear today. God Bless.

Amen. So appropriate.for me now. Pls God give me the strength to carry my cross and know you are there with me. It shall be done on your time and not mine. Lord have mercy on me your daughter a sinner. Amen

Yes, I absolutely agree.

Extremely difficult to accept when the life turn upside down

Loved the analogy!!! I resonated with this message!!! Blessed .

Thanks. You've explained a lot 🙏

That's what happened in my life with marriage and everything else

I needed to hear that!!!!!!

Pray the Rosary!

Boy, but have I ever learned that this is SO true.

I prayed and asked God for wisdom, knowledge, and development of my talents, skills, and intelligence....then God through fate and circumstances made me decide to stop schooling, have depression and anxiety and stay at home for years of fears and worries and sadness...but I learned many things new that I didn't learn in school and can't learn from books in school from people around me, from other people through digital and virtual means, from other books I never read before, from undergoing life, by staying with my family, by discovering new things I can do and capable of doing, by understanding my self more than ever.... I asked and pray to God to make me strong, brave, and more confident....then God through my life's journey let me have depression and anxiety, fears, worries, sadness, insomnias, stress, nightmares, and pains... but I learned to try to find new ways to stay hopeful amidst all those, and for me that's a form.of strength, bravery, and endurance..I also learned to try to build my confidence again everyday as everyday it breaks, so then everyday I rebuild it over and over.... I asked and prayed to God to have temperance and patience.....then God through my life got me into this mental, emtional, psychological, and spiritual journey for more than 5 years already without much changes and improvements....but I learned to wait, to trust, and to stay hopeful even the things happening to me and my life seem not to change that much, and even I had moments of improvement but then afterwards I fall again, fail again, and get stuck again in this cycle of sadness, anger, fears, sleepless nights, pains, moments of hopelessness and restlessness, and lack of confidence. I prayed to God for abundance, prosperity, and wealth.....then God made me stayed at home with my family, not being able to have the confidence and grit to attend school again and do my life well which I am used to, and not having anymore the fame I had out of my schooling, talents, intelligence, and leadership...but I realized the wealth of my family and their love and support for me, the prosperity of isolation and taking good care of myself, the prosperity to have time to deal with my health, the abundance of important but commonly less noticed privileges and life that I have, the abundance of small and little things that sustains life and brings joy, and the wealth of having the ability to still use my talents, share my knowledge, inspire others, counsel others I can, lead some people, and learn new things even at home with less to no direct interpersonal contact to the public, other people, my community, and strangers. I asked and prayed to God for freedom to be myself, to achieve my dreams and ambitions in life, to do and live the life that I want....then God allowed me to fell, to fail, to have these issues and problems, to isolate, and undergo this totally new, different, sad, painful, and hope-breaking journery...but I realized how still free I am despite of these, how free I am compared to other people in past and present, and how I still can live what I desire in simple ways. I asked and prayed to God to allow His will to be done unto me if that's what it takes for me to live a better life, to glorify Him, and to be His instrument....then God sent me into this darkest path of my life and allowed me to undergo nightmares, doubts, fears, questions, denials, stress, isolation, hopelessness, weakness, restlessness, cowardice, limitations, mental and emotional health conditions, physical health conditions, thoughts of loosing hope, moments of discouraging my dreams and plans, moments of wanting to end my life, moments of fear of going to sleep because of nightmares and sleep paralysis but having moments too of not wanting to wake up and going on forever and in eternity deep in my goodnight sleep whenever I had one and not wanting to wake up to experience a routine of a cycle of my current situation over and over again...but I learned to still hope, rebuild my hope, to trust, and to rebuild my trust everyday and every time over and over again, and to keep myself and my existence despite all the physical, mental, emotional, psychological, moral, and spiritual challenges I am facing. I don't know what am I here for in life, in Earth, and in this year of 2020...I don't know what will happen later, tomorrow, the next day after it, and in the future tomorrows that will come....I don't know where I am going, what should I do, how should I do, where should I go, who I shall need the most, who will I meet or meet again, and what will happen to me...I don't know if this is still God's will and plans that I shpuld still trust and go through despite the hard times, or is it the tricks of the enemies wanting me to fail and go on into cycle of this difficult moments until I loose my faith and hope, or is this my punishment, the consequences I need to undergo because of my sins and wickedness, of my evils and wrongdoings, of my religious and spiritual struggles....or is this a curse that someon put me into, or a curse I got into unintentionally...or is this my fault after all, the fruits of my daily bad choices and poor decisions, the consequences of my mind, the products of my past, and the results of my complains, laziness, pride, and inactions.....I don't know exactly. Still, I undergo this path, this journey, these struggles, these challenges...and still trust and always try to keep a small flame of hope within me.

Wow! So true! No one likes To suffer thats why.! True need To surender it makes life easier thats for sure.

I needed this so much today. I still don't understand but I need to trust

IT'S BECAUSE GOD GAVE US FREE WILL. SO WE CAN CHOOSE TO LOVE HIM & IT'S NOT FORCED ON US.

Thanks, Fr. Mike, I needed this.

Love the broken heart part of the video ❤ not only does it speak to me because of the situation I am going thru but also because in general "He heals the brokenhearted..." is my favourite line of the Bible (Psalm 147:3). Thank you Fr. Mike.

Thank you so much Fr.Mike for your time, efforts, message in this video ^^ God bless all of humanity.

Nice. Thank you so much for this

Thank you Father Mike. I just needed to hear this...

Dear Father, despite of World healh crisis.. i trust your process! Praise you Jesus Christ. Our only Savior! 🙏🙏🙏

Gracias padre Mike por sus palabras de sabiduría. Dios lo siga bendiciendo mucho!

Thank you, Father for keeping it real and for sharing your insights and wisdom. Keep up the great work! 👏🏼

Perfect timing! Literally just did my last push to resist the process. I'm done resisting and giving it all to Him. I am ceasing trying to make it happen my own way and I feel scared yet free in a way. In prayer 💜🙏

God doing directly in life is his process and changes the observation of everything.

And proceed to all my rightful places on earth labor them and assist them and pronounce the historical change GOD TRUELY IN MY FIRST BODY.

Pure wisdom about a process that can be stressful but is an opportunity to exercise real trust in God's process which isn't our own. Thanks, Father Mike!

That back and forth attitude could go on all day.process I think is a good thing.

I so needed to hear this right now. Thank you Father. 🙏

THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE! It happens to me all the time 😅. Thank you Father.

The Will from God is Mercy always is the Best for everyone of us but takes a time to understand for everyone of us and accept all things still happening. God bless all! Without Jesús Christ no body can understand his Will or without God.😇😇😇

😪💔💖🌅🕊️I understand THANK YOU Father Mike!!!!!

Thank you, God bless! God be with everyone...🙌

This applies to what is happening today, this way is God's works, he has shut the doors on everything because we have shut him out..we are on a time out!! until we go back to him!

What a wonderful teaching! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Thank you, Father Mike! God bless you enormously!

Thank you father, I needed to hear this

I loved this thank you!

Just what i needed to hear. ♥ Thank you father Mike 🙏

I could click that like button a million times more.. Thank you so much for that Fr.Mike. This was truly an eye opener...or rather a heart opener. God and his ways...👌🥰 I pray that the Lord give you all the strength you need in your mission for changing lives and good health to carry it out too. Much love from India.

Good morning Fr. Mike

Thank you, man. It's the thing i needed to hear in this moment! 🙏

Thank you so much Fr. Schmitz for this video!! This helped me rekindle perseverence in my work and studies ;))

Thank you Father, i can hear Gods plan through You

Needed this today. Thank you Father Mike

Thank you father. I really needed this.

Thank you Fr. Mike 😊😊🙏🏼

Father Mike is amazing and speaks to my soul...... He is earning his Sainthood right now. He is an amazing, holy man. I pray my 2 sons will follow in his steps and become priests!

Amen

Another perfectly timed video!

I needed this message tonight 💙 thank you Father Mike

This really hits home. As a catechumen, I got so upset that, after waiting for so long to get baptized, the Easter batch of baptism has to be postponed due to COVID-19 plague. I thought, God, if You really want me to get closer to You, why won't You let me get baptized soon? Why do I have to stay home and follow mass at home for a month and a few weeks? Today is my last day of novena. I pray so Easter wouldn't get cancelled (eventho it's already cancelled in my diocese) and then this video pops up. I guess this completes the answer to my prayer (which the answer is no). Now I understand. Maybe it's the final test of my three years of journey to be officially the daughter of God. Maybe it's the final part of the long process. And after looking back, you're right. It's a long rocky road to reach this point for me but He's always been with me... I mean, I would've not survived if He wasn't there. I feel so loved.

Very Very helpful. Thank you. Ladd

I noticed the way Father Mike's voice changes a little when he speaks in God's position; just little slower and a little quieter. Thank you for sharing this message Father!

Thank you so much, Father. I needed to hear this today.

thank you father 🙂 I needed this so badly!

Thanks Father Mike

God the Lord Jesus Christ bless you in abundance! I really needed this. I believe all of us needs this.

Thank you Fr. Mike for answering the question I’ve been struggling with. Thank you. May God bless you. ❤

It’s like humanity is been shaken to its core out of a stupor

Thank you Fr. Mike! I really needed to hear this today!

It's hard to see God's plan with the process when we're so slow to learn but thank you so much for the reassurance God bless hope everyone is safe and sound

Perfect timing. I had just finished praying about this then this video pops up :)

Wow. I really needed this video today. Thank you Father!!

Thank you Fr. Mike Blessings

Thank you god