Father you have touched my heart through your videos. My life has changed dramatically...more prayer, more confession, more devote to all things Catholic!

"The suffering passes, but that one has suffered well will never pass. It leaves a mark for all eternity." That's beautiful. Thank you Father.

I always saw suffering as an enemy to be conquered, never a gift to be embraced. It has taken me a lifetime to realize how wrong I was. Never have I made a closer and better connection with Our Lord and his Holy Mother than in the midst of suffering. My suffering came from many sources. None that I looked for or wanted. None of it compared to the pain of watching my daughter die a year and a half ago. I wanted to die myself, and so easily could have. What hurt the most was feeling that no one understood. One day a friend commented that I DID know someone who had suffered far more, and gently reminded me of Our Lady and her Son. It hit me like a ton of bricks at first. How did I forget? Probably because I had left the faith many years before for what I thought was a good reason (finding out my son had been molested by “priests” at age 8). My friend’s reminder made me instantly realize how wrong I had been. The false priests were certainly wrong, but abandoning Our Lord (who had willingly given his life for mine) and Our Mother (who had suffered far more than I could comprehend watching Jesus die) was a much greater wrong. The more I focused on Jesus’ and Mary’s suffering instead of mine, the more my spirit was healed. With advanced arthritis and MS, I still have plenty of physical suffering, but my attitude about it is different. I’m learning what it means to pick up my cross and follow Jesus. Please don’t think any of this makes me special. Believe me...I’m as flawed as any human. The sole difference is having my eyes opened to the value of suffering. It’s NOT for nothing, but an opportunity to grow.

Suffer with Jesus now. And u will reign with Him in His Eternal Glory ! Amen !

Suffering Repels and Defeats the Demon !! Big time !!

The three rings of marriage: the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffer-ring...😅

Levels in overcoming fear of suffering and reaching spiritual perfection: 1. Duties in life 2. Resignation to the cross/passive suffering 3. Voluntary mortification/active suffering 4. Preferring suffering over pleasure (saint level, takes time) 5. Offering oneself as a victim as expiation for the sins of the world (saint level, takes time and extraordinary grace)

I see in listening to Father how far I am from sanctity. Wow pray for me.

Suffering purifies us. Amen.

St. Montfort said of the Cross, "The Cross fascinates me. Its weight terrifies me." I didn't know until now that fear of suffering was an obstacle between God and us. Thank you, Fr. Ripperger, for your sermons. I trust everything you say.

Very good !! Padre Pio says that God wants us to Suffer with Jesus in the desert.. In the garden.. And on the cross !! He's been asked if his stigmata wounds were painful. He replies - well He didn't give them to me for decoration ! Jesus says - the more u come to love suffering.. The more pure your love for me will be !! Suffering is so powerful. It exalts the spirit above the flesh. A great.. very cleansing form of suffering is - intense fasting !! Blessed Mother says - everyone must fast on Wednesdays and Fridays -- water and bread only !! Except the sick... Padre Pio Was on a constant intense fast.. He barely ate enough to live on. - but be careful of this. Build up your strength to it. And u must receive Holy Communion as often as possible. Preferable daily ! -- and yes. U come to love the suffering more and more. Esp above being stuffed on food !! Fast. So God can fill u.

When I was very young, I asked God for the gift of understanding. What he gave me was a lifetime of problems. I bemoaned my fate for years, thinking how different or better my life might have been had the problems not existed. It was only when I lost the one thing I couldn’t bear to lose, that I realized the gift I had been given...the beginnings of a close walk with Jesus. In losing everything that mattered to me in the world, I finally looked to God for my answers. I had asked for understanding thinking (expecting) in my childish mind that it would suddenly... magically... happen. I failed to understand how learning happens or the point of the gift I requested. Not building myself up, as I’d assumed, but growing in my understanding of God, his love and plan for my life. Our God is so amazing!

God Bless you Fr Ripperger, your homilies are a true gift.

Thank you father for helping us to grow spiritually. Will pray for you. 🙏

Thank you father this was so important to know.

F. Ripperger never disappoints. The delivery is a blessing every time. Thank you father. I pray the Lord keeps you safe and protected from all malicious attacks. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Funny thing: I was eating some candy when the line, "The more you satisfy your body, the more demanding it will become" hit. I took a look at the package, which had one Sweetart left, thought about it a moment, then threw the package away.

At 75, time is more valued than ever before...andvwidowed 18 mths ago. I have learned more from Fr. Ripperger and others of his caliber in the last half 2021 than all of my whole life and many years as a daily mass person and learning from many "great Catholic" sources but not traditional later learned scholars or priests. What a difference TLM has been for my life this past 1.5 years and t h en discovering Fr. Ripperger & others like him.

Thank you Father No pain no gain

my Sou just dropped to see how, weak & far far from being, a Saint I am! Then I lifted my self, by saying yes, I’m far, because I’m trusting in my poorest self, but I said, Through Him, with Him and in Him, all is possible, even I can die, trying! Jesus I trust in you!

When you indulge in pleasure, you love the world and ignore God. When you indulge in suffering, you hate the world and learn to love God.

Father Chad Ripperger is so bright, the 1st time I listened to him, I got almost nothing. Years later and this is about the 5th time, I have finally got somewhere and understand what he is talking about. Just a tiny bit though.

Since long I was looking for a spiritual guidance. Really thank God that I came across this channel. Really worthy . Any sermons in recent days 2020.

This guy's homilies are actually so good

As a aspirant in the Carmelite cloister for three months both of us novices want to mortify in food in the refectory..But we were put under obedience to not to do any mortification in the refectory to break our will which was more difficult than eating..and the humiliation of taking much food infront of other sisters was more mortifing than abstaining it ..and in the case of spiritual reading as Mother Prioress understand that i have an inclination to read the books of saints and all spiritual writings out of obedience was asked to me to read only the scriptures.. Obedience is better than any sacrifice and the submitting one's will to another is difficult

It’s no longer we live, but Christ living in us.

How blessed I am hearing all your homilies Fr. Chad. Thank you. God Blessed you always 🙏 ❤️

May God bless you always Father Chad Ripperger. 🙏

Thank you, Father. Really needed to hear this.

Read St Faustinas Diary. She is constantly writing about her suffering. She loved it.

Wow! Thank you for helping us understand our faith more deeply.

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Same with St.Alphonsa, she also loved suffering for Jesus. She used to ask for more sufferings from God.

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It would be good, though, if we were to clarify, that we don't delight in *others'* suffering, nor is it in any way praiseworthy for me as a Christian to stand back and allow my neighbor, especially one who is vulnerable and at-risk, to suffer, while I have it in my power to assist him to *relieve* his suffering, either materially, or by giving him our time - kind and affection attention. It is our own suffering that we should value; we ought to value the irremediable suffering of our neighbor only after we have moved heaven and earth to try to relieve him.

Stages of how to develop a love of suffering: 1) do your duty in your state in life 2) accept crosses passively 3) voluntary mortification 4) begin preferring suffering to pleasure 5) offering oneself as a victim soul God bless~

Same here! Good thing we now now, and with good guidance like this and God’s grace we can start making a change and keep working for our salvation.🙏

very uncommon explanation and "un-parrot" explanation. A total different view! Thank you father!

I've personally been "mopped-up" at least a time or two. Forgive me Lord, for I'm just not that quick sometimes, but could You please help me to get beyond the point in this life to where I'm not hurt when the adversary mocks my name. Thank you! Matt

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My love for the cross could only be inspired by Jesus Christ! Viva Cristo Rey!

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Some people have so much already, they can't accept anymore. God doesn't give us more suffering than we can handle..........+

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Some of us need to be stripped of the world before we can even begin to become holy

Father, thanks for your explanation of a victim soul, if we can only "suffer" the little things that we are attached to so badly that would be like going up a ladder of baby steps that could lead us to higher undertakings, especially to facing long-lasting health conditions that if it not were for the providence of God it would be devastating for any soul, not cemented in God, to suffer

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Help me Lord to suffer with you

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It's 2018 now and though this was posted 3 years ago it is no less profound. What are those of us Catholics to do who are in need of spiritual direction and yet there are no Spiritual Directors to be found anymore? When you do go to a priest or Religious you are usually confronted with those who are fashioned in the "New Church", easing up on the strict rules of the Church. It's very frustrating and leaves an empty feeling that as a Catholic it's becoming harder and harder to find someone to tell me what I need to know instead of what I want to hear. Any suggestions for those of us who desperately need spiritual direction but are left out in the cold?

Was asking God “please send whatever cross you want me to bear whenever you want” then I realized I have crazy allergies and maybe that’s what He wants me to suffer

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A famous French cardinal, named Veuillot, used to preach a lot about suffering. Then he had a cancer. A terrible, horribly painful one, that tortured him before he died. And you know what?... Before he died he asked repeatedly to priests he knew that they knock it of on the issue...

It brings no benefits anyone that says it does has not suffered

On Immaculate Heart Radio (Catholic radio)...idk what it's called where you are, but on the Phil Sandoval Show this week, they are covering suffering.

Does anyone know where I can find that picture of Mary and Jesus 10 seconds into the video?!? Its beautiful

Make the flesh serve the soul ( can only be done with the Holy Spirit that is why it is so important to be in state of grâce) is already a suffering which is the mortification of the 5 carnal senses ( which prevent you from corruption) otherwise you become an easy proie for Satan seductions and temptations. It is how you walk the path of santification carrying our cross.

Can we or are we uniting our cross with Our Lord at Mass? Viva Cristo Rey Ava Maria thank you

So is this to say that an drug addicts horror or avoidance of 'going without' their drug as the anticipated suffering, they have abandoned the way to perfection? Abandoning the way of perfection being synonymous with rejection and if they die in This state they're Damned?

Will you pls be my spiritual director? :)

In your book Dominion what role do Cardinals play in the authority and structure of the church? ✝️

Hi Father this is really wings true and the lady I know that I go to church with sometimes but now I'm trying to back off all together because I can't get her to understand that we have to suffer in this life to go to heaven and when you say something like that to her she starts doing all kinds of crazy things she's screams real loud or she sings real loud and start slapping things all over and I think what happened to me I have known her for quite a while and finally every time I'd be around her I'd start going through some bad stuff like somebody I finally realized she puts curses on people can you tell me anything about that because every time I look back in our history and I see her you know there I I feel like a curse husband placed on me so I feel like I'm suffering a lot a lot a lot but finally when I realized that I want to suffer for God sometimes when I'm going through a suffering it gets pretty hard now and then I don't think it's so easy but what if is like when you're being cursed and this happens to you and you're not you're not feeling good because bad things are happening after that what is the difference between a curse and suffering or can you give up both of them and hope to do do well by that because I have asked God to give me my cross and then sometimes I'm strong and sometimes I don't feel as strong cuz it seems like I'm just keep going on suffering so can you explain something about that to me thank you

The 26 thumbs down must be those Fr. is talking about.

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Yes; Horror of Suffering, yes I see it. The FEAR and anxiety are very real. There is no escaping it. Alot LIKE a roller coaster, this butterfly. Heightened senses, yet normal ,natural miraculous with mitzvahs, and yes yes magical too. All to get HER; all 1, and then the multiples begin. One sees the numbers growing, fast as light. All Love, all love, ALL LOVE. ITS HER! AAHAH!i!;) I see a HUGE VaSt CATHEDRAL SOMEWHERE WEST MANY YEARS HENCE; MADE OF LIVING HUMANLY HUSBANDRY THAT IS GREAT REDWOODS WITH LIVING STONE ,FIRE AND WATER STRAIGHT FROM HEAVAN, ALL LIFE WELCOME THE SERPENT, THE MOUSE, THE RAT THE HAWK THE EAGLE THE DEER THE BUFFALO, MAN, AS PRIEST TO JESUS OF NAZARETH. A LIVING CATHEDRAL. A VISION THAT MAKES ME THINK OF DEATH , BUT LIFE, LIFE FOREVER IN FLESH OF ONE'S MOTHERS DAY. IF THAT IS EVIL; HOW CAN I LOVE GOOD? I TELL YOU, ALL YOU WHO ARE LISTENING; IN ALL SINCERITY, AND ALL TRUTHFUL INTEGRITY. THIS COMES FROM THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY.

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It's unfortunate, 1 out of 2 marriages fail.

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Let me get this straight. All this suffering is from God. It isn't like this is a fallen world with evil and suffering that Christ opposes. Don't think of me as a sinner for making your children suffer, thank me because it's Christ's plan.

And how is Christ so innocent when he created this piranha tank. Oh, yeah, he was surprised when Adam fell.

Suffering is bad people. I don't believe Christ wants you to suffer. I know the guy who does, and he isn't Christ. Sorry, but 9:40 "suffering is good because it produces spiritual perfection." Like how often do you see suffering doing that? This idea that the world we are in is a soul factory where we are perfected by suffering and trials almost makes sense if, like me, you have a pretty long and varied life with plenty of exposure to suffering, violence, horror, alcoholism, addiction, but I was lucky enough to be pretty tough and lucky the suffering was never so great as to put me into an early grave or mutilated in body or mind. As opposed to some poor kid raped and beaten to death by his dad when he is 6. My God is a God of love.

I think he misses the mark. Most people who fall away from religion because of the suffering issue don't do it because horror our own suffering, but because of our horror and the USELESSNESS suffering of children and animals. And he is almost offensive when he "warns" us against wishing to suffer more because we aren't "worthy" of that much suffering. This in no way addresses the horrific, useless and pornographic suffering of innocents at the hands of sadists, ISIS, or the greatest serial killer, nature. Watch something that in no way deserves it suffer horrifically and slowly. There is NOTHING good that comes out of it. I agree that we have to be tempered by hardship-and I have been. I wasn't kidnapped, raped, sold to a pedophilia gang and then burned alive like 9 year old Christian and Yazidi girls in Syria. Why not address that kind of suffering, instead of hitting softballs. Some of this guys talks are good, this one is worthless.

I think you are all sick for thinking Christ wants this suffering. Christ is love. If you guys haven't figured it out there is a red team and a blue team. And I don't see any of you "suffering is great" types moving to countries where Christianity is horribly persecuted so you can take one for someone else. Most of you people won't speak up when somebody is abusing their kids. Oh, I forgot, it's because the suffering is GOOD for that kid, and Christ WANTS that kid to suffer. Man, you guys scare me. This really goes quickly into - why should I stop anyone from abusing or hurting innocents? I'm getting in way of Christ. This suffering is just great.

Philosophical nonsense as per usual.