Never doubt in the dark what you knew was true in the light. Wow!

I love this quote from St. Padre Pio: “The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrifice, and with extreme effort.” One day in heaven we will receive all of the answers to the questions we had here on earth, but in the meantime I pray that all of us can say, Jesus I trust in You! Thank you for a beautiful reflection, Father Mike! Prayers for you and all of those at Ascension.

Such a beautiful and powerful image of God calling us to jump into His arms. Thank you, Father Mike. That's a keeper! 🙂❣☮✝️

I am returning to the Catholic Church after a few very difficult years away due to some personal issues and crisis of faith. I have been listening to Father Mike, Bishop Sheen, and Bishop Barron for month. I am glad for you all, I have found my way back with God’s help and mercy. Tomorrow I go to confession and then Sunday I will go to mass and receive communion. I am coming home again!

The funny thing is, I remember my dad telling my to jump off the dock into his arms when I was a little girl - his arms outstretched. And he let me jump into the water, head under, and then his laugh when I came out and up, looking for him. He let me go a little bit under - but he was still right there. And instead of worry or fear- he felt joy. Because he was always right there and I learned how to come out without him. But I saw his happiness when I did it myself.

Praying for Fr. Mike every single day. May God’s grace continue to fill him with the energy and Spiritual strength to bring the world back to God’s embrace🙏❤️🙏

"Never doubt in darkness what you knew was true in the light." Applies to history very well. Just because something happened 2000 year ago doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Man I remember watching content form Fr. Mike and thinking "He's really good, still not becoming Catholic". Now I'm here thinking "He's really good, glad I'm becoming Catholic." Of course not as simple as that lol

I don't remember my grandmother ever saying "just believe" but instead she said "offer it up"

i'm accepting all prayers if anyone wants to pray for me. it's very dark lately.

Father Mike, thank you for this video. I have been praying to regain my faith in God's existence, and I think that this video is an answer to my prayer. My favorite part of the video was the point that faith is an act of the will to submit the intellect to God's revelation. It reinforced what I have been reading about faith in the Catechism. Despite leading a Bible study, praying every day, and having an active role in college campus ministry, I have been struggling with sin and having more and more difficulty believing in God. It's hard to talk about my struggle with others because usually I am the one evangelizing them! But I'm glad to have the Catechism, the Bible, and this channel to nourish my own faith in these hard times. I feel a renewed desire to believe everything God has revealed to me, not because I understand it, but because of His loving relationship with me. Why would I doubt someone who loves me? I can feel this darkness ending; but I hope that I can have better faith the next time I cannot see the light. If anyone is reading this, please pray for me as I pray for you.

As always when I wrestle with some Faith question, then comes Fr Mike and God speaks thru Him. So cool :)

A Catholic deacon; finally gave me some answers, to certain questions. I'm about to get my church friends on it with me.

I am typing this before watching the video and I already know this will be great. So many atheists have asked me this question and I have came up dry. Thank you Fr Mike Schmitz for adding more plates to my armor. ✝️✝️✝️🕊️🔥

Funny, warm, encouraging and full of life/love. Thank you Fr.Mike 🙏

Ok, how wholesome is Fr Mike in his intro!? :D

“Never doubt in the dark what knee is true in the light”. I’m an avid backpacker, specifically long-distance hiking. One aphorism that is common in hiking circles, specifically regarding difficult days where one is tempted to quit, is, “Don’t quit on a rainy day”❤

Father Mike I really needed this today. Thank you so much.

Father Mike! So funny I was thinking of Joshua Kadison songs the other day and thought I must be the only person who knows his songs!

“ Have a beautiful week!” God bless you Father Mike.

Thank you so much! I have been struggling with faith, and this answered my questions so well.

If there is one thing about this channel that always amazes me then it is the timing ⏰. It's perfect.

Perfect timing father mike. I’ve been really struggling with doubts against faith and I just need to keep striving for holiness and trusting that God will take care of me

God loves us with or without answers to our questions …”just Him 🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾

Bcoz God is light ❤✝️

How much God, The Father, must love and provide for Father Mike. Thank God for the blessing of His Church and her devoted priests.

Fr. Mike, you are so truly awsome.

"We live what we believe"🙏💞 Thank you Father Mike. God bless.

Providential for me of late. I’ve been thinking of Jacob: ‘He who wrestled with God’, and then I would just say to myself after these battles/frustration-“Jesus you take care of it” (trust)🤷‍♂️😏. Thank you Fr Mike for the ‘reflection’ of my thoughts of late🙏

Thank you so much for this video. I cannot believe how spot on it was to what has been on my heart and in my prayers lately. Thank you for allowing the Holy Spirit to work through you as you spread truth and love. Thank you for helping others on our journeys to Heaven :)

So wise, so enlightened. Thanks for sharing the faith, Fr. Mike!

Amen thank you very much ❤️🙏

Loved your intro! When you were talking about the bus and the picture of Jesus on the bus your face lit up! I love the way you love Jesus ❤️🙏

Hi. Fr Mike. I'm grateful for this KZfaq Channel. I'm planning on becoming Catholic after so... many years and is enrolled in a RCIA program. I'm so excited, but nervous in this journey. Keep doing what you're doing Fr. Mike.

God bless you abundantly Father Mike stay safe and stay strong in the Lord, 🙏✝️❤️

This is so great to be posted recently. I’m a grad student in philosophy at a genuinely Catholic school, but even at my “old age” in terms of studies I find myself haunted by doubts. Today I just read an article about the philosophy of St. John Henry Newman regarding faith and certitude. Then I came across this video right after! Awesome!

This video came at a time when I really needed a reminder to have faith and trust in God. Thanks Father Mike.

I wish more people still believed.

Amen

Thank you for the wonderful video. Wow when in the dark, don’t doubt what is true in the light! So amazing!!! So so amazing!

In my line of work we have a saying. “Push the I believe button”. It means you may not understand it yet but with experience and time you will. Which sounds a lot like what you said about the grandmas toward the end of the video. Sometimes you have to push the I believe button when something you know to be true doesn’t make sense and you will eventually get there.

Oh oh so good, faithful grandmas are going to love how you help grandchildren understand what they meant!! Beautiful ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

Thank You father, there's nothing better than a pre-Vatican II type of sermon.

I LOVE this! One of Fr. Mike's best (and that is saying a lot!)!

Thank you Father Mike. God bless you!

Joshua Kadison.....I used to listen to that cassette tape driving to work @ 4: 30 a.m. to a factory where I ran an industrial sewing machine 12 hours a day during summer and winter breaks for a couple years to earn money for college. That sure brings back some long forgotten memories. 😌

Really needed this today. Thank you so much. ❤️🕊

Another fantastic video, Father Mike. God Bless!

Thanks so much Father Mike!

Amazing. Thank you Father.

Amen beautiful father Mike god bless you father

God bless you Father Mike, thank you. Vivat Jesus.

I'm a returning Catholic A made some big mistakes. So what the confession Take a whole week communion. I've been back 12 weeks now.. I wish I never left. I was baptized in 1979. At that time.i was 21 years old. I came back in February 2023. Now I am age 66. I was gone for 8 to 9 years. Father Mike was the one that brought me back by all his topics on KZfaq. I had no idea the Holy.communion. Was Jesus Christ body Blood I thought it was a symbol. I was completely wrong.. I enjoy going to the mass. And I actually listen and see what the Message Is About that the priest gives.. One of the messages I like so sermon on the mount..

Buenos días! Gracias querido Padre Micke! Saludos desde Cd de Mexico

Thank you father Mike 🙏✝️

I love everything that you have to say, Fr. Mike. What about the fact that faith is a gift? How do we acquire this gift? How do we acquire more of this gift? - - Gary P

‼️ATTENTION FATHER MIKE ‼️ Dear father Mike, I'm a 17 year old and I've been watching your content to increase my faith But recently it's been questioned after your seminar about "practice not mine concept", I practiced it for a week and it honestly felt draining, I understand that it helps to encourage giving but Is that really all there is to life? Are we not allowed to have our own belongings, possessions, hard earned joys, even little comforts? Is that what God really wants from us? ‼️Could you please make a video explaining how to practice the concept of "not mine" ‼️ Thank you!

"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith [pistis]-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God..." (Eph. 2:8). 9:25 "There is a God Who is good, and you can just trust Him." 10:25 "In the light, in the darkness, we know the One in Whom we trust, we know the One in Whom we believe, and we take that step."🙂

Loved this. You should really do a video on darkness/desolation/doubts in the faith! I know so many would appreciate it!!

Please pray for me. I’m a broke unemployed widow living alone. ✝️🙏

I know that God exists as fact. I know that without faith because it was proven to me. I still need faith everyday in order to put aside my own objectives and reckless means so that God can shepherd me.

Thank you.

Pray for me fr mike that in every aspect of life I used to doubt in the dark despite the fact that i definitely knew was true in the light God bless

Thank you, Father Mike. I needed this today, as I felt my faith was getting weaker.🫂

Amen can you please pray for my mom she's on oxygen and has lung disease

Thanks so much

Faith is a theological virtual along with hope and love but love is the greatest of the three.

Now on to BIAY. Can’t wait...

Excellent. Can you suggest more in depth teaching on this topic?

Dude, Father Mike Schmitz looks super cute today. Plenty of people refuse to believe what is true. I have difficulty accepting the church's stances on the non-negotiables and most things that have to do with sexuality and the expression of the human body. I envy the "sinners" out of the church who get indulge in fleshly desires. I am too scared to commit these sins but I wish I could. Being a bible-believing relatively young Catholic woman can make me seem so old-fashioned and like a prude.

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It is virtuous to give up immediate, easy and tempting pleasures and desires in exchange for a higher joy and for at least a fraction of excelence. And it's very hard.

I needed this...A LOT ❤️

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Father Mike, I love your presentations I love your podcasts. I love how you evangelize. Now here’s the but… You mention Contraception as a challenge for others because it is inconvenient. I pray a lot on this one. Please hear me. The question of contraception and church doctrine is not about convenience. It is about a woman who chooses to go on the pill rather than allow her abusive partner to abuse a child. It is about a family where are the mother is working two jobs and the father is working jobs just to make rent and food for three kids that they already have. Yes, there are folks who want to have sex, but do not want to have children. Yes, they are the majority. But can we please have some compassion for those who are in a state of survival?

Fantastic video - good stuff to chew on. Can anyone tell me what his sources are for the C.S. Lewis summary? I’d like to read the original reference.

Hey Fr Mike and all the team behind "Ascension Presents", I want to thank you for all the work you're doing spreading the word of God. Can you please put captions on your videos? Even if it's not in other language, surely it will be so helpful for us who doesn't talk English very well. Thank you so much.

After Sundays homily I ran to de online bookstore and looked for the aforementioned CS lewis novel and found the entire book-set on sale that very day for 21 buckaroos.

I love your videos especially the bible in a year podcast. ❤❤. You make understanding the bible easy. Was wondering can you recommend something on learning the catholic religion? I am lutheran and kind of lost . Thank you

Very amusing, Father, in view of Pope Francis’ spokesman Fr. Spadano, who said that ‘in theology 2 plus 2 can equal 5.’

Saint John 20:29 Jesus said to him, “Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.”

I'm a Protestant who has faith in Christ and believes the historic creeds of the church. The remarks on contraception illustrate why I can't be a Catholic - my faith is not sufficient, I would also have to accept a whole bunch of other things without question "because the church says so". There is a submission of the intellect involved.

Accept God as a child

secular life of contraception is much more difficult and where most people struggle with rather than doubting Jesus is truly God and Man. It's easier to almost understand The Holy Trinity rather than being 100% against contraception. Is that weird?

I'm an ex-catholic atheist. I'm not trying to be argumentative but what I got from that monolog goes something like this. We don't have real evidence for God. God exists because... well reasons. Faith allows us to believe in god without evidence. Therefor faith is a virtue. The problem is that I can use that to justify any clam. It doesn't matter is it is true or not. E.g. Jim Jones, used faith to commit mass murder of his cult followers.

My belief is because I'm practicing Catholic. Then, because I know that the Catholic church is the only 2 church. How to accept whatever the church says. I will accept.

Because the Most High is eternal, Spirit, and invisible (at least in a way?).

Thanks father. I'm wrestling with my faith in Allah and the Quran. Allah has revealed himself to me through his word and through life experiences. He revealed himself to me in my heart. I know it to be true. I'm going through a tough time in my life but your words have encouraged me to Never doubt in the darkness, what I knew was true in the light. My faith in the Quran is just being tested after all. Allah wants to see if my faith is strong in him and if I continue to be obedient to him. Praise Allah, the only true God, the God of the Quran.

Father Mike, I love listening to your podcast. But I wish there was a way to print them out so I could also read them.

Father, dont quit ur day job... HAHAHA... seriously, thank you for all you do. We need you...

So the equation is like this: Intellect + Will = Faith?

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Faith also has is doing things.. Such as we need to get Baptist. Confirm. Take a 1 holy week communion.

How much coffee do you drink and what kind is it

Nice

True Christian and a believer will not agree about faith being a virtue. Faith is not in a human nature but it is a gift of God that any one who recieved Christ as their personal Lord and Savior.

After listening to you and your many references to CS Lewis do you have particular books that are your favorite at 66 years old? I am well beyond the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, which I read to my kids and certainly the chronicles of Narnia. I remember seeing a movie it’s gotta be over 35 years now which called Shadowlands it was the story of CS Lewis and the American woman who he ended up, falling in love with, and marrying only to have .her cancer. I am reasonably sure that CS Lewis was played by Anthony Hopkins, and the woman who became his wife by Debra Winger. Where would you have me start to read the adult if you will books of CS Lewis? I am thanking you advance.

If there's a doctrine I don't understand. I still accepted when it comes from the Pope.

I have a totally random question for Fr. Mike. I am trying to think of a small gift for my priest for his birthday coming up, but can’t seem to find anything and everything online is no help. I know as a priest they completely devote their life to God more than the average parishioner, but I don’t want to get him something that he’s like “another rosary” or “another religious book” or give something he already has. I know I am probably over thinking it, but I want to get something that he would absolutely love, but also is not offensive and reflects his priesthood and life.

Faith and Jesus Christ. That's truth.. Because. The Catholic bible talks about jesus christ Not just a stories Of his birth. Death Resurrection.. I'll be sights to bible We have sacred traditions. .