How To Pick Up Your Cross

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• AL

  @alyce-kayruckelshaus1224 · 7 years ago (edited)

  This talk changed my life when it first came out.  However, in the past four weeks, it's been the thing that has kept me going.  My husband and soul mate was killed in a crash 4 weeks ago.  I wish so badly that I had been with him and had died with him.  But God chose to keep me from going with him at the last minute.  God chose for me to continue living.  Without my husband.  I have to say YES to this.  I have to say YES to living ... and not just survive, but EMBRACE it.  Saying YES to living means that I'm doing something positive with my life, not just existing.  I need to say YES to hope.  I need to say YES to God's future plans for me.  Some days this means saying YES to getting out of bed, rather than pulling the covers over my head.  Understanding this as passive purification has helped so much and has allowed me to see the holiness and beauty in it.  It's also helped me to know that God is going to give me the strength to do all this.  My hope is that God will be glorified.(update 3 and 1/2 years later: I wasn't Catholic when I wrote this. I wasn't even considering it. A year and a half later I was welcomed into the Church. That's helped me so much.)

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• ER

  @eristonmansambu8225 · 7 years ago

  <b>&quot;...ultimately holier is not harder, holier is saying YES to the Father...&quot;</b> - Father Mike Schmitz.

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• DA

  @daviddabrowski01 · 7 years ago

  I look forward to your videos every week. Almost a year ago I watched your video on mortal sin and it hit me so hard. Finally made me understand how choosing sin is literally me not choosing God. I fought a 15 year pornography addiction. With that one video I said no more. It’s going to be a year this May. Thank you Father Mike. Praise be to God.

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• DO

  @dominick4687 · 6 years ago

  For His sake<br>By His side<br>With His strength<br><br>My new motto

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• EP

  @epictrooper2568 · 5 years ago

  Very often we ask God to change the situation we find ourselves in, when in reality God puts us into those situations to change us.

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• HA

  @hanoitowerpriest7457 · 6 hours ago

  As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one of them will be thrown down😮miracle

• CA

  @Carlixoxo307 · 1 year ago (edited)

  I realized that I&apos;ve fallen back into the habit of hitting the snooze button and going back to bed. And even after showering i go back to bed til i NEED to get up. This video has made me realize that when I have those urges to go back to bed, I should remember that this is for God. That waking up and getting up early is for God. I also realized that I don&apos;t need to rely on my pwn strength but His to get out of bed/carry my cross. God bless you Fr Mike! ❤

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• MI

  @mimi_j · 4 years ago

  The enemy thinks that I will be angry with God or deny Him with my loss but I will take up my cross and glorify Him evermore! Glory to God in the highest!

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• SA

  @Sarah-fm6ll · 5 years ago

  &quot;I have these attractions in my life, I don&apos;t want them, but here they are.&quot; THAT IS SO ME! I wish I didn&apos;t have feelings, but they are there. I thought it was just another reason to mope. Now I realize it&apos;s a cross I have to bear. That actually makes it amazing to me!

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• KI

  @kirsinaldini2004 · 3 years ago

  This VIdeo is 4 years old and you&apos;re still an inspiration. Thank you Father Mike

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• HA

  @hanoitowerpriest7457 · 6 hours ago

  People must bow to reality😢

• PI

  @picklebombbro4755 · 3 days ago

  The whole gospel is just doing everything suffering, happiness, everything with Jesus amen