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Wow, such a beautiful meditation ❤. My parents both came from very poor, sad childhoods (Baptist). They raised me in a prosperity gospel (Wesleyan) church. My problems were never seen as God's work in my life or opportunities to grow. They were seen as insignificant and inconsequential. By high school, problems were even treated as ingratitude toward the material wealth they provided and lack of faith in God. Faith wasn't a way to grow in holiness; it was a way to get what you wanted. I am so glad I can see God now and His work in my life. My pain doesn't have to be a referendum against me but a connection to the Cross and how God trusts me to become more like Him. How beautiful to not have to see pain in others competitively but to see it as God's intimacy in someone else's life, God's beauty. It should make us love sharing about our pain and praying for others to grow through it rather than condemning them for having it. I realized too that invalidating or minimizing what someone else is going through really is about silencing God's work and Voice in the other person's life.

@amyschmier8090

2 ай бұрын

What a beautiful response. So glad you have been able to grow through God's graces!

@Catholicspeaker

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your beautiful sharing. I really appreciate hearing about your experience growing up with a prosperity message. God bless.

Some seem to have more than their fair share of a cross. Whether it was a bad health diagnosis for them or family members. Children with physical or mental disabilities. Financial problems, or a bad combo of all three. Yet sometimes I selfishly complain about minor crosses. For all those who have the weight of the world on their shoulders, I pray for you today!

@triciapoulos3180

2 ай бұрын

Thank you, Brian. We'll said. A good reminder to me just how much more so many others suffer, than I do.

@juliacovarrubias2798

2 ай бұрын

Beautifully said😊

This was just what I needed to hear today! I am caring for my elderly father because he can no longer live alone. It's a cross I didn't expect to carry right now, and my siblings aren't helping as much as I would like. But our Lord gave me a wonderful, helpful, understanding husband, and He is carrying us through this!

She did a great job skiing down that hill! Love this take! Thank you!

That's was so beautiful, I was holding back tears . Wonderful parents ❤

Love the story of your daughter’s skiing experience. Such a beautiful lesson for all of us-look into our Father's eyes and trust.

You both are a treasure and thank you for your humor, Laughter is such a blessing..God bless and keep both of you

Such a beautiful talk. Being parents to large families can result in heavier crosses to carry. So many choose to have small families or no children at all to avoid the hard work and sacrifices being a parent brings. However, when we turn to our Heavenly Father and our Blessed Mother to aid us in carrying these crosses, our prayers are answered and our crosses become lighter to carry.

Do you trust me? Thank you. I needed this today.

Thank you for helping to understand my cross. Praise be to God.

What stands out is when you share imperfections. I can always relate to those, lol.

Thank you Ken and Jeañelle foŕ this beautiful message. I am lear ing to accept my crossess a little better from today.

Thank you so much, dear Ken and Janelle. I really needed to hear this. God bless you both and your children!

I had a stroke two years ago, and have been slowly learning the trust and patience go together. I am learning to be thankful for the grace that God has given me to see how many things in my life that I could do before I had taken from granted. I sometimes think about Job and how he bless God in everything that he received from him what he gave, and what he took away. Pride comes on many shapes in the myth of self sufficiency, that we are can do it now on our own without God is very prevalent in society, and sometimes it gets ingrained in the thinking of Christians. Now I realized that this is one of the things that I have been struggling with.

🙏 help me Lord to be calm and accept my sufferings and to believe that it has a silver lining for me and my family 🙏 teach me to be humble and increase my Faith to You everyday 🙏

Embrace the Cross is not easy.God Will's us to pick up the cross for Jesus otherwise our crosses become heavier and burdensome God bless you both kein and Janelle ❤✝️🙏

Awesome reflection Ken and Janelle! Summary for me is trust in God! Surrender, surrender, surrender to God! And yes some days are hard, we must turn our gaze to Jesus on the Cross! God bless!

Wow…such a great message! I love your analogy of your daughter’s skiing frustration overcome by trust in her father. Thanks Ken and Janelle for sharing with us real life!

Praying for the intentions, needs & blessings of all here. Peace be with you. ♡

I love you two (and your family) You are so holy and so normal. You make me feel like there is hope for me. You make me understand so many things in my life. Thank You.

Excellent share!

I needed to hear this today. So true. Loved the little skiers ⛷️

Such a beautiful message today ♥️ thank you for your words of encouragement 🙏

Love how you connected your response to your daughter and encouragement with God the Father. “Do you trust me?” If we hang on with TRUST in Jesus there is always a light at the end of the tunnel, a lesson learned, a Great Grace and even if the Cross is not relieved or taken away or even gets heavier, we are given the Grace, fortitude, resilience to carry it because we’re never alone! Jesus carries it with us IF we allow Him by accepting our Cross with love and trust. Without our Cross we cannot follow Him.

🙏🙏🙏.Thank you

Outstanding podcast! Loved the video of your daughter skiing.❤

I say a Hail Mary each and every time I listen to a message for u and that beautiful growing family!

@Catholicspeaker

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your prayers.

😂 It’s a magic list! Because as soon as you cross one off, another one appears!”😂🤣😂 That’s perfect!

@Catholicspeaker

2 ай бұрын

It's true!

Amen, a truly beautiful message. God bless you and your family🙏👐💖

Thank-You for the good message in this Lenten series. They all have been good. It does give me a better way to look at it, struggling with anamosity that has been going on in our own family, waiting for reconciliation, but continuing to pray, hope and I have to trust God.👏

Do you trust Me…what a beautiful thing to say to your daughter! We must trust as we keep our eyes on God and try to see all things as coming from His hands, it will make all of our crosses easier to carry. You are such wonderful parents and your family is so blessed to have you. 😇

Thank you Ken and Janelle. A conversation about Simon of Cyrene came up this morning and i remembered how you share Blessed Ann Catherines private revelations, it was very helpful for our own reflections on carrying our cross. Thank you and God bless you.

Wow, I loved the part of trust and your little one making it. I have never really skied well but also never had that kind of encouragement and support. Tell her this 71 year old, now a great grandmother really likes that she kept trying even after she felt she was done. Great job Dad and he whole family. Defenetly making me think differently about my crosses.

Well done young lady xx

I am learning to accept my crosses. It's so hard. I have had so many. Some have way worse. Unfaithful marraige, chronic illness, children's mental and physical health problems. I am working on getting over anger and accepting. Ken, when ypu talked about your daughter on the ski hill I just lost it and started crying. I have been wanting to quit for so long and now I am just wanting to look into my Heavenly father's eyes and trust him with all my heart. Thank you for this inspiring story.

@Catholicspeaker

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing!

Yes, Lord. I say Yes to you.

Thank you for this video. I accept my cross for God will bring Good from it. I suffer with chronic illnesses

Just beautiful and timely!💜🙏🏻💜

Thank you Ken and Janelle🙏♥️ Lord I trust in You🙏

So I guess my suffering for today was when I wrecked my car a couple months ago and found out today that my Gap Ins. was not gonna cover any of what I owed on my car which is about $10,000 but I was calm I didn’t get angry or mad or cry And I knew that it was a cross that God wanted me to carry. I thank God for giving me this calmness, and for the strength that he gives me to carry my cross.

Wow! Love that, she is super!!!! I am feeling so anxious today about an upcoming surgery on my back. I don’t know why as I always live by proverbs 3:5,6. And now, you reiterate DO YOU TRUST ME! I believe that is the Lord speaking to me through you! Thank you and God bless you and your family 🙏🏻

Our cross and suffering is love and it’s a way to remind us that we are alive. However, when we are in the midst of it….all we are thinking of how we want it to be over. Suffering is necessary!

Such a beautiful meditation. Love the story about your daughter and trusting in God. I needed that message today. God bless you both.

Ken and Janelle, I enjoyed the beginning of your video today as you two were very joyful and your message was absolutely necessary and essential as I am seeing how some faithful elderly catholics who are now bedridden are either suffering in pain or if not in pain having difficulty accepting their situation. This video I will be sharing with an 84 year old who is becoming depressed and is bedridden.

I think that I have learned to trust in God. Although I think there will always be times in my life until the end that it'll be a struggle to accept suffering. That's when I'll turn to surrendering All to Him. In fact I try to do that on a daily basis. That way no matter what comes around I'll know He's allowing it for a reason. The last few days I've had some unexpected lower back pain. It has kept me from what I thought I'd be doing. Times like this I'm always reminded of those with chronic conditions such as back pain. I offer my pain up for them. 🙏🤲🙏 Loved the story of little one on the slopes. Your children are so blessed by having parents so in love with the Lord. 🙏💝

@Catholicspeaker

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing

Your daughter must trust you. She was skiing without poles that looked like. I hear from so many people without faith. Saying, why does God allow bad things to happen? And thanks to your guides, I always tell them. It's just human nature gives us free will. But it gives people around you. The opportunity to do the right thing😊

Thank you, this helps make some sense of why my 13 year old daughter died the way she did and what we must do as a family henceforth

Oh the crosses we carry- every time I pick up one, I humbly remind myself that it’s not the heaviest one that it could be- and then I thank him for my Graces that come from that cross; even from the smallest bout of illness that causes interference with daily routines, I pray to accept it more willingly.

Beautiful, thoughtful message given in a calming 😃and heartfelt way! Thank you!

Simon of Cyrene (for me, this part stood out). Why? Because I've always viewed Simon of Cyrene as a hero of mine after the fact his heart was converted, as soon as he received such Grace he had a deeper understanding that Jesus Christ was innocent. It's almost like he had an illumination of conscience and he himself became angry that the Roman soldiers were treating him with so much hatred. Yes, many times I don't know how to carry my own cross and many times I ask myself, WHY ME? And focus or become overwhelmed with negative thoughts and lose my focus in offering my cross to God with Love for him. Onle last comment, Father Bill Casey once mention that 2 of Simon of Cyrene's sons became bishops of the Catholic Church. That's powerful!

I shared with the family. You guys are awesome. I have learned so much. Thank you for sharing.❤ That is why my son gives to you on a month basis. God bless please include him in your prayers he’s name is Matthias

Thank you.

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Beautiful message! 🙏❤️

I walked away from the Catholic Faith 3 months ago,because I felt unwanted in the church system and angry that so much was put upon my plate! I have not celebrated Lent nor will I celebrate Easter this year. But I still pray daily,and still here with you. One Day I will return,not yet. Disagreeables is a good way to word unwanted tasks,it is hard to embrace these things and more. Blessings.❤

@sarahebelewicz3112

2 ай бұрын

Blessings on you too, as you navigate through your feelings and emotions right now. Jesus said 'Come to me those who are carrying heavy burdens and I will give you rest.'🙏

LORD, help me to carry my suffering faithfully.

You are a beautiful couple , I love listening to you chat … is a fun respectful way 😘😘❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏

@Catholicspeaker

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 🤗

Do you trust me? I loved this ✝💌

I like you so much, you are such beautiful souls❤❤❤❤

@Catholicspeaker

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching.

Can I tell you something- if I failed at something (as a child) I was not encouraged to try again. I had loving parents- but I don’t ever remember being encouraged to tackle something I had failed at. This is still who I am! Sadly. I am defeated before I try. I love your skiing story! ❤️ God Bless You Both❤️

Beautiful!! Thank you!

Thank you ❤️

Two of the most joyful days of my life were not happy days. The day Dad died. And the day Mom died. Dad's death was more predictable than Mom's. Mom's was completely unexpected, shocking, and overwhelming. But we were there, at Dad's bedside, praying, before the machine that kept his heart beating was disconnected. And I thrust my rosary into Mom's palm while she was in cardiac arrest, room full of doctors, nurses, and what seemed like dozens of medical personnel. And "we" prayed intensely. Was she already dead? Probably. Didn't matter. I wasn't taking any chances. Joyful. Not happy. Part of life. Joyful thanks to the grace of the Holy Spirit. And buoyed by my strong faith, thanks to the witness of my parents.

Besides my disability's, my cross is not to argue political ideology!! Jesus wants us to love each other!! The our father is really hard, when I say ," forgive me my trespasses as I forgive others "!! Crosses are not always physical!! Remember Paul had thorns in his flesh!!

Thanks so much for incorporating your daughter's profound discouragement with her many falls while learning how to ski and what eventually transpired: your words, your prayers and her getting up and trying again and again. And the video filled the spiritual place of a powerful uplifting example May we all fly on the wings of the Holy Spirit's gifts while we carry our cross...maybe an oxymoron?!

I am suffering from pain in my spine from my thoracic spine all the way down the rest of my spine, my nerves are being impinged, there is anything they can do for me, but I thank GOD for this spinal afflictions.

@kathleenthompson3140

2 ай бұрын

I know your pain well. Mine is from head to thoracic spine. Most of the time all i can think of is relief. I am trying to offer it to Jesus to do with it as He wills. I will try to see His face, asking me if I trust Him. Of course I do.

@dorothyswol6979

2 ай бұрын

I just trying to keep saying what the Blessed Virgin Mother Mary said, I am the handmaid of the Lord, let it be done unto me according to thy word.@@kathleenthompson3140

@dorothyswol6979

2 ай бұрын

I try not to think of my pain.

March 20, 2024

Good morning, my cross I carried is at work. I try not to say anything, but sometimes it is hard. I'm always asking Gid to give me patience. Is there another way I need to pray? Blessings to both and the rest of the family. Have a wonderful day ❤

My surgery wounds look like a huge cross. God has a humor to show where my cross is

IS CONFESSION NEEDED WHEN WE FAIL OR CHOOSE TO NOT ALWAYS ACCEPT THOSE DAILY DISAGREEABLES???

Changing dippers is a blessing🎁. I was blessed with only one child💐🙏🏾🌹🎁. I’d have loved the opportunity to change dippers of 13 years but then it wouldn’t be a cross 😂😂😂

I have a dumb question. Who is Fr. Gabriel? Also, is all suffering from God? And if not how are to discern. Lord God I do trust you and if it’s from you, I know you will not only allow it, but get me through it. 🙏

@Catholicspeaker

2 ай бұрын

info on Fr Gabriel - ignatius.com/authors/father-gabriel/

@Catholicspeaker

2 ай бұрын

Good question about suffering - God allows suffering, he does not cause of suffering. Here is a quick article: www.catholic.com/qa/how-can-i-make-emotional-sense-out-of-suffering-when-it-happens

His cross is not burdensome!!

Ken, I believe Janelle has you out numbered in changing diapers because your job took you away from home often and for days before COVID and you were away from the diapers. 😁. 🤪. Just teasing you! 🙂. Marriage is team work and I must admit, 7 children would create a LOT of diapers! 😱. You both are outstanding parents and a blessing to all of us! God bless you both! 🙏. Thanks for the videos. 😘

Luke 23:26 - As they led him away, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming from the country, and they laid the cross on him, and made him carry it behind Jesus. So Simon took up his cross and followed Jesus. He is presented as a model Christian. He gets a bum rap from so many people who critique him.