Brilliant homily! Let’s bring back the Domestic Church!! Praise be to God🙏

What a wonderful homily Father Mike gave this morning, at Mass. I have put it up on X, so more can hear. We must make family important, and change the world!

We have needed more priests to talk about the family for many years! Thank you. I will turn 70 in a few days. Wish this topic was brought up 50 years ago when I was 20! Thank you so much!🙂

Son was a attic and now loves and compassionate 😅❤

This guy is great!! Well done Father Mike! God bless and keep up the great work!

"Your body is sacred and holy". I wish someone would have told me That as a teenager.

I was once told by a wise old man that the best thing I can do for my children is love their mother. How right he was. How right you are about the intimate adult embrace; we don't hear this enough, either from parents or the pulpit.

Fr Mike, outstanding, you feed my Soul, thanks a million times

Thankyou Fr Mike....so thought provoking and reflective. I wish i had heard more homilies like this years ago. 🙏🙏

Always, always feeding your lambs, thank you Fr Mike! I wish I had heard this homily 45 years ago. May God always bless your words to us, your children🙏🏻 McMinnville, Oregon

Thank you Father! Powerful homily

Fr Mike, as always, masterful - profound.

Father, it's so true, and unfortunaly you're few speaking about this! Most priests are too lazy, too concerned about not "Offending the seep" and doing so the sheep are ging astray, lost, and the wolf's are many! Thank you, keep defending and teaching the True Gospel. Wife and I kept our 4 kids, adults now, from the public Schrewools. We gave up a big fancy house and fancy cars, gave up impressing, competing with nayghbors and friends, so they kept close to the Lord. All 4 goes to church if not daily, but certain, every Sunday and any holiday's of obligation. Easy? Definetely not! Are we poor! Not, we're rich, we have God in our house, no money in this world can buy our fortune!

@febamethysthernandez5440

7 ай бұрын

Amen

@eileenkelleher6660

7 ай бұрын

Well done you...unfortunately others can't see beyond the attachments to the worldly goods...they will, if we pray hard enough it won't be too late..Blessings to you for your Heavenly rightoeous priorities.

Amen Amen Amen..we pray for you & the restoration of the family, Father Mike @ Knock, Ireland..Daniel 🙏🙏🙏

Thank You Father for allowing Jesus to come from your mouth.God Bless You.

This was truly one of the best homilies I've heard. Thank you for saying what needs to be said Fr. Mike, and thank God for the internet so these words, and those like it, can be shared around the world.

Amazing sermon that needs to be heard in every church today!!

Father, you are so right. I have let people that are dear to me, know about you. Having grown up in Ireland almost 50 years ago, I had lots of friends, neighbors and school mates with the surname of O'CONNOR. You are the most inspirational O'CONNOR I've ever known.

Father Mike. Thank-you so much for being the responsible Father that you are. I so deeply appreciate the way in which you lead me in faith with such meaningful and necessary homilies. I’m so grateful for you!❤️

when i think of my heavenly Father. I read and listen to Proverbs 1-10

Yes, a wonderful homily. We need more priest like father Mike, to speaks the truth. If more priests, bishops & cardinals speaks clear, the world would be different. May God bless father Mike.

I wish you were here where I worship. So grateful for your great explanations.😊

❤❤❤ May God bless you with strength in your daily tasks, wisdom in your decisions, favor in your labors and provisions in your daily needs through Christ Our Lord. Amen. 🙏❤🙏

Greetings ☕🫖 good afternoon 🌧️🙏🏻 thank you Father Mike I agree with your bible studies ❤ families that pray together stay together, peace be with you 🕊️ I believe in the Catholic faith men when they marry they provide and the wife is the home to teach the children prayers, cook, clean, study it's team work

Thank you, Father, for having the courage to actually speak on the family and marriage.

Beautiful homily Fr Mike! I’m In California and my sister from Wisconsin told me about you. Your homilies have a been a source of inspiration to me because I hear the whole truth and nothing but the truth as revealed to us in the Sacred Scriptures which is so refreshing w all the confusion! Please keep doing what you’re doing in being a light in the darkness ! God bless you and protect you!

Keep speaking the truth. Many can’t handle the truth but it doesn’t change the truth.

Thank you Fr Mike for always speaking the truths of our Faith. So thankful to God for priests like you

Amen amen. Thank you, Fr. Mike. You are so right.

We for sure need more priests like him who will stand up for the truth instead of shaking quaking hiding in their closets. There are many issues out there that need to 'come out of the closet.' Today, anything goes & this horrid generation is getting worse. Nothing improves without correction.

Amen

Great points, Fr Mike! Especially about teaching our children about the sacrament of marriage, and responsibilities of parents to educate their children themselves instead of letting them learn from other sources, EVEN Catholic schools...talk to your children when they are young and tell them the truth of our Faith. It will keep your family intact! And PRAY together!

Excellent homily, Father! Without family, the fundamental basic unit, civilisation will collapse.

Amen 🙏

Beautiful reflection . Praying to humanity. Family is very vital in a society & sadly, it's been attacked & deteriorating!

Thank you Fr.Mike for your Wisdom and Guidance

every Catholic church should preach a sermon on the crisis in the family, it's been going on since the 60s, birth control is where it started

That was a powerful and wonderful homily, one of your best. Thank you and have a Happy New Year.

AMEN! You have no idea how I needed to hear that right now. Thank you God for sending your message through Father who sent it through youtube so I could hear it when my ears were open.

Amen Father Mike Blessings to you.

Wow! Beautifully said. Amen.❤

Awesome homily

Yes, a beautiful, God-filled, homily, Fr. Mike. May God continue to bless you, your parish, and all your KZread family. London, Ontario, Canada

Amen. Identifying the problem is half of the battle, they say, so what are we going to do about it? God is the head and the soul of the family unit, just as Jesus/God is regarding the (larger) Church, the family of families! Thank you Father, phenomenal lesson that's extremely necessary to be heard and lived out.

Thank you Father and happy New year

May God bless all of our families

Money became the big concern, draining time and energy out of and away from the children. We leave all the lessons to strangers … that can not rightly instruct us.

100% correct

I LOVE YOU CHRIST JESUS HOLY SPIRIT, 3:33.💪🌹☀️

Great homily Fr.Mike. I love how you challenge us all. May God Our Heavenly Father continue to Anoint your homily’s 🙏😇🕊️

How I wish you weren't such a lone voice or part of the club of lone voice'd good holy priests. We (us laity) need to step up to the plate in 2024 and reign ourselves and our sisters and brothers in ..we pray ..we fast ..we act .and we change things.Thanks Fr Mike..you're a light shining in the darkness..a beacon of hope in a world awash with woke and sin.

Today Is The Feast of The Holy Family The Biblical Vision: God Has a Holy Plan for Marriage and Family: Here In the Middle of the Christmas Octave the Church urges Us to celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family and to reflect on the Biblical Vision of Family. We must consider the Family and Marriage along 3 Lines: Structure - Struggles - and Strategy. God has a Plan for Marriages and Family to Reflect on the Biblical Vision of the Domestic Church because We Are All Spiritual Members of God's Holy Family! Thank You Rev. Mike O'Connor & God Bless! 🎄🕍

So true Father Mike that the family is like the cornerstone of a Nation. Guess that’s why the infamous Vladimir Lenin stated, “Destroy the family, you destroy the nation.” Lord have mercy upon humanity and open our eyes to what is currently occurring and grant us a discerning spirit so as not to fall into the enemy’s trap!✝️🙏✝️🙏🕊️📿❤️

@michaelsix9684

7 ай бұрын

liberals today do everything they can to destroy the family

Amén father Mike, love from the DR

Yes Father Mike! Same problem in England.......it could be worldwide?

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Family indeed plays a very important role in building the Church and society. The Church is composed of families, solid and strong families means strong Church. Thank you Fr. Mike. Happy New Year!

I would literally do anything to attend a church like this one.. with a Pastor like this 🙏

@akrenwinkle

Ай бұрын

Do you know what literally means?

@peggyhawkinson3061

Ай бұрын

@@akrenwinkle it was a euphemism

@akrenwinkle

Ай бұрын

@@peggyhawkinson3061 Do you know what euphemism means?

Father Mike has stated what no politician has the nerve to say: the greatest problem we face in the United States AND the world today is the breakdown of the family unit. And, as the father of 4 children, I believe the key elements to a successful family, in addition to the parents having a strong and sincere Faith, are structure, organization, and discipline all of which are held together by the essential ingredient - LOVE. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone by an even smarter human. 17:05

Happy new year father 💕🇮🇪

I couldn't agree with you more. Sometimes people just have tobe right. Mine said drink that wine on thanksgiving and i,I'll never talk to you again and it happened. I can't brake my rule😢. She is now attic. True

Great sermon! Thank you Father Mike and happy new year

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If Catholic priests raised a family themselves as much they talk about others doing it, Houston wouldn't have a problem.

you get role modeling from your family, without that, it's very hard to become a successful adult, families are where you learn how to love, obey authority, and undergo discipline

Excellent sermon Father! Who can add to it?

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half the adults in America today are single, 40% of all kids today are born out of wedlock, avg. marriage today lasts 9 yrs. or less, given these stats, any wonder why we have so much social chaos

He should ask priests who have fathered children how they are meeting their responsibilities as parents.

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When I read the reading today, I immediately thought of how so many Catholics are disrespecting Pope Francis, our Vicar of Christ and spiritual Father on Earth. "It has been said that as goes the family, so goes the world". Please pray for our priests, Bishops, and Pope. That is our duty.

@kevinduffy431

7 ай бұрын

I love the Catholic Faith that is why I both pray for the Pope and disrespect him! Francis attacks the faith and the faithful and does not deserve my respect.

Please correct my unknowledgeable information. Is the Catholic Church not a 5013C so that the government does not tax the church.? If that’s the case, from the pulpit there should never be any discussion about the government.?

Don't start with me

Addick

I'd rather be friends with a LGBT person than a person of the Christian far-right. I've associated with both kinds of people and for decades. LGBT are kinder, more loving, have a better sense of humor, aren't anxious to cast stones at someone, are much more open-minded, and are more creative

@user-ki2vh1uc5k

3 ай бұрын

If you are too open minded, your brains will fall out. I saw this wise message on a sign.

@ericschilling9757

3 ай бұрын

@@user-ki2vh1uc5k I learned how to be very open minded and keep all my brains. It took some experimenting. Best thing I've ever done.

@user-ki2vh1uc5k

3 ай бұрын

@@ericschilling9757 Glad you still have all of your brains! Many folks today don't use their brains much. They have forgotten how to think. It's interesting how non-Christians can be more Christ like than actual Christians sometimes. It's so challenging to be a disciple of Christ nowadays. Peace be with you.

@ericschilling9757

3 ай бұрын

@@user-ki2vh1uc5k The reason I tried to be open-minded when I was growing up was like you said. It seemed that many Christians were afraid of trying to actually act like Jesus. At first I couldn't figure it out. It seems many don' think they are worthy enough or smart enough to behave like Jesus or one of the chosen. So sad. That wasn't Jesus message was it? We stop thinking and surrender to Jesus and let him guide? Harder than it sounds.

@user-ki2vh1uc5k

3 ай бұрын

@@ericschilling9757 Yes, it's challenging trying to emulate Christ's behavior.