Thank you Father

@ThomisticInstitute

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. May the Lord bless you!

"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." (Yohanan 1:5)

Simply thank you father and to TI as well

@ThomisticInstitute

Жыл бұрын

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I just discovered your channel and right out one thing pulls me in. You appeal to reason. Ty. There's none of that wishy washy stuff.

Thanks. Will watch this one many many times.

A great talk for difficult times.

I needed to hear this right now. I have struggled with gender dysphoria all my life and transitioned 40 years ago. I'm catholic and practice my faith but from time to time I get down about being transsexual, especially with all the stuff going on with kids today and the satirical stuff which mocks us genuine trans people that I begin to believe that my life is worthless and my brokenness will never be healed. You words dear Father put a whole new perspective on things which gave me hope about putting my trust in God and hope in Him for my eternal happiness and unbroken state of being. You are right this world will never satisfy, only God and His promise to us. You made the difference and my heart came out of a slump I've been in for some time. God bless you Fr Ambrose and your community. Love and peace from Australia 🇦🇺.

@alegref.2983

Жыл бұрын

You are in my prayers. May the Holy Spirit fill your heart with peace and guide and strengthen you always!

@bernicecanty721

Жыл бұрын

@@alegref.2983 Thankyou.

This is very encouraging. Thank you so much Fr Little

@ThomisticInstitute

Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. May the Lord bless you!

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🌅 How can we maintain hope in troubling times? This episode addresses finding hope amid societal challenges. 01:23 🕊️ Christian hope is rooted in God's promises, focusing on eternal happiness beyond this world. 02:17 🌍 Recognize that the world's imperfections and our brokenness prevent true satisfaction here. 03:27 📜 Reflect on historical examples like Israel's Babylonian captivity, which led to increased faith in God's promises during trials. 04:48 ⛪ Emulate the martyrs' faith, who held onto hope despite apparent failures and trusted in God's promises for eternal life. 05:54 🙏 Place trust in the Lord's promises, understanding that the Creator of the world is reliable and has our well-being in mind. 06:21 🎵 Hope in God's enduring goodness and justice, as proclaimed in the psalmist's words. Made with HARPA AI

Thank you 🙏

@ThomisticInstitute

Жыл бұрын

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Excellent video!

@ThomisticInstitute

Жыл бұрын

We're glad it was helpful! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. May the Lord bless you!

I hope I will be like you intellectually.

#AskAFriar Help us understand how we should, as Christians, balance our work for justice on earth with the Hope that lies only with God? I am thinking not so much in terms of 'social justice' as pushed today but in the practical - the Corporal Works of Mercy.

@anthonyw2931

Жыл бұрын

it's a good question but the video answered it: especially on the passage read from Psalms. It isn't either one or the other, but encompassing.

@LeslieKlinger

Жыл бұрын

@@anthonyw2931 I would still like an answer from the Friar. Thank you.

@doctorofdegrees

Жыл бұрын

My understanding of this is Aquinas distinguishes between the theological virtue of hope which is directed to God, and the passion or emotion of hope which can apply to many things. I think these are compatible if one is hoping for and working for better on Earth, especially in ways aligned with Charity as described in the Aquinas 101 video on that. That, in turn, still leaves the question of 'what to do' on Earth, which then gets to the virtue of Prudence as described in the Aquinas 101 video on that. I've found those videos on Charity and Prudence extremely helpful and they inspired me to study the stark contrast between how Aquinas defined them and common modern uses of the terms charity and prudence, 'practicality' (vs. assumed to be impossible 'ideal,' often without the step of figuring out what's possible even in times of change like now.) Charity seems widely relegated to mean scarcity-rationed material help or corporate nonprofit work, when both of those are not addressing many actual needs of fellow human beings, including many who are praying for mercy, seeking help, and caring to be of help, in the context of worsening conditions for many people. Arguably, this can be seen in part as a coordination problem and often a problem of 'not knowing' -- many people 'don't know what to do' in general, and/or how to go about helping with so much unmet need it can be overwhelming. I see many people are seeking to figure that out or have given up trying. I see more and more journalistic reports about different populations in crisis, and many people are quitting or don't feel well working in the professions formed in the 20th century, which can do certain things well but aren't designed to address complex problems or situations that require interdisciplinary expertise or teamwork. Even doctors are widely demoralized and many are quitting or planning to quit. Many people are distracted by AI and not recognizing what human beings are capable of, I think partly due to the low expectations set by most modern philosophy and education. Several of my closest friends who care deeply about others are at high risk of dying because of situations that could be transformed with collaboration, but I've spent years trying to even gather a few more people to figure that out, while researching and studying 'why' so many people view all of this as normal tragedy or not their problem, even as many, many people are dealing with similar or inundated with helping people already. So this gets the the virtue of Prudence, applying knowledge to deciding what to do, including circumspection of what's going on and figuring out why. There may not always be one right answer for what to do, but what I see is common use of the term prudence is more around Machiavelli's definition or common ideas of 'what's practical' that often aren't even accomplishing what people want to accomplish, or 'just doing one's job.' So, from my vantage point studying all this from an angle of anthropology, history, education, professional education, psychology and epistemology and the various ways people view human nature and each other, I think human beings are capable of doing better than what's going on. The Lord's prayer also references 'on Earth as it is in Heaven', so I don't think the point of all this is for people to live in worsing dystopia in the most knowledge-saturated and interconnected age in history. So I think these are 'extraordinary' times and I'm certainly dealing with 'extraordinary' circumstances trying to coordinate people's survival and this resulting in many people I know not wanting to deal with anything complicated. So I would like to gather people to address some of these problems and of many people I've found with answers or working on similar, the efforts are just so fragmented and a lot of energy is focused on 'political' layers of things that aren't addressing needs and add up to a scarcity-triage process and rising debt. What to do in particular I guess depends on one's exact situation. Does any of that seem relevant? I'm working on adapting this sort of thinking into forms that could maybe inspire more people to see there's plenty of hope to be found about life on Earth and how many problems widely deemed unsolvable that are about corporal mercy and life more as it's meant to be, actually can be transformed and need to be to avoid serious catastrophe for more and more people.

@LeslieKlinger

Жыл бұрын

@@doctorofdegrees Interesing take - thank you

What a video! Excellent is an understatement. A great question, however, this isn't Babylon...yet. Every Christian in the free world should kneel and thank God that we are in a time that we can worship without persecution. The pandemic seems to the developed countries as the end of times, but it's hardly. Infact, it's a gentle reminder and opportunity for compassion and charity. For us Christians, these times are a call to arms. There has never been as many refugees in our recorded history. The poor are in the same boat. Persecutions are rife in many parts of the world. The prison system in the US is akin to slavery... And yet, petulance reigns. God have mercy.

This is the path that was laid out from all eternity, patience and fortitude will bring peace and hope. We need to be less like Saint Peter before the Cross and more like Saint Peter after the Resurrection

@antoniomoyal

Жыл бұрын

Better after de Quo Vadis😅

#AskAFriar: the times seem to be getting darker all the time with some of the darkness coming from some in the church authorities. Fr James Martin is permitted to to preach error and is not corrected by Cardinal Dolan. Pope Francis strongly opposes abortion but does not support this belief in his supervision of bishops who publicly suggest abortion is not all that bad. Pope also tolerates public error and sacrilege by German bishops by blessing sinful relationships in the church. We see good priests punished while those doing wrong are encouraged, lauded and supported. How can the faithful find the light of hope in the darkness that so many in church leadership openly help to protect and even spread?

@SATMathReview1234

Жыл бұрын

We must remember that the Church is the mystical ark of Christ. So that even if Jesus appears to be sleeping and the waves appear by human reason to be about to sink her that it is the sole means of salvation given to men so we must not abandon her and that Christ will in his good time awake and save his church. And when he entered into the boat, his disciples followed him: 24 And behold a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was covered with waves, but he was asleep. 25 And they came to him, and awaked him, saying: Lord, save us, we perish. 26 And Jesus saith to them: Why are you fearful, O ye of little faith? Then rising up he commanded the winds, and the sea, and there came a great calm. Matt 8:23-26

@user-fc1ld9ts8u

Жыл бұрын

@@SATMathReview1234 You misunderstand my concern. "Woe unto them who call good evil and evil good." Isaiah 5:20; Romans 1:18-23 ; Genesis 1:26-28. My inquiry relates some to the questionable actions of some and the shepherds in authority over them. This is quite different from fear.

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First let me say that I appreciate the work you do through this venue!!! I learn a lot. My question is this: why do we have to be punish for sins we did not commit? God is love, so He won’t punish us for sins we did not commit. However, from the moment we come to this earth we are under the punishment of death. You said we inherit it from Adam and Eve but this is wrong to me because why am I paying for a sin someone else committed? It’s not fair! Of course I know Jesus Christ paid the debt of this sin but that does not negate the fact that I was born with the debt or sin in the first place- without having nothing to do with it!

@josephwalkowski

4 ай бұрын

Bear in mind that the stain of original sin, concupiscence, was brought on by the sin of Adam (see Romans vii. 5 and Aquinas’ Summa Theol., I-II, Q. 82, A. 3). Though we now have a greater tendency towards vice and sinful desires, this does not permit us to act on our desires. It is true that Christ took away our eternal punishment from this first sin, but S. Paul reminds us that there are temporal things lacking in Christ’s sacrifice (Col. i. 24). S. Anselm says (in my metaphrase of his Cur Deus Homo) that “to sin is nothing else than not to render to God His due. As long as man does not restore to God what he has taken away, he remains at fault. It’s not enough to simply restore what has been kept from God, and thus man must restore more than he took away. If someone puts the life of another person in danger, it’s not enough to just restore that person’s safety without making some compensation for the peril caused. Likewise, if someone robs another person, it’s not enough to just pay back the amount stolen. Thus, everyone who sins ought to pay back that which he has taken from God” (I.XI). He continues: “To not demand anything from sinners is to not punish, which removes the concept of guilty versus not guilty, and this is not proper to an infinitely just God.” (I.XII) In Genesis 2, God said to Adam “From that tree you shall not eat; when you eat from it you shall die.” S. Athanasius writes “For God would not be truly God if, when He had said we should die, man did not die” (On the Incarnation, 6). One of Anselm’s students, Boso, asks “If a man can pay a debt and does not, he’s certainly unjust. But is he unjust if he’s unable to pay the debt?”, to which Anselm replies “If his inability wasn’t in his power, there might be some excuse for him. But if this inability is his fault, there’s no excuse. Suppose you give a servant a job to do, and you tell him to not to throw himself into a nearby ditch that’s too deep for him to climb out of on his own. Suppose the servant, going against you, throws himself into the ditch, and is thus unable to complete his job. Does his inability excuse him for not doing his job?” Boso then answers “I’d say that it would increase his crime, since he brought his inability upon himself. For he sinned twice, in doing what he was told not to, and not doing the job he was assigned”, and Anselm says “Mankind is the same, as we have voluntarily brought upon ourselves a debt which we cannot pay, and by our own fault disabled ourselves, so that we can neither escape our previous obligation not to sin, nor pay the debt which we’ve incurred by sin. For our very inability is guilt, because we ought not to have it; rather, we ought to be free from guilt, since it is wrong for us to have what we ought not to have. Therefore, as much as it would be wrong for man to not have the free choice to avoid sin, it’s also wrong to choose to disable oneself through sin and therefore be unable to restore this debt. Since we owe a debt to God, we either want to restore this, and are thus in need of salvation, or we don’t care about restoring our debt and thus will live a dishonest life of injustice.” In summary, God asks us to not sin. We sin even though we know we shouldn’t, so therefore nothing can save us but a contrite heart and works of penance combined with the Mercy of God and the Cross of Christ. I have no idea if any of this made sense, but I would be honored to answer any additional questions you might have.

@Justhumbleme

2 ай бұрын

If you gor baptized as an infant, then this removed original sin. You still had inclination to sin on your own.

Can a video be done on the definition of pure actuality? And what the really implies?

Look at the sky, the moon, the stars, the sun all of them are made with good intentions by God and in that case God is our hope the goodness in us is our hope our good actions our present dealings in our circumstances are our hope. Now what if the present is not good for us then pray for God's guidance. God will guide you in the good way just as He guides the natural phenomena around us.

Thank you Father. Quick question #askafriar. Why is the practice of animal sacrifice no longer required and why did God decide to pass on His only son as a sacrificial lamb? Could have He chosen a different not so aggresive method to redeem our sins? Why did Jesus have to die in such a horrible way? #easter

@marvinthemartian6788

Жыл бұрын

Ok, I’m not a friar, but I want to try to answer these-animal sacrifice was utilized to atone or make amends for sinning. When Yeshua HaMasciach went to the cross and became the sacrifice of atonement for sin for once and forever, there was never a need to sacrifice animals for atonement. Of course, for that sacrifice to apply, one must have faith in Christ. Yeshua made the temple system( as found in Leviticus) obsolete. When the temple veil ripped in two, that became clear. Only Jesus could have become the atonement sacrifice. He led a spotless life of not sinning, just as the animal sacrifices generally had to be spotless. I believe God can do whatever He wants, this is the way He chose. A sacrifice required blood letting( like sprinkling the mercy seat with blood) and death. The scourging and crown of thorns I can’t explain. Perhaps Jesus died in such a horrible way to physically show that the wages of sin are death? Blessings to you and yours, such great questions. Never stop following Him. He’s worth it

@marvinthemartian6788

Жыл бұрын

What a great channel. Great answers. God Bless. Joshua 22:5

@heroicacts5218

Жыл бұрын

@@marvinthemartian6788 that is a good answer. Still, if you think for a minute, the whole sacrificial effort seems foreign to our modern minds. I still do not grasp the logic behind animal sacrificing and the whole substitution it does by absorbing our sins. In that case, why not us to die every time we sin? It would have been much easier as spiritual physics would apply instantaneously (commited a sin? Next second, dropped dead). The animal is not efficacious. Also, if Jesus did it on our behalf, why not doing at the end of time, cleaning up every single one of us in one shot?Or in the beginning? Why in the “middle” of history? The animal sacrifice and penal substitution seems awkward, and I have a hard time wrapping my head around it…

@heroicacts5218

Жыл бұрын

Final point, since you are Martian. Had Jesus died for all of us, he died even for those that do not know him, right? He redeemed the universe. In that case, even people who didn’t know him in ancient times or in the remote future are potentially saved by Him, right? Even Martians, Neptunians, Andromedans and other creatures in the universe (if they exist) are saved by him, correct?

@marvinthemartian6788

Жыл бұрын

@@heroicacts5218 great great questions. So I want to be clear here that I’m a Protestant believer who studies and follows reformed theology. So much of what I believe is from that. I daily read the John MacArthur study Bible. Now, on to the questions- After Adam and Eve first sinned an animal was sacrificed to cover there bodies. This was the first animal sacrifice. I don’t think this qualifies as atonement, but rather a preview of animal atonement that would come. Sacrifice is really simply giving something up to gain something else. For example, choosing one job over the other. You effectively sacrificed the opportunity at the one job. Atonement really has to do with a concept called imputation. Which means taking the debt owed from one and moving it to another. So, it comes down to Jesus imputes our sin onto Himself, while putting His righteousness onto us. Not that we are holy, or non sinful, but that there is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus-Romans 8:1. Also there are three phases of salvation- we were saved, we are being saved, we will be saved.

You look forward to seeing me next time? How are you going to see me?

Oh no Satan has got me again, papa! If god is great then how can Satan oppose his power? If god cares so much for us, why would he create Satan and a humanity that is so susceptible to his allure? Why has god abandoned me and so many others who suffer unjustly regardless of their faith? Why is god hiding while his creation tears itself and the planet they live on to shreds? Why did god create people, knowing all and surely knowing how this experiment would play out, just to later judge them for the inadequacies he inextricably bound to their existence? At what point is god responsible for the monsters he created and abandoned like a deadbeat dad?

@redveinborneo4673

Жыл бұрын

@WeaponOfChoice can god microwave a burrito that is so hot that even HE can't eat it?

@tomgjokaj

Жыл бұрын

No God didn't abandon you, because God loves you. Perhaps you abandon God from your life 🙏🏻

Our ? Pope needs to stay out of politics ie hating capitalism and America.

@wilhufftarkin8543

Жыл бұрын

This is the most 'murican comment I've read today 😂

@williamharvey4732

Жыл бұрын

@@wilhufftarkin8543 LOL Wil , Pape!

Please .............. we don't want to hear about Iz*reel.

@jhoughjr1

Жыл бұрын

lol hide ur power levels

@SATMathReview1234

Жыл бұрын

What do you mean. The biblical nation of Israel are our ancestors in the faith because we are by adoption the spiritual children of Abraham

@butterflybeatles

Жыл бұрын

@@SATMathReview1234 True. But why do we have to keep on talking about them? How does it benefit us? Can't we just concentrate on the God/Man??

@martyfromnebraska1045

Жыл бұрын

@@butterflybeatles If you pay attention to the history of Israel laid out in the Bible, it’s one long story of God making them promises, keeping his promises, and the Israelites falling away due to lack of faith. Every time God comes back with a new, expanded covenant. Ultimately this is all fulfilled when God’s covenant is made once again with all of the nations through his Son Jesus Christ, who God’s people once again reject due to their lack of faith. It’s a relevant issue in the context of hopelessness because God was faithful despite the faithlessness of the Israelites, and he’ll continue to be faithful today. As for focusing on God and man, God’s relationship with man was restored through this history with Israel, as God often works through imperfect people (doesn’t have a whole lot of other options). I understand the sentiment you’re expressing as there’s a substantial overemphasis on the similarities/shared history of the Hebrews and the Church, and not enough emphasis on the differences (especially with dual covenant theology and various Christian Zionist heresies) and calling them to repentance, but it would be a mistake to go too far in the opposite direction.

“Number 15: Burger King foot lettuce. The last thing you'd want in your Burger King Burger is someone's foot fungus. But as it turns out, that might be what you get. A 4channer uploaded a photo anonymously to the site showcasing his feet in a plastic bin of lettuce with the statement 'This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King.' Admittedly, he had shoes on. But that's even worse. The post went live at 11:38 PM on July 16, and a mere 20 minutes later, the Burger King in question was alerted to the rogue employee. At least, I hope he's rogue. How did it happen? Well, the BK employee hadn't removed the Exif data from the uploaded photo, which suggested the culprit was somewhere in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. This was at 11:47. Three Minutes later at 11:50, Burger King branch address was posted with wishes of happy unemployment. Five minutes later, the news station was contacted by another 4channer. And three minutes later, at 11:58, a link was posted: BK's 'Tell Us About Us' online form. The foot photo, otherwise known as Exhibit A, was attached. Cleveland Scene Magazine contacted the BK in question the next day. When questioned, the breakfast shift manager said 'Oh, I know who that is. He's getting fired.' Mystery solved, by 4chan. Now we can all go back to eating our fast food in peace.” (Matthew 4:20)

@tomgjokaj

Жыл бұрын

Really this is the nonsense you have to say to Catholic priest, and a Catholic channel 😢

@procraftinatorz4116

Жыл бұрын

@@tomgjokaj mmmm baby mmmmmm

Thank you Father

@ThomisticInstitute

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. May the Lord bless you!