John the Baptist: His Real Role - Explaining the Faith w/Fr. Chris Alar
We all know of John the Baptist, but that is only part of the story. What was his true message and what makes him the most unique saint after Mary and Joseph? Hear fascinating facts from Chris Alar that you haven't heard before.
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Happy Father's day Fr Chris. You are a wonderful spiritual father. God bless you 🙏
@DivineMercy_Official
7 күн бұрын
U2
Thank you, Fr. Chris, for your talk on St. John the Baptist with some interesting, new facts I didn't know. May God bless, strengthen & protect you in your ministry. God bless the Marians.
@patrick.7326
8 күн бұрын
Amen
St John, the Baptist, pray for us 🙏🏼♥️📿
My mom died on June 24th back in 2020 which I thought was ironic because she always reminded me of him. Big mouth that loves Jesus lol
I love John the Baptist. He is one of my patron Saints. Everyday I pray and ask him for his intercession.
Thank you Fr Chris God bless all Marians Let’s continue praying for each other
@alwaysmisskaryn
10 күн бұрын
Amen and let’s include a prayer to St Anthony for Fr Chris’ coat to be returned to him.
@elizabethplunkett4013
10 күн бұрын
Amen
@xavier736
9 күн бұрын
@@alwaysmisskaryn I have a feeling that Fr Chris’s coat will be found
@acousticguitar1
9 күн бұрын
Thank you I will pray 🙏 for the Catholic Church.
@MLuzu-gardens
8 күн бұрын
Amen 💕🙏🌎🌏🌍🕊
These talks are the highlight of my Saturdays. Thank you. God bless!
@alwaysmisskaryn
10 күн бұрын
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@DivineMercy_Official
7 күн бұрын
Welcome
@AnthonyAnthony-tk4ye
4 күн бұрын
I agree! I love these videos!
Praying St John the Baptist for all those imprisoned for telling the truth such as Julian Assange
Happy Father's Day Marian Fathers!
St. John the Baptist ,pray for us.
Truly so wonderful to learn about John the Baptist. Thank you Fr Chris🙏
I watched all your talks more than once. Most of them I watched few times. Which I’m really thankful for “recordings.” 😊 watching This one again.
@alwaysmisskaryn
10 күн бұрын
I just ordered a snap bracelet so I can bring my binge listening to a new level lol
@DivineMercy_Official
7 күн бұрын
Ty
Fr. Chris, I want to thank the Lord for you. I have been watching your videos pretty much on a daily basis for the past 8-9 months, and I must say that the Good Lord has changed my life through your videos. I have finally quit the hardest bad habit that has consumed my life for the past 38 years back in October of 2023. In November, I went to confession like 3 times with a list. I now go to confession at least once a month. I fasted every Friday this past Lent, 3-4 slices of bread and water. Ever since Easter, I have started attending Mass on a daily basis now. I think I only missed Mass like 4 or 5 Saturdays, but other than that, I have become a Daily Communicant. And ever since May, thanks to it being the month of Mary, I have started saying the Rosary on a daily basis. We are now on the 3rd week in June and I am still keeping up with my New Habit. Thanks to Our Lord, Mother Mary, St. Louis de Montfort and to you Fr. Chris. Hopefully your videos help to change thousands of other lives.
JONATHAN CAHN IS A MESSIANIC JEW. He knows so much about the transition of Jews to catholics. I have read all his books and they are next to my BIBLE. I learned so much about my FAITH from his teachings/revelations of the O T that he knows so well. AND HE UNDERSTANDS SO MUCH OF THE WHYS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. PRAISE GOD❤🙏❤️
@miriamd2849
9 күн бұрын
Thanks for the info 🙏🏼❤️✝️
Thank you Father Chris for another amazing talk! And I thank you for this advance talk about Saint John which supposedly for next Saturday. I go to daily Holy Mass and I always ask Saint John the Baptist and Saint John Apostle aside from Blessed Mother and Saint Joseph to pray for me before I receive the Holy Eucharist with great love and devotion. I work graveyard shift at the hospital and last night we were not that busy and went to the washroom and prayed to Saint John and I kept saying, "Help me decrease so God may increase" several times and ask him for the conversion of sinners that all may turn to God. Anyways, I love Saint John the Baptist, I feel that this holy saint wants me to know him closer. I was about to start tomorrow to pray the 100 Requiems for the Holy Souls in purgatory for Nine consecutive days asking for their intercession for my special request and I totally forgot this great saint's feast day is coming up soon until I watch your Saturday talk. I feel I am called to pray the Novena to him and it is a great timing too cuz if I start it today the novena ends on the ninth day which is his Feast Day and the next day on the 6/25/24 that's when I have an appoinment with Habitat for Humanity whether I get approved or not for a home program. So Father Chris thank you so much for this, you are a gift to the church. Please pray for me and to all you brothers and sisters of Christ keep me in your prayer. Most Sacred Heartnof Jesus, thy holy will be done. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, we love you, save souls. Saint John the Baptist, pray for us. Saint John the Apostle, pray for us.🙏✝️❤️🥰⚘️
@markjohnson1520
9 күн бұрын
good luck on your appointment
@IesuRexGloriae
9 күн бұрын
@@markjohnson1520 Thank you brother in Christ...pray for me. God be with you. Deo Gratias!🙏✝️❤️
@alwaysmisskaryn
9 күн бұрын
May God bless you always. Your testimony of your strong faith is an inspiration to us. All my prayers are with you.
@DivineMercy_Official
7 күн бұрын
Interesting, thank you for sharing
Thank you, Fr. Chris Prayers and Blessings to you and family but especially for your Loving Dad's Health 🙏🕊💙✨
@alwaysmisskaryn
10 күн бұрын
Joining you in prayers for Fr Chris’ mom and dad.
Happy Father's Day! ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, pray for us!
Thank you Fr.Chris Alar,God bless you always🙏🙏🙏
Good Afternoon Father Alar and Blessings to you and all those you love. Im so happy you did this talk on St John the Baptist. My parents are from a little town up in the high mountains of Jalisco Mexico called San Juan de la Montana. And of course the patron saint of that town is St John the Baptist. His day is first started with a nine day Novena and following 9 days later with a June 24th HUGE celebration starting with Mass and later other celebrations throughout the whole day. and interestingly, for past years it will start to rain on that day after a dry spell. He Is really is loved dearly by everyone. Here's fun fact, in our Mexican/Hispanic culture for example, Virgin Mary would have been St John"s auntie because she and Elizabeth were cousins. So the children of my first cousins become my nieces and nephews. 🥰
@sheilalujanrazo7524
10 күн бұрын
Amazingly Beautiful and very interesting 🙏🕊
@petramiranda5095
10 күн бұрын
❤️🔥🙏🏼Sheila L R 🕊️ 🌸💗🌷💗🌸🌷💗🌸🌷💗🌸🌷💗🌷@@sheilalujanrazo7524
@alwaysmisskaryn
10 күн бұрын
Thanks for the great information. In my Italian culture most close adults are aunts and uncles also. It’s a sign of love and respect. God bless you.
@MrSereeus
Күн бұрын
Same. I call my cousins children nephew and they call me uncle
Thank you Fr Chris and all Marian fathers for educating all of us. Knowing my faith in a deeper sense makes me love my faith more and proud of it. Thank you for all that you all do. God bless you always.
@alwaysmisskaryn
10 күн бұрын
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😇
@rexandgracegimotea3108
9 күн бұрын
❤
Thank you fr Chris for talk on st. JOHN the baptist truly it helps me to graw in the catholic faith God bless you father. ❤❤❤❤😂
@alwaysmisskaryn
10 күн бұрын
😊🙏🏻🕊️
I been praying using st John the Baptist daily. This is great. - he must increase so we may decrease
I enjoyed this talk on John the Baptist. When you got to the part about explaining the meaning of Halifax I had to laugh simply because being a Canadian it was the first one that came to mind. Fr. Chris I kept your dad in my prayers while I was sitting inside the church that I attend. I hope that he's doing a lot better, but I won't stop praying for him as well as your mom and as well as you. God bless you Fr. Chris now and always.
@alwaysmisskaryn
9 күн бұрын
God bless you Tara. 🙏🏻😇❤️There is a tiny town of Halifax in Massachusetts also.
@DivineMercy_Official
7 күн бұрын
Thank you and God bless
Thank you Fr. Chris Alar on this Saturday Series, on St. John the Baptist. I wanted to know more about the Saint, I think he heard my request.I oftentimes invoke St. John the Baptist's help as I present to the Foot of the Cross the conversion of sinners with the Blessed Mother of the Sorrowful Heart.Thank you Jesus.
THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH Father Chris Alar. I am so, so thankful for your talks and I must confess that I enjoyed more when you give the talks more that the other participants, you, Father Chris and Father and Father Donald Calloway are heart felt talks. Deo gratias. God bless you all. God bless and protect all His faithful Priests.
@Toni-tx6ip
9 күн бұрын
Amen 🙏
Today, Saturday June 16th of 2024 a day before fathers' day in the USA. I am from Honduras where we celebrate fathers day March 19th which is San Jose Feast.
Happy Father's Day to you all the Marian priests. Thank you, Fr Chris Alar. For the full explanation the life story of John the Baptist. May God bless you always. Amen. 🙏
Thank you Father Chris ! I’m an avid follower of your talks in KZread! I’m learned so many things about our Catholic faith ! You’re sharing your knowledge in the seminary! God bless you ! For the greater glory of God 🙏🙏🙏🇵🇭
@DivineMercy_Official
7 күн бұрын
Thank you for joining us and God bless you
Happy Father’s Day ♥️♥️♥️
Thank you Fr Chris for the talk .. 🙏🏻never knew so much about St John the Baptist ..
Thank you Father Chris for this talk about St. John The Baptist. I’ve learned (as usual with your talks) a lot that I didn’t know. I’m so grateful for your time explaining our Faith. God be bless you always. 🙏🏼😇🙏🏼
@alwaysmisskaryn
10 күн бұрын
Even when I think oh I already know about the subject of a talk, Fr Chris always throws in a twist of new information. God bless him.
@janeyount8412
10 күн бұрын
@@alwaysmisskaryn Me too! I thought I was smart, but I'm even smarter after listening to Fr. Chris!😁🙏🌹
Heavenly Father , happy Father’s Day , may God bless you all ❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Happy Fathers Day to all the Marians! Gid Bless you always.😊❤🙏🏻
Thank you Father Chris!❤
Thank you Fr Chris for teaching us about Saint-Jean-Baptiste, our patron saint here in Quebec Canada. June 24th is a big feastday here, no body works, and we celebrate a lot. But it is now more about our culture than about the person of St-John. Décades ago there used to be big parades organised in every town, with a spécial tribute given to St-Jean Baptiste who was personified by a Young boy with blond and curly hair, dressed with a sheepskin, with a lamb by his side. But sadly, we do not think about the great saint we have as our patron anymore, …. we just celebrate ourselves, québécois…..
Thank you for yet another eye opening topic. Grateful for tirelessly educating us on all aspects of our Catholic faith that most of us grew up not knowing or being taught. You have enlightened and deepened my faith through each of your talks and homilies. Thank you for inspiring me to be a better Catholic. Happy and blessed Father’s Day, Fr. Chris 😇🙏🏼✝️
Thank you Father Chris and all Marian Fathers.
🕎Thank you Fr Chris Thank you Heavenly Almighty Father for your kindness and love. Mother Mary pray for healings and conversion. Jesus I trust in you🤍💮🕊️
@alwaysmisskaryn
10 күн бұрын
Joining you in prayer for conversion of hearts.
Thank you FATHER CHRIS and GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FANILY AMEN!
Thank you, Fr Chris, for additional information about St John the Baptist.
@DivineMercy_Official
7 күн бұрын
Thanks for listening
Happy Father’s Day to all the Marian priests 🩸🩸🩸🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Thank you Fr. Chris 🤲🏽🤲🏽🤲🏽🕊️🕊️🕊️
Hello Fr. you are always sooo awesome!! Thank you for your Witness!! ❤️🙏
Thank you Father Chris. May God keep you teaching the flock.
Thank you Fr Chris and all the Marian fathers for explaining the faith
This is so beautiful talk ❤ thank you for sharing Fr. 😊
Thank you Father Chris!
Greetings father Alar, I pray st. John after the final blessing of the priest, I attending Traditional latin mass, so we pray the st.john the Baptist prayers. Thanks & God blessed all.
I knew about the feast of John the Baptist. My name was given in celebration of the John the Baptist . In Poland we celebrate the day of our name. Polish version of John is Jan for a man and Janina for a woman. 06/24
Happy Father's Day ❤❤🙏🙏🙏
Thank u 🙏 Father . I have learned a lot about John the Baptist I didn’t know. I am blessed to have found this church livestream . Father ,apart from some people not baptizing their children , a lot no longer have children like before or some choose not to have children. It’s very sad . We need the church to grow
@DivineMercy_Official
7 күн бұрын
Yes
Thank you Fr Chris 🙏 ❤️
God bless St. John the Baptist! ♥♥♥Thank you Fr. Chris Alar for this video and all your hard work. ♥✨🕍🌹🙏
@DivineMercy_Official
7 күн бұрын
Thanks for listening
Interesting teaching I will be sure John the Baptist upcoming feast day will be celebrated and be special
WOW! I AM BLOWN AWAY!! PRAISE GOD!!!
Thank you Fr Chris god 🙏 bless all marian fathers ❤
Saint John The Baptist, Pray For Us. Amen 🙏❤️🙏
This is a great talk. I cannot wrap my mind around just how brutal people can be. I can't imagine having someone beheaded. It's unconscionable to me. August 29 happens to be my birthday. Interesting how it's the same day as the beheading of St. John the Baptist and Fr. Chris's parents wedding anniversary, too. God bless! ✝️ 📿 💒 🙏 🥀h❤
Dear Marian Family and the Marian Fathers. Thank you for praying for South Africa-which I asked for several times in the live chat. The election results i.e. which parties would join in a coalition alliance has been an anti-communist and pro growth alliance which includes all the people of our multi-racial country. May God be praised and glorified. A heartfelt THANK YOU.
@DivineMercy_Official
7 күн бұрын
Yes
Thank you For Chris Alar may God reward you for your time and encouragement to draw us all close to the faith.
Father Chris I am from Damascus Syria and I am Catholic the head and the relics of John the Baptist are in Damascus Syria at the so called the Omayad Mosque well the Ottoman Empire transferred it to Mosque of course it used to be a great church. However when the Turkish workers tried to dig the place where John the Baptist was buried blood started to come out like a river non stop and it reached out side the mosque by many miles and had no control over that so they called on Muslims sheiks whom weren’t able to stop the blood from flooding neither. until they called the orthodox priests in Damascus they came in and they prayed and then the river of blood stopped and so they kept it there they won’t dare to do anything to it. Even Muslims asks for the intercession of St John . St John the Baptist pray for us 🙏🏻
@DivineMercy_Official
6 күн бұрын
Very interesting, thank you for sharing and God bless
@didih9736
6 күн бұрын
@@DivineMercy_Official your are very welcome the head of John the Baptist and the relics are still buried in at the Omayad Mosque until today and the place still gets a lot of pilgrims from all over the world Christian’s and Muslims … etc.
Happy Father’s Day to all 🙏 love Kurt ❤
I love the comparison you made about John the Baptist/summer Solstice and light lessoning and Jesus/winter Solstice and light increasing! It was something I never heard before. It was awesome!
@alwaysmisskaryn
9 күн бұрын
Father Chris is such a gifted priest and he uses all of his gifts to give glory to God
@michaelhaywood8262
9 күн бұрын
Also remember the Annunciation, March 25, at around the time of the spring equinox, when day and night are about equal.
@alwaysmisskaryn
9 күн бұрын
@@michaelhaywood8262 great point Fr Chris gets us all thinking
St John The Baptist Pray for Me and all my Family❤
As usual Father Chris, this talk was a winner. There was lots of interesting information, including the parallels between the message of the Conception of St John the Baptist and the Conception of Jesus, by St Gabriel. Also, the explanation of metaphor of light decreasing from the time of his birth, and increasing after the birth of Our Lord. The most important lesson for me and some thing I had never heard of before was the concept of “soul ties.” I have heard Fr Ripperger speak of deliverance prayers but I never quite fully understood the concept. Now I do. Yes I would love to know more about generational healing. I did look online and he has a great one and I’m sure I will find more. In just two days and two different talks you have really given me plenty of homework for which I’m grateful . May God bless and protect you and your family. Sending prayers for all of you. Thank you for this enlightening teaching today. There’s never a dull moment as long as the Marians are teaching. I just ordered a couple of snap bracelets one for me and one for a gift.
Father Chris please clip the prayer so that we can add it to our daily prayer playlist🙏🏻
@DivineMercy_Official
7 күн бұрын
June 29 talk. God bless
Bless John and you🎉
Happy Father's day Fr. Chris Alar & all the Marian Priest around the world. Best spiritual fathers of all who guides all of us jn these complex modern times.😊
Father Alar, the Patron Saint of the Province of Quebec is St. John the Baptist. Celebrations were very religious until around the 1960´s. There was a tremendous falling away of the faith. What was the most Catholic place in all of North America did a 360 degree turnaround and today only 2% practice. While it is still a National Holiday, it is more a drinking festival than anything else. Music concerts but hardly anyone recognizes the great Saint. We turn to St John the Baptist to revive the faith in the people of Quebec! God Bless you and your parents!
@leonorb2290
8 күн бұрын
Amen! I live in Quebec and seeing this beautiful feast day of St John the baptist being celebrated in an evil way breaks my heart. Please pray for Quebec and all of Canada that we return to God and welcome God’s moral laws back into this beautiful country that was once very Christian🙏
@DivineMercy_Official
7 күн бұрын
Yes
@DivineMercy_Official
7 күн бұрын
U2
Thank you, God bless! Watching the replays fr Philippines...
Blessed to benefit from your good handwork to enlighten us and make us love Our faith and remain a faithful Catholic. Praying to be at your session in person. May God move me from Asia to be there.
@DivineMercy_Official
7 күн бұрын
🙏
St John the Baptist,pray for us❤
happy Father's day Marian Fathers🙏🏼❤️
HAPPY FATHER DAY TO MY FATHER IN HEAVEN 🙏❤️🔥🙏🙌🙌🙌 THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR 🙏❤️🔥🙏
i'm listening to your talks Father on my way to work. They are so inspiring! Thank you Father Chris. May God bless you.
@DivineMercy_Official
3 күн бұрын
Glad you are with us!
I always love to listen to your talk Fr. Chris because it’s long, easy to understand and I’m learning in one way or another ❣️🙏 May the Lord bless the works of your hands Fr. Chris and MIC priests🙏❣️❤️🩹
@DivineMercy_Official
7 күн бұрын
Thank you for joining us and God bless you
I entered AA 1 day after this feast day in 1995.
@alwaysmisskaryn
10 күн бұрын
God bless you may your recovery be fruitful. Prayers for your recovery
I love St. John! Thank for this indepth talk so that others may grow in knowledge and devotion to such a great saint!
@DivineMercy_Official
21 сағат бұрын
Thanks for listening
"I must increase so He can increase" in Jesus name, Amen! Thank you for teaching us returning Catholics who are starving for the word of our Lord.
@josephinemarino389
5 күн бұрын
I think you mean to say decrease
Happy Father’s Day.
Thank you for this beautiful talk Father.
St. JOHN THE BAPTIST PRAY FOR US. IRENE FLORINDO.
Tnx Fr. Chris.God bless you and the Marians.for.
Nice Icon of Saint John the Baptist Father. A loving Saint of whom I have his Icon in my house. His loud scream in the desert asking for repentance is very significant.
Thank You Fr Cris for Your Message of St John the Baptist it Was Very Inspiring to Know More of His Life and Very Informative A Blessed Fathers Day to You Also Rosemary
Happy Father's Day. God bless you always.
Thank you father Chris! God bless you always.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️
@DivineMercy_Official
20 сағат бұрын
Same to you!
Thank you Father Chris and all Marian’s
Thank you fr. Chris. Love hearing you. God bless you and all the priests keep me and my family 👪 in your prayers
Another great teaching Father! I’m still blown away by the summer and winter solstice reference and explanation between St. John the Baptist and Christ! I never knew that or even looked at it that way! I’ll be bringing these teachings to my Confirmation class students for sure! Happy Father’s Day Father Chris!👍🏼🙏
@DivineMercy_Official
7 күн бұрын
Thank you for sharing and God bless you
Father Chris Alar thank you for your insight and inspiration in details for John the Baptist: His Real Role
Woohoo❤️This teaching is great Fr. Chris!!!
Thanks for this talk. I have always had difficulty meditating on the luminous mysteries. This talk on John helps!
Happy Father's day ❤
I love this priest, I learn so much from him, it makes it easy to learn and leaves you wanting more
@DivineMercy_Official
6 күн бұрын
Thank you for watching with us and God bless you
Thank you Fr Chris!
Thank you Father Chris🙏🏼❤️✝️. Happy Father’s Day 🙏🏼. I love you❤
Thank you Father Alar❤❤❤
Thankyou Fr Chris. I'm glad that talked about John the Baptist who was such a pious Holy man who opened the door for Our Lord Jesus. Was interesting information about Halifax Uk and their connection to St. John the Bapist that i myself who am from the UK did not know !!! I look forward to the talk this upcoming Saturday. Everyone should add St. John the Baptist to their prayers 🙏🙏🙏
@alwaysmisskaryn
9 күн бұрын
Prayers for a renewal of the Catholic faith in the UK
How very inspirational presentation. I loved learning a the little and great things about St. John the Baptist. So many new things. Thank you.