When You’re Discouraged
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
It’s not unusual to experience discouragement on the road to holiness, especially when we live in a world that is filled with temptations and persecution. With God on our side, nothing the devil can do will ever prevail over us. However, it’s the moment we become too discouraged to ask God for help that the devil is waiting for. So how can we prevent this from happening?
Today, Fr. Mike explains the root of discouragement in our faith journey, and how to keep leaning on God through that struggle.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, here we are singing a song. |
| 0:02.5 | Just made it up right now. |
| 0:03.5 | That's how creative we are today. |
| 0:05.2 | Just made up a song out of nothing. |
| 0:07.3 | X-ne-hello. |
| 0:09.1 | That's dumb. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is a Sons of Presents. |
| 0:20.5 | So one of the things that I maybe come back to too much, but I don't think I can come back |
| 0:25.2 | to it too much, is if you know the truth, that Jesus is God. |
| 0:29.4 | If you know the truth that he established the Catholic Church as the church, his body |
| 0:33.2 | on earth, right? |
| 0:34.2 | If you know the truth that he gave us the sacrament of confession for whenever we're weakest, |
| 0:37.7 | whenever we need his mercy the most, then if you know this is true, the only way Satan |
| 0:44.1 | can ever actually derail you. |
| 0:46.3 | The only way he could ever wrestle your soul from the hands of God is if he got you to |
| 0:52.3 | the point where you were so discouraged that you just ceased asking him for help, the |
| 0:58.0 | Lord for help. |
| 0:59.6 | That if the evil one got you to the point where you were so discouraged that you said, |
| 1:04.0 | now I can't go to confession again, now God doesn't want me. |
| 1:08.2 | Now all these kind of things, because we realize that, wait, if Jesus is God, he established |
| 1:13.0 | the church and he gave us confession, he gave us that gift of confession to be used. |
| 1:17.6 | Like that means that he actually wants to forgive me. |
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