{"id":4153,"date":"2018-12-01T21:53:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T02:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/?page_id=4153"},"modified":"2022-02-19T05:52:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T10:52:44","slug":"finding-the-lost-sheep-advent-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/finding-the-lost-sheep-advent-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the Lost Sheep &#8211; Advent 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"youtube-responsive-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y6Ky-YRlcbg?rel=0&amp;modestbranding=1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"summary\">Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Fr. Kyle Manno shares two stories of his life, his vocation and a story of his father. He shares how these stories made him realize how Jesus is seeking us out in our times of sorrow and during the times we find ourselves astray from Him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for watching and participating in this retreat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Not Registered, yet? Don\u2019t miss the rest of the talks! Register for the Pray More Retreat!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/2018-advent-retreat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Click Here to Register!<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"downloads\">Downloads<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"audio-mp3\">Audio MP3<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/15-Fr.-Kyle-Manno-Finding-the-Lost-Sheep.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click&nbsp;here&nbsp;to download audio file.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"printable-study-guide-pdf\">Printable Study Guide PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Finding-the-Lost-Sheep-Study-Guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click here to download the printable study guide.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"printable-transcript-pdf\">Printable Transcript PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/The-Lost-Sheep-Fr.-Kyle-Manno-Transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click here to download the transcript of the video presentation.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"reflective-study-guide-questions\">Reflective Study Guide Questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cWhat is your opinion? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray? And if he finds it, amen, I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not stray. In just the same way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost.\u201d<\/p><cite><em>Matthew 18:12 &#8211; 14<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>God will never stop seeing you out because He loves you. How have you seen God pursuing you this week?<br><br><\/li><li>At one point or another, we all experience this feeling of being like a sheep without a shepherd &#8212; a feeling of being lost. Have you felt like this before? If this happened in the past, how did you get through that and move past it? What changed things for you then? If it\u2019s now, what are you doing to endure this time?<br><br><\/li><li>Each one of us has this part of our heart that is dying, that\u2019s lost, that\u2019s distant from God. And it\u2019s that part of our heart that is most lost that God wants to love. How have you been avoiding giving that piece of your heart to Him?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"text-finding-the-lost-sheep\">Text: Finding the Lost Sheep<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"parable-of-the-lost-sheep\">Parable of the Lost Sheep<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Alrighty. God is good. We are continuing the journey through this Advent season. We\u2019re going to welcome Baby Jesus into the world. Who else is excited? Whoo! I know I am. So again, my name is Father Kyle Manno, I\u2019ve been a priest now for 2 years. I\u2019m assigned at Newman Center in DeKalb, Illinois, actually where I want to college. Right in this office where I\u2019m at is where I found my vocation. Crazy, full-circle. It was right at this desk. Sturdy. But I was on the other side discovering why God made me, and now I\u2019m a priest. It\u2019s crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I got my music education here, degree here at Northern Illinois. I\u2019ve been a priest 2 years in a suburb, and now I\u2019m in this college town on the campus as one of the ministers, and then also a vocation director for my diocese. So, excited to be with all of you during this <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/six-ways-keep-advent-season-holy-part-advent-2016\/\">Advent season<\/a> journeying together, and take this retreat, this short time, to kind of break into our hearts with Jesus Christ, and allow Him to love us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And so today, our topic is the parable of the lost sheep. I want to read for you Matthew 18, 12 through 14, just very briefly. <strong><em>\u201cWhat is your opinion? If a man has 100 sheep, and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray? And if he finds it: Amen I say to you, he <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/choosing-joy-advent-2020\/\">rejoices<\/a> more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not stray. In just the same way, is it not the will of your Heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost?\u201d<\/em><\/strong> I\u2019m going to repeat that. <strong><em>\u201cIs it not the will of your Heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost?\u201d<\/em><\/strong> It seems like an irrational shepherd, right. You\u2019ve got 100 sheep, 99 are in there, one\u2019s lost, and you\u2019re going to go and run off for one? One? Alright, shepherd, it seems kind of silly, right. It seems silly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, to get our minds around this passage, I want to share with you 2 brief stories. One has to do with my vocation, and the other has to do with my father, my earthly father. And they\u2019re 2 stories that really hit home in a beautiful day and, God-willing, will hit close to your own heart, and allow you to discover that God will never stop seeking you out. Because He loves you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"fr-kyle-manno-s-vocation\">Fr. Kyle Manno&#8217;s Vocation<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>So the first one actually is during my vocation. I was, you know, going to college, getting my music degree, as I just said. And when I was getting my music degree, my original plan before I ever started asking the question about priesthood was \u201cI want to go to college, get my degree in music and piano and trumpet,\u201d and then I was going to graduate, get married, have like 10 kids, maybe a baker\u2019s dozen, I don\u2019t even know. I was going to move to California and just become like a musician. And I wanted to pursue music the rest of my life, and then be happy, right. Music, money, wife, kids, good to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then I was in college, when I was actually meeting with a priest right here, kind of discovering my faith again, rediscovering it &#8211; I had a reversion back to the beautiful church &#8211; and I would meet with the priest every week, talk about faith, about who I was, identity. And I came in one day and I said \u201cFather, I\u2019ve been thinking a lot, and I think I want to be a deacon one day.\u201d And he was like \u201cAlright, cool.\u201d And he didn\u2019t seem that impressed, and I was like \u201cExcuse me? This is a big deal. You should be more pumped than this.\u201d He said \u201cWell, why don\u2019t you think about being a priest, right.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And so I did. I started <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/how-to-discern-gods-will-advent-2020\/\">discerning<\/a> the priesthood, asking that question, \u201cCould I be a priest?\u201d I had never asked it before. And as I\u2019m asking this question, kind of trying to discover why I was created, and asking the question of how, like, real my discernment was, like how much I was entertaining the question of \u201cCould I be a priest?\u201d I was at the same time in a band, and we could gig about 4 or 5 times a week during the summer, and we were playing a local gig about an hour from here. And we were in a city called Joliet, Illinois, we had a little townie bar called \u201cJust One More.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So in a townie bar, of course, everyone\u2019s kind of middle-aged, and they\u2019re all the same people, right. Everyone knows everyone. So I\u2019m playing this gig, I\u2019m playing piano at this specific gig, and we have 4 hours to play. And as I\u2019m playing for about 4 hours, we\u2019re about an hour and a half in, and I see this guy walk in. And when you play the same music every day for like 4 hours, the same music, you just people-watch, right. You just watch everybody and observe, and you\u2019re like \u201cAlright, what\u2019s going on over there? Alright, who\u2019s that guy? Who\u2019s that lady? Who\u2019s that dude?\u201d Right, you just people-watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So this guy walks in, sits down at the bar, the bartender immediately gives him his drink, and you can tell everyone knows this guy, right. We\u2019ll call him Mike. He\u2019s the Mike of the bar, right. Everyone knows Mike. And as he\u2019s sitting there, he\u2019s talking and making jokes and laughing, and he\u2019s facing me, but not facing me, right. He\u2019s in my direction, but he\u2019s talking to the woman next to him, clearly trying to pick her up, and he\u2019s laughing and he\u2019s joking, having a good time. But what\u2019s interesting is I kept watching Mike laugh, and have a good time, and drink his beer, and he was facing me. I saw his eyes. Something in his eyes struck me, and I was like \u201cHmm.\u201d His eyes seemed lifeless. Like they looked dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And even though he\u2019s laughing, even though he\u2019s joking around, he\u2019s got a smile, he looks empty. And all of a sudden, as I watched him more and more and more, seeing his empty eyes, I saw a lost person. And all of a sudden this passage popped into my mind: He\u2019s like a sheep without a shepherd. And I was like \u201cYeah, yeah, yeah. That\u2019s what he is. A sheep without a shepherd.\u201d Meaning he wants to be loved, he wants happiness, but he doesn\u2019t know where to go. So he goes to this bar every week, and every Friday, every Saturday trying to fill up this place in his heart, trying to be loved, maybe drinking excessively, making out, maybe having a one-night-stand. But he wakes up in the morning more and unhappy, more lost. But this is the only place he knows, so he comes right back, trying to fill the void.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as I looked at him, I was like \u201cOh my gosh. That\u2019s so sad. Who is going to help him? Who is going to help that poor man?\u201d And all of a sudden this little voice popped in my mind like \u201cMaybe you.\u201d Me. Maybe I could be that person. Because who else is going to tell him? Who is going to tell him the truth? And I had to play for 2 more hours, but as I left the bar that night I thought \u201cYeah. There\u2019s thousands of us, millions of us, billions of us like him, walking around lost. Putting on the happy face, but we\u2019re empty. We\u2019re lost. We\u2019re like sheep without a shepherd. Who\u2019s going to give us the truth?\u201d So I recognize that this call, this question of \u201cCould I be a priest?\u201d was deeper than I thought. And the more I prayed, the more I recognized that that\u2019s at the core of my being. All I want to do in life is help people discover that they need a savior. Help people discover that they are a lost sheep, and they need a divine shepherd. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"praying-for-a-miracle\">Praying for a Miracle<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>So I went to seminary, and I got to seminary, and about 5 months in my father got very ill, very sick. And he was sick in the hospital for about 2 years, and he was essentially paralyzed the entire time. He couldn\u2019t move, he couldn\u2019t speak. None of that. And I would go to the hospital pretty much every day and sit with my dad. And I remember this one time very specifically, I was sitting there &#8211; It was about 5 months into him being paralyzed &#8211; and I was looking at him, and I was sitting with my siblings, and we were all kind of talking, and we were just actually just reminiscing about my dad, and we were having a good time. We were laughing, talking about a lot of his funny moments. And all of a sudden, as we sat there, I was almost like having this moment outside of myself where we were all laughing, having a good time, and I saw my dad, who couldn\u2019t speak, right. He couldn\u2019t even laugh. And, all of a sudden, I saw us, who could laugh, who could move, who could speak, and we were taking it for granted, right. Like, it was so easy for us to do anything. And then there\u2019s my dad, who\u2019s paralyzed. He can\u2019t do anything for himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And all of a sudden I realized that, right, we were praying every day for a miracle, we were. And if my dad, who was, like, almost, right, 6 feet in the ground, if he one day got better, if he one day went home, we were going to have the biggest party ever, right. Now, here we are, like these healthy people, and we take for granted that we can walk, that we can move, that we can speak, that we can do whatever we want, right. We\u2019re healthy, but nobody\u2019s having a party. We don\u2019t have a party because we\u2019re doing good. But if my dad, if he went home, was healed of this sickness, you know we would have had the biggest party ever. I would have put the streamers up, right, got those things in the air, got the drinks out, because he was at the edge of death. We didn\u2019t celebrate for our health, but we would have celebrated for his.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"jesus-is-seeking-out\">Jesus is Seeking Out<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And so all of a sudden, as I sat there looking at us and looking at him, I thought of this passage, right, rejoicing over the one that\u2019s saved. And all of a sudden it made sense to me. Nobody celebrates over those who are saved or healthy. What they celebrate is over those who are close to death and come back to life, right. And when I think of those 2 moments, with seeing the man in the bar and seeing my dad &#8211; who eventually did die, right, but we rejoiced over him entering heaven, entering the Kingdom of the Lord &#8211; is that each one of us has this part of our heart that\u2019s dying. That\u2019s very, very lost. So distant from God. And it\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/pray-like-saint-wisdom-growing-closer-god-part-ii\/\">part of our heart that is most lost that God<\/a> wants to love, right. It\u2019s the most broken part, the most lost part of our heart that Jesus Christ is trying to seek out. And He will find you, He will seek you out, He will not stop. And the second He ravishes your heart, the second He gets into that part of your heart that\u2019s most lost, ooh, all of heaven and earth is going to rejoice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And so what is it in your heart that is most lost? What is it in your heart that you feel like has no hope? What is it in your heart that feels like it\u2019s 6 feet under, at the edge of death, and you\u2019ve lost all hope? Because it\u2019s right there where the God of the universe wants to go. It\u2019s right there He wants to be your shepherd. Don\u2019t be afraid to recognize that you are the lost sheep. I\u2019m the lost sheep. We all are. But when we recognize we\u2019re lost, then we can be found. So I encourage you today, after we finish this time together, just to spend about 10 minutes in <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/sitting-in-silence-with-the-lord-lent-2021\/\">prayer<\/a>, and ask God \u201cGod, find me. Find me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"closing-prayer\">Closing Prayer<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Amen. Lord, Heavenly Father, send Your blessings down upon these, Your children. Let them recognize that they are in search of You, that they want to be found, and You are in search of them. Bring to light the parts of their heart that feel most dead, the parts of their heart that feel most lost, and find them. Find the lost sheep. In the name of the Almighty God, bless you. Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Amen. <\/em>God bless you all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"about-fr-kyle-manno\">About Fr. Kyle Manno<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fr.-Kyle-Manno-Advent.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2642 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/speaker-fr-kyle-manno\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fr. Kyle Manno<\/a><\/strong> grew up in Palatine, IL with two loving parents and the youngest of four children. He went to Northern Illinois University where he studied music. During his time in college, he started taking sign language classes at the local parish with a priest. He soon discovered that priests and the faith are much more enjoyable than he ever thought. After much prayer, he decided to apply to the seminary. Upon graduating from NIU with a Music Education degree he was accepted to Mundelein Seminary where he spent two years studying philosophy and another four years studying theology. During his time in seminary he was able to study Spanish in Mexico, as well as in an El Salvadorian Orphanage with 250 kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was ordained to the priesthood of Jesus Christ on June 4, 2016. Of that day he says, \u201cI can honestly say, that was the happiest day of my life. I cannot imagine doing anything else\u2026As a deacon, I was ordained to serve. As a priest, I was ordained to give up my life so that all of you can get to heaven.\u201d Father Manno currently serves as Vocation Director for the Diocese of Rockford and Parochial Vicar of the Newman Center at Northern Illinois University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Father Manno also has a street evangelization project entitled, &#8220;Priest with Mic&#8221; in which he speaks to people around the U.S. about their beliefs and thoughts. He recently also brought &#8220;Priest with a Mic&#8221; to Sirius XM radio with a 3 part series that talked on Evangelization, Happiness, and love. 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