I’m a Catholic Christian only recently returning to the Church. I flirted with a vocation to the religious life and the priesthood when I was younger and I was always drawn to Franciscan spirituality and theology. Loved this lecture
Wonderful lecture, thank you! "nothing teaches humanity humility and so many virtues like suffering does" Well said, father. Though I still struggle with the suffering dogma? theology? whatever it's called, the suffering of the 5-year-old leukemia patient still stings...
This was a great lecture. I hope you post more. I enjoyed it and got a lot of good information out of this video. Very good camera and lighting work too.
I am thankful for these teachings. If I say I am a Protestant, which is primarily the way in which I have believed since a child, it does not mean to me now that I believe all things the protestant church teaches, because those teachings are from the minds of human beings. All are interpretations! I now see that if I had been born a Catholic or a Franciscan Catholic, or whatever, it would not mean to me that I believe every interpretation put forward by those churches perspectively. The Bible was written. Subsequently we read the Bible. Men firstly, and eventually women were also allowed to read the Bible. Now we are all able to study and sift through the words in the Bible, and make our own interpretations. I also have the right to make interpretations out of what I read in the Bible, and also from what I am exposed to from the many great teachers given to us on this earth. Thankfully, those people who devote their lives to studying scripture, and the will of God are available to us all and are able to help us all interpret and better understand the Bible. But the teachers of the Lord, all of them, including priests and ministers, they are all like us they too, for they can become divisive in believing that their way of interpreting scripture is the only way. Please forgive me for saying this. I say it in humility and love, and with a desire for unity within the entire body of Christ. Our separateness through church denominations is something that humans have created. I am learning that denominations mean nothing, but Gods truth is real, not by our standards, but by His own. We will know Him more fully not now while we are living here on earth, but later when we are with the Lord. He will then teach us much of those things that we do not know yet, but still yearn to know. The message of God is love, and the message of the love and humility of God is everything.
God created because God is Love and love is creative. Creation allows God to share His Love. This sharing allows God’s love to grow, expand, and express itself in many more forms. I don’t think the incarnation happened because God wanted to be with His creation. I think the it happened so God could teach us how to love rightly. Then at the end of each of our lives, our unique and unrepeatable expression of Gods love will unite with Him making an expansive and glorious tapestry expanding His family.
I understood you to say that Christ excited before the incarnation. Since Christ is both fully God and human does it follow that humanity was in God before creation?
First grade Catechism - why did God make us? God made us to worship Him and to share in His goodness. In the garden our fellowship with the Trinity was shattered = disintegrated. Genesis reveals the Trinity. The Trinity is not an it. John chapter one in the beginning was the Word and the Word was God and the Word was with God. Ephesians plainly says before the foundation of the world we were in Christ. The Holy Spirit indwelled in Jesus without measure without limitation because Christ was sinless. Through Redemption and Christ Blood shed on the Cross Christ opened the door for us to receive His redemption and become a Holy Temple for the Holy Spirit to fill us and continually dwell. We can then be led by the Holy Spirit. Those who are led by the Spirit are the called the sons and daughters of God. Before Christ’s redemption (without the shedding of Blood there is no forgiveness of sin) the Holy Spirit could not dwell in man except when God choose to anoint a person in the Old Testament to achieve His purposes. He ascended on High and poured out His spirit see The book of Acts. Read the Bible especially the New Testament starting with John and I recommend The Amplified Bible ❤
Paul and James were not at odds with each other with regards to faith and works. They were speaking about different things. Most Reformed Protestants know this. I would love to know what letters the priest is referring to that aren't in the "protestant" Bible. The canon of Scripture was 99% settled by the end of the first century. If he's referring to the Apocrypha those books were never included in the canon. They were never included in the Septuagint either. They are interesting historical books but they were not inspired Scripture. All of the books of the Old Testament are quoted at some point in the New Testament. No mention of the Apocrypha either in the New Testament or by any of the early Church fathers.
99% of the bible was chosen before the end of the first century? This commenter has never read the first 300 years of church history. It took a long time to accept the book of revelation and hebrews, thanks be to the Church for settling the issues at the end of the 4th century.
You can't be a catholic and a Christian. You're one or the other. There are no monks in my King James Bible. No seminaries or theological institutes. Just the Pure and Preserved word of Almighty God enabled by the Holy Ghost.
@@colvinator1611Calvin was not mentioned in the Bible either. Same rules that you applied here to the Catholic church then must be in all human fairness applied to Calvinism.
The Roman Catholic church is one of the original Christian churches. The KJV is way younger than the Orthodox Christian churches and the Roman Catholic church. Both of them have monks and nuns. Also, Christ says to abandon your bed.
@James-l1b6p People who ritually eat their god in an evil act of cannibalism and vampirism are satanists. Christ was the final blood sacrifice. Hebrews chapters 7-10 KJV.
I’m a Catholic Christian only recently returning to the Church. I flirted with a vocation to the religious life and the priesthood when I was younger and I was always drawn to Franciscan spirituality and theology. Loved this lecture
Wonderful lecture, thank you! "nothing teaches humanity humility and so many virtues like suffering does" Well said, father. Though I still struggle with the suffering dogma? theology? whatever it's called, the suffering of the 5-year-old leukemia patient still stings...
This was a great lecture. I hope you post more. I enjoyed it and got a lot of good information out of this video. Very good camera and lighting work too.
I’m from MSLR area. I got soooooooooooo much outta this!❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Please do a talk on the incarnation and sacramentality!!!
Thank you I wish I can one day visit Mission Santa Barbara.
I am thankful for these teachings. If I say I am a Protestant, which is primarily the way in which I have believed since a child, it does not mean to me now that I believe all things the protestant church teaches, because those teachings are from the minds of human beings.
All are interpretations! I now see that if I had been born a Catholic or a Franciscan Catholic, or whatever, it would not mean to me that I believe every interpretation put forward by those churches perspectively.
The Bible was written.
Subsequently we read the Bible. Men firstly, and eventually women were also allowed to read the Bible. Now we are all able to study and sift through the words in the Bible, and make our own interpretations. I also have the right to make interpretations out of what I read in the Bible, and also from what I am exposed to from the many great teachers given to us on this earth. Thankfully, those people who devote their lives to studying scripture, and the will of God are available to us all and are able to help us all interpret and better understand the Bible. But the teachers of the Lord, all of them, including priests and ministers, they are all like us they too, for they can become divisive in believing that their way of interpreting scripture is the only way. Please forgive me for saying this. I say it in humility and love, and with a desire for unity within the entire body of Christ.
Our separateness through church denominations is something that humans have created.
I am learning that denominations mean nothing, but Gods truth is real, not by our standards, but by His own. We will know Him more fully not now while we are living here on earth, but later when we are with the Lord. He will then teach us much of those things that we do not know yet, but still yearn to know. The message of God is love, and the message of the love and humility of God is everything.
God created because God is Love and love is creative. Creation allows God to share His Love. This sharing allows God’s love to grow, expand, and express itself in many more forms. I don’t think the incarnation happened because God wanted to be with His creation. I think the it happened so God could teach us how to love rightly. Then at the end of each of our lives, our unique and unrepeatable expression of Gods love will unite with Him making an expansive and glorious tapestry expanding His family.
How can I save this podcast?
@@comments3179 God wanted to be with his creation because love wants to join in to the creation He loves. He wants to expand His family as you wrote.
Could it be both and even more than we even know about ?
I understood you to say that Christ excited before the incarnation. Since Christ is both fully God and human does it follow that humanity was in God before creation?
Yes
@@kimberlyanndeangelo7584 Thank you
First grade Catechism - why did God make us? God made us to worship Him and to share in His goodness. In the garden our fellowship with the Trinity was shattered = disintegrated. Genesis reveals the Trinity. The Trinity is not an it. John chapter one in the beginning was the Word and the Word was God and the Word was with God. Ephesians plainly says before the foundation of the world we were in Christ. The Holy Spirit indwelled in Jesus without measure without limitation because Christ was sinless. Through Redemption and Christ Blood shed on the Cross Christ opened the door for us to receive His redemption and become a Holy Temple for the Holy Spirit to fill us and continually dwell. We can then be led by the Holy Spirit. Those who are led by the Spirit are the called the sons and daughters of God. Before Christ’s redemption (without the shedding of Blood there is no forgiveness of sin) the Holy Spirit could not dwell in man except when God choose to anoint a person in the Old Testament to achieve His purposes. He ascended on High and poured out His spirit see The book of Acts. Read the Bible especially the New Testament starting with John and I recommend The Amplified Bible ❤
Paul and James were not at odds with each other with regards to faith and works. They were speaking about different things. Most Reformed Protestants know this.
I would love to know what letters the priest is referring to that aren't in the "protestant" Bible.
The canon of Scripture was 99% settled by the end of the first century.
If he's referring to the Apocrypha those books were never included in the canon. They were never included in the Septuagint either. They are interesting historical books but they were not inspired Scripture. All of the books of the Old Testament are quoted at some point in the New Testament. No mention of the Apocrypha either in the New Testament or by any of the early Church fathers.
99% of the bible was chosen before the end of the first century? This commenter has never read the first 300 years of church history.
It took a long time to accept the book of revelation and hebrews, thanks be to the Church for settling the issues at the end of the 4th century.
You can't be a catholic and a Christian. You're one or the other. There are no monks in my King James Bible. No seminaries or theological institutes. Just the Pure and Preserved word of Almighty God enabled by the Holy Ghost.
Go away and leave these people alone
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Never ! I will always call out false teachers with false Gospels.
@@colvinator1611Calvin was not mentioned in the Bible either.
Same rules that you applied here to the Catholic church then must be in all human fairness applied to Calvinism.
The Roman Catholic church is one of the original Christian churches. The KJV is way younger than the Orthodox Christian churches and the Roman Catholic church. Both of them have monks and nuns. Also, Christ says to abandon your bed.
@James-l1b6p
People who ritually eat their god in an evil act of cannibalism and vampirism are satanists. Christ was the final blood sacrifice. Hebrews chapters 7-10 KJV.