@@BishopBarrondear bishop. I m watching the extreme persecution of Christian Nigerians its unbelievable 100.000 killed so far on the hands of those muslims ! 3 5 million Christian Nigerian have lost their farms to Muslim terrorists totally supported by their Muslim president Buhari and now Tinubu. bishop you are powerful close to the president why on earth nobody doing anything for them! why isn't the American bishops reaching out to the Nigerian bishops. why aren't t they given weapons to defend themselves against this HUGE GENOCIDE ! Why only Palestinians are on the news ! one word of the u.s government and its over. how long should this golgotha continue with the tacit collusion of the media. 3.500.000 Christians and their families stripped from their livelihood. being butchered limbs and all. somebody do something for Jesus sake. !
@@BishopBarron dear bishop why is no one helping christians of Nigeria 100.000 killed and 3.5 million stripped from their lands and farms by muslims .someone help them .
Thank Bishop Barron! Me and my wife and our son, his wife, and their daughter all began our conversion 4 years ago and all are now Catholic. Since then three more of their children have been born into the Church. You were, and continue to be, so important in our conversion.
What makes Bishop Barron effective is his joy for Catholicism. He presents with certainty but always in kindness. So many others harp on negativity and controversy as they wake up every day looking for a fight. Can't imagine leading such a torturous life. Certainly hard to see the joy in those folks. Stay on the path Bishop Barron; you're doing great!
This moved me to tears. I miss Cardinal George, Pope John Paul 2, and Pope Benedict so much. Thank you Bishop Barron for reminding us of their wisdom and stability. You are a blessing!
What is going on now in the Church hurts my soul. We must remember the gates of hell will never prevail over His Church. He never promised satan wouldn’t try. We’ve been through this before in history. But living through it is something totally different.
Father Barron, I have been discerning the priesthood for the last two years. Almost since I became a Catholic. Your own priesthood is a model for me on how to live a Vocation. I saw you at WYD, you walked out from the people of God holding Christ to your chest. Your rigour for truth has help given me a love for beauty and the intellectual life that I remember having before the world began to blacken my heart. I know God has gifted you talents to build up others like other great men. I pray God helps me to have some kind of effect on some people like you have had on so many people.
"Simply Catholicism" could not be more beautiful. It has shown me a way to worship I never knew possible. I walk with God and feel His Spirit with me daily. Previously a Protestant, I never knew such grace existed. When I try to explain to my Protestant friends, they are not interested. I truly feel sorry for them, although I know they are believers. But what they are missing, words cannot express.
I’m happy you are a Catholic now. And you are correct I feel pain in my soul for them. No one can experience Jesus like a Catholic. It truly is a privilege from Our Father. We have the Holy Eucharist. Jesus was VERY CLEAR that You MUST consume My Body and Blood to have eternal life with Him. There is no other way than through Him. God bless🕊💜🕊
Yes!! This is such an important discussion and so eloquently explained. I pray daily for the unity of all Christians so we can get on with serving the Lord and eachother! ✝️🙏🏼🛐
I am your follower Bishop Bob. Thank you very much for all that you do for us to be more informed about our faith.We are becoming a better Catholic. Best regards from Bukidnon, Philippines! ❤❤❤❤
I am more right leaning. I argue that you cannot cannot be a Catholic if you support wokeisn, gender ideolodt, abortion, euthanasia and other satanic liberal doctrines.
Bishop Barron, Thank you for exposing me and others to "Simply Catholicism". With so much division among Catholics and the world, I found this helpful for me to identify and define my position in my faith. I hope you will continue to bring "Simply Catholicism" approach into your sermons, interviews, videos, etc. As a Catholic and also a good "worldly neighbor" my heart feels the need to do what you explain....Amen
Thank you Bishop Barron! This is the path of wisdom - away from the extremes and closer to Christ. What’s the best is that there were these amazing great people urging us to abandon tribalism long before we got to the present state. I pray we finally hear their voice.
What I love about Catholicism, I love when I was going to my church, I LOVED getting on my knees before GOD to honor HIM and all that he HE is and REPRESENTS. That's my favorite part about all of it. And witnessing AND doing the worship for HIM. Love the incense and the whole mass experience even though I was still new at it and had allot learning to do
I love to call the Priest Father as a portal with the Lord, I always say thank you Sister for your service I also try. They always smile as no one would, they know what it takes 100%, they're superior to me, yet there are other lands to enter and translate or understand. We all have an unique role, or changing role. It be nice you stop demanding those whom serve, regarding of titles there must be a connection with authority for you to see, create with or set apart to respect others form prayer. Problems we all have, non is perfect. @@AaronMitchell-rs3jp
I love your comment, I feel the same way. Yet I'm very picky to go to a place for how the Priest forms his speech and need of belonging. Also like meditations from India and dancing, yet never gave the Catholic experience away, is always first when comparing, yet exercise with the body and mind also trained me.
@@AaronMitchell-rs3jp Come to think of it- What How did Jesus, when he was much younger, addressed his adoptive father, St Joseph? ("Hey man!") Did He really forbid anyone to call their biological father, "father' 'daddy' "papa' (all synonymous with father)? By the way He also said call no one 'teacher' or 'rabbi'.He was a Jew, listened to the Rabbis.He can read the scripture, so he was taught by a teacher. Really? He simply forbid those? Or in context, as he was referring to the pharisees, He meant 'don't be cocky! You listened to the false teachers obviously.
I really love this! And I think Bishop Barron is teaching us so much and modeling. Such integrity. In our own lives, and in our own faith, we have to be willing to look at the good bad and the ugly and sometimes it is the ugly that can show us the error of our way. We know that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord! I love that Bishop Barron is not afraid to look. After all, we have an obligation to pass on this faith, and as he says, we want to pass on the faith that brings life and not death !
So well said! I've been dismayed at the conservative vs liberal within the church. This is an important topic and I'm glad to see Bishop Barron discuss it.
Your Word on Fire Ministry reminds me of Isaiah 41:19. “See, I am doing something new! Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? In the wilderness I make a way, in the wasteland, rivers.” Bishop Barron your gifting brings a commodity so vital to life - balance. Without balance there is no order. The polarisation for me brings confusion, the fruit of which is division. The human spirit does not thrive in a war zone. Surely you are well placed “for such a time as this.” Esther 4:14 Thank you for this wonderful show Bishop Barron and Brandon. It has provided me with hope - a way in the wilderness and streams in a desert. May God continue to bless you both abundantly Bishop Barron and Brandon and this ministry as you hold light in the darkness 🙏🏻🕯🕊
Great episode. Extreme radical left and right isn't the answer. Simply Catholic is. Example, politics. All radical left and right. No middle ground. No common sense or decency. Just the motto....my way, or no way.❤
Bishop I have followed your message for some years and I’ve subsequently joined WOF and I do see where you get your strategies from, and I appreciate so much that you follow Vatican II and Saint John Paul II. You are the calm in the storm even as you light a fire in souls.. May this fire spread to all cultures.
Ok ,that’s it , I’m coming to that conference. Fantastic line up. Adorable to see B.B. get tripped up by a six year old and her question. 😂 “ I have to think more about that one”. Thanks gentleman.
To all those who are becoming a catholic I am very happy and welcome you all with a god bless and the journey is endless god bless brothers and sisters of Christ
Thanks so much for sharing this with us!! Bishop Barron proves that the centre can hold. God please grant us more bishops in this mold so the civil war can finally end.🙏🙏🙏
What a powerful and wonderful presentation! I've never seen Bishop Barron so on fire. I mean, he's on fire for sure, but he was really on fire in this. Thank you Bishop Barron and Brandon. This is one of my favorites.
This conversation is very insightful. It speaks to how the church can transcend left vs. right disagreement and ultimately tap into criticism that helps us grow in holiness before God. Bishop Barron demonstrates his genius in elaborating on "Simply Catholicism".
Dear Bishop Barron when are you going to interview Dr. Peter Kreeft, he's one of my favorite people of the Catholic faith i enjoy listening to along with a couple of others, Father Mike, and more. I think that Dr. Kreeft is an important figure. Thank you for all you do, God Bless!!
The most important discussion begins at minute 21:00. Thank you for this!! This is how I try to live, but I'm criticized by both the right and left!! I take comfort in this discussion.
Thank you and God bless you Bishop Barron, Brendan and all at WOF. I've not really fully understood the " isms" in the Catholic church over the years as it always seemed far from the simplicity and honesty of Christ and the Good News, always felt like over politicitsing and self glorifying, even egotistic, although my understanding has evolved from absolute ignorance in me through listening the BB/WOF articles etc. I am now hand on heart say "plague on both your houses" - Sticking and remaining in Simply Catholicism, understanding much better what these isms, God bless all God's creatures and His Will be done🙏🏻.
HOLY SMOKES! One liner bombs going off everywhere in this amazing interview. Not the place here to quote them all but here’s one. “people won’t give their lives for a question mark but will for a quotation mark” I’ll always continue as a failed hypocritical follower of Christ in my conservative Protestant Church but Simply Catholicism is looking very admirable. For some crazy reason I’m reminded of looking thru a window into a tiny church on a beautiful morning in a beautiful spot located at the mouth of a river in England where sailors prayed before going off to fight the the Spanish Armada.
AMEN!!! We need more of this. Christ did not come to the world to condemn it but to lift it up. We are not of the world but in the world. When Jesus Christ, Himself, came to save us - it was from our sins, not the worldly powers. May the Lord continue to bless your important ministry.
I have a vey intelligence niece. A mature woman, admires you for your knowledge. She is a speaker For some colleges. May you continue to inspire many people Of all ages. God May continue to Hear your inspiring talks. Sincerely, Anne Pinti of w. Va. I thank God as I have lived to see my 23rd great grandchild. Avery is a newborn is another giftfromGod
Her name makes me think of (Ave) Like the Blessed Mother! Isn’t that Honorable to our Blessed Mother! Avery is her name, my 23rd great grandchild! Love Nana Anne Her middle name is Anne after several relations . Love Anne P. The Great Nanas! 23:44 😊
@@AnnePintiI hope you get this soon and finds you well! I love your name. Reminds me of the Blessed Mother. How wonderful to witness so many miracles. God love you.
Love you Bishop Baron I’m always drawn to your speaking events and your talks - the Seven Deadly Sins and your Word On Fire episodes in particular. Thank you so much. Stay blessed and keep on enlightening the flock. We need your guiding thoughts.
Thank you! I’m so glad my conversion to Catholicism was guided by you and your WOF work. I may not have gotten very far on that path if I’d been captured by the “conservative “ or “liberal” factions.
I think Catholicism as "a both/and tradition" is borne out in the example of the churches at Jerusalem and Antioch very early on. Antioch was a combination of peoples who would not otherwise naturally be thought of as friendly at all, never mind as a united community. This testified to the gospel, not their form or language, their gospel was their unity. The Kingdom flag must fly highest. This is more important in today's disunified body than ever.
15.30 Absolutely agree with the Cardinal. There is no such thing as Conservative Christianity or Liberal Christianity. A thing is either Christian or it isn't. In the Christian Faith there are too many conservatives too many liberals and not enough Christians.
I love this episode. I wish more people could get on board with "simply Catholicism". I know too many Catholics who are on one side or anther. It's tedious.
Agreed: Simple Catholicism in the answer. And not associate identity with either liberal/conservative as both terms are freighted with a thousand things. We vote for people, policies and parties in the voting booth. We walk in Catholic and we walk out Catholics. That’s what is important.
The church needs a special singles mass every Sunday with a social after. Also other singles events like walks, philosophical discussions, a book club. This will address getting numbers in church and getting to know Jesus. It will address a deep loneliness and searching in society, too. In the absence of this, people are turning to drink etc.. Jesus himself would like this, I think. He had the temple in his youth to go to and discuss things and where he met others. It's a weird suggestion, I admit, but try it it might just work. Each person must be encouraged to bring a friend.
It's not easy to make room for different perspectives, or agree to disagree about fundamental principles, with other people within an institution that is (at least I perceive it as) one of the very last guardians of moral clarity and wisdom in western culture. It feels important to get it right. This is coming from the viewpoint of a more conservative/traditionalist observer
Great and very timely episode! I thought I'm leaning towards the trad or conservative side, as it is my way (I believe) of respecting faithful Catholics that come before us. Now this episode opens up or reconsider the good changes of today's Faith without compromising on Its entirety. Bishop Barron's 12-plus minute talk that "diversity, equality, and inclusivity are not absolute values" is my most played video of his, because I thought our churches are too welcoming to the point it loses and blurring out the Church's identity. Now I realized there must be wisdom and balance to implement such without imposing. Gosh, the beauty and mystique of "and/both" principle, and I guess it'll take for me a long time (if not a lifetime) to figure things out. Hopefully you saw that said video released 2-3 years ago. I thought that and this episode would complement well.
Praying for more in depth teaching on this as the “devil is in the details”. As a revert raised in the Church in the late 80’s I left the Faith and spent 20 years as a Methodist because my teachers didn’t teach me what Sacred Tradition really meant. Today I am a very traditional Catholic in that I look for Mass that ties us back to the Sacred Apostolic Church so that we don’t skip teaching our Children to depend on Jesus and the Church to define our culture rather than letting the Culture define Jesus and our Church.
Thank you, gentlemen. Can’t tell you how much I enjoyed this (and am aligned to it), Bishop Barron. May blessings overflow! Simply Catholicism is, always, the answer. 🤍
Thank you father for your excellent thoughts that help me so much in understanding my beautiful Catholic faith. And, to the little girs question as did Jesus ever get sick. I would have said sure, just like all of us (e.g. head cold, flu, measles, etc., just like the rest of us). He was fully human!
But that was exactly why Bishop Barron said he would have to reflect further on the question. He was born as the new Adam (Pre the fall) and as such may not have been sick, but he did tire, which was probably a part of Adam's Pre-Fall condition.
As a human without sin, Jesus would surely be subject to sickness like all humans but at the same time would be able to dismiss it through His divine power.
Huge fan Bishop! I think that 6 year old girl's question wasn't answered thoroughly. It merits deeper consideration - if Jesus could always heal himself, did he even FEEL the pain of the nails? Thank you for being such a beacon!
As a southsider I was baptized at Saint Killian. You have done something that I didn’t think anyone could ever do. Make me like Cardinal George. I mean he had a tough act to follow because I adored Cardinal Bernadine As many Chicagoans did. And they were so very different in their styles. But you make some good points and some very valid points and I can understand with more clarity you consider him a mentor.
BB nailed it when he said the political factions of both colors are unable to 'make that move' to recognize ANYTHING outside of their own core marching orders-- may we all have the courage to press forward as the good Bishop has.
This was an interesting conversation. I’ve been thinking over the last year or two about how the Catholic schools and families should teach, in a practical way, how to LIVE the Catholic lifestyle and WHAT that means and WHY…I know the schools and most Catholic parents try to help teach this but I’m talking about a more specific way of teaching it. I think parents can be good with instruction on the moral life and through example and the schools can teach theology, but it’s hard sometimes as a Catholic to pull all of that together to actually figure out HOW to really live the Catholic lifestyle…simply Catholic as Bishop was saying.
I am trying to be a disciple of Jesus because after living for 70 years, I have accepted in faith, that Jesus really is both my (and yours) Lord and Savior. As Pope Benedict XVI said, Christianity is not simply an intellectual discipline in morality and ethics, but an encounter with the living God. The "work" of faith has been to "little by little" follow Jesus, relying on the Holy Spirit for both guidance and the grace to grow in the perfection of love. As St. Peter says in John 6:68, I believe in faith that Jesus really does have the words of eternal life and is in fact the only valid path to spending eternity with my Creator, my God and my Father. But what I have discovered is that I have failed miserably to follow Jesus when I have tried to dictate the terms, even when I am sincerely trying to follow. It is so easy to cling to my paradigms rather than to walk day-by-day in faith, actively relying on the Holy Spirit to direct my steps and simultaneously give me the mysterious gift called grace. I have been "conservative" or "liberal" when I have clung to what I know about the Lord rather than clinging to the Lord. I have found that it is much harder work to actively listen to the Holy Spirit and act in faith than to cling to the god of "issues." Whenever I have been "conservative" or "liberal" I have talked at people rather than simply being with them and seeking their good.
To my former professor, Bishop Barron, I thank you! I am ordained now 22 years. I am honored to call you mentor.
Hey Tom, you’re the best!
@@BishopBarrondear bishop. I m watching the extreme persecution of Christian Nigerians its unbelievable 100.000 killed so far on the hands of those muslims !
3 5 million Christian Nigerian have lost their farms to Muslim terrorists totally supported by their Muslim president Buhari and now Tinubu. bishop you are powerful close to the president why on earth nobody doing anything for them! why isn't the American bishops reaching out to the Nigerian bishops. why aren't t they given weapons to defend themselves against this HUGE GENOCIDE ! Why only Palestinians are on the news !
one word of the u.s government and its over. how long should this golgotha continue with the tacit collusion of the media.
3.500.000 Christians and their families stripped from their livelihood. being butchered limbs and all.
somebody do something for Jesus sake. !
@@BishopBarron dear bishop why is no one helping christians of Nigeria 100.000 killed and 3.5 million stripped from their lands and farms by muslims .someone help them .
Thank you both for your work leading us and our Holy Church.
the Bishiop Barron is hardly a mentor i know more than he does about biblical doctrine hands down
Thank Bishop Barron! Me and my wife and our son, his wife, and their daughter all began our conversion 4 years ago and all are now Catholic. Since then three more of their children have been born into the Church. You were, and continue to be, so important in our conversion.
God bless you 🙏, love from Canada 🇨🇦
Praise God. 🙏
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Thank you for sharing on your, and family’s journey into the Catholic Church!
Thank you Bishop Barron and Word on 🔥 team!
Welcome home! 🤗🎶🙏🏼✨⛪️🙏🏼✝️✨🕊️
What makes Bishop Barron effective is his joy for Catholicism. He presents with certainty but always in kindness. So many others harp on negativity and controversy as they wake up every day looking for a fight. Can't imagine leading such a torturous life. Certainly hard to see the joy in those folks. Stay on the path Bishop Barron; you're doing great!
Barron doesnt badmouth prots which is rare. But there is nothing nice i can say about catholic dogma and practices.
Thank you Bishop. I hope to become Catholic and receive baptism and confirmation
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I will be praying for you 🙏
Bishop Barron is a great man who makes me strive to be a better Catholic
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Love ya Bishop. I am working on becoming Catholic
Try to find a traditional Latin mass with a valid priest ordained in the pre Vatican 2 rite it will be an amazing experience.
Blessings on your journey.❤
@@BrianBenson-rc9muHello trad
@@BrianBenson-rc9mu, be respectful at any Catholic Church ❤
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Thanks for the sanity, we really need this light now ❤❤❤
This moved me to tears. I miss Cardinal George, Pope John Paul 2, and Pope Benedict so much. Thank you Bishop Barron for reminding us of their wisdom and stability. You are a blessing!
What is going on now in the Church hurts my soul. We must remember the gates of hell will never prevail over His Church. He never promised satan wouldn’t try.
We’ve been through this before in history. But living through it is something totally different.
Father Barron, I have been discerning the priesthood for the last two years. Almost since I became a Catholic. Your own priesthood is a model for me on how to live a Vocation. I saw you at WYD, you walked out from the people of God holding Christ to your chest. Your rigour for truth has help given me a love for beauty and the intellectual life that I remember having before the world began to blacken my heart. I know God has gifted you talents to build up others like other great men. I pray God helps me to have some kind of effect on some people like you have had on so many people.
Getting attacked from both the left and the right 😮 but the fact is that Bishop Barron is getting more admirers than anyone else 😅 ✨⭐🌟👍
"Simply Catholicism" could not be more beautiful. It has shown me a way to worship I never knew possible. I walk with God and feel His Spirit with me daily. Previously a Protestant, I never knew such grace existed. When I try to explain to my Protestant friends, they are not interested. I truly feel sorry for them, although I know they are believers. But what they are missing, words cannot express.
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Prots are just as unsaved as catholics, but the big difference is prots dont kneel befor the works of their hands.
I’m happy you are a Catholic now. And you are correct I feel pain in my soul for them. No one can experience Jesus like a Catholic. It truly is a privilege from Our Father. We have the Holy Eucharist. Jesus was VERY CLEAR that You MUST consume My Body and Blood to have eternal life with Him. There is no other way than through Him.
God bless🕊💜🕊
Continue to pray for their conversion
I love Bishop Barron. His sweet way encourages me so much.
Yes!! This is such an important discussion and so eloquently explained. I pray daily for the unity of all Christians so we can get on with serving the Lord and eachother! ✝️🙏🏼🛐
Wow. That last section was so powerful. 'A plague on both your houses..' Could not have said it any better - both in the Church and the secular world.
Amen! Me too!
Thank you Bishop Barron and Word on Fire. God Bless
I am your follower Bishop Bob. Thank you very much for all that you do for us to be more informed about our faith.We are becoming a better Catholic.
Best regards from Bukidnon, Philippines! ❤❤❤❤
Preach Bishop Barron🙌. I have Left/right fatigue , I just want to be Catholic.
Amen 🙏🏼
I am more right leaning. I argue that you cannot cannot be a Catholic if you support wokeisn, gender ideolodt, abortion, euthanasia and other satanic liberal doctrines.
Bishop Barron, Thank you for exposing me and others to "Simply Catholicism". With so much division among Catholics and the world, I found this helpful for me to identify and define my position in my faith. I hope you will continue to bring "Simply Catholicism" approach into your sermons, interviews, videos, etc. As a Catholic and also a good "worldly neighbor" my heart feels the need to do what you explain....Amen
Thank you Bishop Barron! This is the path of wisdom - away from the extremes and closer to Christ. What’s the best is that there were these amazing great people urging us to abandon tribalism long before we got to the present state. I pray we finally hear their voice.
What I love about Catholicism, I love when I was going to my church, I LOVED getting on my knees before GOD to honor HIM and all that he HE is and REPRESENTS. That's my favorite part about all of it. And witnessing AND doing the worship for HIM. Love the incense and the whole mass experience even though I was still new at it and had allot learning to do
@@AaronMitchell-rs3jp Explain additionally why you cannot and will not return to the Church? I did not see your reason(s) in your post. Thanks.
I love to call the Priest Father as a portal with the Lord, I always say thank you Sister for your service I also try. They always smile as no one would, they know what it takes 100%, they're superior to me, yet there are other lands to enter and translate or understand. We all have an unique role, or changing role. It be nice you stop demanding those whom serve, regarding of titles there must be a connection with authority for you to see, create with or set apart to respect others form prayer. Problems we all have, non is perfect. @@AaronMitchell-rs3jp
I love your comment, I feel the same way. Yet I'm very picky to go to a place for how the Priest forms his speech and need of belonging. Also like meditations from India and dancing, yet never gave the Catholic experience away, is always first when comparing, yet exercise with the body and mind also trained me.
@@AaronMitchell-rs3jp Come to think of it- What How did Jesus, when he was much younger, addressed his adoptive father, St Joseph? ("Hey man!") Did He really forbid anyone to call their biological father, "father' 'daddy' "papa' (all synonymous with father)? By the way He also said call no one 'teacher' or 'rabbi'.He was a Jew, listened to the Rabbis.He can read the scripture, so he was taught by a teacher.
Really? He simply forbid those? Or in context, as he was referring to the pharisees, He meant 'don't be cocky!
You listened to the false teachers obviously.
I really love this! And I think Bishop Barron is teaching us so much and modeling. Such integrity. In our own lives, and in our own faith, we have to be willing to look at the good bad and the ugly and sometimes it is the ugly that can show us the error of our way. We know that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord!
I love that Bishop Barron is not afraid to look. After all, we have an obligation to pass on this faith, and as he says, we want to pass on the faith that brings life and not death !
He's very good at modeling. He exudes kindness in such an approachable but vaguely stern way.
So well said! I've been dismayed at the conservative vs liberal within the church. This is an important topic and I'm glad to see Bishop Barron discuss it.
Your Word on Fire Ministry reminds me of Isaiah 41:19.
“See, I am doing something new! Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
In the wilderness I make a way,
in the wasteland, rivers.”
Bishop Barron your gifting brings a commodity so vital to life - balance. Without balance there is no order. The polarisation for me brings confusion, the fruit of which is division. The human spirit does not thrive in a war zone. Surely you are well placed “for such a time as this.” Esther 4:14
Thank you for this wonderful show Bishop Barron and Brandon. It has provided me with hope - a way in the wilderness and streams in a desert.
May God continue to bless you both abundantly Bishop Barron and Brandon and this ministry as you hold light in the darkness 🙏🏻🕯🕊
Amen 🙏🏼
Bishop Barron is such a hero!
Great episode. Extreme radical left and right isn't the answer. Simply Catholic is. Example, politics. All radical left and right. No middle ground. No common sense or decency. Just the motto....my way, or no way.❤
Thank You Lord for giving such wonderful, brilliant minds to our church. As a simple soul i cling tightly to their coat tails.
Well done Bishop Robert Emmet Barron!!!
Thank you Bishop Barron and Brandon. I just love to listen to both of you on the word on fire show. GOD bless you both abundantly 🙌♥️🌹
I'm so comforted by Father B. thankyou
Bishop I have followed your message for some years and I’ve subsequently joined WOF and I do see where you get your strategies from, and I appreciate so much that you follow Vatican II and Saint John Paul II. You are the calm in the storm even as you light a fire in souls.. May this fire spread to all cultures.
A A proud Canadian Catholic. Thank you for all your spiritual talks.
Exactly , thank you, Bishop Barron . Love Wins 💗 🙏
Thanks once again Bishop Barron. I get so much solid food from listening to you. Blessings. 🙏
Gracias Obispo Barron; sus videos siempre tan enriquecedores!
Bishop Barron continues to convict, challenge, and inspire with authenticity and is humble in his intellectual application. Bishop Barron for Pope!
Ok ,that’s it , I’m coming to that conference. Fantastic line up. Adorable to see B.B. get tripped up by a six year old and her question. 😂 “ I have to think more about that one”.
Thanks gentleman.
Press on Bishop. You are a compelling voice for us all. You are straightening out twisted lives and pointing them to much higher things.
I definitely wouldn't have become Catholic if it were not for Bishop Barron.
God bless you all
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Bishop Barron, thank you for making me understand our Catholic faith.
To all those who are becoming a catholic I am very happy and welcome you all with a god bless and the journey is endless god bless brothers and sisters of Christ
Thanks so much for sharing this with us!!
Bishop Barron proves that the centre can hold. God please grant us more bishops in this mold so the civil war can finally end.🙏🙏🙏
What a powerful and wonderful presentation! I've never seen Bishop Barron so on fire. I mean, he's on fire for sure, but he was really on fire in this. Thank you Bishop Barron and Brandon. This is one of my favorites.
Thank you Bishop! The question from the 6 year old stump this old Catholic!
God Bless you Bishop! Thank you!!
Thank you, Bishop Barron!
Great topic, Bishop! I pray for all the work you do.
Thank you both so much for sharing and God bless you 🙏❤️
Superb statement of a potentially truly unified, transcendent, holy, apostolic & evangelical & orthodox church; TY for this brief summary. TYVM!
Thanks Bishop been listening to you for some time now! Keep it coming!
Loved this whole video. This is exactly what everyone needs to remember now days 💖
I’m so thankful to be Roman Catholic and a follower of Jesus Christ
This conversation is very insightful. It speaks to how the church can transcend left vs. right disagreement and ultimately tap into criticism that helps us grow in holiness before God. Bishop Barron demonstrates his genius in elaborating on "Simply Catholicism".
Thank you Bishop.
Dear Bishop Barron when are you going to interview Dr. Peter Kreeft, he's one of my favorite people of the Catholic faith i enjoy listening to along with a couple of others, Father Mike, and more. I think that Dr. Kreeft is an important figure. Thank you for all you do, God Bless!!
The most important discussion begins at minute 21:00. Thank you for this!! This is how I try to live, but I'm criticized by both the right and left!! I take comfort in this discussion.
Great and very important words for today's day and age
Thank you and God bless you Bishop Barron, Brendan and all at WOF. I've not really fully understood the " isms" in the Catholic church over the years as it always seemed far from the simplicity and honesty of Christ and the Good News, always felt like over politicitsing and self glorifying, even egotistic, although my understanding has evolved from absolute ignorance in me through listening the BB/WOF articles etc. I am now hand on heart say "plague on both your houses" - Sticking and remaining in Simply Catholicism, understanding much better what these isms, God bless all God's creatures and His Will be done🙏🏻.
HOLY SMOKES!
One liner bombs going off everywhere in this amazing interview. Not the place here to quote them all but here’s one. “people won’t give their lives for a question mark but will for a quotation mark”
I’ll always continue as a failed hypocritical follower of Christ in my conservative Protestant Church but Simply Catholicism is looking very admirable.
For some crazy reason I’m reminded of looking thru a window into a tiny church on a beautiful morning in a beautiful spot located at the mouth of a river in England where sailors prayed before going off to fight the the Spanish Armada.
AMEN!!! We need more of this. Christ did not come to the world to condemn it but to lift it up. We are not of the world but in the world. When Jesus Christ, Himself, came to save us - it was from our sins, not the worldly powers. May the Lord continue to bless your important ministry.
I have a vey intelligence niece. A mature woman, admires you for your knowledge. She is a speaker
For some colleges. May you continue to inspire many people
Of all ages. God May continue to
Hear your inspiring talks. Sincerely,
Anne Pinti of w. Va. I thank God as I have lived to see my 23rd great grandchild. Avery is a newborn is another giftfromGod
Intelligent mispelled above
Her name makes me think of (Ave)
Like the Blessed Mother! Isn’t that
Honorable to our Blessed Mother!
Avery is her name, my 23rd great grandchild! Love Nana Anne
Her middle name is Anne after several relations . Love Anne P. The Great Nanas! 23:44 😊
@@AnnePintiI hope you get this soon and finds you well!
I love your name. Reminds me of the Blessed Mother. How wonderful to witness so many miracles. God love you.
Peace be with you.
Oh my goodness, I love this little girl question 😂❤
Keep up your inspirational messages! Blessings, Anne P. Of WV.❤
Love you Bishop Baron I’m always drawn to your speaking events and your talks - the Seven Deadly Sins and your Word On Fire episodes in particular. Thank you so much. Stay blessed and keep on enlightening the flock. We need your guiding thoughts.
Excited to hear about this year‘s wonder conference lineup
Thank you! I’m so glad my conversion to Catholicism was guided by you and your WOF work. I may not have gotten very far on that path if I’d been captured by the “conservative “ or “liberal” factions.
I got a message via email. Assuming it’s not a hack: my schedule is pretty open. Central time zone. Yours is busy! Let me know what works for you.
❤ look 👀 forward ( Roman Catholic) - USA 🇺🇸
Very articulated and accurately described. Thank you. Loved that good question about Jesus getting sick.
Great video - This is the most important video ever on this channel.
I think Catholicism as "a both/and tradition" is borne out in the example of the churches at Jerusalem and Antioch very early on. Antioch was a combination of peoples who would not otherwise naturally be thought of as friendly at all, never mind as a united community. This testified to the gospel, not their form or language, their gospel was their unity. The Kingdom flag must fly highest. This is more important in today's disunified body than ever.
Thank You. your Ecellency.
Thank you for the clarification. I look forward to any future claificatio he might have.
15.30 Absolutely agree with the Cardinal. There is no such thing as Conservative Christianity or Liberal Christianity. A thing is either Christian or it isn't.
In the Christian Faith there are too many conservatives too many liberals and not enough Christians.
AMEN!
Loved the interview with Fr. Fessio.
Happy Ash Wednesday Bishop & all at Word on Fire! May God continue to bless you and keep you
What a wonderful question from sweet Amelia!
Not ultra liberal, not ultra conservativeNot the "middle" but the HEART" of the Church. Open to all, but grounded in TRUTH.
I love this episode. I wish more people could get on board with "simply Catholicism". I know too many Catholics who are on one side or anther. It's tedious.
Loved this topic. Thank you
Episcopal here - thanks Bishop.
Simply Catholic, simply orthodox... neither "right" nor "left." Thank you both for this conversation, and thank you, Cardinal George!
Agreed: Simple Catholicism in the answer. And not associate identity with either liberal/conservative as both terms are freighted with a thousand things.
We vote for people, policies and parties in the voting booth. We walk in Catholic and we walk out Catholics. That’s what is important.
So refreshing. Please do those other “several shows” unpacking Card. George’s description of a proactive “simply Catholicism”! AMDG
God bless you 🙏
What the Bishop and Brandon are discussing here is vastly different to what the church is dealing with now!
Excellent. 🙏
The church needs a special singles mass every Sunday with a social after. Also other singles events like walks, philosophical discussions, a book club.
This will address getting numbers in church and getting to know Jesus. It will address a deep loneliness and searching in society, too. In the absence of this, people are turning to drink etc.. Jesus himself would like this, I think. He had the temple in his youth to go to and discuss things and where he met others.
It's a weird suggestion, I admit, but try it it might just work. Each person must be encouraged to bring a friend.
@Te-legrammeBishopRobert_Barron Hello Bishop Barron, what can I do for you.
Always listen to all your shows . Joe frm Makati , Philippines
It's not easy to make room for different perspectives, or agree to disagree about fundamental principles, with other people within an institution that is (at least I perceive it as) one of the very last guardians of moral clarity and wisdom in western culture. It feels important to get it right. This is coming from the viewpoint of a more conservative/traditionalist observer
Great and very timely episode!
I thought I'm leaning towards the trad or conservative side, as it is my way (I believe) of respecting faithful Catholics that come before us.
Now this episode opens up or reconsider the good changes of today's Faith without compromising on Its entirety.
Bishop Barron's 12-plus minute talk that "diversity, equality, and inclusivity are not absolute values" is my most played video of his, because I thought our churches are too welcoming to the point it loses and blurring out the Church's identity.
Now I realized there must be wisdom and balance to implement such without imposing.
Gosh, the beauty and mystique of "and/both" principle, and I guess it'll take for me a long time (if not a lifetime) to figure things out. Hopefully you saw that said video released 2-3 years ago. I thought that and this episode would complement well.
The narrow door into heaven, one might say. Well done!
Praying for more in depth teaching on this as the “devil is in the details”.
As a revert raised in the Church in the late 80’s I left the Faith and spent 20 years as a Methodist because my teachers didn’t teach me what Sacred Tradition really meant.
Today I am a very traditional Catholic in that I look for Mass that ties us back to the Sacred Apostolic Church so that we don’t skip teaching our Children to depend on Jesus and the Church to define our culture rather than letting the Culture define Jesus and our Church.
Thank you for recognizing your Home!
@@hotconcrete There was no where else to go! :)
Thank you, gentlemen. Can’t tell you how much I enjoyed this (and am aligned to it), Bishop Barron. May blessings overflow! Simply Catholicism is, always, the answer. 🤍
By Sunday Bishop's channel will have gotten 1M subscribers...👏
Thank you father for your excellent thoughts that help me so much in understanding my beautiful Catholic faith. And, to the little girs question as did Jesus ever get sick. I would have said sure, just like all of us (e.g. head cold, flu, measles, etc., just like the rest of us). He was fully human!
But that was exactly why Bishop Barron said he would have to reflect further on the question. He was born as the new Adam (Pre the fall) and as such may not have been sick, but he did tire, which was probably a part of Adam's Pre-Fall condition.
As a human without sin, Jesus would surely be subject to sickness like all humans but at the same time would be able to dismiss it through His divine power.
Huge fan Bishop! I think that 6 year old girl's question wasn't answered thoroughly.
It merits deeper consideration - if Jesus could always heal himself, did he even FEEL the pain of the nails?
Thank you for being such a beacon!
As a southsider I was baptized at Saint Killian. You have done something that I didn’t think anyone could ever do. Make me like Cardinal George. I mean he had a tough act to follow because I adored Cardinal Bernadine As many Chicagoans did. And they were so very different in their styles. But you make some good points and some very valid points and I can understand with more clarity you consider him a mentor.
Yikes.
BB nailed it when he said the political factions of both colors are unable to 'make that move' to recognize ANYTHING outside of their own core marching orders-- may we all have the courage to press forward as the good Bishop has.
This was an interesting conversation. I’ve been thinking over the last year or two about how the Catholic schools and families should teach, in a practical way, how to LIVE the Catholic lifestyle and WHAT that means and WHY…I know the schools and most Catholic parents try to help teach this but I’m talking about a more specific way of teaching it. I think parents can be good with instruction on the moral life and through example and the schools can teach theology, but it’s hard sometimes as a Catholic to pull all of that together to actually figure out HOW to really live the Catholic lifestyle…simply Catholic as Bishop was saying.
I am trying to be a disciple of Jesus because after living for 70 years, I have accepted in faith, that Jesus really is both my (and yours) Lord and Savior. As Pope Benedict XVI said, Christianity is not simply an intellectual discipline in morality and ethics, but an encounter with the living God. The "work" of faith has been to "little by little" follow Jesus, relying on the Holy Spirit for both guidance and the grace to grow in the perfection of love. As St. Peter says in John 6:68, I believe in faith that Jesus really does have the words of eternal life and is in fact the only valid path to spending eternity with my Creator, my God and my Father. But what I have discovered is that I have failed miserably to follow Jesus when I have tried to dictate the terms, even when I am sincerely trying to follow. It is so easy to cling to my paradigms rather than to walk day-by-day in faith, actively relying on the Holy Spirit to direct my steps and simultaneously give me the mysterious gift called grace. I have been "conservative" or "liberal" when I have clung to what I know about the Lord rather than clinging to the Lord. I have found that it is much harder work to actively listen to the Holy Spirit and act in faith than to cling to the god of "issues." Whenever I have been "conservative" or "liberal" I have talked at people rather than simply being with them and seeking their good.
Hi from Hyattsville, MD, just outside Washington, DC