I've been looking for years for a contemporary Christian intellectual who can combine a deep theological and philosophical background with a winning and accessible apologetic, like C.S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer. Bishop Barron comes closer to that ideal than anyone I have encountered in decades. Just want to say thank you.
I follow Bishop works on line. So Pround of him. May Our LORD continue to feel you with wisdom. Plz can the livestream daily Masses continue? It has become my daily routine.
Excellent all the answers given by Bishop Barron for this not so easy exercise! Here is a good one by G.K. Chesterton: “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
Bishop Barron’s lecture series and talks are truly awesome. It is very informative and helped us to grow in virtues and holiness. Thank you Bishop Barron for your service to God’s people. You are a gift to the world.
Many thanks for the great blessing of having the Word brought to my home in daily Mass and for the opportunity of understanding the Word in a new light through your homilies. Praying for you Bishop Barron and Father Grunow with much gratitude for the evangelization you have been accomplishing throughout the world. God Bless!
The Cataclysm Sentence * Moises 5:46 Deuteronomy 6:4 = Shema Hebrew "Hear o Israel the Lord your God is Lord alone" "Credo in Unum Deum" (Catholic Credo) * Jesus 9:03 Mark 12: 29-31 New International Version (NIV) 29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a] 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[b] 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[c] There is no commandment greater than these.” John 14:6 New International Version (NIV) 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. *St. Paul 14: 33 1 Corinthians 13:13 NLT Three things will last forever-faith, hope, and love-and the greatest of these is love. *St. Augustine 19:22 "Love the Lord your God with your whole hear, love your neighbors yourself and that everything else in the Bible is meant to revolve around that and lead to it, or go for it etc." " The mind of primordial knowling source of the divine being, that's the Father, the Father in a great act of self-knowledge generates the Son, that's called Noticies(?) Sue for Augustinm, self knowledge, then the Father and the Son look ate each other and they fall in love, and that shared love he called it, Amor (?) Sue, self love, that's the Holy Spirit." *Aquinas 23:10 "In God essence and existence coincide" *Thomas Merton 26:50 "... Contemplation is finding the place in you where you are here and now being creade by God *Bishop Barron 29:30 "Find the center, know you're a sinner, realize your life is not about you"
“As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours.” -Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
About half way through this video I started thinking about Revelation 21 that says, there will be a New Heaven and a New Earth for the old heaven and old earth shall pass away. You continued by saying that scientists are finding that the earth is passing away. So praise be to God, there will be nothing left to come back to. I really enjoy Word on Fire. Thank you Bishop Barron and your staff who work to bring these videos to us. God bless you.
One of my pastors once said in his homily, according to Thomas Aquinas, God has rendered God-self helpless in giving human the freedom of choice. I have never forgotten that line.
Thank you Bishop Robert Barron Sharing your words with the world You explain clearly and beautifully Faith Hope and Love In Jesus Christ You speak The Truth Jesus Christ
Bishop Barron how can I thank you for all of your amazing work and commitment to the Truth, except to share a Shakespeare quote I most recently read, that so lightly yet profoundly touched my heat. “I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks and ever Thanks”.
Absolutely brilliant! Thank You. Finding the center is so key as the starting point. The time is ripe for contemplative renewal in the church. With so much secular interest in mindfulness and Buddhist meditation, I think it would be wise to broadcast monastic wisdom and the teachings of the desert mothers and fathers. I’ve also noticed a surge of interest in psychedelics and altered states of consciousness among non-religious friends. The great scholar of religion Huston Smith (who took part in the early psychedelic research) said, later in life, that disciplined meditation and prayer are by far the better means of cultivating an awareness of transcendent reality and mystical knowledge.
This is really amazing talk. I realized a concept from Brandon that will be a good argument to those who make the Bible as their god, forgetting that Christianity is about Jesus, not about the Bible.
wow--i think that was possibly the best Word on Fire episode ever-and that's saying a lot--could listen all day to Bishop Barron's take on what 3000 saint' cataclysm sentences might be--I'd start with John Paul the Great, Catherine of Sienna, Therese of Lisieux, Theresa of Avila, Se Faustina, John the Apostle, John of the Cross, Francis of Assissi and GK Chesterton
Bishop Barron during this pandemic "lock down" I went from binging on Netflix to binging on your youtube videos, and so much better for it. During a college philosophy class many years ago a student commented that Our Lord's true presence in the Eucharist is the highest level of reality. Question: Have you ever heard of different "levels" of reality??? Any input would be appreciated. Mother Mary pray for us.
How about taking 3 questions at the end of each show. It really is for me a highlight of each show and responds to more of the inquires of those who follow you, Brandon, and Bishop Barron Thank you, Byrne
What is Truth? What is "freedom"? Those are just meaningless words, abstract concepts, until/unless you can give some example(s). The challenge is to give the MOST information in one sentence (long or short), not to give the smallest, most simple sentence possible. If freedom is a desired end and Truth is a way to that end then how am I going to find either? I'm a simple, ignorant person and need DIRECTIONS. So here is my cataclysm sentence: "Ask, and it will be given to you: seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you."
Jesus taught us what love is and how to love. This is crystal clear in the Gospels. He restated the Shema and added, "love another person as you love yourself." Indeed, he overstated the divine dictum in the sense that love can result in miracles, both in healing spiritual and physical disease, and in bringing life back to the dead.
In Babe Jesus , we see the beautiful Image of God, pure gentle and vulnerable. In Jesus crucified the image of sins of the world on His Divine Body displaying all of our sins. In His Resurrection, His Glorified body the Image of what we are called to be, transformed and in Him Will be
Hi, Bojan. Fancy “seeing” you here. I’m a regular listener to BI, BIH, & CMC. Yes, I’m a Catholic, but I have great respect and admiration for Orthodoxy. I’m also a big “fan” of BB. I’ve asked you many times on your own channel your thoughts on BB, especially regarding his exposition on Hell and damnation. You never responded. Your busy, I know. You can’t spend all your time responding to comments in your com-box. I’ll surmise you must have some appreciation of BB given your comment here. All blessings to you.
After listening to this episode of the WOF Show, a few thoughts came to mind: it's an interesting question that seems to me helps to find what is most essential about life, but the event itself seems farfetched to me for a few reasons. First, it says that Jesus came "in the fullness of time" and that "He died once and for all." Why would God choose or need to reveal Himself again? And when He died, didn't Jesus save ALL of creation. He'd allow the earth and universe to continue without humans? I guess He can do whatever He wants/wills, but I guess I just never considered the possibility of an event destroying humans but not all creation. Finally, however, Jesus said that even He didn't know the day or hour, so in the end I guess I'll let God figure out the end for humans and the universe. Still I like how you and Brandon discussed what the most pivotal people throughout history thought was most essential. That was very helpful. Thanks for all you and the WOF team do. God bless.
I can't be the only person who heard "Baby, don't hurt me" in his head when Bishop Barron asked, "What is love?" { Also, how do we reconcile referring to the Pentateuch as the books written by Moses when we know this is not true?
@@BishopBarron Thank you. That is what prompted my curiosity when you referred to him as "classically-seen as the author of the first five books of the Bible". It wasn't an attempt at a gotcha or to be impertinent, I was genuinely curious how we still refer to him as the author while knowing that to be false. I don't know nearly anything. I'm just a guy awaiting Confirmation, so I have dozens of questions when I watch or read something new, much to the distress of my parish priest. He's a patient man.
How is it possible to buy the DVD's for this program if you live in Australia. I tried to purchase them on line but unfortunately got stopped when it came to put in my address. Thanks heaps
Thursday, May 21, 2020 2020-05-21 CHOSEN FOR THIS TIME INRI You shall not take the word of another regarding what you are to do, for I Myself wish to speak to individuals, I will speak into your hearts the directives for each one. Therefore, establish a relationship with Me, I am aware of your misery, your weaknesses, but as you were created for much greater things in your life, ask for the grace of boldness, courage and strength. The coming of the Second Pentecost has begun, certain individuals have already been given the illumination of their conscience, in order that they may have a conversion of heart. They were chosen to help others know the Truth, especially in these times of much confusion and loss, I am very much still in control, wanting to awaken the world to the need for repentance, with the advancement of technology, they busy themselves with everything else but Me. I am acutely aware of your needs at this critical time, speak with Me in a way that makes Me aware of your desire to do only what pleases Me. Always ask Me to cover and protect you with My Precious Blood, I greatly desire to do so, all that you will need to know will be made known to you in the appropriate timing. Pray always for those who are despairing of the loss of jobs and possibly the death of family members, they are in need of faith and trust in Me, if they would seek the help of Blessed Mary, My Mother, She would console them in all their need. My Apostles ran in the face of persecution as they came to arrest their Master, and they fled in fear, hiding, until that is, the coming of the Holy Spirit into their lives, then all was changed. Courageously they evangelized, with boldness they proclaimed Me, and faced their torturers with heroic faith, praising God. You may be called in some way to stand up for your faith, trust that you will be made ready with the grace needed, for you have been given the Holy Spirit, you will be empowered. You have been chosen for this time, you need not worry concerning what awaits you in the future, pray and surrender your life completely to Me, I will take care of all your concerns. Do not fear anything, I am on the Throne of Heaven, no evil will befall those who are clinging to Me, those who praise My Name I will save, I will rescue you I am your refuge.
Dear bishop , shepherd of the flock ... yes , the genre has come , come to give us faith , hope , and love ... free ! ... though on His terms , granted . To those who pose hypothetical cataclysms I'd like to reply : " God decides if , why , or when such a thing may happen , and to speculate in this manner is simply to encroach on His domain . This kind of thought experiment distorts , even inverts the proper state of affairs between God and men ... a kind of diabolical throwback to the bad faith behind the fall . " ... what if ...! " --- " ... don't worry about tomorrow ( much less strange scenarios ) when today ( real scenarios ) are quite enough ..." One thing about serious thinkers like Augustine , Thomas , Schopenhauer (Kant) , et al. that makes their labors valuable is that we can learn from them that in the end the salvific pithiness of the sermon on the mount as well as other scriptural pearls have answered , albeit in unpopularly unequivocal manner , all the hairsplitting smokescreen behind which a petulant ego may seek to hide in order to preserve itself from the inevitable decline ( for He must grow greater ) which the truth would certainly procure . Dear bishop Barron , may our Lord protect you and your ministry from the mean assault of envious spirits ; while your imitatio is assured . The blessings of the Almighty are upon you , and it makes the hearts of your listeners sing with joy of our true home . Thank you .
Found this in the Asian journal of Merton, p. 154. "Christ said, 'I am the door. ' The nailed door. The cross, they nail the door shut with death. The resurrection: 'You see, I am NOT a door.' 'Why do you look up to heaven?' ATTOLITE PORTAS PRINCIPES VESTRAS. For what? The King of Glory. EGO SUM OSTIUM. I am the opening, the "shewing", the revelation, the door of light, the Light itself. "I am the Light," and the light is in the world from the beginning...." Is this a theologically correct metaphor, or more literary? Thanks.
How about "LITURGY": If the liturgy is the source and summit, then I would love series on the liturgy. I have been reading a lot of Dom Virgil Michael, and his view of the liturgy, and education of the liturgy is fascinating. it could be: 1. All life is liturgical. 2. Catholic life is: In Time, Sacrificial, Sacarmental, Community oriented. 3. Catholic Time: Day(praise in morning, thanksgiving in evening). Week (Friday/Sunday- life in the paschal mystery), Year (Celebrating Christ every year), Sanctoral calendar (What God's grace does with people). 4. Total Christ: Body of Christ (people) united to the Head, and offered to the Father. 5. Genesis poem as being the time: Creation is a temple for us to worship God. Liturgy would be a great series.
This is not a criticism because I ultimately love and appreciate all the Word on Fire ministry...but just one practical thought: if there were any great catastrophe that killed all humans, wouldn't that be the end of the world and Judgment? Would God really let the universe continue without humans? I guess I just never thought of this question you're proposing.
The thought is the killing of all SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE not of all humanity. Think, some nuclear war with just a few children surviving. Read the short story By The Waters of Babylon. whalenenglish.com/sophstoriesnew/fiction/bythewatersofbabylon.pdf
While the Lord's people were going through life before the second Adam came to earth and then after he was resurrected before the good news arrived on the shores of North America the Lord's people called him only -- "The Great Spirit". When the Lord's people who were already in North America heard the good news for the first time they rejoiced in acceptance of Christianity while helping those who brought it survive better in their new nations. Of course we can all admit that some people from both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific too who were present in North America while all that was happening while they because they were regarding one another as being less human were failing to accept the truth of the good news just like what happened around Jesus Christ in Europe before his crucifixion.
Regarding “freedom”... The most civilized apologists for the “infernalist” orthodoxies these days, as I have noted elsewhere in these pages, tend to prefer to defend their position by an appeal to creaturely freedom and to God’s respect for its dignity. And, as I have also noted, there could scarcely be a poorer argument; whether made crudely or elegantly, it invariably fails, because it depends upon an incoherent model of freedom. If one could plausibly explain how an absolutely libertarian act, obedient to no prior rationale whatsoever, would be distinguishable from sheer chance, or a mindless organic or mechanical impulse, and so any more “free” than an earthquake or embolism, then the argument might carry some weight. But to me it seems impossible to speak of freedom in any meaningful sense at all unless one begins from the assumption that, for a rational spirit, to see the good and know it truly is to desire it insatiably and to obey it unconditionally, while not to desire it is not to have known it truly, and so never to have been free to choose it. I can defer the full philosophical argument to my Fourth Meditation. But here I can at least point out that scripture seems to support my view. “And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free” (John 8:32): for freedom and truth are one, and not to know the truth is to be enslaved. “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23: 34): not seeing the Good, says God to God, they did not freely choose evil, and must be pardoned. Excerpt: THAT ALL SHALL BE SAVED By Dr David Bentley Hart, Pages 85-86
the sentence you chose is addressed to the faithful. For you, for me it is readily accepted, but not for a buddist e.g.. Not for a moral atheist. it's not Catholic, it lacks the character of universality! Mamma mia... , I think as I think, because I have faith that salvation is available to all those that desire it. All those that accept the love of our Lord!
Jesus Christ is the Word incarnated into life and was in the beginning with God when He said: "Let there be Light" and Jesus came as that Light to our world so that it may not be condemned, but that it might be saved: Jesus Christ: He is the Way, He is the Truth, He is the Life and None come onto the Father who art in Heaven but through Him. ✝ God Is the Word, God is the I AM, God is Omnipresent, God is Omnipotent, God IS FATHER, God is Zion, God is Alpha and Omega, God is Beginning and End. One sentence: Love God with all of thy Heart, Love God with all of thy Strength, Love God with all of thy Soul, Love thy neighbour's as yourself. There are historic records of Holy Bibles having survived fires, bombs, explosions, world wars, natural disasters like hurricanes and tornados: unlike scientific text books which have had to be rewritten. And without Words no Book is written. Also lets not mistake history and repeat the burning of books. When one accomplishes the completion of a difficult task: reading a hefty book start to finish, writing a book start to finish, painting a gorgeous canvas, sculpting a beautiful statue, building a wonderful piece of work: there is a true feeling of fulfilment and the same is upon us as a part of God's creation - being created in His visage, being His children: that the completion of our sacred tasks given by God in subduing this world created for us and finishing the tending and naming of all parts of His garden, when we have finished building/growing new earth new heaven: in the regards that anything worth doing is never easy, that the; cruelty, harshness, the possibility to give up and to fail, the temptations of sins(separations from God, Holy Spirit) and difficulties presented in His Sacred tasks (like that of the chores or labours given from parent to child: I.e. Clean your room, wash up, put away the toys, walk the dog, and so on) and the same as the child grows up, the challenge and difficulties of labours scale up with the rising maturity and similarly is true with fulfilment of that the completion in being is so truly worth it. May the Grace of Jesus Christ be with you all. ❤️💚💜💙💛
I didn't read Vatican 2 but just looking its fruits and how church is today I don't see anything good in it, destroying tradition, destroying churches and building boring buildings, and introducing new things and can't understand why you always calling to Vatican 2, churches are empty and people who attend new mass are not that good , I experienced it
The Father and the Son are the Parents of the Holy Spirit, if many churches are correct. If many churches are correct, the Trinity is a Family-- two Parents and a Progeny, similar to a human family.(Humans are made in the "likeness" and "image" of God according to Genesis 1:26, although the human author of Genesis probably didn't know about the Trinity when he wrote Genesis) In the book of Job, which is in the Bible, God is compared to a father and a mother with a womb "From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?"-Job 38:29. Because we can think of God as like a mother (Isaiah 42:14, Isaiah 66:13, Matthew 23:37, Catechism of the Catholic Church 2nd edition paragraph 239), all three roles(Father,Mother,Progeny) in a basic human family are filled in the Trinity. Saying that the Father and the Son are the Parents of the Holy Spirit is another way of saying "the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son" which has been official Catholic teaching for centuries. The Church teaches that the Son is begotten by the Father. If this is correct, the Father is the Father(Parent) of the Son. The Church teaches that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. If this is correct, the Father and the Son are Parents of the Holy Spirit. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (second edition) paragraph 246 says that the Holy Spirit's "nature and subsistence" is "at once...from the Father and the Son."If the Church calls Mary mother(parent) of God even if Mary isn't the first source of Christ's humanity(God is the first source), then the Son can also be called a Parent of God (the Holy Spirit). If the Church is correct, the Father is the principle-Parent and the Son is the begotten-Parent. Some early Christians thought that the Holy Spirit was the Mother-figure because in the languages (Aramaic, Hebrew) that Jesus spoke (during Jesus' time and through at least the 4th century), Spirit was a feminine noun. (Some languages like Spanish assign genders to genderless nouns) The scriptures are vague if the Holy Spirit is the Second or Third Person of the Trinity, whichever of these is true, the First and the Second may be the Parents of the Third. Parent definition from Merriam-Webster dictionary: One that begets or brings forth offspring. Principle means base/foundation/first-source/first-origin/root-cause. Stay indoors to avoid flu and coronavirus. Stay indoors to avoid coronavirus and flu.
I've been looking for years for a contemporary Christian intellectual who can combine a deep theological and philosophical background with a winning and accessible apologetic, like C.S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer. Bishop Barron comes closer to that ideal than anyone I have encountered in decades. Just want to say thank you.
God bless you for that. High praise indeed.
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Bishop Robert Barron I enjoying watching you God Bless you in healthy life.
I follow Bishop works on line. So Pround of him. May Our LORD continue to feel you with wisdom. Plz can the livestream daily Masses continue? It has become my daily routine.
@@Fairy2314 It will not continue after the lockdown.
Excellent all the answers given by Bishop Barron for this not so easy exercise! Here is a good one by G.K. Chesterton: “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
Bishop Barron’s lecture series and talks are truly awesome. It is very informative and helped us to grow in virtues and holiness.
Thank you Bishop Barron for your service to God’s people. You are a gift to the world.
Many thanks for the great blessing of having the Word brought to my home in daily Mass and for the opportunity of understanding the Word in a new light through your homilies. Praying for you Bishop Barron and Father Grunow with much gratitude for the evangelization you have been accomplishing throughout the world. God Bless!
4:25 Moses
8:51 Jesus
14:21 St. Paul
19:10 St. Augustine
22:08 St. Aquinas
26:23 Thomas Merton
29:20 Bishop Barron
The Cataclysm Sentence
* Moises 5:46
Deuteronomy 6:4 = Shema Hebrew
"Hear o Israel the Lord your God is Lord alone"
"Credo in Unum Deum" (Catholic Credo)
* Jesus 9:03
Mark 12: 29-31 New International Version (NIV)
29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a]
30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[b]
31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[c] There is no commandment greater than these.”
John 14:6 New International Version (NIV)
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
*St. Paul 14: 33
1 Corinthians 13:13 NLT
Three things will last forever-faith, hope, and love-and the greatest of these is love.
*St. Augustine 19:22
"Love the Lord your God with your whole hear, love your neighbors yourself and that everything
else in the Bible is meant to revolve around that and lead to it, or go for it etc."
" The mind of primordial knowling source of the divine being, that's the Father, the Father in a great act of self-knowledge generates the Son, that's called Noticies(?) Sue for
Augustinm, self knowledge, then the Father and the Son look ate each other and they
fall in love, and that shared love he called it, Amor (?) Sue, self love, that's the Holy Spirit."
*Aquinas 23:10
"In God essence and existence coincide"
*Thomas Merton 26:50
"... Contemplation is finding the place in you where you are
here and now being creade by God
*Bishop Barron 29:30
"Find the center, know you're a sinner, realize your life is not about you"
“As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours.”
-Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
Oh heck yeah, his excellency, Bishop. Barron makes me so proud to be Catholic! God bless him and you all.
About half way through this video I started thinking about Revelation 21 that says, there will be a New Heaven and a New Earth for the old heaven and old earth shall pass away. You continued by saying that scientists are finding that the earth is passing away. So praise be to God, there will be nothing left to come back to. I really enjoy Word on Fire. Thank you Bishop Barron and your staff who work to bring these videos to us. God bless you.
One of my pastors once said in his homily, according to Thomas Aquinas, God has rendered God-self helpless in giving human the freedom of choice. I have never forgotten that line.
The devil's greatest tool against us is our free will. The only full proof antidode is a burning, TOTAL love for God.
Thank you guys and Bishop Barron for your daily Masses and ministry. Peace in Christ to all.
Thank you
Bishop Robert Barron
Sharing your words with the world
You explain clearly and beautifully
Faith Hope and Love
In Jesus Christ
You speak The Truth
Jesus Christ
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Bishop Barron how can I thank you for all of your amazing work and commitment to the Truth, except to share a Shakespeare quote I most recently read, that so lightly yet profoundly touched my heat. “I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks and ever Thanks”.
Absolutely brilliant! Thank You. Finding the center is so key as the starting point. The time is ripe for contemplative renewal in the church. With so much secular interest in mindfulness and Buddhist meditation, I think it would be wise to broadcast monastic wisdom and the teachings of the desert mothers and fathers.
I’ve also noticed a surge of interest in psychedelics and altered states of consciousness among non-religious friends. The great scholar of religion Huston Smith (who took part in the early psychedelic research) said, later in life, that disciplined meditation and prayer are by far the better means of cultivating an awareness of transcendent reality and mystical knowledge.
Jesus is our Life!! Thank you Bishop and Brandon.
Thank you Bishop Barron for helping us grow in the Sacraments.
This is really amazing talk. I realized a concept from Brandon that will be a good argument to those who make the Bible as their god, forgetting that Christianity is about Jesus, not about the Bible.
Thank you, Bishop. You are so inspiring.
wow--i think that was possibly the best Word on Fire episode ever-and that's saying a lot--could listen all day to Bishop Barron's take on what 3000 saint' cataclysm sentences might be--I'd start with John Paul the Great, Catherine of Sienna, Therese of Lisieux, Theresa of Avila, Se Faustina, John the Apostle, John of the Cross, Francis of Assissi and GK Chesterton
28:30-29:10 father Bishop Baron in “the zone” . Bravo Father, bravo. So intelligent and well spoken.
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You won’t be sorry! ...just so blessed!✝️🙏🏼
Bishop Barron during this pandemic "lock down" I went from binging on Netflix to binging on your youtube videos, and so much better for it. During a college philosophy class many years ago a student commented that Our Lord's true presence in the Eucharist is the highest level of reality. Question: Have you ever heard of different "levels" of reality??? Any input would be appreciated. Mother Mary pray for us.
How about taking 3 questions at the end of each show. It really is for me a highlight of each show and responds to more of the inquires of those who follow you, Brandon, and Bishop Barron Thank you, Byrne
This talk is profound and very deep. It would make a great series lesson or small pamphlet! It’s got everything!!
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and mind and might.
Praise the Lord Jesus Christ 🙏
Amen!
Well done, Bishop! Thank you.
This one is going to be good. I think the cataclysm sentence is
"Truth will set you free"
What is Truth? What is "freedom"? Those are just meaningless words, abstract concepts, until/unless you can give some example(s). The challenge is to give the MOST information in one sentence (long or short), not to give the smallest, most simple sentence possible. If freedom is a desired end and Truth is a way to that end then how am I going to find either? I'm a simple, ignorant person and need DIRECTIONS. So here is my cataclysm sentence: "Ask, and it will be given to you: seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you."
Jesus taught us what love is and how to love. This is crystal clear in the Gospels. He restated the Shema and added, "love another person as you love yourself." Indeed, he overstated the divine dictum in the sense that love can result in miracles, both in healing spiritual and physical disease, and in bringing life back to the dead.
Inclusive unconditional love is the essence of Our Lord and the essence of all miracles 😇
I just loved this show, loved it. Thank you, Byrne
Mother Mary Pray For Us 🙏
"Finding the place in you where you are here and now being created by God." Merton. Yes please.
I am extremely delighted by the Cataclysms Bishop Robert Barron theorized for our great spiritual masters.
Please check out the video and enjoy ❣️
It's clarity." I believe in ONE God.."
That’s what I said- Faith, Hope, Love Thank you 🙏
My short, cataclysmic statement would be: “love well to live well.” After all, God is love, so love is the way. And all of life is a legacy of love.
Please do an episode on Scotus and Occum.
Hi, Bishop Barron. How about for C.S. Lewis?
In Babe Jesus , we see the beautiful Image of God, pure gentle and vulnerable. In Jesus crucified the image of sins of the world on His Divine Body displaying all of our sins. In His Resurrection, His Glorified body the Image of what we are called to be, transformed and in Him Will be
I am surprised that Bishop Barron did not mention our Lord's Ascension which we are celebrating today.
But I want to watch it now.
To be clear, is that the sentence you want passed on to the next generation, or do you want to watch it now?
@@jimmieoakland3843 Now, Jimmie.
Hi, Bojan. Fancy “seeing” you here. I’m a regular listener to BI, BIH, & CMC. Yes, I’m a Catholic, but I have great respect and admiration for Orthodoxy. I’m also a big “fan” of BB. I’ve asked you many times on your own channel your thoughts on BB, especially regarding his exposition on Hell and damnation. You never responded. Your busy, I know. You can’t spend all your time responding to comments in your com-box. I’ll surmise you must have some appreciation of BB given your comment here. All blessings to you.
@@oscarprogresso Here you go! :-)
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Thanks, Bojan!
Hi Bishop. Can you comment on David Weir on his short Story on "The Egg"? What philosophy is this?
The Sacrament series is wonderful, thank you so much.
After listening to this episode of the WOF Show, a few thoughts came to mind: it's an interesting question that seems to me helps to find what is most essential about life, but the event itself seems farfetched to me for a few reasons. First, it says that Jesus came "in the fullness of time" and that "He died once and for all." Why would God choose or need to reveal Himself again? And when He died, didn't Jesus save ALL of creation. He'd allow the earth and universe to continue without humans? I guess He can do whatever He wants/wills, but I guess I just never considered the possibility of an event destroying humans but not all creation. Finally, however, Jesus said that even He didn't know the day or hour, so in the end I guess I'll let God figure out the end for humans and the universe. Still I like how you and Brandon discussed what the most pivotal people throughout history thought was most essential. That was very helpful. Thanks for all you and the WOF team do. God bless.
Will the Sacrament videos, one day, all be free to view?
I once read that JPII's favorite passage in the Bible was John 8:32
Bishop, will there be a spanish version of the WOF Bible?
Thank you for answering my question!!
I can't be the only person who heard "Baby, don't hurt me" in his head when Bishop Barron asked, "What is love?"
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Also, how do we reconcile referring to the Pentateuch as the books written by Moses when we know this is not true?
It wasn't written by Moses. No serious Scriptural scholar thinks so.
@@BishopBarron Thank you. That is what prompted my curiosity when you referred to him as "classically-seen as the author of the first five books of the Bible". It wasn't an attempt at a gotcha or to be impertinent, I was genuinely curious how we still refer to him as the author while knowing that to be false.
I don't know nearly anything. I'm just a guy awaiting Confirmation, so I have dozens of questions when I watch or read something new, much to the distress of my parish priest. He's a patient man.
“🌎In the Beginning 🌍” “bet, resh, aleph, shin, yod, tav”
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Great discussion.
Can someone give me the time stamps for each person? I'm trying to show my mom a certain one so she can see how amazing this is.
4:25 Moses
8:51 Jesus
14:21 St. Paul
19:10 St. Augustine
22:08 St. Aquinas
26:23 Thomas Merton
29:20 Bishop Barron
Wonderful
Bishop Barron - everybody knows you are supposed to ask the genie for 1000 more wishes!
My cataclysm sentence to those who survive the cataclysm would be: "You poor unfortunate soul!"
Great discussion. Learned a lot. Thank you.
How is it possible to buy the DVD's for this program if you live in Australia. I tried to purchase them on line but unfortunately got stopped when it came to put in my address. Thanks heaps
Thursday, May 21, 2020
2020-05-21
CHOSEN FOR THIS TIME INRI
You shall not take the word of another regarding what you are to do, for I Myself wish to speak to individuals, I will speak into your hearts the directives for each one.
Therefore, establish a relationship with Me, I am aware of your misery, your weaknesses, but as you were created for much greater things in your life, ask for the grace of boldness, courage and strength.
The coming of the Second Pentecost has begun, certain individuals have already been given the illumination of their conscience, in order that they may have a conversion of heart.
They were chosen to help others know the Truth, especially in these times of much confusion and loss, I am very much still in control, wanting to awaken the world to the need for repentance, with the advancement of technology, they busy themselves with everything else but Me.
I am acutely aware of your needs at this critical time, speak with Me in a way that makes Me aware of your desire to do only what pleases Me.
Always ask Me to cover and protect you with My Precious Blood, I greatly desire to do so, all that you will need to know will be made known to you in the appropriate timing.
Pray always for those who are despairing of the loss of jobs and possibly the death of family members, they are in need of faith and trust in Me, if they would seek the help of Blessed Mary, My Mother, She would console them in all their need.
My Apostles ran in the face of persecution as they came to arrest their Master, and they fled in fear, hiding, until that is, the coming of the Holy Spirit into their lives, then all was changed.
Courageously they evangelized, with boldness they proclaimed Me, and faced their torturers with heroic faith, praising God.
You may be called in some way to stand up for your faith, trust that you will be made ready with the grace needed, for you have been given the Holy Spirit, you will be empowered.
You have been chosen for this time, you need not worry concerning what awaits you in the future, pray and surrender your life completely to Me, I will take care of all your concerns.
Do not fear anything, I am on the Throne of Heaven, no evil will befall those who are clinging to Me, those who praise My Name I will save, I will rescue you I am your refuge.
Dear bishop , shepherd of the flock ... yes , the genre has come , come to give us faith , hope , and love ... free ! ... though on His terms , granted .
To those who pose hypothetical cataclysms I'd like to reply :
" God decides if , why , or when such a thing may happen , and to speculate in this manner is simply to encroach on His domain . This kind of thought experiment distorts , even inverts the proper state of affairs between God and men ... a kind of diabolical throwback to the bad faith behind the fall .
" ... what if ...! " --- " ... don't worry about tomorrow ( much less strange scenarios ) when today ( real scenarios ) are quite enough ..."
One thing about serious thinkers like Augustine , Thomas , Schopenhauer (Kant) , et al. that makes their labors valuable is that we can learn from them that in the end the salvific pithiness of the sermon on the mount as well as other scriptural pearls have answered , albeit in unpopularly unequivocal manner , all the hairsplitting smokescreen behind which a petulant ego may seek to hide in order to preserve itself from the inevitable decline ( for He must grow greater ) which the truth would certainly procure .
Dear bishop Barron , may our Lord protect you and your ministry from the mean assault of envious spirits ; while your imitatio is assured . The blessings of the Almighty are upon you , and it makes the hearts of your listeners sing with joy of our true home .
Thank you .
Found this in the Asian journal of Merton, p. 154. "Christ said, 'I am the door. ' The nailed door. The cross, they nail the door shut with death. The resurrection: 'You see, I am NOT a door.' 'Why do you look up to heaven?' ATTOLITE PORTAS PRINCIPES VESTRAS. For what? The King of Glory. EGO SUM OSTIUM. I am the opening, the "shewing", the revelation, the door of light, the Light itself. "I am the Light," and the light is in the world from the beginning...."
Is this a theologically correct metaphor, or more literary? Thanks.
I hope your Lordship will convey it to the Vicar : Listen O Papa, the LORD your GOD is LORD alone. [and not pachamama]
Never leave home without your oil can.
The rest is commentary.
How about "LITURGY": If the liturgy is the source and summit, then I would love series on the liturgy. I have been reading a lot of Dom Virgil Michael, and his view of the liturgy, and education of the liturgy is fascinating. it could be: 1. All life is liturgical. 2. Catholic life is: In Time, Sacrificial, Sacarmental, Community oriented. 3. Catholic Time: Day(praise in morning, thanksgiving in evening). Week (Friday/Sunday- life in the paschal mystery), Year (Celebrating Christ every year), Sanctoral calendar (What God's grace does with people). 4. Total Christ: Body of Christ (people) united to the Head, and offered to the Father. 5. Genesis poem as being the time: Creation is a temple for us to worship God. Liturgy would be a great series.
He has given a talk on the Mass.
This is not a criticism because I ultimately love and appreciate all the Word on Fire ministry...but just one practical thought: if there were any great catastrophe that killed all humans, wouldn't that be the end of the world and Judgment? Would God really let the universe continue without humans? I guess I just never thought of this question you're proposing.
The thought is the killing of all SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE not of all humanity. Think, some nuclear war with just a few children surviving. Read the short story By The Waters of Babylon. whalenenglish.com/sophstoriesnew/fiction/bythewatersofbabylon.pdf
@@marjorieferris1144 okay, thanks
When this virus is over whats the best way to meet you to shake your hand?
I will sell you access. How long would you like to spend with him? Lol
Mine would be "God is love".
Bellisimooooo!!!
BP PLS PRAY, I DONT LIKE TO HAVE THIS VACCINE,PRAY FOR ME & MY FAMILY I PRAYED, THANKS & GOD BLESS...
22:50 how dare someone deny you anything Father. 😉❤️
I understand more 1 Cor 13:13 ....why is love is the greatest? “Once in heaven, love would have not fade away...”
Paise God for this
While the Lord's people were going through life before the second Adam came to earth and then after he was resurrected before the good news arrived on the shores of North America the Lord's people called him only -- "The Great Spirit". When the Lord's people who were already in North America heard the good news for the first time they rejoiced in acceptance of Christianity while helping those who brought it survive better in their new nations. Of course we can all admit that some people from both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific too who were present in North America while all that was happening while they because they were regarding one another as being less human were failing to accept the truth of the good news just like what happened around Jesus Christ in Europe before his crucifixion.
Regarding “freedom”... The most civilized apologists for the “infernalist” orthodoxies these days, as I have noted elsewhere in these pages, tend to prefer to defend their position by an appeal to creaturely freedom and to God’s respect for its dignity. And, as I have also noted, there could scarcely be a poorer argument; whether made crudely or elegantly, it invariably fails, because it depends upon an incoherent model of freedom. If one could plausibly explain how an absolutely libertarian act, obedient to no prior rationale whatsoever, would be distinguishable from sheer chance, or a mindless organic or mechanical impulse, and so any more “free” than an earthquake or embolism, then the argument might carry some weight. But to me it seems impossible to speak of freedom in any meaningful sense at all unless one begins from the assumption that, for a rational spirit, to see the good and know it truly is to desire it insatiably and to obey it unconditionally, while not to desire it is not to have known it truly, and so never to have been free to choose it. I can defer the full philosophical argument to my Fourth Meditation. But here I can at least point out that scripture seems to support my view. “And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free” (John 8:32): for freedom and truth are one, and not to know the truth is to be enslaved. “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23: 34): not seeing the Good, says God to God, they did not freely choose evil, and must be pardoned.
Excerpt: THAT ALL SHALL BE SAVED By Dr David Bentley Hart, Pages 85-86
I saw this e-mail...#preparingforwhatsnext
I would have loved to hear a cataclysm sentence from a woman or person of colour in Church history...
Bishop in as much as Love is the highest good could you spend some time telling us most precisely what love is in the Christian context.
Willing the good of the other.
the sentence you chose is addressed to the faithful. For you, for me it is readily accepted, but not for a buddist e.g.. Not for a moral atheist. it's not Catholic, it lacks the character of universality! Mamma mia... , I think as I think, because I have faith that salvation is available to all those that desire it. All those that accept the love of our Lord!
Jesus Christ is the Word incarnated into life and was in the beginning with God when He said: "Let there be Light" and Jesus came as that Light to our world so that it may not be condemned, but that it might be saved: Jesus Christ: He is the Way, He is the Truth, He is the Life and None come onto the Father who art in Heaven but through Him. ✝
God Is the Word, God is the I AM, God is Omnipresent, God is Omnipotent, God IS FATHER, God is Zion, God is Alpha and Omega, God is Beginning and End.
One sentence: Love God with all of thy Heart, Love God with all of thy Strength, Love God with all of thy Soul, Love thy neighbour's as yourself.
There are historic records of Holy Bibles having survived fires, bombs, explosions, world wars, natural disasters like hurricanes and tornados: unlike scientific text books which have had to be rewritten. And without Words no Book is written. Also lets not mistake history and repeat the burning of books.
When one accomplishes the completion of a difficult task: reading a hefty book start to finish, writing a book start to finish, painting a gorgeous canvas, sculpting a beautiful statue, building a wonderful piece of work: there is a true feeling of fulfilment and the same is upon us as a part of God's creation - being created in His visage, being His children: that the completion of our sacred tasks given by God in subduing this world created for us and finishing the tending and naming of all parts of His garden, when we have finished building/growing new earth new heaven: in the regards that anything worth doing is never easy, that the; cruelty, harshness, the possibility to give up and to fail, the temptations of sins(separations from God, Holy Spirit) and difficulties presented in His Sacred tasks (like that of the chores or labours given from parent to child: I.e. Clean your room, wash up, put away the toys, walk the dog, and so on) and the same as the child grows up, the challenge and difficulties of labours scale up with the rising maturity and similarly is true with fulfilment of that the completion in being is so truly worth it.
May the Grace of Jesus Christ be with you all. ❤️💚💜💙💛
Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels-bring home for Emma.
Ha ha. A Canticle for Leibowitz. Even nonsense can lead to enlightenment!
I didn't read Vatican 2 but just looking its fruits and how church is today I don't see anything good in it, destroying tradition, destroying churches and building boring buildings, and introducing new things and can't understand why you always calling to Vatican 2, churches are empty and people who attend new mass are not that good , I experienced it
The sentence is always "God is love" no need to upload the video :-)
The Father and the Son are the Parents of the Holy Spirit, if many churches are correct. If many churches are correct, the Trinity is a Family-- two Parents and a Progeny, similar to a human family.(Humans are made in the "likeness" and "image" of God according to Genesis 1:26, although the human author of Genesis probably didn't know about the Trinity when he wrote Genesis) In the book of Job, which is in the Bible, God is compared to a father and a mother with a womb "From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?"-Job 38:29. Because we can think of God as like a mother (Isaiah 42:14, Isaiah 66:13, Matthew 23:37, Catechism of the Catholic Church 2nd edition paragraph 239), all three roles(Father,Mother,Progeny) in a basic human family are filled in the Trinity. Saying that the Father and the Son are the Parents of the Holy Spirit is another way of saying "the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son" which has been official Catholic teaching for centuries. The Church teaches that the Son is begotten by the Father. If this is correct, the Father is the Father(Parent) of the Son. The Church teaches that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. If this is correct, the Father and the Son are Parents of the Holy Spirit. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (second edition) paragraph 246 says that the Holy Spirit's "nature and subsistence" is "at once...from the Father and the Son."If the Church calls Mary mother(parent) of God even if Mary isn't the first source of Christ's humanity(God is the first source), then the Son can also be called a Parent of God (the Holy Spirit). If the Church is correct, the Father is the principle-Parent and the Son is the begotten-Parent. Some early Christians thought that the Holy Spirit was the Mother-figure because in the languages (Aramaic, Hebrew) that Jesus spoke (during Jesus' time and through at least the 4th century), Spirit was a feminine noun. (Some languages like Spanish assign genders to genderless nouns) The scriptures are vague if the Holy Spirit is the Second or Third Person of the Trinity, whichever of these is true, the First and the Second may be the Parents of the Third. Parent definition from Merriam-Webster dictionary: One that begets or brings forth offspring. Principle means base/foundation/first-source/first-origin/root-cause. Stay indoors to avoid flu and coronavirus. Stay indoors to avoid coronavirus and flu.
PIUS Jews : the Shahmah.
Feynmann was a brilliant Nobel prize winner. Your answer to his question is ridiculous and entirely dogmatic. Religion begins where science ends.