I had my guard up when I watched this because I have autism and I can't work to support myself, and the devil tends to use that fact to make me tear myself apart. This video was such a breath of life, it made me think about how in Heaven I'll have the strength I need to do the beautiful things my heart wants to do. I want to do beautiful things to enhance and participate in the beautiful creation of God.
In Jesus's name may you remain blessed always. God be with you and remain with you at all times, this is my prayers to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Joseph. Amen!
Don't let anyone tell you that you are "less than" because you have autism. If God wanted another person whose brain worked "normally" He wouldn't have created you. He made you just the way He wanted you to be. God bless you!
I worked almost all my adult life. At the top of my work life making more money than I ever could imagine I was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor. This ended my career working on mainframe computers and work in general. I actually missed the fact that I was so limited that I couldn’t be the breadwinner anymore. This turned out to be what God intended for me. I have spent my days as EM and Lector and just recently altar server in my old age.
“Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart, as to the Lord, and not to men: Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ.” Colossians 3:23-24
I want to give up but I keep faith in hopes God will change my situation. Lord I’m sick of worrying. Please hear my prayers. I trust in you and keep faith even as I struggle to take care of my children. Like many single parents things are so hard on me. Both of my sons are autistic I’m overwhelmed. I’m constantly struggling to buy groceries and constantly struggling to pay rent and now that I’m home schooling my sons I’m struggling to buy their school supplies. But even in hard times we must choose to have faith. As christians that’s all we can do. No matter your struggle, we can turn to God. He knows us personally and can give us strength to overcome our challenges. The only reason I share my testimony so much is because we should! Keep trust in our Lord he will always provide walk with faith.
hope some one helps you..I helped my grand daughter who was struggling as well. Hang in..something will eventually turn up.i am not religious, but I do feel empathy for people..amen
Praying for you right now. God knows your struggles and cares for you. God bless you for being a good parent and doing your best for your children/family. Never forget that it is THE most important job you will ever do in this lifetime. Peace.
Before watching this I view work as something we were put here to do likely for a variety of reasons. It is integral to who we are as humans, it was necessary for survival, it can actually allow us to contemplate life issues when it is mundane, it can provide meaning, it can be an escape, it can help others, it can...Can't wait to watch!
In those periods of my life when I was most distressed, I have found work to be a BLESSING, not a punishment. Work has helped me through those periods.
@@dawnlapka3782 Fr. James Alberione (1884 - 1971), founder of the Pauline Family consisting of 3 Religious Congregations and 5 Secular Institutes, was an Italian Catholic Priest who was declared venerable on 25th June 1996 and was beatified on 27th April 2003 by Pope John Paul II. He was one of the most creative Apostles of the 20th century and perhaps the first prominent Media Apostle.
Work does not bring us closer to God! Work breeds fruits which breeds arrogance and pride. Arrogance and pride separates us from God. Work is the enemy of God.
Working in the orthotics and prosthetic business for over 30 years I was able to see the fruits of my labor and it was a blessing. Not all get to see how their work helps others but it does.
For the Benedictine Spirit, work has a spiritual function. "Idleness is the enemy of the soul" said St Benedict. It is done for the sake of the Soul. I have spent my life in the retail business and thank God every day for my coworkers, Staff, customers, suppliers and especially the people whose work is hard and unrewarding. It is a great gift and grace from God to have work every day. 🙏
Idleness is the enemy of the soul, but that's what prayer is for, to avoid such idleness. Work breeds fruits of labors which ultimately breeds arrogance and pride. Arrogance and pride separate us from God. Work is the enemy of the Christian faith.
Great feeling I had also was a cup of coffee after work. Just fabulous feeling. Also the best part of vacation was looking forward to the event instead of experiencing the vacation.
Thank you so much for this, Bishop. I’ve been despairing lately that my work feels meaningless and that I’ve wasted my life up to this point. I am an engineer, but I was still feeling like what I was doing wasn’t as great or as holy as other professions or even other engineers do. Thank you for setting me straight and helping me to see the value of what I do.
Bishop Barrens answer at the end of the show explaining " transcendent" was an excellent explanation to the gentlemans question. He explains things so well even a person of my limited intelligence can understand. Thankyou Bishop Barron! Another fantastic Word on Fire Show!
Oh my goodness, Bishop Barron I grew up at K and B’s. along with a multitude of books came my very first set of authors cards. My mom and I loved to play the game so much that we had an extra set that we kept in the car in the glove compartment and when we would be going along, we would play the game, we’re still due today and I am going to be 66 pretty soon so it’s been a long time but what a wonderful place to go and have your first job. I would have been in heaven. To be surrounded by all of those magnificent books and skill building card games would just have made me so happy. So I’m glad that you got to be there and you’ve got to enjoy that.
Not too long ago a person that was a friend said my work was non essential. I work with family, what I do effects them, that means a lot . I sell fireplaces and I can’t imagine all the conversations that happen in front of the products I have sold.
I live in Chicago. We love our fireplace and I am so grateful for it. We have had so many lovely times in front of the fire. But I am especially grateful for it because I know that we can survive a winter without power.
Your work is important, and yes, I believe gives comfort to many. I wonder if the person who said your work was "non-essential" was using that term in the way we all heard so much of during the pandemic, e.g. grocery store workers were considered "essential" because people had to have food, therefore grocery stores were allowed to be open, whereas other businesses and workers like restaurants and waitstaff were considered "non-essential" / not really required at that point in time to maintain life. Just a thought. God bless you.
@@sandyv2195 Yes they were using it in that way, out of fear. I get the virus claimed many lives but the only people I knew that died committed suicide. Two people, I wasn’t that close to them but I’m convinced human interaction is always essential. 2 weeks went on for months for some and that was too much.
I just came across your commencement address in the June 2023, Volume 52, edition of Imprints, a publication of Hillsdale College, which we receive at our home. WHAT A WONDERFUL, NO AWESOME work! My soul has wondered over the last 7 to 8 years what has gotten into America, particularly Christians and in your commencement you nailed it. Our affinity to worship our wants, turning those who peddle in speech promising those wants, into idols!! We should want to please God and endure injustice rather than extend violence thinking "might makes right." Thank you for the insight!
I especially appreciate this topic because it accentuates the discipline of finding God into what are considered the very mundane areas of our lives. "Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God!"
Thank you for this! I have been waiting so long for someone to speak to these things, particularly at a time in our country where the working class seems (maybe not to the extent of earlier time periods, but in a different way) totally discarded.
An interesting interview & talk. My parents, my husband & I, & our children have been blest that we could be working contributors in life. It has shaped much of our identities w/gratitude. For a # of years, I worked in the in-clinical mental health field & felt so much sadness for many of the people there whose lives of plans or work itself, were truncated by the onset of various illnesses. I had always believed & taught that the life of the mind was the one part that could never be taken from a person; however, I, like the Preacher in the Book of Ecclesiastes, came to see & realize that too, was folly. "The last word, when all is heard: 'Fear God & keep His commandments, for this is man's all;'"... Ecc. 12:13 (NAB). GOD still holds the ultimate cards!!
South Dakota has so many great tourist highlights. Mount Rushmore is a great treat, but Hot Springs is kind of like the Lourdes France of South Dakota. If you get to West River again, check this destination out. Also East River has the Corn Palace in Mitchell. Wait till Corn Palace week and go to one of listen to one of America's musicians or comedians; Mitchell SD is where I grew up, met and married my high school sweetheart and had 3 kids! I appreciate these podcasts, Brandon and Bishop Barron.
I have an important question. For example if Bishop Barron continued to work in shopping center his whole life instead of becoming a priest/bishop. Like, would God be unhappy with him because he didn't became someone way more imporant? Use his talents? And what if I'm unaware of my talents? If I work in shopping centar myself for my whole life, what If God wanted me to do something else? Should someone feel guilty?
The great thing is that most insignificant job can move us closer to God , just like St. Martin of Porres doing simple jobs such as barber, working in infirmary and begging for alms for the poor, really amazing.
"Adam tilling the garden is a symbol of all the ways that human beings made in God's image and likeness transform creation, they 'work creation' so as to make it even more beautiful and life-giving and so on, cooperating thereby with the creativity of God. (9: 43 - 9: 56)
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Hearing of the "terrors" of industrialization, one asks how so many workers freely chose that life as their best option. The freedom of that time bettered the life of all lifting the masses out of abject poverty of subsistence agriculture by giving them more valuable work.
Thanks much for this, I ordered the book. Now if I could just get rid of the anger I experience at every injustice I see in His Church. Actually, I don't see the righteous anger as the problem, for even our King had that, but I have a problem with the lack of patience I have with those people causing the injustice to occur in His Church. I'm stuck.
Bishop Barron would you recommend a short list of brief one line statements that can be shared with secondary school young people on the Catholic faith...a sort of a creed of one liners that they can commit to memory. Much thanks for all your teachings and inspired words.
I don’t really know how a vacation feels. But I have no title in this world, so…. And my state is being overtaken by incentives to become a slave, I mean tourist, town. Probably the people who assembled the things you’re referring to went home and passed out so they could wake again the next day to work again. Thank you for this. I do love to work. Most of us don’t need to be forced to work endlessly. We already want to work a lot but we want to enjoy the fruit of our labor, too.
Good morning. It is good to get to know you better, something the Catholic Church does not portray well about their priests and nuns. The topic of work is one I think about often, alot to do with divorce, family, and how they are comfortable in my toiling but not in my exhibitions of love. Do not spend too much time worrying over this in prayer because the Lord works with me and in me, and I know I will have exactly what I need with whom when I need it, and love will be the greatest of all. (Mind you, I will not be going out two-by-two with a woman as I counsel, it will start with a husband, but until I find him, working as Paul did is how I get along serving with Jesus a single woman.) I wonder if you have more lectures on work to look forward to seeing? I would like to know if you have discussed work as it relates to what conquered the Jews to this day, when the Northern Tribes split from the two tribes of Judah. Can you imagine, how angry and vengeful the 10 northern tribes were when they fell to Babylon first and how Babylon exploited their anger for profit until Judah fell along with them? Then Judah got angry for their idol worship and the cycle of violence took on its own legs. I watch this happen with families and the government getting into the family by way of marriage certificate, divorce, and taxes has created a nasty wound in need of some R.I.C.E. (Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation.) More class today in a new language called medical billing/coding, so I wish you well and with an open mind. Think of Buddhists perhaps this way, their leader also went into the desert and fasted for 40 days and nights and returned enlightened as Jesus did, instead of a smear on the pavement after eating a box of rocks.
I understand where bishop Barron is coming from. However, we lost the balance between doing and ‘not doing’. We fetishise work and loose our souls because of it.
We certainly have the ability to but it isn’t a given. It sounds contradictory but overwork, as you’ve described it, is a symptom of sloth and should be treated as what it is, a deadly sin. Pray for understanding of the virtues, particularly temperance and prudence, and strive to habituate them. I can spout this advice out so easily because I struggle with it greatly, so if you do pray please add me to your intentions; I’m doing likewise for you.
WOW. A reference to Peter Brown. As a History graduate from England in 2003, he was a big name. Seen really as a ground-breaking author in history. Read his work on Late Antiquity history. Academia in England was pretty grumpy he left England for American universities.😏
You know what I didn't hear in this? Anything about Catharine, Peter the Great, or Mother Russia. I don't mean to be critical, but I feel more connected to God when I listen to Bishop Barron than I do when I hear the Pope.
Bishop Barron, I have a working title for my Vatican Retail, "Spikenard Relics: A Vatican City Store." I am excited to maybe with Trish Kaman and maybe Ellen Martin, speaking with True heart TALENTS of a Movement to spread Jesus' message before He Returns. A real John the Baptist , timing.
Always enjoy watching these shows on RU-vid or listening to them as a podcast. May I please ask that when either Bishop Barron or Brandon mentions a book in the show, that the book title and author be included in the show notes. Bishop Barron mentioned several books he had been reading near the beginning of the show. Sometimes I listen to the show in my car and can't readily right down the information. Thank you for your consideration of this request.
This is Sarah, when I was at the Hospital, the tv on in their waiting room, TOLD the truth of TV, "gnosticism", in 1John 1..... one verse that puts a human body in actual Doctors hands. The PRIDE of being an entertainment Genius!!!
Bishop , I suppose from the mouth of Megyn she uttered, envy , so I suppose the Sin foundation of TV gnosticism is Envy for being smarter with awe and accolades...on TV.
A question. This springs from my "writerly" brain and from my sense of mystery and "story:" God knew the direction of this world and his people. Why was there no one "appointed" during Jesus' childhood and young adulthood to enlighten us about His working years . . about His years when perhaps young women would have shown human interest in Him. I find it confounding that we don't have a glimpse of Jesus in youth and young adulthood from the time he stayed behind at the Temple to the time he makes his first appearance in the Gospel. Do any Master Theologians have thoughts or evidence about this? Thank you.
@@joanneaurica3189 I guess just like any other devout Jew, even more as befitting of the sinless Son of God preparing himself for undertaking his life's mission of redeeming the world. Checking up Jewish practices and customs maybe of help.
The Church cares about workers but I’ve yet to hear any American pastor who proclaims it. Pro-worker to them means how to be a slave with joy in your heart.
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Please do a video presentation on rising fascism. The Church shouldn't remain so quiet as it did in the 1930s when Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross asked the Pope to speak out.
In the age of AI, theology of work should champion for spirituality in the work place. Church should be the greatest champion for socioeconomic justice, but that won't happen so long as governance is captured by predatory politicians
Hello Bishop Barron, I have a question for you. It has nothing to do with this video. I’m on the Hallow app and am doing the Bible in a Year reading plan, and just finished Exodus 4 & 5. Unless I heard it wrong, did the Lord try to kill Moses at the a lodging place on the way back to Egypt?! Why? I’m so confused.
