Another part of a video series from Wordonfire.org. Bishop Barron will be commenting on subjects from modern day culture. For more visit www.wordonfire.org/
David's story is probably one of the best articulated stories in the entire Bible when it comes to introducing what the Bible is about - humanity's role as stewards or creation, and those who are to tend creation towards the will of God, through selflessness. It's repeated through the entire the book - but it can become muddied and complicated, and needs quite a lot of context when you examine stories such as Exodus, and certainly when you start to wonder who Jesus is supposed to be. He's also one of the most tragic - and would fit well in the Shakespearean vogue of Macbeth. I think it's a timeless tale and invites all sorts of retellings - I love it.
Bishop God's hand is upon you! As I am hearing the logos is the father's grace the pathos is the mercy of Jesus and the ethos that is the character of Christ which is humble compassion to love others as Jesus has loved us!
@wordonfirevideo Thank you. I already have a good spiritual director, my confessor who comes to our school weekly. We just started a group where we talk about the priestly life and discerning God's vocation for us, which meets monthly. I also just made a Facebook group with the other young men for this vocation group. It is such a blessing to have all these gifts. Thank you again for your prayers.
Absolutly God had plans with everyone of us before we born. Like said Isaiah 49 before You formed in your mother's womb I knew You. So we must try to know God for love him more and more! 😇😇😇 God bless all! God ever wish us the Best that we can think.
I has been said that the Christian journey is essentially the gradual realization which one of us is God and which one of us isn't. It if's about Him and not about us, nothing can stop us.
Getting over the trauma that my mother was right and I was wrong. Darn! My second thought is that of the troubles Peter and Paul had with the conversion of the gentiles. I feel get to watch a little of that with the conversion of the Episcopal Priests. Also, Fr. Mitch tell's the story of Napoleon saying, "I destroyed the Catholic Church"! and The Pope replied, "If the Priests have not been able to do that in seventeen hundred years what makes you think you can"? I have confidence in God's Plan.
@cliffandy I know, but everyone here says "shay-ma." If we used the authentic Hebrew pronuciation, we'd probably be misunderstood. We pronounce lots of foreign words in an Anglicized or Americanized way in order not to be misconstrued. Think of the way we say "entrepreneur" or "esprit de corps."
I'm gonna get a few questions about the name "LVCIVSTVLLIVSATELLVS" in the Church bulletin, but I will tell my Priest why I want the name there and do the best I can. He will come up with something. Consider your prayers joined to my Parish. I will be at Eucharistic adoration at least once this week and I will remember you.
Fr. Barron, if the new Israel is the Church, what are we to make of the nation we call Israel? Is it no longer important, or something that should be preserved in the same way it was supposed to be preserved/defended in the Old Testament? What I mean is, does the Church have any policy about Israel that differs from any other country?
Merry Christmas! I'm here at my Mom's and she is telling me that an Episcopal Priest can become a Catholic Priest even though he is married with children. She says this happened in her diocese and that it was by special permission from Pope Benedict. I am telling her she must have misunderstood. Will you offer us some words or guidance. Peace be with you!
The covenant is almost always calling the second, or the youngest, son. Why is this? Mimetic rivalry draws the more feebly placed, more stealthily to the heart of Yahweh, but by the way of Cain.
