Bishop Robert Barron: None of Us Would Be Here without the Conversion of St. Paul 

ST. TERESA OF LISIEUX: “How great a joy it is to know that God makes allowances for our weaknesses and understands perfectly the frailty of our humanity. God our Father loves us always, absolutely, unfailingly, eternally.”

I feel peaceful listening to Bishop Barron! He is truly a man of God!

I love listening to Bishop Barron.

Watching these videos is a great way to begin my day and put me in the right frame of mind and fully spiritually awake.

Clear and faithful teaching. So refreshing.

Thank you very much Bishop I like your talks very much

Barron is our Paul today.

My heart goes to Rev. Bishop Barron such a beautiful homily everything's a good 💯 % intact in what was happening in the world right now about in our lives 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

So thankful for you good Bishop

Praise the lord

Thank you so much for inspiring talks dear bishop.

So beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

PRAISE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST ❤

A peaceful hard hitting message. Hits you right between the eyes.

This shows how polarizing Paul was, even today. This has been out for a week, and only 26 comments which is very unlike the Bishops other videos. Are people scared of Pauls teachings?He said some very hard things yes but I believe the Bishop, where would the Church have gone with out his conversion?

What, yet another interesting twist on the Gospel. I grew up thinking: "What is up with that Saul- he had to be struck blind before he followed the Lord?" Phffsha!! Only took me 3/4s of my life- and I still need to pray everyday and not hear. Re-read in the light of the Crucifixion and Resurrection. Christ is both Man and Devine- as would be his blood. Thought Mark was the Evangelist- wasted Catholics school. Beautiful- Thanks Bishop Barron. When are you going to become Cardinal?????

Amen allelujah

χάρις ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη ἀπὸ θεοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν καὶ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ

So beautiful

Paul a vision driven missioner defended the risen lord

Love the pod 2>>2 feet

Amen 🙏

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Paul was imprisoned for such a long time because he and his family were also Roman citizens, and therefore had the legal rights of a Roman citizen. He could be convicted, but he also had the right to appeals, which he used to the fullest extent and was able to walk freely and teach the word of God throughout Roman controlled territories until his final appeal was denied. He was then beheaded.

because religious leaders and world kings put him under law judgement.

Why can't God just send us all a Damascus vision?

pray for us on one income to find housing now that it is checked by your wage stubs, who makes 20+ an hour?

Why would Saul regard the early Christians as heretics or evil. They at worst would have been a sect within rabbinic Judaism which they practiced Paul created out of whole cloth a new belief system regarding the Messiah and his function just as he created out of whole cloth a new belief system regarding monotheism which was anathema to that of rabbinic Judaism which tolerates no divisions in the Godhead

Why should we ask apostle Paul? Shouldn’t we ask Christ ?

The Didache reports that self proclaimed apostles hustled people for money. Paul is a self proclaimed apostle. You know there is something off if someone rejected the church, but then starts to proclaim it’s truth and then says “trust me bro, this is from god”. What? God had to show up for Saul, but now we are required to “have faith” in his preaching? My guess is Paul noticed that the other apostles were able to live off their converts. Paul wanted a piece of the action, making tents is hard work. No, I would say Paul spent a lot of time in jail for larceny.

Saul trained in "rhetoric and philosophy" was not trained in chemistry, organic and inorganic, as is Pope Francis in his consecrated celibate marriage vowed to man in Christ, or in economics as was Colin Clark in his consecrated male female marriage vowed to God also trained in chemistry. Colin Clark with his son trained in both roles, joined in both identities successively male female then celibate on the death of his wife, transmitted the reference point of Mary at Lk 1:29-45 and Mt 1:24 to Pope Francis' consecrated celibate marriage in it keeping in uncertainty of his belief on 17 June 2021 its inseparability and qualitative equality with consecrated male female marriage in it ensuring in the case of Cardinal Becciu + 9 Vatican state citizens/employees embezzlements of his procreation role gift charity donations and simultaneously insuring in the case of the "Zan" Italian Parliament anti-homophobia bill unacceptable risk of fraud on his need of union of its identity.

How refreshing to hear the bishop speak of the historical character Paul! I agree that "none of us would be here without the conversion of St. Paul." ie christianity would not exist as it is today if there had been no conversion. The dramatic and rather theatrical "road to Damascus" conversion story, supposedly witnessed by many, resulting in Paul's blindness for 3 days and a complete change in Paul's agenda, is well documented in Acts. Yet Acts was written by we don't know whom, many years after the events described. The (anonymous) author was not a witness to the events...if he was he would have said so. What is more, surely Paul, who wrote hundreds of pages in the New Testament, must have documented the momentous occasion of his own conversion? No! The bishop implies this is so, yet I challenge anyone to find anywhere where Paul directly mentions it. Paul is silent about the supposed event that changed his life. This means it is highly likely that event never actually occurred. When one reads Paul's letters it is very obvious that there is almost nothing about a once living flesh and blood character named Jesus. Paul barely mentions what Jesus supposedly said or did. Nor is Paul, in his own letters, interested in the surviving family or followers of Jesus. (Galatians 2;1-14.) Paul even writes that although people once knew Jesus in the flesh we should no longer think of him that way, or words to that effect (2 Corinthians 5;16.) Paul was a man with his own agenda… he was hell bent on creating a new religion based on his own Christology, and the core beliefs and philosophy of a once living Jewish Jesus were totally irrelevant to him. The author of the book of Acts had a need to draw a connection between Paul's Christ and the once living recently departed Jesus. The synoptic gospels had to equated with Paul's Christ. This author was trying to manufacture a plausible story, one with historical roots, out of a theological mess of ideas that Paul had created. Hence the fictional road to Damascus conversion story in which the dead Jesus met Paul so as to become Paul's Christ. All of this takes some intellectual effort to appreciate. I hope this channel is interested in conversations about real history, and this comment won't be deleted.

Thanks for your Biden vote Barron.

Why are the writings of a self-appointed apostle of Christ elevated to "The Word of God"? People, people, people.

st paul liked the jail food?? hahaha

Another interpretation based on the knowledge of today is that Saul suffered from temporal lobe seizures .All his actions are,by todays psychologest standards, clearly an indication this condition. Doubt this,look up temporal epilepsy . Peace

What rubbish?😮😮😮😮😮,😅😮😮😮😮😮

Paul should have spent time in Rikers correction centre for crimes against humanity..changing sides does not exonerate him..amen