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
Excellency, I find you not only philosophically brilliant, well-read, non-arrogant, an incredibly gifted speaker...but you also are helping me to feel and seek out the Holy Spirit. I've been following you for years, and I merely want to say thank God for your presence in this crazy world.
Thank you Bishop Barron, you have no idea how your videos have changed my life, I struggled with faith, labelled it as a bunch of traditions without any reasoning behind it, I have returned to church, I still have questions but I'm back after so many years
I love Jesus Christ. I am not a Catholic though. Thank you Bishop Barron for your videos. They mean so much to me, so thank you for your mission and your masses. I truly believe in the love God and Jesus Christ, and I will repent.
Thank you Bishop Barron. I am learning so much more about my Catholic faith since listening to you on a regular basis. It was a blessing discovering your video series. Your videos not only inform me but lift me in times of unhappiness. God bless.
Once, talking to a T.A. in a political theory class (at a Catholic college on the East Coast) I quoted "What does it profit a man to conquer the whole world but lose his own soul." His response, "Oh, I see you're familiar with Thomas More."
In fact, this particular Gospel text had an extraordinary impact on St. Francis Xavier in his conversion process when he did the month of Spiritual Exercises with St. Ignatius.
Beautiful father..😊 no doubt about it I've seen the temple in heaven when I was 14 yrs old...nothing has been built yet..but it will be in the near future I always ask The Lord for it,I'll take part on it when the time comes ...😊 🙏🙏🙏
Always a joy to listen... informative, clear and made more enjoyable with images representing the biblical times with also the written word caption... thank you Teacher Barron for the revelation made easier to understand! All praise to the King to come!
In this passage, Adam means humanity. Not was Adam, man, who fail God. But Adam, humanity who fail Him. We are those who have failed Him. Thanks and God Bless You Father Barrón
You are one of my favorite speakers. The victory of God is awesome but I have given up my faith because I can't believe in a God who not only seems absent but who allows innocence to suffer due to his error in making this world. I hope he'll is not real. Keep up the great work. You have saved many.
It seems to me that in the Genesis 3 narrative, Adam's failure is that he heeds the voice of the Serpent precisely as it is mediated to him via Eve, his specially created feminine helper and counterpart. The Serpent's voice is often most seductively powerful through the very gifts of God that we are most tempted to idolize -- usually, the very best gifts.
@Dirk Knight Oh, Adam and Eve did have free will. Why would you say that except by your argument, if they did not eat of the forbidden fruit there would be no need for all of the events told in Scripture? That is a stretch, but I suspect that God knew they would eat of the fruit. Because he created man and woman with free will, and not being God, they were destined by their own nature to "eat of the fruit." God gave them the choice to decide between good and bad, but he did not give them a nature in which they COULD not choose badly. Then they would not have free will.
you are a great theologian Fr Barron! The Holy Spirit works wonders on you...God Bless you! btw, I own the whole series of Catholicism- a true Masterpiece!
"... and make the whole world into the heavenly Jerusalem." YES! Our job is to make everyone everywhere a member of the heavenly Jerusalem, The Catholic Church established by Jesus Himself. Whew, that's quite the order Lord. Lord have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy. -Reg (formerly "Mottledbrain")
Why is the bible always highlighting Jerusalem? What happened to the rest of the world? Tell me pls😁? I'm curious 🙃! And why do bibles of all religions always have incest sex? In genisis CAIN and his little sister did it! God bribed him with a girl (A. K. A. Thier youngest little sister) after tempting him to commit murder that is! Abel's death was by the words of God he made CAIN kill his brother! God is so screwed up that after the time of creation all he did was killing up until now🤣🤣 What is this some kind of sick joke? Has god lost his balls? Pls reply I'd like to hear what you have to say✌️😁 And do please enjoy your life!
Very thoughtful, wonderful, sublime, remarkable, superb......helpful and upholding spiritually as usual, thanks a lot Fr. Barron. Don't be late for the next video and sorry if I'm a demanding person with you but I guess that your fans and audience can understand and excuse me!
Bishop Barron, I am incredibly grateful for your dissertations on biblical texts and general theology. I’ve recently went through Dr. Creasy’s bible class on Revelation and it was enlightening, however, it is not theologically interpretive. Would you mind going through ALL of Revelation in one of your videos from a theologians perspective? God Bless you and your team!
Revelation is the Protestant terminology used for the Book of the Apocalypse of John. The Catholic Church had never adopted the post Protestant Reformation version, and has always maintained and had always continued to refer to this final end times book as the Book of the Apocalypse, and that has not nor should it ever change.
Vaya Condios, has is it a book of the end times, when the world and Christianity are both still hear 2,000 years after the “end times”? Nero’s name in Greek - Neron - when converts into a number comes out as 666, and his name in Latin comes out as 616. Some - but not all - of out Latin manuscripts for Revelation say that the number of the Beast is 616, while all of our Greek manuscripts say it is 666. For this reason, most scholars agree that the Great Beast talked about is Nero.
In my seven trips to Heaven I only passed through a door once. I saw a second great doorway through which the Trinity came into the assembly of the angels and saints.
Clear pure truth like holy water is the word ...unlike this [ influence by the evil unseen ] man made world that enjoys swimming in the dark unclean waters of sin, pride and lies.... So many lukewarm spirits ... Eternal life or death....so important ...yet So meaning less to so many...
When i first starting reading the book of Revelation, it at first gave me nightmarish visions for example. The four horsemen, the 7 angels with 7 trumpets, the beast out of the sea, the beast out of the earth, the whore of Babylon. And a final clash between good and evil. Jesus returns to defeat the dark forces as bloodthirsty warrior but then comes the last judgement. Those who kept the commandments of God and the teachings of Christ will enter a eternal paradise. And those who don't will enter a the fiery abyss known as Hell. And what's interesting is that our Lord Jesus Christ has a apocalyptic sense to him as the members of the clergy reads the Gospels that are proclaimed towards the end of the ordinary time cycle in the Sunday liturgy. We see our Lord Jesus pointing towards the world to come reminding us that even though we live in this world we are not to be of this world. Our hearts have to set fast on the world to come so when Jesus says we don't know the time or hour when it'll happen, he's encouraging and reminding us to be prepared for it. And when it does happen, I'll be ready.
Dear Father Barron, I am an avid follower of you, and absolutely love all your videos , I admire your knowledge and braveness to share all this in the Internet. I have a question for you. In this video you mention in around 11:30, that "God is always testing his people". That is a "theme" that I have always question myself, is that really truth?. In Matthew 4,1 we find "Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. (If I am right: Devil refers to thruster or adversary from the Greek root)". So I have always believed that trials and tests come from the devil and not from God. To add to this, I am myself a young father, and I never see myself putting a test to my son in order to see his love for me, or his trust in me, or what so ever… and if I who I am not a perfect father, just can't imagine the most loving Father doing that either. Can you comment on that? I know probably is a whole new youtube video and not part of the content for this video, but I will greatly appreciated since, as I said, is something have always been in my mind, especially because my Baptist neighbors are always talking about God testing them. Thanks ann God bless.
...I'm sure Fr. Barron will have a wise and wonderful answer for you! But just a thought...aren't you "testing" when your young child walks for the first time and you let him totter along...or feed himself for the first time even though half the food falls off the spoon? I think He tests us to strengthen us, not to see how much we love Him.....He tested Abraham's faith before He entrusted him with more....same with us.
Quelles sont vos réflexions sur la relation entre les chapitres 8-12 du Livre de l'Apocalypse et le message de Notre-Dame de Fatima? Qu'est-ce qu'il essaie d'exprimer à nous?
I was expecting some discussion on the Great Beast and 666, but that was not present in this video. I’m curious to know if bishop Baron agrees that the Great Beast was most likely Emperor Nero (or some other figure at the time), or whether he thinks that the text is speaking of someone yet to come.
Jimmy Akin has a great DVD set explaining the Book of Revelation (as it was understood for the first 1,500 years following Christ's death). But if you don't want to spend money just google Catholic Answers and punch in anything to do with Revelation. In the meantime, here's the link to the DVD ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b4ajmcr6RnE.html
Ancient Philadelphia was in Lydia, as I'm quite sure Fr. Barron knows. However, I do believe that Philadelphia could be any church today, every one of us have far too many good people that just go below the radar. Fr. Barron does an excellent job explaining the big scheme. That's his job! Thank you..
"But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him" - John 4:23 The book of revelation foretells what is to come. Jesus is coming soon, but this time, as a glorious King (no longer a lowly servant) and He will defeat satan, the false prophet/teacher, and all of his followers. I came across this verse: “Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. - Matthew 24:30
MARK 16 15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and PREACH THE GOSPEL to every creature. 16 He that BELIEVETH and is BAPTIZED shall be SAVED; but he that believeth not shall be damned. THE GOSPEL 1 CORINTHIANS 15 1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the GOSPEL which I PREACHED UNTO YOU, which also ye have RECEIVED, and wherein ye STAND; 2 By which also ye are SAVED, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. note note 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ DIED FOR OUR SINS according to the SCRIPTURES; 4 And that he was BURIED, and that he ROSE AGAIN THE THIRD DAY according to the SCRIPTURES: YOU NEED NOTHING ELSE BUT TO BELIEVE THE GOSPEL FOR ETERNAL LIFE, JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY, WORSHIP GOD. BE BLESSED IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME
So was there a population of people outside the garden; prior to Adam being created in the garden? Is our understanding of Adam being the first human false? Is he not the first human, per se, but the first earthly king?
Can someone please explain to me why Revelation is also called Apocalypse by some Catholics? And why other Catholics, such as Bishop Barron, refer to it as Revelation?
Christ is knocking on the door because he wants you to let him in, not (primarily?) because he wants to let you out. I think that is clear from the context in Revelation.
Thank you, Bishop. May I submit for consideration that the Church is entering the 6th/Philadelphia age. The one with a little strength, practicing The Little Way of St. Terese and consecrated to Our Lady as exemplified by the little Fatima seers. Every Catholic knows Our Lady's Immaculate will triumph "in the end" but few consider what it will be like after that. To get ready for Her triumph I suggest we follow the lead of Sr Lucy i.e. personal consecration to Our Lady including the morning offering prayer, daily rosary and wearing the brown scapular. Our Lady promised salvation to all by this means which likely will be the rule once She saves the world and the restoration begins..
Rouge Shot The American Catholic Bible is the BEST translation due to the extensive research and dedication to seeking the BEST verbage to ATTEMPT to capture the original Greek.
Read the Sunday Mass readings a few days before. Pray as you read them. Then during the Mass and the homily listen for the promptings of God. Maybe it will come as a phrase, an off the cuff remark, or an idea springing out at you. God speaks to us through scripture and its interpretation via preaching .Do not be critical of the priest, but be open to the leading of the Holy Spirit who loves us.
Do one on so Sophiaand try and look into the Jewish translations in the tour that's in Jewish people there some very interesting insight on this books wisdom as well as look as a look at the history of these are orthodox and early Catholic empires and how they saw Sophia to her and saying if the female voice fromwisdom and Sophia are same
scrappy pooh I was thinking the same! I was expecting a discussion on the Great Beast and 666, and whether he thought this figure was Emperor Nero, or someone in the future.
Think, for what purpose is artificially created a huge Abrahamic family? After all, all adherents of the three Abrahamic religions are sons of Abraham and brothers to each other in faith. "who are of faith are sons of Abraham."
There is only one Church. The Traditional Catholic Church. All others, including the Norvos Ordo are false Invalid religions like this fake Norvos Ordo Priest!
@@janmicnatLet me begin with I grew up in the Catholic Church. The Sprit of G-d gives us discernment. With an open mind, think about the following. The first churches were home churches made of mostly Jewish congregants, gentiles enter later, see the Book of Acts chapter 15, all previous chapters in Acts pertained to Jews. Satan is the master of deception, Father of Lies. Think of this, what do the Catholic Church, Islam, and the Church of Latter-Day Saints have in common? All three organizations use the G-d of Abraham as their foundation, in all three individuals claimed to have a supernatural G-d related vision/revelation which the masses were all too happy to believe, all three decided to add to the Word of G-d, their own twist if you will. Emperor Constantine had a vision while alone, Catholics added to scripture e.g. Holy Mary Mother of G-d, nowhere in scripture do we receive instructions to offer prayer and supplication to Mary, plus the Catechism claims that Catholic Tradition is equal to the Word of G-d which was never taught by Jesus Messiah. Muhammad had his vision, then came the Quran and Islam. Then there is Joseph Smith, his vison complete with golden tablets and the Book of Mormon. Think of the history of the Catholic Church, during the Spanish Inquisition that spread through Europe and other parts of the world. In Europe individuals who did not wish to be part of the Catholic Church were forced to do so, through intimidation, torture, death, having their property seized and shared with government who supported the Church. This happened to Muslims, Protestants, Jews and frankly anyone else who look for religious freedom. Same thing happened in South America and Mexico. When I was part of the Catholic Church there was no such thing as bible study, why do you think that was? Why did the Catholic Church hold back on printing the Word of G-d? All I got was a lot of Latin, a quick sermon, incense, and give your dollars. The Catholic Church claims that we are now experiencing the Millennium, the 1000-Year Reign of Jesus Christ upon Earth. Some attributes of the Millennium, It Will Be an International Kingdom of Spirituality and Unified Worship of God, It Will Be a Kingdom of Holiness, It Will Be a Kingdom of Justice and Righteousness, It Will Be a Kingdom in Which Nature Will Be Altered, the Curse Removed, It Will Be a Kingdom of Economic Prosperity, It Will Be a Kingdom of Peace and Security, It Will Be a Kingdom of Global Israeli Supremacy and Honor, It Will Be a Kingdom of Joy. Look at this world. I do not do these things for my own reason, I do it out of love and to defend the Gospel, to serve our Father G-d. I believe anyone who seeks to have a relationship with our Creator deserves to know the truth. Satan has been hard at work ever since the Garden of Eden. Look at Prophecy, Book of Isaiah chapter 11:15, where is the Egyptian Sea (CJB) it is by Yemen North of the Gulf of Aden where the Houthis are at war with the world. Euphrates River, drought, this is something rare, why now? All nations will turn on Israel, all, see the Book of Obadiah all on chapter. Repent for the time is near. Why will on a few enter through the narrow gate, some many false churches, religions, beliefs. Only one way into the Kingdom, by Grace through Faith, in the Gospel which points to our Messiah, Jesus. This why I'm here. Blessings.
@@janmicnat anyone up for some bible study, to share spiritual gifts, not control them. Love you all and praise be to the G-d and Father of our Lord Jesus Messiah.
@@janmicnat Let me begin with I grew up in the Catholic Church. The Sprit of G-d gives us discernment. With an open mind, think about the following. The first churches were home churches made of mostly Jewish congregants, gentiles enter later, see the Book of Acts chapter 15, all previous chapters in Acts pertained to Jews. Satan is the master of deception, Father of Lies. Think of this, what do the Catholic Church, Islam, and the Church of Latter-Day Saints have in common? All three organizations use the G-d of Abraham as their foundation, in all three individuals claimed to have a supernatural G-d related vision/revelation which the masses were all too happy to believe, all three decided to add to the Word of G-d, their own twist if you will. Emperor Constantine had a vision while alone, Catholics added to scripture e.g. Holy Mary Mother of G-d, nowhere in scripture do we receive instructions to offer prayer and supplication to Mary, plus the Catechism claims that Catholic Tradition is equal to the Word of G-d which was never taught by Jesus Messiah. Muhammad had his vision, then came the Quran and Islam. Then there is Joseph Smith, his vison complete with golden tablets and the Book of Mormon. Think of the history of the Catholic Church, during the Spanish Inquisition that spread through Europe and other parts of the world. In Europe individuals who did not wish to be part of the Catholic Church were forced to do so, through intimidation, torture, death, having their property seized and shared with government who supported the Church. This happened to Muslims, Protestants, Jews and frankly anyone else who look for religious freedom. Same thing happened in South America and Mexico. When I was part of the Catholic Church there was no such thing as bible study, why do you think that was? Why did the Catholic Church hold back on printing the Word of G-d? All I got was a lot of Latin, a quick sermon, incense, and give your dollars. The Catholic Church claims that we are now experiencing the Millennium, the 1000-Year Reign of Jesus Christ upon Earth. Some attributes of the Millennium, It Will Be an International Kingdom of Spirituality and Unified Worship of God, It Will Be a Kingdom of Holiness, It Will Be a Kingdom of Justice and Righteousness, It Will Be a Kingdom in Which Nature Will Be Altered, the Curse Removed, It Will Be a Kingdom of Economic Prosperity, It Will Be a Kingdom of Peace and Security, It Will Be a Kingdom of Global Israeli Supremacy and Honor, It Will Be a Kingdom of Joy. Look at this world. I do not do these things for my own reason, I do it out of love and to defend the Gospel, to serve our Father G-d. I believe anyone who seeks to have a relationship with our Creator deserves to know the truth. Satan has been hard at work ever since the Garden of Eden. Look at Prophecy, Book of Isaiah chapter 11:15, where is the Egyptian Sea (CJB) it is by Yemen North of the Gulf of Aden where the Houthis are at war with the world. Euphrates River, drought, this is something rare, why now? All nations will turn on Israel, all, see the Book of Obadiah all on chapter. Repent for the time is near. Why will on a few enter through the narrow gate, some many false churches, religions, beliefs. Only one way into the Kingdom, by Grace through Faith, in the Gospel which points to our Messiah, Jesus. This why I'm here. Blessings.
the relationship between faith and an excess of wealth is a cuious one. Take the person who is extremely wealthy, who owns many properties, who jets off around the world and enjoys all the good things but at the same time does a tremendous amount of work for the poor and seems to lead a very holy life. To me it seems a strange contradiction. Some people seem to be able to have their cake and eat it.
It's not contradictory.. And it should be a strange thing to you.. Old Testament had it.. And if you just understand what was written, you will figure out just like I did. God allows people to be wealthy, he is given it power and wealth. Remember he clear that to Pilate on the New Testament? There's a lot of purposes and circumstances why God gave it to some people. Just because they spend it to luxuries of mortal life it doesn't mean it was evil.. Remember, envy and jealous were worst than that
