How to Discern the Spirits 

For anyone reading this: Do you find that some people provide a feast for the brain? I could follow people like that easily, just to hear what they are thinking. Bishop Barron is one of them. It's not just the factoids he has or knowledge he presents it's how he interacts with stimuli around him, the points he makes. Even when he mentioned that he would be interested in visiting this person's office, even that struck my curiosity - "yeah, that would be interesting." Such a seemingly small thing opened up a lot more. There is so much around us that weaves into our awareness and connectedness.This plotting of awareness is no accident - it all fits together.

“What awakens greater love in you? That’s the path God wants you on.” What beautiful clarity!

Bishop- I for one will never be bored hearing you talk about Aquinas.

Prayers keeps us on track to the will of God. Total trust in God’s merciful love.

“A consolation is what is going to lead you to a deeper commitment to love of God and love of neighbor.” I love this.

This is so good. Love listening to Bishop Barren.

Every talk with Bishop Barron makes me feel that greater love.

Thank you Bishop Barron ! You always have a brilliant way of "teaching us " about the history of our church.

Hello Bishop Barron, blessings to you Sir for the exceptional work that you do representing the Kingdom Of God. My background is Protestant, and although I have visited other churces, including the Catholic Church, on numerous occasions, I remain faithful to the Protestant denomination. I have been an ardent follower of some of the stalwarts of the Catholic faith through Telecare and EWTN for over 20 years. Fr. Benedict Grochel, Fr. John Corapi, Bishop Weurel and now you, are some whose teachings I have found priceless. I watched almost every episode of Catholicism; and I can't seem to get enough of WOF. I still watch Mother Angelic. I loved your Good Friday presentation of the seven words. I just wanted to let you know that you've been a favorite of mine for a long time. Blessings once again Sir.

I really needed this, thank you both

I completed the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises in a 10-week session with Fr. Broom, and it was life changing. The acronym B.U.T stayed with me; Be aware of the good spirit or bad spirit in each situation, Understand if you are being tempted to sin by the bad spirit, Take action and reject the bad spirit. This simple acronym has been so helpful in my daily life to avoid sin and the near occasion of sin. Praise God, reverence God, and serve God.🙏🤲

I recall that in Gospel of John, Jesus says that the Holy Spirit will remind us of things He has said. Also recently, I heard on Catholic Radio that the Holy Angels, our Guardian Angel will remind us of memories that lift us toward God, remind us of joyful times, blessings we've received from God and so on. The evil spirits will bring us memories of past sinful acts and make them look tempting again. When I am contemplating Jesus and I ask a question, a memory will come up as an answer! This can go on for several minutes, like a conversation. It ALWAYS uplifts my soul and draws me closer to Christ and increase my Love and Trust for Him. Always. I have gone through the dark, dry times too and I just keep the Faith, pray just as much, dive deeper. Later, I will have the experiences of God raining down consolations again. Praise God.

I'm grateful this found me at the right time

God bless you.

Many thanks Bishop Barron for sharing your knowledge through word on fire shows like this.

Excellent discussion and clarification on this difficult idea. I can't wait for the film on the 7 sacraments!

This is so wonderful. Thanks be to God.

I really just needed this

I always look forward to these

Thank you Bishop Barron

Discernment is a gift from the Holy Spirit, I believed that every Christian has the power to discern. God has given us this gift The Holy Spirit that we may be able to discern what is from the Holy Spirit and what is from the Evil.

I listen to multiple Catholic sources, including Church Militant (who tends to be over critical at times) but it's good to do your research. We should remember that we're all Catholic and we all have our concerns for the Church. We shouldn't shut the door on each other but listen, discern and remember what the Lord has prayed for us: 'that they may all be one'.

This is lovely! Thank you from the Eastern Church.

Say some prayers as I discern my vocation. I have been feeling like I'm free-wheeling through life and letting entropy get the best of me.

Thank you for the series that you're doing. It is clarifying certain moments of my life and helping me to focus on God.

Thankyou!🕊💖✨Very helpful!😊This is a gem of a talk; a gem with many facets of which each point and all of them are so rich in ideas to contemplate in many many helpful ways.

thank you for the patience in discerning the Spirit that let you to the priesthood, Bishop Barron.

Yahweh is so great! Thanks a lot Bishop Barron for the divine consolation well explained and clarified. I have that experience now and I was wondering how I could handle it because the enormous increase in love for God and for neighbour is so overwhelming to the extent that I thought I was about go crazy but this video kinda open my eyes and make me realised that God has gotton hold of my heart and now I feel a relieved and comfortable with it now... No other feeling like that on earth and I love it. I basically pray thrice a day using breviary seeking God wholeheartedly, consequently the result is the spiritual consolation I now have, it makes me often cry when praying, when after receiving holy communion and when contemplating about God. To me God providentially designed this video for me. All glory and praise belong to Yahweh Saboath who lives for through Yeshua the Christ. Amen!👏 From Italy!

Don’t fall in love with the good feelings of God, fall in love with God himself! This is beautiful advice. Thank you Bishop B🙏🏻

Thank you father for sharing this with us 🙏🏻👍🏻❤️

Wow I was led to Father Barron through my news feed on Facebook. In turn I was drawn to one pod cast after another and can't wait each day to hear more

I really love this and feel very good about this, and how important it is to read the invisible and be guided. Thank you, I want to know more about why we feel all these feelings and I know God has feelings.

As one whose attempting to learn more about spiritual discernment myself, I think I can perhaps clarify (per Brandon beginning around the 2:50 mark) - God spirit = love/joy/peace vs the evil which engenders anxiety/sadness/fallacious reasoning. Based on my (limited) experience, it's not a 'feeling' that one would get exactly, but it's more like a visceral reaction which is stirred in you that falls under whichever category love, etc. or, anxiety and is brought out in you, not necessarily 'felt' by you. It's like comfortable vs uncomfortable - it's less like a feeling than a state of being in regard to what's presented at that moment. For me at least. I hope that makes some kind of sense???

Listening to you has given me great joy and peace. As I perceive the consolations of God have faded in me, I do view myself as growing in the love of God and neighbor. Thank you, Monsignor!

Peace remains after doing something. Thank you Bishop Barron.

What I learned in spiritual discernment: What's a library? What is a book? What isa a bike? I really love both of you Bishop Barron and your tandem🤣🥰🤩

'Consolation without cause'. I have often felt this in my past as I have tried to live through the Holy Spirit, I will now use this as my mantra. Thank you Blessed Bishop Barron.

Exceptional talk. Thank you!

The discerning what's right and good and faithful I think it's really important to have a good spiritual director as I do

Bishop Barron, I have made the 19th Annotation, the 30 week retreat twice in my adult life. Get over your fear and do it. God is a God of surprises. Let God surprise you through this retreat. It is a retreat that has formed many great saints. 🤓

This is monumental right now for me, thank u Holy Spirit.

Thank you for this episode!

God bless

14:22 Awesome! Bishop Barron is an expert on St. Thomas Aquinas' Theology/Philosophy!

Thank you so much for this much needed video. It's what I am living through and have prayed on for years.

Which of the two paths is going to lead to lead me into a greater love for God and neighbor? This is a very great question put forward by Bishop Barron to those discerning the religious life. Its almost a silver-bullet statement on how we will have the scales to weigh down where our life is gravitating into. Its not only applicable to the religious life but maybe to our other life choices too like career choices and whatever. God bless you Bishop.

Thank you Bishop Barron.❤❤❤

Thank you Bishop and please do more on this topic.

Bishop Robert Barron, can you please pray that my intention is granted? I've been praying for 2 years with no change, but I'm confident that your prayers will be sufficient to at last give me the blessing I desired for so long. God Bless!

Thank you so much Brandon Vogt and Bishop Barron. This you tube video helps me a lot

This is exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you for creating this channel and God bless you both 🙏💖

Thank you for making this video.

Insightful! Thank you!

Discernment is a cable!! Per a quote from our favorite St JH Newman that was used in a talk by Fr Beseau (new rector of PCJ) a few weeks ago. "An iron bar represents mathematical or strict demonstrations; a cable represents moral demonstration, which is an assemblage of probabilities , separately insufficient for certainty, but when put together, [irrefutable]." (Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman, Vol XXI, 146) IMHO, this quote would work fabulously in your talks on this subject. We don't walk into church and start to genuflect to Jesus in tabernacle and think about why we believe this is really Jesus, what doubts we might have, and what one thing proved that Catholicism is right, but we genuflect and make the sigh of the cross immediately because it is the combination of very many life experiences, thoughts and some feelings that together formed a very very strong cable of belief in us that does not break easily. This is a really good insight. Please pray for our children who have no cables!

Love Bishop Barron :,)

Its the second time I've seen this, and learn new things.

Really loved this, I couldn't think i could find catholic helping ressources. thanks for this. Indeed i need the book written by a priest said in this video

Hello Bishop Barron. The light of Christ shines through your presence. You have been chosen to feed the flock. It is the spiritual light of God that feeds/awakens the soul of those who gain audience with you. You said, "At a decisive moment, God will withdraw those happy consolations. Now Why?" Honestly, I believe our body, mind, and spirit, are where we first make contact with the experiences that generate the kind of pleasure and excitement you speak of. I don't believe it's God that diminishes the pull of these spiritual experiences but rather the natural process of digesting into the soul something new. We experience and it tantalizes our physical mind, body, and spirit. In time we digest it into the soul, draw it into ourselves, it becomes who we are. How are we to be excited by a spiritual experience if that vibration is who we already are? Satisfied? Yes. Excited? No. I don't believe God takes the thrill away but rather continues through his word and our trials, to raise our core vibration to a state of eternal bliss. As I know you know, the Holy Spirit is so pure, so loving. Once you digest him and his silent vibration you become him and he, like in you Bishop Barron, shines his light through you. The major thrill is gone only because the new vibration that you feel is constant and therefore more common/uneventful. But in the end, a Christian life is a blissful life. I choose constant bliss over the occasional youthful thrill of a new spiritual experience. One heart, one love. Peace. Thought you might like this. The Holy Spirit gave it to me as a path home. "How to grow in Christ" Read, study, self-evaluate, seek to perform. :) THE TEN PROMISES OF GOD: [] Come and you will hear. [] Hear and you will understand. [] Understand and you will try. [] Try and you will succeed. [] Succeed and you will believe. [] Believe and you will trust. [] Trust and you will love. [] Love and you will serve. [] Serve and you will surrender. [] Surrender and you will live. Live in everyday union with God's Holy Spirit. P*E*A*C*E

Understanding my illative sense of discerning the spirits at which i feel present , makes me enjoy this very moment

Awesome. Thank you.

I am 80 years old and have never ever heard, felt, or any other spiritual discernment. However, I am a Catholic (Very Catholic) during the Vietnam war when I was in fire fights or when my brothers were KIA next to me. Now I enjoy Bishop Sheen, Mother Angelica, and Bishop Barron and they all have brought me closer to the faith, but again no spiritual feelings, thoughts, or any other christian wills. I am forever praying I too can have that love and feelings other folks talk about here.

I love the word on fire series

Thanks bishop Barron

So helpful! Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou!

Great Program.

I hope everybody discerned their answers through this video 🙏✝️📿❣️

Praise the Lord Jesus Christ 🙏 Mother Mary Pray For Us 🙏Abba Father Bless us and we Adore You 🙏

For my life I need to be able to discern the spirit of a person and pick up problems that will keep me safe. I’ve been deceived in the past by friendly people who were never supposed to be in my life.

Caring for my severely/profoundly handicapped 45 year-old son simplifieds many things when it comes to discerning. The most difficult temptation is worry about my boy's health and future.

Wonderful discussion.

Thanks much for this video.

Thank you bishop baron

I (and certainly many others) know exactly that magical, invigorating feeling the Bishop talks about cycling/walking up to the library, perhaps on a crisp autumn day, to read challenging, life-changing books. In my case, it was not Aquinas but Marx, Nietzsche, Foucault, Marcuse, Fromm, and such...which, for me, have ultimately turned out to be other ways to God.

May the Lord bless you

Learning more about christ and Catholicism is the best use of time for anyone wanting to traverse purgatory

Preach it Bishop!

Brandon is a gem. So glad he's a part of this program.

I love these two!

This video is so helpful.....many people should visit this channel

Now hearing this, I'm very intrigued. Timothy Gallagher, The Discernment of Spirits.

Yes, it is absolute, no mistaking it with ones self.

For the first time, last night, I watched the film (movie) "Silence". If we were all committed to faith as those priests and lay people were, there would be no need for a new evangelisation.

God always builds us up. Sometimes, He allows us to be torn down a little (owch!) to build us up better.

Thank you....

A good book to read on the high and noble place of emotions is Dietrich von Hildebrand's "The Heart: An Analysis of Human and Divine Affectivity."

We all have to know the word of God for ourselves-that is our responsibility.

Hi Bishop Barren, please can you talk about the many things that happened at the Amazon synod recently? I am a catholic christian and its difficult trying to search for answers and the truth about why certain things happened during the synod e.g. worshipping a pagan idol in the Vatican grounds. Please can you talk about this? I enjoy hearing your wisdom when you talk about concerning issues, so please can you guide us with what happened at the Amazon synod. I'd really appreciate any thoughts you can offer :) - Chris

I wish I would have discovered Bishop Barron sooner.

Thanks Bishop Father Robert. We are living in a world that seems like the one described in Revelation, where evil spirits are in charge in governments/ legislature. Spiritual discernment is needed even more now, including how to fight evil spirits. PS. Please adress mass evangelization in the Catholic church in near future.

I genuinely appreciate the principles outlined in this video as helpful in discerning the movements of the spirit of God. To return to the initial question, however, as to how to choose Catholic media, Church militant and Taylor Marshall come to mind as youtubers who are probably being referenced as causing feelings of anger and agitation in their viewers. In order to more completely understand how to discern if their ministries are from the spirit of God, I would ask: would the Spirit of God, in the event of a synod of the Church publishing videos of themselves bowing down to a statue which was identified by name as a pagan goddess, want His people to feel anger and agitation? If not, how do we understand the anger and agitation the Holy Spirit inspired when pagan deities were being worshipped in the temple in the book of Maccabees, when a golden calf was being worshipped in the book of Exodus, or when incest and adultery was taking place in the Church of Corinth? I’m not asking this to undermine the content of this video, but because I’m genuinely interested in learning how to better discern what the Holy Spirit wants of me emotionally after viewing videos of the Pachamama statue being bowed down to at the Vatican. I would also like to receive guidance in understanding the biblical precedences for anger and agitation when sin warranted this response.

Thank you for this one. Would you please make one on spiritual warfare.

Really challenging battle!

Bishop Barron, in discerning what path we should take, i.e., what God wants us to do with our life, is it finding which path will "lead me to greater love of God and neighbor," or is it, as you say in your Holy Spirit video (where you talk about Galatians Chapter 5), finding the path that "makes me the most generous?"

WOW! I wish I could share but I have to discern again, which ones have I had discerned that was in line with COMPASSION with God when He has moment of woes over human ways or acts that offend Him so much, and His most loved people couldn't give that which most glorify Him, such as maybe, CONSOLATION? Do we need to console God, if He is the Source of all? And this discernment can spark some realities that link to such COMPASSION...in the form of CONSOLATION.. And one can rejoice in the mind, heart and spirit, the expression He wants to get across. And the Love connection is there, and I know that God and I love each other deeply. (I have to remember that I am a sinner …. and discern what makes us connected.)

I'm feeling sad and what I wanted was going to move me away from God. The other person is a Priest. I'd hoped we could be friends. It came to me when he came to the door and put his hand out to shake hands and I thought it would be a hug. I became frozen. Just sat in a chair and watched him feel so uncomfortable. I was giving him a kneeler that my dad had made for me. It was a really big deal for me because I've always considered him a holy man. I wouldn't do anything to make him doubt his calling. It was as though he has such a low opinion of me. It still stings in my heart. He actually ran out the door. So, friendship is out of the question. oh. he was one of the many vicars at the church that I attended. It had been 16 years since I'd seen him. I hope that someone will read this from Bishop Robert Barrons office/organization. This would be a desolation for him. And I regret even giving the kneeler to him.

Bishop how are you happen mass mass every day miss your mass thank you share god virgen maria blessing all time👍🌹

I'm seeing this podcast eight months after it was aired. Bishop Barron , I hope you're taking care of yourself- in this podcast you look like you're in great pain and you look exhausted! Please take care of yourself!!!

ADMG ("for the greater glory of God") is not a threshold test; it is a decision test. In other words, it is not enough to do something (anything) to increase the glory of God. Rather, of the options before you, are you choosing (discerning) the option that would result in the greater glory of God?

Happy 60th Birthday soon! 🎈🎆🎉🎂🎉🎆🎈

It's obious i born to love God from offer every pain it's not a matter cause i doesn't hope big things and ever i'm surprise from God. Cause He love more that we can expect.😇