I am not from the US, I am from a very small island in the Caribbean, and I enjoy everything with Bishop Robert Barron. My English is not perfect, but, I believe The Holy Spirit will help me, thank you.
My spiritual life has become much richer with every episode of this show. The subject matter is always deep yet easy to understand, and I admire the relationship between the host and the Bishop. Their respect for one another opens the door for me to find God more approachable.
"What God wanted and still wants for us and is desperately trying to recover for us is 'fullness' of Life." - BISHOP BARRON *Power-packed a session, full of charm and grace. Huge Thanks Bishop and Brandon☆*
“The Lord God then called to the man and asked him: Where are you?” Gen 3:9 Anyone who has ever had their heart broken by someone beloved knows, that is the question asked right before the heartbreak. It’s not a question of location, but rather a question of the heart.
I'm really glad that I could hear Bishop Robert Barron speaking live. I think that the Word on Fire Show is a great way to get to know more about the LORD.
To everyone watching this, pray and agree: Loving God, I pray that you will comfort us in my suffering, lend skill to the hands of my healers, and bless the means used for my cure. Give me such confidence in the power of your grace, that even when I am afraid, I may put my whole trust in you; through our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen
I had this life changing dream about 20 years ago, where I was in the garden of Eden and darn if I didn’t bite the apple! That is when I realized that it was part of my human nature to seek out life under my own terms. Controlling my desire to control and practicing the art of submission to God’s will changed everything. Only then did I begin to recognize what God would make of me.
Sounds like you ate from The Tree of Life without knowing it. Indeed, listening to the deeper part of the self is eating from The Tree of Life, which you were already doing. I think God winked at you. We all eat from the Tree of Death when we start to see are differences before or common humanity in childhood. Stay humble.
@Curtis VanH they as in the evil spirits? If so I wouldn’t go that far because he said it wasn’t an apple, maybe he just felt the need to correct it, but yes that is the not merely the moral of the story
Bishop Barron just said something that is going to change my life from this day forward: "The negative is a...privation of what ought to be there. Being, and positivity, is always more ontologically basic than negativity." Basically, suffering is not a thing! God's goodness is all there is, and any suffering, sadness, pain that appears is, I guess you could say, the absence of what is real and true, God's love. And that only happens with our permission; hence, the Fall. Up until I heard those words just now, I gave suffering a place of honor in my reality hierarchy, when actually it doesn't belong on there at all. Mind blown.
Just starting reading Bible in a Year again with Fr. Mike. This is a perfect way to delve into Genesis deeper. Thanking Bishop Barron and Brandon for helping to deepen my Faith!
I value this program enormously and look forward to this encounter with the Bishop and Brandon every week. I learn so much. Over and above the intelligent and interesting subjects discussed, I really appreciate the respectful and obvious love evident in their relationship. Thank you and God bless your ministry.
One thing that’s interesting to note is..God had to know that Adam would take that bite out of the fruit. God put that tree of knowledge in front of Adam and pointed to it. So is God saying to humans… the one thing that will destroy you is this. Kind of the big warning you get in instruction manuals..CAUTION you may get electrocuted if you immerse in water. It’s Gods Human Instruction Manual?? So the message is for us… not Adam. I love these discussions. Thank you Bishop Barron for sharing your wisdom.
I love the Word on Fire show -professional, 'bite-sized', learned, erudite -I'm running out of adjectives! Bishop Barron has led me further down my path as a Christian and introduced me to Aquinas, who I think will lead me even further. Bishop Barron, you are a splendid gatekeeper and I am in your debt. Keep up the good work, folks.
It is a distant mirror indeed from now on till to the next of the generations to come until then we all meet this story in reality in God's time amen🙏☦️🙇♂☦️🙏.
God is saying. your steps are ordered by God from here on. Nothing stands as a barrier on your way of progress. every generational curse will be removed from you life. the mark on you has exempted you from failures and let downs
What Bishop Barron says about suffering and original sin seems to me fundamental in the Buddhist-Christian dialogue. As far as I am aware Buddhism begins with the premise “all life is suffering” and falls into the mistake Bishop Barron mentions of beginning with the negative. Suffering implies that there is a good, a positive good, that is not being attained, whether that is physical suffering or mental suffering. In a way this a point of contact between Buddhism and Christianity, the Buddhist recognition of suffering is like original sin, a recognition that the world as it exists is not the way it should be. However by starting off a negative footing, Buddhism, as it seems to me at least, can’t articulate a positive vision of how the world will be set aright, aside from a passive acceptance of suffering and a turn toward interiority. Again I am no expert on Buddhism, and hope I am not misrepresenting its doctrines.
I'm listening to this 3 months later, but I'm glad I found it. I like the exegetical-pastoral view of these episodes. We go through the Bible and also come out with resolutions to be/act better, or to have a better relationship with God and others. Thank you very much
Three years now from the first time I started to listen. From this show I would have loved to listen Bishop Barron talk about the issue of Man being created before the Woman.
I forget God wants us to enjoy life instead of restricting us from happiness. I wonder how beautiful the Garden of Eden was. I wonder how beautiful Adam and Eve were because they were the only humans personally handcrafted by the hands of God.
@@IONov990 It's actually not possible for God to deprive us from happiness, because He is only good. Only we ourselves can do that. It only us turning away. All He can do is love us.
If our catechism classes in the late sixties were as interesting as Bishop Barron's Word on Fire Session how deeper would my faith have been in my twenties. When been a feminists was more important too me. However as I'm learning it is never too late to deepen our knowledge of scripture. Thank you Word on Fire and Bishop Barron. GOD Bless for the great work you do.
We are studying Genesis at our bible study class I can hardly wait to share Bishop Barron's presentation. They are so great because of deeper insight. Thank you, thank you
Kind of disappointed the good Bishop didn't talk about whether Adam and Eve were literal figures or mythical figures. It's an interesting point to discuss.
He really did seem to avoid that question and return again and again to the symbolic meaning by which we participate in it. So it becomes the archetypal sin rather than the original sin. Sounded to me like Brandon’s questions leaned towards a proto-historical view whereas BB’s answers were symbolic and archetypal. I appreciate BB’s archetypal views! But I also wished he addressed the literal figure thing more too. I see myself in the story, but I think it’s important because of the question of theodicy. If it’s purely archetypal, then there’s no Fall. Rather, every individual falls.
Yes, that is the problem (stemming from the fall's effect, what else) - the tendency, the craze even to satisfy some curiosity and sit back musing on it rather than race forward with a life-quality shining through one's being and filled to the brim for that.
Excellent content and concise. Bishop Barron brings the fullness of the catholic biblical and intellectual tradition together with the concerns and often misunderstandings that have confused us, in order to, clarify, edify, or even celebrate parts of the faith we forget. To Word on Fire, keep the good works up and God bless you.
It’s interesting that it’s “Adam and Eve ho eat the fruit when actually it was Eve who ate the fruit and got Adam to eat it too “The woman who disobey God” and it would take four thousand years till Mary , the woman who obeyed God to begin our salvation.
I heard a sermon by priest who explained God loves us so much he banned us from the garden for our own good as eating from the other - tree of life - in our now sinful states would have placed us in eternal death. Makes sense that now God offers eternal life by eating the body of Christ.
We had a Jersey cow Brandon on our farm, but she got struck by lightning. We’ll be in the market for another milk cow as soon as possible. Good luck with your cow and yes Bishop is right; get into making cheese. I would also suggest yogurt. Keep the whey, (by-product of cheese etc.) get some pigs, and feed them the whey with your pig feed. Excellent show by the way. Maybe we can turn the comments into a homesteading forum.
I love this series. It helps me see more into what I have read. It clarifies information for me and it keep me wanting to learn more about God and his Creation.
Thank you Bishop Barron. I will share share this with my son. We’ve talked a bit about this subject already and he was quite surprised to find that the Catholic Church didn’t hold a fundamentalist view of the Adam and Eve story. He’s an unfortunate victim of the misinformation spread through social media as well as my failure to educate him beyond the simplistic literal education he received in 2nd grade Catholic School. He’s an intelligent 23 year old who was smart enough to suspect there was more to the story (pun intended) but just hadn’t been interested enough to look into the subject. Please pray that I can convince him to take the time to watch the video. Thank you. God bless your ministry.
So good! Εὐλογεῖτε! 1 Corinthians 15:28 - “And, when all things have been subordinated to him, then will the Son himself also be subordinated to the one who has subordinated all things to him, so that God may be all in all.”
I just finished reading WOF’s amazing bible Vol 3 cover to cover. I wanted to hear more on the Pentateuch from Bishop Barron. He never fails to enlighten my understanding of our faith. I particularly liked his comments on the symbolism of Eden being on a “mountain”. Thanks Bishop.
