Give as God Gives - Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Friends, whenever we give or receive a gift, we're always caught in a difficult rhythm of exchange and mutual obligation. The great exception to this rule is God, who is utterly gratuitous in his giving. But in Luke’s Sermon on the Plain, we are invited to share, by grace, in the very way that God exists and that God loves, giving to those in need without expecting anything in return.
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Reminded me of Dorothy Day saying “You only love God as much as you love the person you least like”
I respectfully disagree
Beautifully said! Everything we have was given by God!
February 23. 2022
This is probably the most important sermon I've heard from Bishop Baron.
God bless you, Father.
I agree! I think the best one I've heard him give.
That will change quickly. Keep listening
@@esbenz75 I don't think it's the best (stylistically) but I think it's the MOST IMPORTANT. This is the clearest explanation of the difference between Christianity and the world. Being a true Christian requires a radical change of attitude towards our neighbors, a willingness to sacrifice oneself for the salvation of the other: willing the good of the other as other without expecting anything in return.
This is how we become saints. Very important sermon, indeed!
Love is wanting good of others thanks Bishop Barron and word on fire team
Amen 🙏🙏🙏 all glory be to our lord Jesus Christ
Thank you Bishop Barron. God Bless.
Wonderful
Brilliant, just what I needed to hear. Glory to God
Beautiful 🥰
Thank you for this wonderful homily 🙏🏻
Never thought that kind of dynamic could exist. But it can. Because there is always going to be a consequence to any action. That includes the consequences of any kind of inner behavior too. The ability to forgive when that kind of gift giving is at play among mere men is key in that situation too when it knowing how to beat our common enemy. If it is accompanied by all involved as being only to the best of their ability active in real hands on work for Jesus no one could lose in that situation too. And so knowing ourselves about what our limitations are is just as important. Otherwise when would any of us know when to say no? Like, "No!" - We aren't willing to put on a non-stop street party in the downtown capital of Canada.
Thank you Bishop Barron 🙏
Praise the Lord Jesus Christ 🙏 Mother Mary Pray For Us 🙏Abba Father Bless us and we Adore You 🙏Holy Spirit Guide us and direct our paths 🙏
Praise God Bishop God bless you
Thank you for this sermon. God bless. ♥️
Best gifts
This is really good 👍 Thank you Bishop Barron 🙏 🙌
What a wonderful lesson...it taught me so much! God bless you!
Thank you Bishop, for explaining Jesus’ Words. Now I understand what Jesus was teaching.
Unique grace! 🙏
Always a very good sermon, love listening to you Bishop Baron thank you xx
Are we suppose to go.back to the olden days
You are so right. Thank you for this lesson.
Bishop Barron, You have a way of bringing light to scripture. Thank you. Give w/o any expectations is selfless. Simple words, yet difficult to carry through sometimes. Yet when I do this, it's like something wonderful is felt deep in my soul. My resolution is to try to be more aware of doing this. God Bless you.
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I am saving this sermon. So much to reflect on. Powerful for me. Thank you Bishop
The Bishop's message here is The Crux of The Christian calling I guess and it's a tough and torrid message for the likes of me. My Parish priest recently made the following proclamation from the pulpit "The Church is full of Hypocrites!...and we're always ready to warmly welcome a few more." Strangely comforting are these somewhat facetious words for me. I am fully aware that I practice the surface rites of my religion with a certain public rigour, indeed religiously. But my inner life is perpetually tainted with resentments both old and new and my relationships these days are generally guarded and reserved rather than warm and engaging. I do thirst for Divine Love yet my wretchedness still imprisons me and I'm afraid I may be getting worse as I get older rather than better. The only recourse I have is to share on a forum like this and to pray privately and repeatedly the Perennial prayer "Jesus Son of The Living God, have Mercy on me a Sinner." - Sometimes, especially of late, I think it would be better off if I just opted out of my Religion altogether. I'm over scrupulous and generally lousy at it. But then I remember Saint Peter who said "Lord, there is no one else that we can go to! Your words give Eternal Life!" (John 6:68) I'm no Saint Peter that's for certain, but I am, I suppose, his Little Disciple in this regard. I know in my heart that there's really nowhere else to go that could be deemed, an authentic "Somewhere.".
Awesome☆☆☆☆☆
It is a difficult message for me, also.
Ok I give up, it's rather a trend. When I think I've heard his best sermon ever his next one makes me think the same. This has to be the work of the Holy Spirit - who is eternal and is THE fire of THAT Word - through him. Glod bless you and him.
Yes! The Holy Spirit is on fire through Bishop Barron.
I agree. He certainly lets God work through him for our good.
The hardest thing to do is to pray for someone who hates you.
Or for someone you hate.
Greater love no one has than a man who lays down his life for he’s friends! From our Good Lord Jesus Christ told to His disciples the day before he will be arrested and be crucified to death k!
Thank you and God Bless you ❤️🇨🇦
that,s easier to say than done, love your enemy, pray, that God will do it for you, witness by yourself, you,ll wonder how you did it,
To love someone who has destroyed our name ,destroyed our livelihood,destroyed our family…
Is to pray for them ,to hope for all good things for them,for to be cordial whenever or wherever
we meet them,to give to them that they be safe and warm and protected from harm…
A short story several years back we were victims of anonymous letters,vicious untrue accusations,
Letters to the USA representative of Rome demanding our public excommunication
for many months then someone threw white enamel paint on our large black tombstone our son was buried there,….the local law enforcement brought legal action against them..it went to trial.
There were many involved…one man took the fall.
To truly love
Not to expect an apology.but you don’t have to invite them into your home for dinner.
Saintethic
I have never felt loved by God or anyone. Converted to Catholicism 17 years ago but I do not feel loved by God, but I still go to Mass every Sunday. I am marginalised by a hidden disability and really am despised by most people because I do not know how to interact well socially. I pray a lot, pray to feel loved by God so Father pray for me. I do pray for those who despise me (not all the time). I am now a Pensioner, have 2 friends who text me (one is my sister) but have no visitors. I was abused as a child, and I just do not get 'love'. I respect people, try not to hurt them. That is my best efforts.
Praying for you and for us all, lynne ivison!
Your loneliness seems to be an equal to the pandemic these days as I see many posts speaking about it! I find reading about the lives of the saints really helpful. An example, Julien of Norwich.
Continue to pray and we to shall pray for you 🙏
May God Bless you and yours!
Very hard to understand what is grace. I pray for those who don't know. I can pray for you. I can guarantee you are 100% with Jesus and loved by God. Now you have told the most loving people in the world, that you need love. Believe we love you.
Very sad 😔
But God is love. And you are his creation.
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Thank you for your inspiration and encouragement - from a retired priest in Ireland. New insights to ancient teachings.
God Bless you Father, and God bless Ireland 🙏
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Every weekend, a new surprising teaching on readings I have heard many times. A new look to the Gospel. Thank you.
That is Bishop Barron’s great gift to us.
@@luluq01 Well said. God bless you
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Yes indeed☆ Bishop Barron himself is a great gift for the Church and the whole world too☆☆
Yes! So often I find myself saying, "Wow! I've never quite thought about it in that way." I always feel that Sunday's readings have not been quite adequately explored until I hear what Bishop Barron has to say.
@@johnsposato5632 If only we would have been taught like this through the years…
This is beautiful. I live in Japan where gift culture is actively fostered as a means of promoting mutual obligation, which will then lead to social cohesion. It can be quite constricting and manipulative at times, although there are of course many instances of genuine love and friendship shown with gifts. Your message, Bishop Barron, might resonate especially deeply here.
"We began by imagining that we are giving to them; we end by realizing that they have enriched us." - *St. Pope John Paul II*
...Because in the act of service and sacrifice, we become more like Christ, the most enriching thing of all. Thanks for that quote and reminder.
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Stay blessed as always☆
@@oliverclark5604
May God pardon you and lead you on the path of virtue and peace.
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I'm sorry, to be sure I always prefer Bishop Barron's Sermon to yours.
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What task should I take up here in the Comments section of a UA-cam video?
I choose to think of God's blessings as the most certain reality and *'always'* that. My experience is that it is *'always'* there.
Dear Bishop God bless you
Im very much inspired by the way God has blessed you with the gift i.e to make other aware of the mystery of Christ
Outstanding Bishop Barron and so helpful. God bless you also.
I love the "No,no!!!" . It brightens up my day! 🙂🙂🙂
This is the deepest and wisest sermon I have ever heard from Bishop Barron. In many ways it is about the heart of the Christian's mission: to imitate Christ, the perfect God-man, in the midst of an imperfect world that forces us to always ask in return, to return blow for blow.
Dear Bishop Barron,
I regularly listen to your Sunday Homily to sanctify my Sunday! Please pray for me. Fr. Alex Wales, UK.
"Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure ......." ~Luke 6:38
Powerful homily
I needed this this week Bishop Barron. It’s very hard to decide you’ll truly only give and have nothing, to only be held and fed and supported by God. It’s specially hard when you’re dealing with family. It’s easy around people who can’t hurt you but when it’s from your closest and dearest it’s very hard and only God is our refuge. To love your neighbor as you love yourself when your neighbor is your family. “Enemies”are easy to love without expecting return. But family mistreating you? It’s not easy to skip ungratefulness and hard critique about choosing no monetary success, no glory, no possessions, specially when it comes with true concern because you’re not living as the world expects you to live. It feels as if you’re speaking different languages. It’s hard to not seek being understood but to understand. When success can’t be seen with material objects, only God holds us when in others eyes you’re not living your earthly potential, it’s only God who holds us when we’re disrespected. When someone expects you to be the CEO and you choose to simply give and help others with their lives. I want to defend myself. When you have to call on to God to come help you when it gets hard. This is what giving your life to God truly entails. The struggle. Dear Lord, wash away my fear and negative emotions, may I feel You strongest when attacked or overlooked, may your Love flow through me still, specially then. Be Forever my refuge and my guide, I love you, Amen ( btw bishop, Nice hair cut )
God Bless you. May Faith, Hope and Charity guide you through your troubles. Be strong in your loving defense of the weak and righteous 🙏
I love this message. It actually helped me to climb out of my shell to strike up a conversation with someone.
A beautiful sermon. I find Jean-luc Marion to be insightful on this question of the gift, turning Derrida’s logic on its head. The gift is only impossible when considered within the logic of efficient causality. Once we enter the logic of the gift it becomes impossible NOT to have received a gift except for the pride of believing in the impossible situation of having given it to myself.
To Dear Bishop Barron.
Thank-you so much for your inspiring homilies... I'm from South Africa. Please say a prayer for me. Nuem 🙏🙏🙏✝️🛐
The message is clear. I can aspire to do this.... but I just don't know if I can.
25 seconds in, I know he's talking about the aporia of the gift, because I have watched his lecture titled "The One Who Is; The One Who Gives: Aquinas, Derrida and the Dilemma of the Divine Generosity".
God is about to take you higher. Things that have held you back are being broken. New doors are about to open, giants are about to be defeated, talent is about to come out of you that you didn’t know you had. You’re coming into a season of special favor. You always have favor, but there are moments where that favor will show out. You’re going to see an opportune time, where God is going to thrust you ahead. I hope this comment has blessed and uplifted you. We are a new and growing channel, and every support/encouragement is always a blessing. God bless you. Amen
“ love as God loves” , but…, but , we’re not God. I live and love in my finite , human mind. This is very hard to do from our human experience. . I love the idea of it, but my goodness this is hard. There is so much injustice in this world, cruelty, pain, and endless suffering brought on by others. I know nobody wants to hear this or cares, but when my husband was dying in the hospital for months my siblings save for one , where nowhere to be found. Why? They were angry at me for loving and caring for our mentally ill and alcoholic sister. Imagine. How dare I show love and mercy to my ill sister. I cannot forgive their revengeful and spiteful behaviour at my husbands suffering and subsequent death. I’ve been to confession about this. The priest told me to pray for them which I do , but I just can’t seem to forgive and forget. Thank you Bishop Barron as always.
Of course, it’s hard, and that’s why it’s valuable. Good things are usually difficult and require sacrifice. As Christ said: 'take up your cross and follow me'. He did not said: 'follow me in comfort and luxury' 😉
Marijus Pileckas believe me I’m on the cross just as everyone else is. It’s an honour to be on it.
Work on forgiving. You don't have to forget. A priest told me that. And just know that if you really think about this: Jesus is with you 100% guaranteed. When you really 'know' that, it helps. Trust takes time. Time goes so slow sometimes.
Lovely method of teaching. I agape you dear bishop ♥️
This wonderful homily reminded me of “Is it possible to live this way?”, the title of a very profound book by don Luigi Giussani.
Only through grace. And then only if we give ourselves completely over to the siren call of that grace. I am certainly not there...yet.
Zaz! Mucho que pensar! Gracias querido Padre Robert! Mucha fuerza!
🌺🥀🌺🥀🌺🥀🌺 Paz, Luz, y Bien
para el Obispo Robert y todos
quienes nos iluminan
para seguir a Jesús, nuestro Señor, Amén 🙏
God feels most deeply for us and desires our heartfelt praise and gratitude for His Grace and Mercy on our lives, and this of our own free will. Of our own volition and with daily gratitude we should glorify and thank Him for the supreme sacrifice His Son made for our salvation. So, too, we should humbly and thankfully acknowledge the gifts of the Holy Spirit, ever leading us to the Father. We are One Body.
It pays to be kind. No matter just be kind your days and min😢e 😊 i😊 know God loves me and all people and c6😮r😢ea God loves me and all creation
The dilemma of the gift!...so much to learn...thank you dear Bishop for the very insightful homily. God bless you.
Even by your own lofty standards, Bishop, this was a hugely rich homily. Thanks you so much!
Ah, ok then…
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Wow! I had tears in my eyes when I heard this. Only pray that I can live at least a little this way.
Such a source of wisdom from God!
May He keep and protect you always, Bishop Barron.
Thank you, Bishop! Pray for us!
Love your enemies....that's how the saints became saints!
This message electrifying and motivating.
We are instructed to love one another as we would love ourselves. Second greatest commandment. Love God above all else the first greatest commandment. But as humans are minds are so acute and we have had so much rhetoric served to us from movies, books, social media that it seems impossible to be able to carry out this second commandment. But if we think about it we can never achieve the first commandment if we don’t do the second one. Because to love Christ is to obey Him. And He charges us with the second commandment. We will never get it 100% right. We are human and drought with failure but the effort to get it right moves the needle forward. And if we can only get it right 10% of the time and everyone gets it right 10% of the time how much better for the world and humanity it is. And as long as we continue to try slowly we will make small incremental improvements in humanity and the world. To get it 100% seems to be overwhelming, but the concept of moving it forward even if only in small measures is not unattainable. A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. I pray we may all start taking the first step together. Amen.
We love you Bishop Barron, thank you for enlightening us on the gospel reading.
Yes!! A paradigm shift I needed to hear! Thank you, Bishop Barron.
Amen Amen 🙏 give and expect nothing in return it will be great what graces we recieve.Thank You sweet Lord my God. ❤
Thanks Bishop Barron. What you said about gifts and gift giving is so true, imagine having a best friend who's birthday is coming soon and you take time and effort to get them what you think they will like, despite not having a lot of money. But when you get to the party you see a load of presents much more expensive then your one.....
......But a few days later your friend come and thanks you and says that your present was the best of all.
Thank you, Bishop Barron, for sharing the Truth of Christ in ways so visceral, that what you say overpowers the intellect that tries to make the Truth what one wants it to be.
Thank you so much Bishop Barron for this powerful message about how we should give!!! It spoke to my heart!!!
Indeed. Love begins with God. He extends it to us gratuitously and we should do the same to others.
Powerful homily
GOD needs nothing but that we follow and listen to Him and in turn it is only what is good to us.Praised be God 🙏 🙏 🙏
God needs nothing from us.... Really!? So, we are not to thank God for all of our blessings!? We say "thank God" all the time! It's called respect and love for our God who gives us so much. It's not feeling obligated to give something back. As good as the Bishop's message is, it can be misunderstood. Yes, God does not "need" anything from us. I get that. However, let's be clear. Being thankful, respectful, and showing appreciation is not the same as an expectation to return something. It's common courtesy and thankfulness. What a world it would be if no one said thank you or wrote a nice card of appreciation. This does not mean the giver is expecting something in return or is not giving unconditionally.
💖🙏 OK God doesn't "need" us....I would like to believe that God as our Father rejoices when he hears from his children. Especially when we repent. There are many sides to this discussion? Thank you, Bishop Barron.
I also focused on this - but, I know Bishop is not aware it could come out like that. And, can we help not to love God?
You have such a way of shaking me up Bishop Barron . All good. God bless you.
Thank you for the work that you do! From e fellow citizen from faraway Bulgaria.
Thank you for this thought provoking and inspiring message. God bless you and your ministry!
Thank you. God bless.
What a transfiguration this whole world would make if we gave to each other selflessly. Believe, be strong.
Praise the Lord Jesus Amen 🙏
I love those readings. I don’t think they can be told enough. Thanks for telling them. I’ll spend the word too!
Thank you so much for this Bishop Barron. How fortunate we are that God is not like this fallen world we live in--I am so grateful for this kind of love--so different from what we normally experience. God bless you always for showing us what our faith involves.
@@oliverclark5604 I am not sure why you responded to my post with this reply, but I wish you well and may God bless you always.
@@oliverclark5604 No problem at all. You have a right to your opinion and to express it. One thing I love about God is how tirelessly He works to reach us--and this may be in very different ways. Our journeys may be different, but God's love is constant for us all. What a blessing!
So hard to love those who hate you. Struggle with this but eventually interesting enough I end up doing it.
Recommend 'the gift' by Marcel Mauss. A great classic in anthropology. Derrida probably pinched his ideas.
Yay authentic teaching! 👍🤔🔥🥰
The pronunciation of 'gift' in German is the same as in English
Thank you Bishop Barron for this every instructive and encouraging homily. I love listening to your homolies.
I am trying Bishop Barron but it's very difficult to be good to someone and Pray for them who doesn't like you and always gossips about you 😕 will get there eventually step by step!
God bless you Bishop Barron 🙏🏽🙂❤️
Also not correct to say nothing can fufull God.
Our very asking fills Him with joy
So heavenly, beautiful and clear to any discerning mind Bishop Barron, thank you.
Thank you Bishop Barron. God bless you 🕊️🙏
Just for clarification, the Latin word hostis does mean enemy. But the hospitality is derived from the Latin word hospes - guest or visitor.
At a time when we are on the precipice of a modern world war it is difficult to keep focus on God's "love"; the distraction of imminent death and destruction occupying so many of our thoughts. We are reminded here that the grace God bestows upon us is a healing and loving grace; a gift we can hold in our hearts, despite all else. I pray for the strength to accept it as it is given to me.
Extraordinaria lección de vida gracias padre Barrón! A vivir la fe!
bishop Barron, you are right. however, it so hard especially when you take things personally
Thank God for these sermons, for having created you Bishop Robert Barron and for communicating with us through you, May God Bless you
This is a nice creative sermon. It reminds me of how I gave a gift to a person that was my cooperating teacher at Lehman College. Later, there was a prohibition on gift-giving on items above a certain value. Now that there is a pandemic, I have never seen that prohibition announced again.