How Not to Think About Heaven - Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Friends, the parable at the heart of our Gospel today from Matthew 20 is one of those passages in the New Testament that really bothers people. It proves that this parable is not just conveying correct information about God; it is reaching into our souls and doing spiritual work, shining light upon a certain darkness in us that resists him. And in this case, the darkness is a false view of what heaven is all about.
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Thank you Bishop Barron. I suppose I have never understood why we wouldn’t want everyone to go to heaven. Life isn’t a competition and God is bigger than we can imagine as is the beauty of his Grace and forgiveness.
Amen! Exactly
@guennieknight1576 Absolutely! What did Jesus promise you? Heaven. What did He promise me? Heaven. We all get the perfect Kingdom.
What's the problem w that?
Amen🕊️ Thank you Bishop Barron
I agree we should be rejoicing with those who make it to heaven!!
Thanks for gods love and your teaching together with many of you.Last jugdment ?!
Thank God !!! I’m a convert, people don’t understand how hard it is to be so lost, so long , and not have the blessings being Catholic offers. The peace that mass reveals is so beyond the fear and pure terror of not having a rudder. Only yourself for help when the devil is beating down your door. It’s like being in the blackest place in the world. “ cradle Catholics “ have a hard time understanding how dark life is without Jesus. It’s not a picnic being lost and scared. It’s not fun to find the guilt will not ever go away. And satan can beat you night and day with it. Being saved is like the brightest sunshine in the darkest cave, a way to end the torment. So very grateful for Jesus !!!!
This is such an insightful witness. Thank you and God bless you! I am a “cradle Catholic” but did not fully realize the thing you said about guilt until I was in my 40’s. Only through Confession and regular eating of the flesh of Jesus (Holy Communion, John 6:56) can we wash away guilt, which as you say, will torment us forever if not released.
You're right, cradle Catholic here, and I really can't understand life without Jesus. I am really grateful that I was born into a Catholic family. I have dry times of prayer, it has to be harder when one doesn't have the Catholic Tradition to keep us going during those times.
Thanks for sharing your testimony. Absolutely fits in the description that Bishop Barron used to explain the parable when he mentioned what St Catherine of Sienna stated that the path to heaven is heaven itself which we cradle Catholics are privileged to tread upon in our earthly lives, if we follow the path shown by our Lord and Saviour Jesus but which the non Christians do not know about and hence are in the situation that our sister here experienced prior to coming into the Catholic faith.
May God bless and keep you 🙏
Welcome ❤
As someone who came to the Catholic Church at 69, and to true Love of Other, I feel like the worker who started at the end of the day. I thank God always for His mercy to me for allowing me to find the Church and her Sacraments, which bring me peace and unity with the Lord Jesus Christ.
God Bless you. Thank you for your testimony.
Welcome!
I pray that you if possible go to daily Mass as Bishop Barron does and also he is a daily hourly adorer of the Blessed Sacrament.
IT would build yourselve treasure of Heaven Ie.Grace. God makes us his children to receive the best of His gifts in His dearly Beloved SON at Mass daily!!
Even though we Will all rejoice with the Angels over 1 repentant sinner, the reward in Heaven Will be different one from the other. And theMass Will increase extraordinarily Our capacity to see God Face to Face for all eternity, if we are fervent and humbly ask this of Him at Mass for ourselves and all Mankind and the Angelic Hosts before our personal judgement..
A quote about the different degrees of happiness in Heaven.
Diary of ST Faustina Kowalska and St Teresa of Avila and Fr Boudreaux FJ
Diary of St Faustina K
605 O Holy Trinity, Eternal God, I thank You for allowing me to know the greatness and the various degrees of glory to which souls attain. Oh, what a great difference of depth in the knowledge of God there is between one degree and another! Oh, if
people could only know this! O my God, if I were thereby able to attain one more degree, I would gladly suffer all the torments of the martyrs put together. (68) Truly, all those torments seem as nothing to me compared with the glory that is awaiting us for all eternity. O Lord, immerse my soul in the ocean of Your divinity and grant me the grace of knowing You; for the better I know You, the more I desire You, and the more my love for You grows. I feel in my soul an unfathomable abyss which only god can fill. I lose myself in Him as a drop does in the ocean. The Lord has inclined himself to my misery like a ray of the sun upon a barren and rocky desert. And yet, under the influence of His rays, my soul has become covered with verdure, flowers, and fruit, and has become a beautiful garden for His repose.
606 My Jesus, despite Your graces, I see and feel all my misery. I begin my day with battle and end it with battle. As soon as I conquer one obstacle, ten more appear (69) to take its place. But I am not worried, because I know that this is the time of struggle, not peace. When the burden of the battle becomes too much for me, I throw myself like a child into the arms of the heavenly Father and trust I will not perish. O my Jesus, how prone I am to evil, and this forces me to be constantly vigilant. But I do not lose heart. I trust God‟s grace, which abounds in the worst misery.
607 In the midst of the worst difficulties and adversities, I do not lose inner peace or exterior balance, and this discourages my adversaries. Patience in adversity gives power to the soul.
608 February 2, [1936].
ST Teresa of Avila -Autobiography Chapter 37
I can say, then, that if I were asked whether I should prefer to endure all the trials in the world until the world itself ends, and afterwards to gain a little more glory, or to have no trials and attain to one degree less of glory, I should answer that I would most gladly accept all the trials in exchange for a little more fruition in the understanding of the wonders of God, for I see that he who understands Him best loves and praises Him best.
Welcome 🙏
May God bless and keep you
So well said - thank you! I too am very late . . . . and I am so blessed that I am still permitted to work/earn a wage (so to speak).
As a Catholic all my life, I have heard this parable many times. But never before have I heard it explained this way. Thank you Bishop for helping me see the message of ‘Love’ being at the heart of this parable and of Heaven itself.❤
The bishop has indeed brought a new light of understanding this parable
Dante has a demon complain about a “lagrimetta”, a “tiny little tear”, in his Purgatorio, that Buonconte de Montefeltro shed just before dying, which granted him salvation. Great way to express the immensity of God’s mercy. God bless you all.
🤯 that’s superb insight. Thanks.
Listening to Bishop Barron's homilies is just what my soul needs and is worth my precious time. Thanks and God bless.
true
I agree!
Although a cradle Catholic, my effort to live the mission to which Our Lord has called me surely is a meager attempt at best. I therefore take comfort as I place myself in this parable as the worker that showed up later in the day, that I will be given the full reward. Praise Our Lord and Saviour for His great mercy!
As a faithful Catholic, I applied this parable to other people. Today, I am confronted by it. I honestly believed that heaven was a "Candyland" waiting for me as a reward. Need to do a lot of work to live "heaven on earth" the way Bishop Barron describes it. God Bless you Father Bishop!
What a blessing for all of us to hear and have regular, free access to such clear and dedicated wisdom as that which Bishop Barron possesses.
If this man isn't a living Saint, he's a great teacher!
I greatly appreciated you sermon, Bisop Baron. It brought to remembrance a hymn/prayer I composed for my wife's memorial service. I prayed that her Heavenly Father would embrace her, and she would experience "Eternal Love, more powerful and pure than she's ever known/ with Joy and Peace from Streams of Living Waters flowing from God's throne!". The final portion, I prayed the same thing for myself as for my wife, with this change, "Heavenly Father, send a band of angels, bear my soul to heaven on wings of love./Let me find there, my beloved laughing, rushing to embrace me with arms of love!"
If Eternal Joy can be increased in the presence of Eternal Love, it is only in discovering that those you love themselves are experiencing Eternal Love, and learning to love our enemies will be a source of Eternal Joy.
As one pastor noted, "How else was the Christ to die, but with His arms stretched wide, ready to embrace the whole world?"
Just beautiful, I hope for the same as I’m trying to be here without my darling husband. We knew bliss.
Beautiful sentiment. Thanks for sharing.
Godbess you Bishop Barron Thank you from a repentan sinner, Thank you father.
This parable is the antithesis of living in the judgmental attitude our culture has fallen into today. Thank you Bishop for your weekly reflections.❤
God Bless you and thank you Bishop Baron!
This was exactly my Mom and her younger sister-in-law. At my Aunt's memorial, I had a chance to speak and I read this Gospel. I hope my Mom "heard" it. Rejoice whenever ANYONE at ANY TIME joins the Vineyard!!!
Whenever this gospel comes up, I always think that unlike the person who gains heaven very late in life, I have had a lifetime of joy knowing and relying on the love of God through all my trials that the person who got " paid" late in the day never had.
Exactly! They didn't "get" to live like a demon their whole lives. There is nothing to gain living like the devil. And no one should be jealous of someone who did. They call things "hellish" for a reason
When I'm physically exhausted from serving my fellow man. You reminded me that Jesus is the way. I don't do this on my own, our Lord is right beside me. Thanks for the constant reminder to Love.
Mercy trumps justice!!
I figure that if there are those who can get into heaven at the last moment, then there’s hope for me!
Thankful for God’s great mercy! There is room for all of us! Thanks be to God! 🕊
Amen. "Resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die." It is also the fruit of a justice-only orientation. As Bishop says, "Love trumps justice." Thank you, Lord Jesus, for the ever-illuminating words spoken through Bishop Barron. May He continue to bless you and your ministry, Bishop Barron. 🙏💙
Amen
Thank God Love does trump Justice. VERY few would make it otherwise.
Wonderful teaching Bishop Barron, I thank you. God bless you
Jane Australia
Thank you Bishop Barron
Beautiful sermon as always.
May GOD bless you abundantly. ➕️♥️
Thank you ever so much for your contemplation on what Heaven is really like it’s not about
Reward
It’s about Mercy on our fellow humans
at least that what I came away with, fullness of Love is Mercy
Toronto Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
Thanks be to God.
There is no bigger joy to me than to see people that weren't with the Lord all their life come back to Him. That only strenghtens my faith, it doesn't make it less.
This passage always makes me reconsider the true meaning of justice. We all need to think on it deeply.
If we are subject to Gods just judgment at death…none will make heaven. That’s the point. Jesus is our REDEEMER. From original sin. From evil. That we cannot defeat, hence Jesus Christ DID. We just need to take our cross and follow HIM.
Bishop, I cried a bit , I laughed a bit but I sure did feel very elated. Thank you for your interpretation. God bless you forever
An enlightening treatment of this difficult parable. Most excellent Your Excellency!
Bishop Barron, thank you for your time and effort and amazing insight. You are a great spiritual teacher. God bless you.
Thank you so much Father.
Thank you for this, Bishop Barron. It is always good to remember that authentic love is not an emotional response. Sometimes love calls for sacrificing oneself for the good of another. To understand that is a special grace. I love what you said that living ‘in the Way’ is already living in heaven.’ How wonderful to realize that. God bless you!
Yes, "living in The Way" is beautiful!❤
Well said.Sometimes unbelievably beautiful even after a long life.@@bernadettelopes1512
Beautifully explained. I am always thrilled to hear that an unbeliever has come to the Light of Jesus before it was too late.
Another amazing, insightful sermon. It's so hard to get out of that "fair/not fair" mindset. Thank you, Bishop Barron!
I have been stuck in that mindset myself, I hate to admit! I am a work in progress….. 😊
I love it! The way to Heaven is Heaven! Thank you for that Bishop Barron. All of it! So good! 💜💜💜
Pray for me, pray for everyone. This is a beautiful homily Bishop, I understand the parable but the hard part is putting it to action. It highlights my brokeness that I’m unable to will the good of others that have done me wrong or that seem to have it much easier than me. With God by my side I will continue to work on this.
Thank you Eminence! It always comes back to love!
Love … “I’m kind of beyond this preoccupation with what is fair and unfair, all I want is what is good for the other”. Bishop Barron, Amen! The tension this way of thinking releases you from … is heavenly. Life changing. Great sermon. 🙏😌
LOL, like Bishop Barron reminded us, the path to heaven, IS heaven.
One of his best.
Always enlightening. Thank you Bishop. 🙏 for you
It's a horrible situation for a soul to go to hell and a death-bed confession of a sinner is something to rejoice in. Another soul saved from hell.
GOD Bless you too Bishop Barron, thank you for peeling back more of the sweet onion 🙏🏼
Beautiful bishop
Thank you Bishop for sharing
God Bless You too Bishop Barron
Dziękuję!!
Thank you from Poland :) ❤
By far one of the best sermons from Bishop Barron. This had me weeping. Thank you.
Thank you Bishop Barron, the way to Heaven is precisely when we submit our life for others.
We serve a just God, not a fair one. Fair would be we all go to hell. I always enjoy listening to Bishop Barron🙏🙂
Right you are!
god has blessed us with you and your sermons. beautiful and heartfelt. .
Thank you Bishop Barron. This just makes so much sense to me now.
Profound as usual.
Thank you Bishop for helping me to think about sacrifice and trying to live a good life in a way that is hard to see until it's illuminated. The Way=Heaven
This gospel gives me great hope. It shows that forgiveness (and therefore heaven) is available to us all, we just have to ask.
Thanks, Bishop Barron. I never understood this parable better.
Thanks for explaining the parable.
"I'm beyond this preoccupation of what's fair and unfair."
A great homily, God bless you Bishop Barron
Beautiful sermon 🙏🏼
I finally understand this parable 🙏🏼
Thankyou for this.
I wish every Catholic in America could hear you.
Bishop barren ,your spot on
Thank you. I am a little wiser than I was before seeing this vid. Thank you.
63 years with a Catholic upbringing and today I understand this parable. I found you, Bishop Barron during COVID and am forever grateful.
He is a true apostle.
i also have understood this parable for the first time! Im 65.
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@@Ghostwriter-o6c May God heal you and comfort you and bless you and your children 🙏
"Kindness is it's own reward." Proverbs 11:17-19
Praise the Lord ❤
Thanks for this wisdom.
Thanks Bishop Baron
You are a blessing Bischop Barron, we must be happy and thankfull to God when a sinner goes to heaven the place to be with humbleness
God Bless you Bishop Barron. Something that (without knowing the parable) has bothered me, (concerned me), all my life. And today it becomes clear to me. I'm not Catholic, but still a Christian. What a wonderful insight into love and righteousness I did not grasp before. Thank yo so much Bishop Barron. This man is a treasure.
That was awesome
Very insightful. Thank you Bishop!
Thank you. Bishop Barron ✝️🕊️🙏🇺🇸
Reminds me of something a favorite pastor once said: If God was fair I’d be dead, but instead He’s merciful.
Unconditional love is the lesson learned - thank you Bishop for clarifying the lesson.
God bless you, your priesthood and your ministry Bishop Barron 🙏🏼😇
When I realized the meaning of this story I was relieved that I had a shot at heaven. I love the generosity of God. Gives me peace.
Thank you Bishop Barron, this parable used to bug me too until you opened my eyes to see it through God's vision of love for us all.🙏
Thank you Bishop Barron.🙏❤️
You have enlightened my mind, Bishop Barron, yours is the best explanation ever! God bless you!
Thank you Bishop. I needed to hear this today ❤
Thank you Bishop Barron for always holding up for us the heavenly light over our understanding ✨🙏
New insight to nurture my spiritual life
Thank you, Bishop Barron. Always nourishing. Blessings, be well.
Thank you for explaining this parable. I would not have come to this conclusion on my own. You were able to show me what I was not able to see. God bless you.
Thank you Bishop Barron, a brilliant sermon. A wonderful example of our Lord's grace, mercy and love for us. May we all be blessed to extend such love in our own lives 🙏💞🕊️
Thank you so much for your wonderful sermon. 🙏
Dear Bishop, you rarely fail to bring the spiritual salve. Another great homily that brings me back to the scriptures with an intentional heart and mind. For me no one does it better, and I am eternally grateful for the nourishment.
I heard a little something else today i started my day with it, and finished it with you. It went something like this....
"You can't out love God".
Well maybe not, and that is a beautiful, comforting thought to ponder, but you have expounded on this verse for me today, by giving me the impetus to try 😁. Because you are right, that truly is where heaven lies for all of us.
God bless
Thank you, Bishop Barron. God bless your work always
"The way to heaven is itself heaven". I relate this to the Beatitudes. Is it right to say this? Because, like you said, whatever opportunity of grace given to us in this life to help us to live a life of virtue is our way to heaven.
Thank you Bishop Barron for the beautiful reflection of this gospel.
For the record- Lovely 😊 and inspiring words: praise Jesus Christ
This message makes me so happy!
Thank you Bishop Barron. This shows a great light in seeing this Gospel passage.
Incredible teaching, thank you Bishop.
Thank God for His Love and Mercy. We may very well need it ourselves one day because sometimes our sins are not so clear to us
Thank you bishop barron for explaining this parable. I understand it now more than ever. It's all about LOVE ❤
I love this parable! I do try my best to be the best Catholic I can be, but in case I mess up, I might still make it to heaven because of God's mercy! Why wouldn't I want others to have that chance too!? Heaven isn't limited in space nor is it limited in love and goodness!! Thanks be to God that His ways are not our ways!! I can't thank Him enough for keeping control out of our pathetic, puny, hands and minds!
Excellent
Good homily as always, though in understanding the gospel I think it's helpful to also consider the first reading from Isaiah 55:8, "...my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways..." and the second reading from Philippians 1:27, "...conduct yourselves in a way worthy of the gospel of Christ... ."
Beautiful! Thank you!
Keep it up bishop 💪
Following from Nigeria.
I used to be in the 'that's not fair group', then somewhere along the way I saw this situation as 'there's hope for me!'. If even the last worker, or the thief can be rewarded, then there is hope for me.
Thank you Bishop for showing I have some more steps to go through to see this as love and the best for the other.
I loved this entire reflection. Thank you so much for your wisdom, Bishop Barron! ❤
I really enjoy your talks Bishop Barron, thank you !