The Metaphysics of Prayer
Вставка
- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- What's actually happening when we pray? In this episode, I answer the deepest questions about prayer-not necessarily how to pray, but what is prayer? A listener asks about the Rosary prayer and how it operates.
“We pray to the Father as though the Son has his arm around our shoulder...” Exquisite imagery. Thank you!
Thank you for quoting this. I found this helpful.
I would like to express my sincere thanks to you for your voice and work. Not a catholic myself, but I always learn something interesting that I can apply to my own faith and you have my respect.
I'm not a Catholic either, but there's nothing wrong with listening to other denominations, especially if knowing God truly is the ultimate goal. All truth is God's truth
I wasn't interested in the topic, but the talk was great. Answered questions I didn't know I had.
Bishop Barron, I started praying the Rosary about two years ago. I pray it every day, sometimes twice a day. We have a local Relevant Radio station that prays it at the usual time I drive to and from work, and I pray it with them. I think that I have found that when we pray, the words themselves don't matter nearly as much as the heart does. If we truly want to let God change us (even when it feels like the ripping and tearing of guarded habits and understandings of long custom), it is in prayer that the change begins. We are told that the Spirit 'intercedes for us with groans that cannot be uttered,' and so most of the time my prayers will be wrong until God himself puts them right. Praying is the point. Giving oneself to God is the point. So I pray the Rosary, the _Suscipe,_ and the _Anima Christi_ regularly. God is in those prayers because in them I am in Christ.
And I'm not even Catholic, but I appreciate, even admire, the various Catholic spiritualities that are deeper than mine and from whom I can learn much.
Thank you, Bishop, for being an encouragement and a guide to some who do not share your label, but who would very much want to live your life. The Catholic Church is still a beacon.
Which NT leader told you to pray to Mary? Did Jesus? No. Paul? No. John? No. Peter?
@@timspangler2154 Then explain the positive effects: I know Jesus better, follow God with increased devotion, am more of an evangelist now than I was, read the Bible more than I did, am less judgmental, more loving, and more self-sacrificial than I was before, and have seen more miracles happen than I did before.
Interestingly, we don't bat an eye at someone calling himself 'Reformed' or 'Lutheran' or 'Pentecostal', but as soon as someone asks Mary to pray to Jesus for him, suddenly we ask, 'Where is that in the Bible?' Don't you find that just a bit odd?
I'm glad your doing well
@@timspangler2154 Thank you, Tim. I hope that you are doing so, as well. Probably for me the most important lesson of the Rosary is that the Spirit *must* pray my prayers with and for me, because I get them wrong, and the Spirit *will* pray my prayers for me because God is love. Once I thought like the garden-variety evangelical (because I was one), that my words had to be right. I didn't know just how much God loves me. I probably still don't, but I think I know it a bit more, for the Rosary is very different from my prayers before, yet, like the Jerusalem Council who heard of the Greeks accepting Christ without first becoming Jews and so decided that circumcision was not necessary, the increase in my spiritual life, my witness, my discipline, and my trust in God has told me that I had misjudged the Rosary for many years. As long as I pray, the Spirit will pray with and for me, and my prayers will be effective, especially in changing me. The Rosary is a long-tested way of doing this, and because it points me to God and to Christ, it works in me.
I could only find this out by trusting God and trying it for myself. I gave it two years; I continue on with it. There is light here.
Seriously? You Catholics RECITE prayers but Evangelicals are the ones who think "words have to be right"? That makes no sense Other than that, I like your sentiments and attitude
I have such ADD when I try to quiet my mind in adoration, it's torture. So I can only do the quiet just adoring part in short bursts. Instead I always start my hour with the rosary prayed slowly and that's when I pray my petitions for everyone, then I can just adore for a few minutes, then I bring some kind of theological reading with me and I read that for a while, slowly and trying to really absorb it, then another burst of adoration and then I pray the office for whatever time of the day is I happen to be in Adoration. By the end I've quieted down and I can adore a little bit more. Then the hour's over. It's amazingly peace-giving. Even if I probably don't do it in the best way! I have to have a ton of structure to focus well.
Bishop Barron is such a bright and eloquent man.
I had been having this disturbing thought every night before I went to sleep and had tried all sorts of mind games to try and shake it off, nothing seemed to work, and then I started praying old school every night before I go to sleep I pray; 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary, and 1 Glory Be, and really concentrating on the words that I was praying and if I felt I hadn't concentrated enough or said them to fast I would say all three over, two weeks later I don't have that disturbing thought anymore, also things seem to fall in place all around me now, things are just slightly easier, grease in the gears, I can't scientifically explain it but there has been a very noticeable difference for the better, I just feel better...just saying
Thanxs for the Advice and direction Mark, I am already deeply spiritual, not necessarily religious but spiritual, and was just pointing out how powerful a few simple prayers, not even asking for anything can be, I've have always found old school structured prayer to be very calming, God bless and have a good day
Stan Kahuna try next time chaplet of St Michael the Archangel it worked for me in. tjmes of darkness
Worked for me too. But mine were more of nightmares or that thing called sleep paralysis or maybe, attacks by the enemy? Physically I used to wake up very early, almost daily, too due to reflux that had besieged me for years. Now that issue is gone too, including some deep-seated anger that had been nagging me for ages.
Try Confession. It really helps also. Write out a detailed list and take it with you. It is amazing experience. The Chaplet of St Michael is also a good suggestion.
God is real...prayers really work and the fruit is peace
Thank God for excellent teaching from Fr. Barron. I think so many problems in the church started with the lax catechisis of my childhood (60s and 70s). I love learning about my faith!
Pray + Give + Fast = Humility
Pray + Fast = Grace/Faith
Pray + Give = Joy
God works in silence. Lord have mercy on us. Amen.
What a wonderful team, Brandon and Bishop Barron. I think this is working very well. Way to go
Awesome video I love hearing you answer these questions 😀
Hail, Full of Grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed art thou amongst womwne and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. Holy mother Mary, hold us in your heart.
Great hearing about the Apostles and how we Christians pray, including Luke's recounting of Gabriel's words as per God's will that we specifically call the Hail Mary. Our shepherds should also know His sheep are grateful and also that we understand that while watching over, feeding, and guiding us, you have also been commanded to go fishing, too!
I am beyond excited to hear about Bishop Barron's upcoming convo with Dr. Peterson.
Great talk. Doesnt quite nail the problem of unanswered prayer.
Thank you from Canada.
Really love your channel and your intellectual talks with Brandon!
Also could we possibly get Bishop Barron and Fr Richard Rohr in the same room?
Now that would be interesting! :)
that so needs to happen... i was introduced to Fr. Rohr by a new agey person, says it all, right.
Yes please! I have questions about some of Fr. Richard's theories about the Universal Christ (based on Franciscan mysticism) and I would love Bishop Barron to address them, as I trust Bishop's philosophical grounding very much.
Hey. 😊 I always thought I had gotten into a tendency to greet those I'm happy to see with, from my youth growing up in Chicago.
Praying brings us closer to God and brings God closer to us.
QUESTION/COMMENT. Regarding prayer. I personally feel that prayer is more a relational (relationship w Our Lord). Just as we have a relationship with our spouses, the spousal relationship of my soul with the spouse of my soul. I perceive prayer where at times is listening and sharing ; at times, just in silence enjoying the Presence; times requesting help; doing things together. I perceive prayer where as “celebrating and acknowledging His Presence “, in all I do, constantly visiting and talking, or just recognizing His Presence.
To me saying praying is just a period of our time or a thing we do, it limits the profound immensity of what prayer should be. Just as if, I said my relationship w my souse is when, I do this or when, .... I truly saying prayers, Adoration, Mass, it’s only the entrance to the awareness in my day , life of His Presence, the beginning not the end. His invitation to walk with Him and He with me, ..... in all I do
in Him with Him for Him and through Him... . Again it’s a celebration of His Presence in my life , again is a relationship. That includes all that we call prayer and beyond. Bishop Barrón, am I extrapolating the meaning of prayer? However, I must admit that from my heart I see it as above mentioned.
SO GOD BLESS ALL CAUSE GOD KNOWS EVERYONE. THANK YOU TO GOD!
Considering giving up online comment sections for lent- near occasions abound😀
I might join you there, brother
I recently opted to reply just once to social media threads that are important to me and let the pieces fall where they may. It has improved my mental health and less tempting to substitute social media for 1:1 personal communication.
Steve McGuinness good idea
@@stevenews5910 - It really helps (even though it's difficult) not to get too invested. Some very unhappy people will see your passion and engagement, and delight in needling and provoking you.
in Philippines ....i love listening your program
Persistence versus vulnerability. It’s definitely a war of attrition.
I would have loved for him to mention Contemplative Prayer and Lectio Divina.
So helpful to listen to this interview focusing on prayer. Question: could you explain the term metaphysical? What would you contrast metaphysical with? Larry Gamboa from Manila Philippines
Hi, Larry. There are many definitions for metaphysical (an adjective). The most common, not the most accurate, is that metaphysics (a noun) is an abstract idea. Abstract idea is a general definition that actually belongs to the term philosophy.
A far more specific definition for metaphysics comes from the Greek language studied by Plato. Meta in Greek means beyond. So, metaphysics is the realm beyond the physical.
Since humans reside in the physical realm (a world of matter), we must rely on our imagination to grasp the metaphysical. Thru our imagination, we can imagine a unique realm beyond the material world.
Most people imagine a realm of the spirit.
Hence, one definition of metaphysical is the realm beyond the physical world that is called the spirit.
Bishop Robert Barron,can you please pray for my marriage,daughter and son.There is much discord and confusion in my life because of this.Thank you.
Superb, clarifying and very helpful!
How can praying for someone else (who is sick, etc.), who you might not even know, possibly not be asking God to change? How is that prayer directed inward to yourself when you have no influence over or connection to the situation at all?
Me gustaría que tenga subtítulo.🌻🌻🙋🙋
Click CC, then the gearwheel... choose auto-translate, then Spanish!
@Romano Guardini
No es muy preciso, pero...
Haga clic en CC (debajo del video), luego en la rueda dentada (a la derecha), y elija Traducción automáticamente en español.
Ah! Speaking in tongues.
wow mr Barron, the way you describe prayer, it must be able to be tested in some way?
Bishop baron, can you give your review of the movie "his dark materials"?
My Lord lLoveLike your talk very very good advise my Lord i thank you once again in jesus Nane Amen🍃🍇🙏🍃🍇👍
I'm still not sure I understand. If prayer isn't ever going to move God to do something, then why pray for anyone else? If this is true, would praying for someone else who is sick or suffering have any effect? Or why even pray for ourselves for our own sickness or troubles to be fixed, if God isn't going to do anything in response. This also seems in direct contradiction with Gospel verses that says "Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven". Can someone please clarify this?
Praying the Daily Holy Rosary puts us on a cushion of Heaven, it provides us with all that what we truly need, the Heavenly Embrace of Jesus, St. Mary and all the Heavenly Host, the Divine Love and Mercy of God through this prayerful communion with the Holy Trinity. Of course, that is assuming that we're in a state of grace (which means not living in a state of mortal sin) and regularly going to Holy Mass and receiving the Sacraments of the Catholic Church. God, through the messages of Our Lady of Fatima, asks us to pray the rosary every day for peace in our world and for the conversion of sinners. Fatima means peace and this is God's Peace Plan! Praise God and Our Lady, our Heavenly Mother, for the Gift and Miracle of the Rosary! Praying the daily Holy Rosary with our family or praying it at Church earns us a Plenary Indulgence which means that we get A Full Tank of God's Grace, so it puts us on a cushion of Heaven, a timeless cloud of Divine Love and Mercy, the Heavenly Embrace of Jesus, St. Mary and all the Heavenly Host! Praise God and Our Lady, our Heavenly Mother, for the Gift and Miracle of the Rosary!!! There are Absolutely Astonishing Miracles of the DAILY ROSARY: www.miraculousrosaryblogspot.com
How must we see Miracles?
How can mary intercede for us if God doesn't change his mind?
If God changing His mind is metaphorical, what does it mean? Metaphors can't mean the opposite of what they say.
Hi bishop Baron what is a novena why is it prayed isn't that God can only heal and not a novena
IS FOR WHO SUFFER WITH HIM
#BarronForPope
.."Just not yet."
Is Brandon Vogt generically to Bishop Robert Barron .
They favor slot
Especially their eyes, nose, forehead, and hairline.
Father/Son
Brothers
Cousins
Please let me know?
Thanks
I am leaving Christianity Bishop Barron. God bless. Its because i dont love God anymore. Im really really sorry. Im sorry. I tried. I cant do it anymore. I cant take the overt suffering anymore. God bless. It was really awesome having talked to you when we did. I thought that was a God thing maybe. Im sorry though. Its for real, and i have to go. Thanks for making the world a little bit better of a place for me.
Can I just ask one favor of you? Could you spend some substantial time meditating on Jesus crucified?
@@BishopBarron i think God has wanted me to be in ministry this whole time, but that has literally been the absolute last thing ive ever wanted to do. I think he will heal me if i am ordained. I know way more than enough about the faith to carry me for years as a priest, i just dont know how to do mass or preach, and honestly, i would rather be in a ministry that was in secret. 6363685317. Ive reached the end of me after 20 years, and am ready to follow god into whatever chaos he has for me even though i dont want to. I could never fully leave Christ, but after this long, and after all the torture, i dont like him, or what he does, how he treats a lot of people, and yeah. So im ready for round 2. Where are you going to place me? I am yours fully, into the beast i go.
Petition prayer? I thought you couldn't change God's mind.
God knows before we ask, but He wants us to ask. The girl and the bicycle...our hearts need to be ready to receive the answer, the gift of God's love...
We can never speak of the father in insolation of the son. They are bonded in the union of the Holy spirit. They are quite inseparable even in human terminology.
Nice! Please talk some sense into Peterson's head!
11:09 Right, but after you gave your very good explanation, you could also say mother and daughter every once in a while. The idea of the personal placement within the Trinity is great. Thanks for the elucidation, but it could still be feminized just as easily as masculinized. The young priest's idea to take away the gendered pronouns may have been a problem in the way you describe, but that doesn't mean there isn't a problem to begin with which he was trying to address generically as best he could in his fallen state.
We don’t ask our dead friends to pray for us, we ask our living friends. Two reasons not to pray to Mary. 1. The Bible says there is only one mediator to the Father and that is through His Son, Jesus Christ . 2. We shouldn’t be asking Mary to pray for us because she is physically dead. Only God can hear all our prayers as only He is omnipresent and omnipotent might as well pray to a tree.
Which,most likely, unfortunate.
Brandon is a great interviewer.
Indeed.
He’s got his job down for sure.
@@marypinakat8594 ½ the boys ½ and ¹1 and ¼ are ¹ 1¹¹11wthe aren't ¹¹ and ¼ the boy11s you1 ar¹me in yo1¹¼u're livestock a¹1111111n1 1 1k1o1l99991119199a91a9 ¹1111111111 11111111111 1¹1¹1111 for ¹11111111 11111¹¹1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111¹1¹1¹¹¹ the 1¹1111¹11111 ¹1111 1k11111111o11111111l99999199a91a9 1¹1111111111111111111111111111111 the1111¹ the 11¹111¹d 11 1k1o1111l99999199a91a9
1
1
I am very blessed to have a priest you trained Bishop Barron. He did something that surprised me by giving me a statue of St Peter to pray for clergy from the Pope to the parish priests. In three days I realized he had refocused my prayers.
I found early in my reconversion that due to my past it was the Father I needed and it was the Father that answered. But it is Jesus that walks with me.
I’m a cradle Catholic. A few years ago, God touched my heart in a unique way and I started to seek him deeply. I’m learning more and more about the Bible and our beautiful Catholic faith, and Bishop Barron’s videos are one of my major resources. I know I’m on the right path. Thank u so much and God bless!!
Finally getting a sermon on Metaphysics,the supernatural, a study of what is outside the objective experience.
So right Prayer cannot manipulate The Lord. Want to hear the teachings on the Metaphysics of the Eucharist, the thanksgiving of the real presence of The Lord's Heart, which consists of His love for us. Thanks Bishop and Brandon.
the more you learn about the mystery of The Trinity the more you fall in love with God. and the more you learn what "love" really is and stop using it lightly. listening to Bishop Barron is always enlightening
A metaphor which I really like for intercessory prayer is that of a lens held up to the sunlight. A lens in daylight doesn't change the sun, but yet it does change the interaction of the sun with the world; secondary causation means that we don't change God, but we change the world's relationship to God through prayer. (There's also a curious metaphor in there for sin in holding up something which casts a shadow-which like sin looks like it has a shape and therefore a substance, but doesn't.)
Thanks, Mark - more theology please!
So if I were to pray to God for someone else to be healed, how exactly does your metaphor work there? How is "changing the world's relationship to God through prayer" going to make that sick or injured person better?
@@tomandrews1429 This also confuses me - would love to hear an answer!
@@tomandrews1429 You're asking for the specific spiritual mechanism by which the prayer operates? Or just generally, that one can, through prayer, channel the love of God into healing action in another part of creation?
@@MissingTheMark I was asking for how your metaphor would apply to praying for another person. If your answer is that someone who prays can channel God's love into healing, I'd be curious to hear what you mean by this. Are you saying the one doing the praying and channeling is the healer?
God Bless you both. Thank you.
The exuberance of both of you is always pleasant to watch. Your videos are indeed extra attractive for the reason.
Wow, this gave my morning meditation so much power! I definitely subscribe to divine simplicity, and this conversation really reinforced a lot of my suspicions about the power and purpose of prayer. Truly affirming.
SO Much in this! Perspective on the Trinity, praying metaphysically IN the Holy Spirit with the Father and Son. The Mass as a community prayer with the mystical body of the Church. As someone in the RCIA process, this brought a lot of things together for me. Bishop Barron and the Word on Fire team, you have been a huge part of my conversion and growth as a Christian. Thank you for saying “yes” to God in sharing the Gospel through new media. You do a great job! 🙏🏼✨
I literally was just looking up this question two days ago. Holy Spirit?
Or Synchronicity within the collective unconscious... depending how secular (Jungian) you want to frame it.
Thomas Putt haha I was actually thinking about synchronicity/jung, but decided against putting it in my comment. Love it.
@@JimdalfTheOrange thanks. I personally find inquiry in to these topics is easiest with a secular language. Perhaps because I am indeed a rather secular person.
Thomas Putt indeed, unfortunately, it does seem to be the least inflammatory way to go about discussing such topics. From a logical perspective though it helps to cut down on equivocation.
@@JimdalfTheOrange _From a logical perspective though it helps to cut down on equivocation._
'cuts down on equivocation,' or 'increases acceptability'?
So much of freshness to the topic of Prayer! So much of originality and up-to-dateness on a subject as ancient as humanity and so much of realism on so abstract a one. So grateful for the neat and clear explanations of the various prayer subjects. This deserves to reach all the millions. Thanks ever so much Bishop Barron and Brandon!
Something I heard quite awhile ago which has helped me to be thankful is 'what if whatever you thank God for tonight, you will have in the morning, but what you forget to thank God for won't be there tomorrow'. It really helps me be so thankful for so many things that I just take for granted.
Thank you Your Excellency for giving this talk and I appreciate it for the cathechist through Internet.
From Malaysia:)
I'm still unclear on what happens in petitionary prayer, particularly when we ask someone to pray for us or a third party. When A asks B to pray for C ("Father, my Mom's in the hospital, could you say a prayer for her?"), what's the proper understanding of what's going on there? Assume B doesn't know and will never meet C. It's not that A is hoping B's prayer will change the outcome--they both believe God will do what's best whether they ask for it or not. What, then, are they hoping for?
read Descending Fire for Lent 😉
When do the new set of Pivitol players (Flannery, Fulton Sheen, etc.) come out?
Jordan peterson changed my life, i will be waiting everyday in order to hear your talk. I pray he guides more people back to holy mother church as with me.
After listening to this video about prayer, why do you pray that he guides more people back? God is unchanging so what do you think your prayer is going to accomplish?
@@tomandrews1429 I hope, i am human.
Praying is also doing, i share my story and suggest to hear him to people in situations like mine.
I will always ask god for aid, for he can do it all, i don't know his will, but yet i will keep doing it. I will always thank him and ask him to help me help more people.
We must be humble, always. Just watching a video does not change things. I pray to god he helps me help more people. I do not think God's will is that we never ask for anything. We don't know his will, but maybe he will change me to make me get closer to what i hope, if my intention is good.
I can only hope brother.
So far, i get a little closer to a better path every day, i try and try, i try to become better. Maybe this is the answer to my prayers and what god wants from me.
I don't know brother, and neither do you.
If God is unchanging did the Second Person of the Trinity always have a human nature?
Seems that what I learned from Al-Anon was true! In step 11, we are asked to pray to God for knowledge of His will and the strength to carry that out.
Having experienced how a personal problem I prayed for was solved through a chain of amazing unexpected "coincidences" how about this:
God created an universe with fine- tuned physical constants so that life was posible. He is allknowing so He could make an extrem fine tuning where an intense prayer is correlated with a favour in form of coincidences, not suspending physical laws and preserving the free choice of every person of being materialistic or believing and loving Him.
Kindly supply the verifiable evidence that a "god created the universe." Thanks!!
How do you know there was ever "nothing"?
I don't know if the universe has an eternal existence or not. I don't think the present laws of physics apply when the universe was much smaller than it is now.
Light for my soul... Thank you both! By the way, Hey! I greet you from Mexico City! :)
The way I see the Trinity is . . The "what" (father), the "why" ( son), and the "how" ( holy Spirit) those are the three persons of God. . Where the father is the Creator, the son is the purpose of that act of creation (ie good becoming man) and the holy spirit is the way
I have been waiting for Bishop Barron and Dr. Petersen to talk together for a LONG time. I am Canadian and I have watched Dr. Petersen on The Agenda on TVO for years and have watched, and listened to Bishop Barron for years as well. So good to hear that the podcast in 3 weeks will be the first of possible future talks. God Bless.
18:24
It's kind of surprising to be reminded that such a father figure doss no have children.
Nice image: Christ with His arm around me. The Good Shepherd.
Amazing! Thanks Bishop Barron. Our catholic faith is so rich!
bishop barron should totally take up the Fulton sheen "peace be to you"
Father, just curious, did GOD not change HIS mind in regard to the people of Nineveh?? I'm not following your teaching regarding this subject.
This bishop is in error... Did not Mary change his mind and ask God to give us his first miracle? Or when Jesus asks us to keep knocking on the door until he finally budges? This bishop is so sure of himself it's kinda fishy.
I am really not trying to be mean or anything but in the beginning of every talk, Brandon looks like he's SUPER starstruck. Hahaha. If he is, I understand. I'd be too. 😊 God bless you both and happy lent
"Hey" is the Southern "Hi," and has been for generations. Perhaps it is expanding in use.
Canadians just say, "eh!" 😉
Hasten the Second Coming by living with the Mind of Christ and by praying for Jesus' Return (especially at Mass). In addition to these two ways, Priests can also hasten the Parousia by celebrating Mass. See Catechism of the Catholic Church 1107, 2046, and 671.
I am also a cradle Catholic. I practiced Catholicism very devoutly when I was in my 20s, but when I was in my 30s my husband did not really want to be Catholic. We practiced Catholicism for a couple years, but after that he said he wanted us to join another church, not the church of his origin, but another church and I said that’s fine we’ll do that. And it was great, but now he has said that he is not so interested in continuing going to church with me, so I decided to join the Catholic faith again. And it has been wonderful. And as you say, Bishop Baron has been a wonderful resource during this experience.
Hey is a southern expression
Edit this down to the topic and then it would be more share-able with larger audiences. Informative for the insider audience as is, though. What's not to like about Father Barron?
Get an Orthodox Bishop to come together and talk about Orthodox Prayer and Catholic Prayer. Like deep stuff. With this bishop. Orthodox and Catholic.
When we pray to God we are recognizing His Omniscience, HIs Omnipresence and His Omnipotence. Prayer is an act of Faith in the Truth of God's being. Bishop Baron tells us to pray to Mary is the same as asking our friends to pray for us, human to human. Why then are we constantly instructed to pray the Rosary, and told it is the prayer God most wants to hear? It is not even addressed to Him. I don't believe this.
So grateful for your videos, Bishop Barron!
Also, I think I have a better understand of the catholic idea of praying to the saints now. Maybe prayer isn't necessarily a form of worship, but a ways of communicating to those who are in heaven? So you dont worship any saint, but more revere them like we would a marine, and so they are trustworthy to prayer on your behalf. If that's the case could we actually pray to send a message to a deceased relative? (Not that i'm trying to). I recently learned that the eastern orthodox view is that the dead are still a part of the church, so that would potentially make sense in their view as well (but i'm not 100% sure). Lastly, the warning that I've heard about praying to the saints is that they are like an integration of pagan gods into the church, since they often represent certain attributes of life.
One thing I have always remembered from bishop baron: he said don’t worry about asking god and asking often. Just go ahead and ask all you want. At the time I was doing these adorations. I realized I can ask and ask until I was sick of it. Some how the whole idea of petition prayer was correct and honest but also amusing. I still think of what I was told.
Concerning prayers of petition being the prayer of a child: the older I get, the more I see the child in me. Prayers of petition definitely fit the bill!
For a Bishop, Barron is pretty down to earth and filled with knowledge and his style of teaching is so sincere and humble...he doesn’t wear that authority attitude...praise Jesus, Catholics are blessed here! May God continue to bless him! Great talk on prayer,thankyou, especially liked the praying IN GOD to the father rather than outside of God to God.
Bishop Robert Barron next grandee to Bishop Fulton,J,Sheen-beautiful...
Unbelievable talks.it was my puzzling,but now it is clear.thank you so much for the conversations.
"Hey" has been a Southern greeting for decades. It's NOT trendy! 😉
Thank you Father Barron for your explanation on the Rosary prayer and how it operates.
Can you please see if accurate captioning can be provided? This site's captioning and transcript seem to be generated phonetically.
OMG soooo excited Bishop Barron and Dr. Peterson.. amazing!!!
A prayer I say twice daily for many, many years.
Along with others I created.
Blessed Mother filled with grace and love, thank you for sharing those gifts with me. Your Son Jesus, came into this world to show love, compassion and salvation. Blessed is your Immaculate Conception. Please pray for me, guide me, now and at the hour of my death. Amen 🙏
where's the peterson podcast with you? i cant find it
What about praying for God to save a loved one's life, which can be a one-time-event with a deadline? If I ask "God, please help my grandma get over this surgery and givi her back to us", isn't it a different matter? Will He refuse me because I'm not ready? When I'll be ready maybe she won't be alive anymore. Gosh, catolicism with its classical theistic, aristotelian-thomistic God is really depressing. The God of the Bible seems to change His mind repeatedly, He seems to prefer bold prayer, insistence. To that God I pray.
I'm a big fan of Bishop Barron and tend to agree with much of his thought but empathetically disagree with him on this topic. For me, the notion of an unchanged Prime Mover posited by Aristotle/Aquinas who is not affected by prayer creates a mental construct of a God that is detached and uninvolved in his/her creation.
Frankly, there couldn't be anything further from the truth if we believe that "God is Love" (1 John 4:8). If we truly love something, we will ALWAYS be affected by that thing. There is no other way TO love. Love is risky, it leaps into the unknown with no certainty of receiving love back. Love longs to feel loved by those he/she loves but will continue to love regardless of whether or not it's reciprocated (think of a parent's love for their child).
For me, prayer is more than just words/requests to an unchanging God. Rather it's more like an ongoing/blossoming relationship between two people who deeply love each other. It's a sharing of words, actions, silence, intent, vision between relational beings who are DEEPLY affected by one another and who will, if they continue to take the risk, grow deeper in love with the other over time.
Unlike us though, God is always willing/ready to take that risk.
Dear Bishop and other readers.
When I see our Christ in the host, my mind reviews not how Jesus humbled Himself through His death and resurrection. Then my thoughts surrender to Christ’s absolute humility becoming the smallest of small, the host that feeds my soul, spirit, ego and self. No other god, could create the act then the remembrance of Christ’s life.
This is why the Mass and receiving communion is important to my own spiritual development. Thank you Bishop for teaching these powerful points to enhance my relationship with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 😅
Thank you Bishop for teaching these poe
Requesting the application offer special relationship to God???