The Parasite of Evil - Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
- Friends, we are reading during these weeks of summer from the thirteenth chapter of Matthew’s Gospel, which contains many of the great parables of Jesus. But I want to focus just on one today because it’s so rich both theologically and spiritually: the parable of the wheat and the weeds. Jesus’ story shows us how evil, by its very nature, is a corruption of the good. It is a parasite-and we need requisite care and patience in dealing with it.
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Even in my own heart, evil is entwined around my good intentions. Only you can purify me, Lord. Come, change my heart.
Absolutely! This is exactly what I was thinking. How often I'd love to rip the evil out of me but find it's inextricably wound up in who I am. I hope God will sort me out in the end.
It's dangerous to try to justify evil as any kind of source for greater good. I think this parable is meant to give us a hope God will eventualy overtrown it in us by his purifying fire, in order for us not to be desperate by realizing there is evil within. It is about the right moment I think, not about calculating with evil on God's part.
@@drazentupanjanin794I don't believe Father Barron is trying to justify evil in this sermon. Instead, he seems to be offering an explanation for why God sometimes permits evil in the world. Consider the story of Job from the Bible. Job was a righteous man, yet God allowed Satan to afflict him and destroy his family. Why would God permit such a thing? While we may not fully understand, if we believe God is good, then it must have been for a greater purpose.
I've always struggled with this concept, that God permits evil to bring out the good.
I was a nasty child. My mother is an alcoholic and my father, a workaholic. I was brought up in a chaotic household. I displayed that outwardly when I was out of the house during that time. Then one night, in college, I went to a party with my roommate, and I was drugged, kidnapped and raped. Needless to say that certainly changed me. I struggled for years trying to understand WHY God would "let" this happen. Even though being brought up in the type of household I did, I was a being conditioned for predators to spot me as a target, I later understood.
I continuously questioned my faith after the torture. Then, at the lowest of my low, a guardian angel found me, my husband. We now have 3 beautiful children together. He has his virtues and his faults like any other human, but he believed in me when I couldn't believe in myself, and to me that is love. Without him, I honestly don't think I'd be here today.
God works in mysterious ways. ❤
God bless you!
Conditioned to be a prey... I get you. It's time to TAKE care of my cubs.
The illness of alcoholism produces warped lives of blameless children, disgusted friends and families. The list goes on..
Our generations Bishop Fulton Sheen. He’s the best. Thank God for the gift of this great teacher Bishop Barron
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I thank God, for your clarity, Bishop Barron, every day. On the days that I wake up confused, stressed and with too many thoughts buzzing around in my head, you focus my mind and heart on the real truth and love that God shows us but that we sometimes cannot see for ourselves. Thank you again, kind and thoughtful priest, “according to the Order of Melchizedek." God bless you and keep you.
AMEN
Cockle and wheat looks the same, Cockle cause nausea, wait till the end of harvest. Master’s way
Same here!
🙏Amen✝️
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Thank you for what you wrote, Oreste. You expressed so well what Bishop Barron hopes we will understand and adopt in our hearts and minds. ❤😊
Always, the deep insights. Bishop Barron is a real intellectual of our time.👌👌👌❤️❤️❤️
Yes, BP Barron is exceptional ❤️
Concerning the video SHORT "The Role of the Laity" by Bishop Robert Barron.
(1) The Bishop says the laity are to do the "job" of sanctifying the secular world. But how many priests are doing their ",job" of sanctiying (making holy) the laity?
(2) Priests are to do the following:
a) Teach the faith ( that is, the Scriptures, the word of God)
b) Say the Mass
c) the Sacraments
d).Pastoral work
(3) How has Bishop Barron, and the priests who are with him, sanctified the other persons in the Word of Fire team ?
(4) A person can ask the priests in his parish church about these things.
(5) (ALSO, the Bishop mentions some Catholic Action model that goes back to the 1940s. And if I am not mistaken about something that I read somewhere, the role of Catholic Action in Germany during the Second World war ( years 1939 -1945 A.D.) was damaging. Did Catholic Action execute willingly the policies of the government of Germany? )
@@glynissequeira5544 for your question of how many priests are doing their job of sanctifying the laity, every Sunday they provide amazing sermons in most of the parishes I visited not to mention the many retreats and spiritual teachings provided. (Now let's just forget about the sermons and retreats for a moment.) Just think how effectively a person can put into practice the prayer taught by Jesus - Our Father.
The Church has the amazingly rich public prayer called Divine Office. It is mandatory in monasteries, but laity are also encouraged to practice it as best as they can. This is a profound step for one's sanctification. The question is how many laity are willing to read and contemplate the Divine Office. Plus the sanctification requires tremendous sacrifice where in the one who gets in to the process of sanctification experiences mystical experience of the sanctified life. It all requires huge personal sacrifice, commitment and resilience. The question is how many are ready to take it up. It is easy to blame the priests for not able to meet the sanctification of laity. But the question is how many people are ready to enter the priesthood and how many parents are willing to send their kids to priesthood. If there were numerous supply of priests, yes they would help many laity to take the path of sanctity. God to be praised and thanked since we atleast have the easy access to the Eucharistic celebration. If we support the priests, more priests will be raised from the people. Or else whatever little we have will be taken away. We see it in western world. The work of sanctification is not reserved for priests. Priests are available to celebrate Eucharist. (Wherever sacrifice is present there are priests. Where there is no sacrifice, there are no priests but only pastors). Old covenant had priests because there was sacrifice. New covenant also has priesthood because there is sacrifice offered. Paul mentions that Christians eat of the sacrifice done at the altar refering to Eucharist. (Where there is sacrifice, there is altar. Where there is no sacrifice, there is no altar, but a stage or podium). The job of the priest is to offer sacrifice. If there were no priests, we don't have the opportunity to take part in the Eucharist. So we have to thank God for the priest since they do this job. For your question of sanctification, it is not reserved to be taught and guided by priest. It is the job of every baptised Christian.
For your question of how has Bishop Barron sanctified his team, I am not involved in the team. I can't judge. Neither can anyone judge. Bishop Barron is doing exceptional work in evangelising and has global reach. Praise God for this.
Regarding the Church involvement in Germany, the Church always resisted the rise of Nazis from the very beginning. Church came victorious during Bismarck 's Kulturkamph. Hitler had the plan of total annihilation of the Church in Germany. Church compromised with Hitler by sacrificing political powers of Catholicism by signing a concordat. Concordat was the price paid by Hitler in order to obtain the support of the German episcopate and the Catholic parties, while the Church survived with religious activities. There was also placed by the Church a ban on priests and institutions on participating in any political activities of the Nazis. While institutionally the Church did not involve, the lay resistance movement was initiated against the regime in the form of Catholic Action. This idea was later formed as Christian Democrats parties all across Europe which became powerful and continue to be powerful today even though the Christian concepts are mostly eroded today in today's political movements in Europe.
@@rovildcrasta4436Wow! You must be one of the lucky few to have heard Catholic priests giving good sermons every Sunday in most parishes you visit. Priests giving boring irrelevant sermons with no connection to the scripture readings during Mass is the norm, & it's a global problem. Their 'job' seems to be centred on performing the Sacraments, but what about sanctifying the laity & evangelizing non-believers? I feel the latter two are more essential!
@@RosalindToh I feel I am privileged that i have never heard any boring sermon every Sunday since past 20 years. Earlier, boring sermons were a norm. The sermons now are highly energetic and deeply theological and scriptural. I really consider it to be a privilege and it is a norm here to have powerful sermons. With regards to sanctitying laity I have already mentioned. Regarding evangelising non believers, it is not " reserved " only for priests. Laity are also responsible for evangelisation. And specifically the mission belongs to Missionary orders. It doesn't specifically belong to diocesan priests. Ofcourse, if a priest has ample amount of time, he can go with the mission of evangelising non believers.
The main job of the priest is to administer sacrament. That is the great misconceptions prevalent among Catholics, that missionary activities specifically belongs to the priest. It is not so. The word priest refers to the one who offers sacrifice. That is his main job. Even the pastoral activity is secondary for the priest. Pastoring can be done by any lay person. (Pastoring involves giving moral lessons, giving moral guidance, teaching scripture according to the Church magesterium, providing counseling, managing Church finance and structural health etc., All these pastoral activities can be done by any qualified lay person. But no lay person can administer sacraments. Because lay person is not a priest. If any lay person tries to abolish ministerial priesthood, Paul in the scripture warns of the wrath for them that Korah and his team suffered from God, because they said that since the whole Israel is called by God as royal and priestly community, the normal lay Israelites could also administer the sacrifice. This proved fatal to Korah and his team when the wrath came upon them from God. There is difference between general priesthood and ministerial priesthood. All Christians and all Israelites by nature are priests. That is general priesthood. Ministerial priesthood is a seperate anointing from God to administer the sacraments.
The main job of a ministerial priest is to administer sacraments. The rest is secondary and can be taken up by any lay baptised Christian.
I finished the book "This is My Body" by Bishop Robert Barron.
Thank you, it was a good read. I was renewed in thought.
My fav point (page 103)
"Again, in the biblical reading, God's word does not so much describe as achieve."
Thomas Aquinas said that God does not know things because they exist ( as we do) but rather that things exist because God knows them.
Thank you for all you do, dear Bishop.
So grateful that church leaders came out to teach us so many things we didn't get in the short sacrament classes.
I'm coming back home to the church after being gone for so long.
Wonderful, Christopher! God bless you!
I do believe this was one of the most insightful sermons I have ever heard on evil and good. Thank you Bishop Barron! Your messages have such depth and profound levels of wisdom. Only the Holy Spirit could give you this level of understanding into the holy mysteries of God (even though "we only see dimly" on this side of heaven.) Your teaching reminds me of my favorite scripture in the bible from Romans 8:28 that says "God works everything to good for those who love Him." I am also reminded of the message that 'what the enemy meant for evil God means for good (Genesis 50:20). May God continue to bless your ministry and guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus.
How many people listening to the Bishop are willing to support him in times of trouble??
I am. But then I am only one.
There is an archaic Latin phrase, “Felix Culpa” that comes from the words felix, meaning "happy," "lucky," or "blessed" and culpa, meaning "fault" or "fall". In the Catholic tradition, the phrase is most often translated as "happy fault"... Other translations include "blessed fall" or "fortunate fall". Much like the Bishop Barron is speaking of here, felix culpa is a way of understanding the Fall as having positive outcomes. In other words, the fortunate consequences of an unfortunate event, which would never have been possible without the unfortunate event in the first place. I find this phrase extremely helpful in my ongoing spiritual development and personal redemption.
Excellent reminder.
Interesting
Pray for your enemies.
Greetings from Holy Russia 🇷🇺
" everyday holiness"...we have a heart to do good....but the devil roams about
I never quite grasped this as clearly until now. This is going to help me be more patient with myself, family, friends and co-workers. Thank you!
"The pearl is a wounded oyster." - Stephan Hoeller
Peace be with you....amen
I have been clearly upset by the corruption and sin in our society and government these days. Thank you for helping me get a handle on understanding why. Your sermon has given me hope.
Bishop Barron please talk about the Christian persecution in India. Especially in the state of Manipur. 200 churches have been burnt. We need support Catholics abroad.
❤ There’s no point in crying over spilt milk as the saying goes. However, I wish growing up I knew about this element of evil in the church. Perhaps the sexual scandal in the church wouldn’t have hit me so hard.
Excellent teaching, lots to chew on. Thank you Bishop Barron.❤
There is a prophecy of the Apostasy. But remember the gates of hell will never prevail against the Church
In the Church????!! Not Fair, they can't have sons, so there YOU'LL only Will find Half of everywhere else! 😜
Thank you Bishop Barron. I just love to listen to your sermons. May GOD bless and protect you always. ➕️ ♥️
Excellent Sermon. I would like to complement it with one very fitting quote by Martin Buber:
"Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture? ... I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious. I mean only that evil people tend to gravitate toward piety for the disguise and concealment it can offer them."-Martin Buber
In the Summer of 2001 I stumbled upon the UNBELIEVABLE? UA-cam channel. While I wasn’t a church-goer (and believed I did not need to attend church) I maintained a fundamental belief in Jesus Christ. I found UNBELIEVABLE? because I was tired of seeing believers heckled by materialists online and wanted to learn how to step in and defend the Faith.
One of the UNBELIEVABLE? debates was between Bishop Barron and activist atheist Alex “The Cosmic Skeptic” O’Connor. Bishop Barron blew my mind with his rational, logical arguments to defend the Christian Faith. Alex O’Connor was sounding pretty shrill as the debate clock ran down.
I was so impressed that I listened to every Bishop Barron lecture and homily that I could on youtube as I stripped and stained our fence (a three week effort). I started following Word On Fire. At Christmas of 2021 I asked a Catholic couple I know if I could attend Christmas Eve Mass with them and they were thrilled to take me along.
I’m fond of saying that something followed me out the door and home that evening. I not only loved attending, I NEEDED to be at Mass and never missed a Sunday save two times when wife had surgery and again when I contracted COVID.
I joined the 2022 RCIA cohort and was baptized (conditional) and confirmed in the 2023 Easter Vigil at St Louis de Montfort Catholic Church. I LOVE being Catholic. I practically live on the Formed Catholic learning platform because I still want to be a strong defender (apologist) of our Faith. Of course I still follow our favorite Bishop!
Thank you Bishop Barron!
Mark Taylor
Fishers IN
PS: Father Haan at St Louis de Montfort encouraged me to write Bishop Barron with my story but I’ve not found a mailing address
i am in need of prayers for Rodney my son and me
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I've experienced evil insinuating while I sleep, with my ex doing drugs behind my back while I was up in the middle of night, I literally had this happen in my literally sleep lol. Found my corruption and evil in my safe place. So it's true that evil can manifest in the worst ways and even in the kingdom of God. And as for the wheat growing up and the parable about the wheat is true too. The better you do in life the harder Satan tries to hit you, most of my experiences in life has been this way. Life is always filled with downs when there's up and you have be faithful and keep your head up when those things happen.
Evil is definitely parasitic like you mentioned, if we pull with force it will uproot the evil with it. We must be delicate and take care it. And have trust in God to be do his work. God works in mysterious ways and we have to allow things to go as planned. With the sunshine comes the rain, and there will be some days that aren't as bright as others but we should view them as lessons or simply learn to enjoy the rain alongside the sun. Staying faithful and letting God guide us and protect us while looking out for each other and keeping an eye out for evil is the best way to go.
It makes God greater when the good outshines in the midst of the evil.
God can’t be “greater” or “lesser”
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It's that God's glory shines even better when he works out good out of evil. Remember only God can accomplish such a thing. See how he brought eternal life to all of us from the death of Jesus. God surely can bring good out of every evil. We need to have faith and trust.
@@marypinakat8594 Thank you! The light will always outshine in the darkness!
@@tookie36 Thank you! You are correct. What I meant, I guess, is that the greatness of God becomes more prominent in light of any kind of evil that tries to infringe on us.
@@thecrafteaneighbor5177 ✨⭐
And bless you too 🙏❤️
Solzhenitsyn in the Gulag - 'The line between good & evil runs ...right thru every human heart'.
Thank you Bishop
Thank you, Bishop! Yes, dealing with the weeds is very frustrating. All I can believe is that God has a better plan in it all, otherwise I might fall into temptation of my own design. God bless you 🙏
Amen!
I heard in an interview with an Indonesian puppet master ("Wayang") that shadows do not appear without light; eg, shadows are a product of light. Without light, there would be only darkness, not shadows. I think a similar wisdom being demonstrated here, with the addition of divine agency, or love. Rather than accept darkness or weeds 'as is,' the parable teaches us to weed patiently; to let the good do its work.
Thank you Bishop Barron for this and all your wonderful work. 🙏
God bless Bishop Barron. It's a real pleasure to have the opportunity to listen to your sermons on the Bible. My spirituality, which continues to increase and deeepen.I share your sermons with my wife and friends, and they too benefit great.
Bishop Barron, may the blessings of the Holy Spirit be with you. May God bless you.
Great serman, Bishop Barron!!! I love how you explained this parable!! Also, I never thought about the delicacy of removing the weed from the wheat. Lord, remove the weeds from me! 🙏
Excellent talk!
I struggled with this one. I understand the wickedness by totalitarian regimes bringing about martyrs of their victims. However to say the sex scandals of the Church cleansed the church says nothing for the child victims. How would I feel hearing this if I had been abused by a priest as a child? The victims keep being forgotten and dismissed. Much more care needs to be taken as to when and in what context we speak about it. I am a practicing Catholic. Said with love.
Amen and God bless you . I love Robert Barron , but I do not understand his remark regarding the sex scandal . I was shocked .
It cleansed the church bc the evils were revealed and took out the ones (the priests) who were destroying from within.
I can see his point.
I was abused as a child by many various adults in my life (not the church).
Forgiving rapists & verbal/mental abusers seems to be a lifelong learning process bc just when I think I've moved past it all & truly forgiven, it seems to be that there is yet more pain to reveal that I need to forgive them again & again. Each time tho it becomes a deeper forgiveness… more true & real.
Also the trauma made me (a lil bit more) patient & compassionate towards others. Not perfect of course.
God will not forsake us.
He will make each cross we go thru bring us closer to Him if we just persevere & keep our eyes on Jesus.💘
🙏🏼🍞🍷🕊️🌹🌹🌹✝️💕💓
So you would be okay with hearing this if u or ur family was a victim of a totalitarian regime?
Hello, Bishop💛
That is, "In this world, you cannot get rid of evils without also getting rid of the goods." Herein is an answer to worry about "the problem of evil".
Whew, when I'm pulling weeds in the garden I'm ever so careful. What a great analogy. In 1963 I was in 8th grade. Sister Mary Damien taught us church history and pulled no punches. Helped me later in life. Thank you Bishop and Sister Mary Damien.
Concerning the video SHORT "The Role of the Laity" by Bishop Robert Barron.
(1) The Bishop says the laity are to do the "job" of sanctifying the secular world. But how many priests are doing their ",job" of sanctiying (making holy) the laity?
(2) Priests are to do the following:
a) Teach the faith ( that is, the Scriptures, the word of God)
b) Say the Mass
c) the Sacraments
d).Pastoral work
(3) How has Bishop Barron, and the priests who are with him, sanctified the other persons in the Word of Fire team ?
(4) A person can ask the priests in his parish church about these things.
(5) (ALSO, the Bishop mentions some Catholic Action model that goes back to the 1940s. And if I am not mistaken about something that I read somewhere, the role of Catholic Action in Germany during the Second World war ( years 1939 -1945 A.D.) was damaging. Did Catholic Action execute willingly the policies of the government of Germany? )
A very timely sermon for many Filipinos who lose hope because of rampant corruption in the government..Tho I must admit, the voters themselves contributed to putting all these corrupt officials in their positions. But you are right, man, for many reasons, stumbles. God knows this and He has this patience to allow this to happen but He has already worked it out and found a way to bring something good out of of man;s failure.. So funny, Bishop Barron, because most of the unpleasant things that happen to a man's life are brought about by his ignorance and foolishness, and yet man has the audacity to ask God why and even lose his patience while waiting for the result of God's help. Thanks Bishop, I will share this sermon with our fellowmen.
Your Excellency, thank you for giving such wonderful insight! I am often worried about what is happening in this world, how the evil is trying to strangulate good in the society, in countries and even in the Church. Your sermon clearly tells me to relax and have faith in God and continue to do good. Thank you.
Finding the practical shepherding from this teaching reminds me of a citation of a Thornton Wilder play, The Angel that Troubled the Waters. In it, when the angel stirs the font, prompting the sick to enter the waters and receive healing, the angel tells the protagonist the healing is not for him. And says, “Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.”
Thank you. I am under slander and sometimes physical attacks by resident people of Satanic doctrine,. God has been dealing with me about the fact that they are a deceived culture and people.
This helped me to understand.
Please pray for my guidance and God's will in these circumstances.
Thank you, and to all who might intercede on my behalf.
Near NASA
, Houston area USA. PKP
In his Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Gulag Archipelago, the great author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, says, "If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being."
Yet, God does not endlessly tolerate unholiness, God will judge the world someday. An important implication of the parable is the hope of ultimate victory over evil. This is presented along with the glorious future of the children of God and the church.
Jesus taught in parables so the crowds would hear and not understand. So, yes, this is a way of teaching.
Best I’ve ever heard on this topic. Thank you so much! ❤️🙏❤️🙏
The parables between the wheat and the weeds are extraordinarily very interesting and giving us deeper meanings and analogy in our lives, when more broadly explained by Bishop Barron in relation to our lives, how sins intertwined in our lives, suffocating us with its poison, that only the power of the Holy Spirit could break us free, when, we fight with all our might against the evil one !!!
Thanks so much Bishop, May your tireless crusade continue to save as many souls as we continue to pray with you 🙏
Beautifully said! Wisdom that we need to listen to
I had been experiencing a lot of hardship and pain recently, amidst a very deep and spiritual prayer life. I now understand it was the evil preying on good. The more intent my devotions and prayers, the more I was confronted with evil in the most unexpected manner and places. It was most difficult until, on my knees after HOLY COMMUNION, I heard JESUS say go deeper into the waters( Bishop Barron's homily on telling the disciples to go deeper when they fished all night and caught nothing). I did the very next day and have seen such good change. Secondly todays homily has helped me understand the church today, especially with whats happening in the vatican, I relly dont feel comfortable with the election of a certain cardinal into a position that will affect the faith of my children and future grandchildren . Bishop Barron your teachings is food for the journey, in a world of confusion and conflict by both the far left and far right in the church at the moment. Bless you and WOF.
Good Morning Every Body! 😃
You speak the truth I know.
Omg, i was just talking with my Mother about how I haven't been able to make a connection with the sermons when I used to go to church and I consider myself a recent converted . I was with her yesterday. And less than 24 hours later, here I am feeling so connected with you talking about evil. Thank you so much for this. I wish I see you in person someday so I can give you a big hug and a huge thank you. I love your videos
Based on my own experience, I'd say keep listening to Bishop Barron. I've learned so much from him. May God continue to grow your faith and understanding. God bless you.
Well said, your Excellency. We must pray fervently for our Holy Mother, the Church. The weeds within our holy church have never been more apparent…and they appear to be choking out the wheat even in Rome…
May God have mercy on us and save us from these dark and dangerous times.
This is such a beautifully accurate description for evil even today.
Wow! Thank you so much Bishop Barron for your commitment to God and your personal integrity.. Incredibly enlightening. I very much enjoy your presentations and their practical applications to life. Much needed in my case.
Bishop Fulton Sheen often warned parishioners and seminarians alike that Evil was in every institution. When you understand that, you understand the Devil's mission.
One thing to point out about St Maximilian Kolbe is that he seems to have lived a life of deep spirituality well before he went to the camp. That was just a climactic episode.
Wow, God bless you ! Thank you M. Bishop R. Barron... ( from Mexico )
RIP, SINÉAD ❤
Please pray for me. Prayers all we need truly need in this world. My husband passed away years ago. I’m a single mother. I feel so alone. I have two beautiful sons, both of my sons are autistic. I’m just overwhelmed. Heavenly Father I know you don’t give us no more than we can handle. But Lord have mercy on me. I need a breakthrough. Since covid I can’t seem to get back on my feet. I was fired from my job for declining the vaccine. I declined due to my lupus and I also have a heart condition. I’m waitressing but not making nearly enough. Every month is a struggle not to end up on the streets with my children. I’m struggling putting groceries in my refrigerator. Struggling to pay rent. But, thankfully God has provided this far. I know and have faith he will continue. Faith over fear. We should praise God even in hard times. I love you Jesus! Thank you Heavenly Father.
I will be praying for you and your children. Please seek all the help you can from anywhere you can to prevent you from living on the streets with your children. Do you have a local parish to go to that can point you in the direction you need to go to find help?
He always makes] what he says very clear for us all.
How many times have I thought 'this is Bishop Barrons' best sermon ever,' only to see the next weeks and think the same thing. I am just a simple man, but Bishop Barron has the understanding and the ability to communicate that understanding, of a prophet. Thank you Lord for giving me this spiritual leader.
Blessings from Kansas~
Thank you so much Bishop Borron!
Good Morning All! Thank you Bishop Barron! I enjoyed this video. Please keep up these GOOD WORKS OF GOD. We're in dire need of them.🙏🏽
I feel so relaxed to hear him clarify the upheaval; and put us at ease.
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May god be with you greetings from luxembourg
" the church."..in all it's glory....is godly. In our shame,corrupt. Thank God that He is merciful and forgivingPs 23:3 " He restores my soul and leads me in the path of Righteousness'...FOR His Name's sake"
Excellent sermon about how evil is so insidious and parasitic. I just wish you didn’t bring up that without Hitler there would be no Maximillian Kolbe, and I am Polish, we treasure our saints. It was a visceral hit.
Left me with a lot more question then answers. we can’t change church teaching, & the sixth in the name of ecumenism. If your talking about the upcoming (synod of synodality)🙏 may the Holy Spirit be present there.
Bishop thankyou for truth in a smurky world
Oh you’re good Bishop….your analogies are perfect. My wife’s garden was full of weeds so I had to take everything out and start over….. my wife then sowed Zinnias seeds that emerged quickly, the weeds also but couldn’t do anything about them until the flowers started coming out… thank you for putting things into perspective for me. God Bless
God bless you Bishop Barron!
Your Excellency, this explanation of this parable was truly eye-opening for me. I understood the concept of the evil one sowing the weeds to destroy the wheat or the good. However, I never thought of the evil as a "cancer" attacking an organ.
It is very difficult to watch what God is permitting in our beautiful church today. But after listening to your homily, I am thinking about our Lord and the suffering the Father allowed Him to enter into.
There is much to think about here. Thank you for shedding a little light on the terrible problem of evil.
I will meditate this week on this Word of God.
God bless you
Wish to see you one day....
Excellent. Note- I would not say God “permit” evil. He has to permit or tolerate evil because He gave us free will. But we can say that out of evil, God can bring good.
that was my first thought as well
Permit is an operative word here. It defines God's overseeing the situation.
God permits. Correct language.
He has actually said that in previous video's
I agree
Permit isn’t the best choice. By allowing us free will and the fact sin entered into the world through our disobedience to God, he is still a loving Father. He can take the evil done and by His Grace and Mercy towards us (since we do nothing to earn it) will bring about His glory and love.
Thank you, Bishop Barron. Very much needed sermon in the midst of disputable Cardinals and woke evils to wreck young people’s faith. We need the patience, wisdom, and faith in God to do his work.
Pray for us.
Thank you
Brilliant! Nothing short of brilliance! Thank you Bishop Barron!
I will rest in His arms, every unfair tear drops is being counting, I will close my eyes when His justice comes, I will ask Him forgiveness because my heart needs more of His sacrify.
Ty so very much for that carefully word crafted explanation to explain the parable that is like an onion with many layers to peel in order to embrace to the entirety of the core message in a simple broken down manner ❤
so beautiful Homily, message for all of us, thank you Bishop Barron....hope and pray many will watch, listen and take to heart and share the Gospel message for today. What a blessing..praise be Jesus Christ now and forever. Amen.
Thank you Bishop Barron. God bless you too.
Thank you Bishop Barron your Homilies are always inspiring and make me think about my life decisions and how I need to look at things differently and correct my ways when I fall down the wrong path! God Bless you for all you do to promote the true word of God
Bishop Baron, this is one of your most powerful homilies for me. It is rich in content for today's life. I followed along, as always, with Bible in hand, making notes. I will refer back to this video again so as to enable the contents to truly sink in. I hope to be able to "share" your wisdom of explanation in future with those who "attack" Catholicism or belief in God in times of difficulties. Don't get me wrong, I, too, struggle with these areas at times. You present wisdom, understanding, reflection in a ways that don't attack the opposition. Thank you.
I appreciate you, and God bless You
Great explanation about this parable!!
God Bless You Bishop Barron.
Every "doubter" must hear this sermon! A wonderful explanation of God's plans and purposes.
One of your best, Bishop Barron. Also, thanks for bringing up the example of the sex abuse scandal. St. Maximilian Kolbe, pray for us and for our salvation, in these seemingly good but, in reality, very wicked times.
Spot on. Life is a struggle between choices. Weeds and Wheat come from the choices we make. God's Forgiveness is our hope.
God bless you, my dear bishop.
This how big the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary will be. Evil will have its moment, but God will own the day.
Thank you for this, Bishop Barron. I have been struggling with evil for a long time. It's frustrating, yes. But now, I understand more of God's ways, because He handles it always. Thanks again.
“God permits certain forms of evil to bring about the greater good” 🙏 I truly believe this Bishop Baron
Amen.
Beautiful, thank you
Always enlightening Bishop Barron. Please keep on spreading God’s word and wisdom and keep standing up for our church and what is right and true and good and beautiful.
Thank you.God bless you bishop Barron🙏🕊✨
Peace be with you.
Thank you father
When things are brought into the light we can deal with it.
God Bless you Bishop Barron!! Thank you !!♥️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼