I left Christianity before because I believed in that moralistic, therapeutic deist version of God. I didn't actually care about my relationship with him and I became too far detached; it came to a head when I studied philosophy and encountered the problem of evil. I was an atheist for a year but I'm coming back to the faith, this time as a Catholic. I'm attending RCIA this fall and regularly meet with my local deacon to discuss my research into the Catechism and Catholic faith and history. Your videos have been a huge blessing and help to me. Keep up the good work! Edit: thank you all for the encouragement I've received, and to those in this comment section who are atheist, I wish you well and pray you'll find God and his truth. 🙏
I want to become a nun. For the Dominican order. I'm trying to do as much research as I can on it. I no longer wish to exist in the secular world. Because of the scandal founded in the church, my Baptist parents are very much not supportive. I'm a little nervous too but God has called me to a simple life of solitude and prayer
That's wonderful. I know having unsupportive parents is hard but hang in there. As far as I know you can visit some of those monasteries to see if it's a life you want. Maybe visit for a week or so. God bless, I'll pray for you
As an newly ex-muslim new christian, the trinity concept the hardest part to grasp like my many peers. You just fill me with joy with your amazing anologies. I didnt baptised yet and living in Turkey its quite hard and sometimes even dangerous to seek some advice publicly, you give me the same feeling when i first read new testament. Thanks for the great explanations. Nowadays i just read bible more and pray to Jesus but i hope i will be a real christian soon and sorry for my bad english.
In MY words think of it like you, your mother and your father were all one. Each has different duties, although the duties often overlap. The main point is love. Good luck.
I, as a Muslim born agnostic, am an avid watcher of your channel. though i can not claim to have a theistic faith of any form or content, I am truly intrigued by religion and theology and you are so simple and at the same time eloquent in defining the principles of the Catholic faith. and, theological and scholastic debates aside, Catholicism is the most beautiful faiths in the world.
I hope you keep searching Soroosh. A lot of people are passing from this world daily now. If anything, now is the time to determine what is True and real of the Afterlife that awaits! There is everything to lose and everything to gain if the person gets it right! 'Search and you will find' -Jesus Christ :)
As a Catholic born and raised, but I took it upon myself to study it. Catholicism is not as straight forward as protestantism and even Islam. Catholicism really allows critical thinking despite the contrary in certain media outlets or people in general. Catholicism to me is both intellectual and mysterious. Their theology is very rich and doesn't allow for closure of questioning.
What’s so beautiful about a religion that actively protected convicted child molesters and stopped the poor children from seeking justice? You’re disgusting and ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Understanding classical theism was the milestone that finally allowed me to admire the mystical beauty of God and gave me a reason why He is worthy of my worship and time. I find it sad how so many people don't know about this Catholic doctrine and misunderstand God. Maybe you could make a video on this.
It’s true. I’m a cradle Catholic, and I can say I finally found what I needed in the Catholic Church what I sought elsewhere. Once I started reading the catechism of the church, I realized how poor my religious education actually was. But then, my parents also were poorly educated in the catechism of the church. And like us, there are many.
Guess your religion didnt explain itself very well. It explained itself very well on women though. While it was idology stolen from greek philosof and it was not written in Bible, catholics took it very well that women are lesser to men. But dont mind me. Im just stating one of many problems of christianity, especially catholism.
Not a Catholic, but I have been a Christian my whole life and I have attended many churches, including Catholic ones. I have always thought depictions of the bearded old man in the sky as strange. That's not God to me. If God is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, He can't be limited by concepts human minds can easily put in a box. Too many people try to use Him to justify what they want to do, rather than listen to what He wants us to do.
what is it that he wants us to do, if he's not in our image ( or we in his) therefore he is not the ideal we can become? I mean the bearded man in the sky makes a lot of sense from a pov which creates a paradise and is more normative than descriptive
That image of an old man in the sky that you probably saw at a Catholic Church is a depiction of wisdom, in literature and film n old person usually means wise in years. The father is wise.
@@pladimir_vutin He certainly want us to become Christ like, that's called life of sanctification (throught Holy Spirit and God Grace), and that's indeed what He want from us.
It's called 'anthromorphism'. Depicting God with human qualities in order for humans to understand. In the Bible, even in the Book of Genesis, describes God as breathing, walking, working with hands, etc. These are figurative literature so that humans can understand God's actions.
Well the image of "man with a white beard" is actually a description of the glorified Jesus from the Book of Revelation: "Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the lampstands one like a Son of Man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around His chest. The hairs of His head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, His feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of many waters. In His right hand He held seven stars, from His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and His face was like the sun shining in full strength. When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as though dead."
" The Holy Spirit can knock you over, even destroy" .... I really needed to hear this Father. My dad died one week ago; when confronted with simple yet brutal reality of death , I struggled to hang upon certain aspects of faith , that seemed to be real , logical, reasonable..... Just in my head ! Don't get me wrong: I do believe all that Holy Mother Church proclaims , but the fact that we don't have an immediate correlation to the reality of Resurrection , can be really daunting , when we make experience of death . Perhaps The Holy Spirit is taking my faith out of the envelope and make it much more alive . Thank you father . Please remember my dad when you say Mass . His name is Antonio ( He actually liked to be called Tonino) .
It’s like trying to understand what infinity is. We can conceptualize it, even visualize it, work with that concept, but we can never really fully understand it. Our minds are limited. The same with God. (Nice video, btw)
The whole concept of infinity is something that I've contemplated my whole life. Almost every day I've contemplated infinity, God and the Universe. A micro-organism or a fish at the bottom of our ocean could view its world to stretch for infinity, it or they could swim for an eternity and assume infinity BUT we know that their world is minuscule compared to ours.. infinity? is there such a thing? Numbers are our constraint..
If you could understand infinity, you would be Infinite yourself. Just as if you could understand Perfection, you would have to first be Perfect. That's why we call these things "mysteries" ... because while we can talk about them we cannot ever understand them completely.
@@williamlaudeman7157 I'm sorry William, honestly. What a load of rubbish.. if you could understand infinity you would be infinite yourself.. what on earth does that even try to mean? Again, I apologise but that's just rubbish that sounds pretty. It has zero meaning. Even the understand perfection bit. Understand perfection? What? I actually wanted to post here that this young priest is devoid of original things to say about faith.. just the same old rhetoric with the watchmaker bit thrown in... no original thought or ideas or perspective. Are you a priest?
@@bottomline7923 a Church that is 2000 years old don’t necessary have to seek novelty. So Insee no problem in not having anything original to say. The book of Job was written in the 2nd millenium BCE. Pretty old. Nothing new. Most of the Christian theology is centuries old. Nothing new. Nothing “original”.
@@pseudomino3 Nothing new? What? We have since discovered that the earth isn't flat and that we, all of us have evolved on this planet over millions of years.. there have been people discovered, people who roamed this land for 80 thousand plus years, unchanged, with no thought or notion of a God.. in the Bible there is talk of slavery, of homosexuality being wrong and a sin... deserved of death?Nothing new? Same old boring rhetoric that hides, lures, tricks and deceives.. I'm sorry.. I wish I didn't see the church in this way..
Fr. Casey, I certainly don't want to give you anything that would detract from humility, but I have to say that I am blown away by how clearly and completely you explain things about our faith. How does one who is so obviously young have such great eloquence and possess such gifts of communication and wisdom?
3:30 "The Father is the one who speaks, Jesus is the Word that is spoken, and the Spirit is the breath that speak the Word" That's Arianism Patrick! /j
The short answer would be: pretty much everything. :) I am an russian orthodox myself, but your videos are so insightful, that now I have a renewed respect for my western christian cousins. God bless.
I was 21 and sitting in jail for the 3rd time when I read the Holy Bible in its entirety. Doing that truly opened my eyes to the nature of God and to the fact that I hardly knew anything about Christianity. He is the Good Shepherd
Excellent. Growing up, the nuns told us God was an man in the sky who knew all, saw all: essentially, Santa Claus. Thank you for your words and guidance. They stir something in this old ex-Catholic.
Did they? That surprises me .. clearly, they did not have/ use/ know/ understand/ appreciate etc the basics of the Simple Catechism. Never just a series of quirky quizzes and pat answers, rather it is the very easy framework upon which to build a form of understanding (i.e. how to think clearly, not what to say, unthinkingly). For example, stop now and think through this odd old question: 'What is God?'. The manner by which you begin to puzzle this out is telling; as a Catholic, it is intended to prompt you to question yourself - a shocking concept, I know. That is; what does your choice of answer .. actually 'mean' (for most of us, if honest, it would be something like a mystery, for others, it means a faith that seeks understanding ......aka 'Catholicism'). ;o)
...before I would inquire what god is, I would need to be convinced that god exists. Up to the present day, there has been no good reason to believe in god. So, it seems to me that should you wish to learn more about yourself, you do not need to spent time thinking about a potentially Non-existing deity. 🙃
@@andreasw.6425 Well said, Andreas .. this simple, subjective assessment is the only genuinely trustworthy argument available as an atheistic response to the concept of God, understood in Catholicism (though, naturally enough, not for the slippery image of 'God' < G / g > or gods formed elsewhere). However, the reason to believe 'in' God (that Catholic understanding) is not only a good one, and a pipterino at that, it is - of itself - objectively insuperable (as the ancient philosophers already understood, independently, by use of ordinary reason; thus, in general, they did not dispute it .. they simply slipped around it via deism, gnosticism, rationalism, scepticism, et al). Because, like it or not, once you begin to realise that you 'are'* - and accept that distinct oddity as such - you also have established the groundwork for what Christians call 'God' (as Aquinas would put it): i.e. Being, per se; after that radical admission, all else to the contrary is evasion or emotion. ;o) * Yes, that sense of 'being' includes the whole show of some fanciful mind game in conjuring up a 'real' mad scientist (a petty 'god') who invents 'you' - allowing that being = 'you' to imagine that 'you' are the real being, and independent of a more or less inconceivable hyper-controlling mind-gamer (of the decidedly .. umm .. insane i.e. unhealthy kind); or if you prefer a negative spin, the still unsatisfactory (if more healthy) imagination needed in Anselm's 'that than which nothing greater can be conceived' kind of stuff; for if, in either case, it 'is' or indeed 'it' isn't then that altogether petty reality leaves little more to add to the god-talk-game's quirkiness than ruffling a moralist's metaphorical feathers - if you see what I mean.
@@TheLeonhamm - ...I have no good reason to believe that my being requires a god. There may be bad reasons to believe in god, but who would need those. 😉
@@andreasw.6425 Again, well said there, Andreas. The Catholic understanding of the concept 'God' relates to 'being' per se - therefore, accepting that you 'are' rationally involves that concept < Being > .. the ancient philosophers had a sound understanding of this 'reasoning'; sadly, all of this has long since been lost in the welter of emotion around terms like religion, belief, and faith, et al. I suspect that you have a better (if unexpressed) grasp of these matters than many Catholics today. Yo! ( Oops! I forgot a .. ;o) )
Wonderful video! I'm forever thankful to Catholicism for radically changing my perception about God. From a distant, nonchalant, passive Being/Power, He became my Father, Brother and Best Friend. Catholicism taught me to approach Prayer as a beautiful process of communication rather than just an obligation. If I was bored and tired of prayer before, now I feel butterflies in my stomach every time I approach Him (sort of like a school crush, haha). I think I'm in love.
Maria, your comment on you being in love with God is an interesting one. When we read in the Song of Solomon, we see that God is in love with His people( the Shulamite) and that they are chasing each other. And then ofc in the New Testament, there are many mentions of Jesus being the bridegroom to the people which is the lady. So yes, the love between God and us is not just the agape between a father and his child but also a romantic courtship.
Fr. Casey best explanation ever! I too have a calling, but fear my age will keep me out of a convent, I am very Franciscan in my faith and wish to be a Sister, but am going to be 55 this year. I also live in Mexico so it is hard to find a Spiritual director. I attend mass at a beautiful little church in my town, but it has little to no outreach and currently I am the only lecturer because the English Mass is so small in the off season. Any and all advice welcome. I only seek to serve God and I know I am in the capacity that is needed now. But my whole being thirsts for more.
@@sergiowinter5383 so a father comes home and not only physically assaults his children....but also tortures them for eternity for not loving him back as god would do? Yikes.
I wish my RCIA had covered more about what God is and isn't. I was raised fundamental evangelical where you're taught that God causes earthquakes and all that. God is a punisher. I still struggle with that mindset, even now after being Catholic for over two years. Seeing God as a loving figure who understands my heart better than even I do, is sometimes easy for me to forget.
There is a lot of misinformation out there about everything in this world. Politics, celebrities, world events, history and even religion. Father, your channel is very helpful in spreading the truth. A ray of hope 🌄in the dark, dark world🌌 of the internet. 🌐
Catholic church desinfomated all the time in medieval times and still does so to this day. Even internet is more trustable than catholic church. Or to be more precise religions in general. But its true its nice he stated this less known option on it.
Thank you Father Casey. Blessings and grace on all who believe and bring us Breaking in the Habit. This is food that keeps us on our feet and moving closer to truth and life.
For many years, as one of the RCIA group at our parish I have started my sessions by asking; "Where do you feel is, God and Heaven?" I found that most people looked upward. Then I like to tell them; "God is here, now, and always . . . and where God is, is Heaven!" But fallen as we are, we are barred from seeing Him -- so He came to us if human form; our RCIIA sponsor, Jesus.
Got a prayer request - my son has myocarditis from taking the J&J vaccine. He's in rough shape - please pray for healing, anyone who sees this. Thank you.
There was a great New Yorker cartoon in which there was an image of an older man without a beard, and a couple of angels. One of the angels says to the other "I just can't take him seriously without the beard!" Thanks for this video. I love your analogy of Father as the speaker, Jesus as the word, and the Spirit as the breath. Lovely. I also love the one that depicts the Father as the lover, Jesus as the beloved, and the Spirit as the love that passes between them. Another describes it an invitation to a divine dance. Let the music play on!
my favourite cartoon was in playboy, jesus is looking under the hood of a broken down citroen 2cv and he's saying to the lady driver "it's your carburettor" which of the many jesus are you talking about? any idea why jesus never wrote anything?
As Bruce Lee once said, 'Be like water.' I like this video a lot. The God you described is exactly how I hoped He would be; always with us and purely loving and understanding. I normally tend to avoid Christian videos because the type of God they describe often sounds intimidating. So for me to find this video and watch it from start to finish was a real blessing for me.
"The God you described is exactly how I hoped He would be" it is possible god is the muslim god you know. it is possible god prefers atheists you know. have you never used your brain?
Father Casey, after being Buddhist through my teen and young adult years, recently I’ve felt God and my ancestors calling me to the Church. I feel a deep devotion to Mother Mary, but struggle with the Church’s stance on abortion and lgbtq rights, as well as the abuse scandal and how the church responded. I’ve watched your videos for a while now and they’ve helped me a lot and cleared up many things. Thank you father. Please, pray for me
Absolutely an incredible video that is so needed. If people are taught to believe in a moralistic therapeutic deistic version of God they will see that they have no good reasons whatsoever to believe that this being exists. Once people understand what Christians mean be God they will see that we our not debating the existence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster but rather the ultimate cause of reality. Thank you Father for doing Great work!
I think it is the most likely explanation that the cause of the universe is the Christian God. I believe this because of a number of reasons. But the first question is does God exist? If God does not exist then the Christian story makes no sense. Do you believe God exist? Do you believe there is a necessary creator who exists outside of the universe and sustains in being?
@@jonahkane7027 No I don't believe God exists and I don't believe there is a necessary creator who exists outside of space and time. Are you willing to explain some of the reasons you think that God is the ultimate cause of reality?
Of course. I am by no means an expert so while I do love the classical arguments for God I would not do justice to them. So I like to start with the fact that it seems from experience that humans cannot live without feeling like their life truly matters. Humans are unable to go on without a sense of true purpose. Now if atheism is true then it seems to me that there is no ultimate sense of purpose sense their is no ultimate intelligence behind the universe. Now to me it would just seem odd that an absolutely meaningless universe would produce such an intelligent being that longed for and indeed needed ultimate purpose. Now don’t misunderstand my argument. I am not saying atheist can’t feel a sense of purpose. They most certainly can. That is precisely my point everyone needs to feel as if their life truly matters.
@@jonahkane7027 So if atheists can feel a sense of purpose and they do so without God, doesn't that negate your argument that having a sense of purpose can only come from God?
This is the most eloquent expression of the Holy Trinity I have heard. Keep churning out your videos on Catholicism. May the Holy Spirit continue to guide you in your ministry. The mother church needs more priests like you.
Christian Catholics meditate on the gospel when they pray the rosary. Hail Mary full of grace The Lord is with you (Luke 28) Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb (Luke 41-42)
Christian Catholics meditate on the gospel when they pray the rosary. Hail Mary full of grace The Lord is with you (Luke 28) Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb (Luke 41-42)
Christian Catholics meditate on the gospel when they pray the rosary. Hail Mary full of grace The Lord is with you (Luke 28) Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb (Luke 41-42)
Christian Catholics meditate on the gospel when they pray the rosary. Hail Mary full of grace The Lord is with you (Luke 28) Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb (Luke 41-42)
Have often thought a man's concept of God is limited by two things: The failures of our own earthly father, and our inadequacies in being a father to our children.
i love all your videos, but my favorite ones are these...that make me say "ha!" as I scribble notes, with a new discovery that is just mind blowing! It's likened to meeting the love of your life for the first time...again and again. Bless you, father. And thank you!
@@addheading Only if the “word” means the literal symbol of alphabetical signs. But that’s not the correct translation for “Logos” in the Greek NT, which in the Latin Vulgata Bible was translated as “Verbum”. In Portuguese, the word (in the alphabetical sense) means “palavra”; in any Bible, either Catholic or Protestant, it is translated as “Verbo”. As it is said in the Prologue of St John, _”No princípio era o Verbo, e o Verbo estava junto de Deus e o Verbo era Deus”._ God bless you!
Did he take note of the millions dead from Covid-19? Maybe he should have done something about that or better yet, never created viruses in the first place.
@@tomandrews1429 well that might not necessarily be true. There is some thought that viruses have adjusted our DNA. google "The Viruses that made us human" on the PBS website.
Brilliant video. I'll share it with my friends Sometimes it's really hard to remember it. You can be busy or just forget. You start to think, that you just must obey God and He is far away, you mustto do something and after that He will hears you and helps. But He always there and you can do nothing without Him. It's really encouranging than you can see Him in your everudaylive Thank you for reminding)
As a Protestant I think one of the biggest reasons I’ve never thought of Catholicism as an option is I’ve never heard a catholic talk this way. Another amazing video!
C.S. Lewis - "Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.
Thank you for taking the time to post this comment. In an appreciated and I believe needed way, it’s helped me with in seeing the Bible as God’s loving exposition of an unfolding and appropriately challenging salvation history- for humanity as a whole and for the special place He’s carved out for each of us as uniquely prized individuals that He actively wills fullness of life for.
@@jamesparson I am. As a catholic I believe in one God. He inhabits everyone, (At 17:28) but in a particular way the baptized ones. (Jo 14:23) I'm a secular carmelite and my favorite book from this spirituality is Inner Castle from Saint Teresa de Avila. She explains way better than me.
@@jamesparson Hmmmm. Well, we should treat everyone with the same respect, right? But better to ask: how do you want to be treated? ( I ask with respect, I don't know if the tone is corresponding)
It’s difficult to say who God is. We are human and God transcends all humans. He is the creator and master designer of everything that dwells in this planet. He is spirit, physical, and thought. No one is able to look upon him physically. His energy powers the world we occupy spiritually and incarnate. Pray for understanding and godly knowledge 🕊🕊🙏🙏👍👍😇😇❤️❤️🌹🌹🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thanks for this message, Father Casey; it was just what I needed to hear this morning. I am a believer, and my flatmate is an atheist. Last evening, deep into the night, we had a long talk, and he brought up every point you made, and he still maintains "there is no God." Faith means nothing to him; it is everything to me. I'm going to share this message with him. I told him I will not try to change his mind; that is something he must do for himself.
well actually it's something YOU have to do for yourself, we atheists can explain stuff, we can't unstupid you though. if you want to go one worshipping a guy who can't control his own creation and decides the easiest way otu is to drown everyone, only to fk up again and again, then carry on. personally my morals are better than the christian gods' i haven't killed a soul.
@@HarryNicNicholas just cause someone is religious doesn't make them stupid. The whole controlling the world might be something to do with freewill??? I guess it depends how people read the Bible too right (allegorically) might change things, I dunno. People's morals can vary greatly within a religion and outside of it. As long as people are being peaceful in their morals and actions that is a good thing to aim for surely? Fellow atheist :)
The analogy doesn't make much sense. Is Father Casey saying that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are created by God, as the voice and breath are created by the speaker?
@@tomandrews1429 Fr. Casey is describing the missionary nature of the Trinity which sounds in the economic trinitarian theology of Rahner and Moltmann.
@@tomandrews1429 He is describing the functional nature of the three persons: each serves a differing function in mission to the world but are still united in their nature as the one God. The problem in explaining the Trinity in this way is that it sounds like three separate persons. Language can never fully capture the essence of this concept and always creates difficulties the more that it tries to explain. I recommend reading some articles explaining Jurgen Moltmann's theology of the Trinity. Moltmann was a German camp survivor who converted to Christianity after WWII. His understanding of God reflects a very personal struggle to understand and accept God in consideration of the horrors he personally witnessed. I think Fr. Casey does a pretty darn good job explaining such a difficult concept as the Trinity.
I could not put into words how needed this video right now Fr. Casey! Thank you so so so muuuch for enlightening us. Praying this riches more and more people who need the correct understanding of who God is. Praise God for this! ♥️
Hola amigos de habla hispana !! Yo Leí un libro que se llama “las buenas cabras” !! Habla de la relación con Dios en nuestra vida. Me hizo llorar y entender muchas cosas.
You forget another idea of God: for the ancient gnosticism, God is bad and cruel, and it is for this reason that the world contains too misfortunes. Currently, christians have never bring proof that it is not the case
Because evil is the absence or deviation from the Good. Just as darkness is the absence of light, cold the absence of warmth, and death the absence of life.
@@joshuabarnard5702 That's not an explanation for all the misfortunes whom happens in the world. God created the world and His Providence is the origin of all the events. So, if God was good, all the events would be good also. But it is not the case
@@letheatrecreepy3371 If beings have free will, then they can deviate from the perfect good of God's will. My point is that evil or sin is a falling short of the good, not a metaphysical entity in itself. Read some Neoplatonism.
@@joshuabarnard5702 You tell about free will, but the main misfortunes are not caused by men or by their sins. The worst misfortunes are more like natural disasters, or untreatable diseases. These afflictions are the work of God and His divine Providence, nobody else (not the men, and not the devil no more)
@@letheatrecreepy3371 Within Christianity, natural disasters, diseases, etc. are the work of the devil. The devil is "the god of this world" and has dominion over the earth. Humanity lost our dominion at the Fall and became subjects of the devil and the other "powers and principalities" as we joined in their rebellion against God. That is why God became man. That He could conquer sin, death, and the devil on our behalf, and free us from their power.
It seems to me that if a divine being exists, it would be extremely difficult if not impossible for our mortal minds to comprehend it. At the very least, comprehending it would be the work of a lifetime. For that reason alone it seems obvious that the oversimplified Hollywood version of God can't be all there is to it!
My thoughts are of not your thoughts, my ways are of not your ways. I forgot which verse but that just explains we cannot understand all things. Even Jesus admitted that only the Father knows of the hours of a end of days.
@@daninspiration4064 Well, he is taking his sweet time, for sure. If we trust modern physics, then the universe has about 10^120 years to go. But then, again, a thousand years are like a day for him, so by his time it's only 2.74*10^114 years in heaven. That's much better, isn't it?
"The Lord is the Everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom." (Book of Isaiah, Bible)
@@jamesparson What is difficult to comprehend about slavery? People practiced it for thousands of years and the gods always approved. They did approve as recently as the 1850s in the American South. I am pretty sure they still approve in certain American churches.
Because he is a Greek god, of course! In the Greek myths, he is named as one of the many who overthrew the titans. Backed up by the bible itself, which names God as one amongst many. Know any other pantheons kicking about in that time? The Roman gods were also the Greek gods retold, the Norse gods likewise though of course, many years later. If you believe that the bible is the word of god, then you believe that god told you that he was one of the Greek gods.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Father Casey! Your videos are so comprehensive and well thought out. Someone's been doing homework! Keep up the great work and let's all join together to save this crazy world! btw I'm a 60 yr. old lifetime Catholic and went to Catholic school for 12 years (1--12). Thanks again!
It is difficult for older people to envision the loving Father that is being understood today. Older people have engravened into their minds "God is going to punish you". That is what God was and is to most older people. If you wanted love and understanding you went to the Mother and intersession because God was just about punishing you. You went to God to ask for things. He was the one with the wallet and if you were good may open it.
As an ex atheist and scientist, I recommend to go back to basics. Two questions: Do you believe in truth? A sort of innate compass that allows you to relate to truth greater than you can ever fully grasp in such a way that when you do grasp elements of truth you experience epiphany? Do you know love to be similar to truth? Maybe even the same thing we describe with a different word when the subject is other beings? When the the dots connected by truth are people? Well if you answered yes then you already do know God. God is truth. God is love. Words and arguments are just abstract signposts - ever beside the point they point to. The truth deeper than natural reality itself needs you to choose to relate to it yourself. If you have in your heart the humility to accept whatever truth is, then ask what you know as truth/love to reveal itself to you in precisely the manner in which only truth/love would know you need. Then have patience and follow the signs. Don't worry what anyone will think of you. The truth shall set you free.
@@adrianopereira674 I am familiar with Anton Flew and find his conclusion to be unwarranted due to there being no actual evidence for theological claims.
@@colmwhateveryoulike3240 Truth is an adjudication of a proposition (see Propositional Logic). Love is a concept entailing a variety of different notions about the mental and/or actions of individuals denoted as being in love. I would agree that the term God denotes a concept, but I do not denote concepts as existent, since they are AT BEST descriptive of something that may exist.
@@MyContext That's fine and apologies I'm a biologist not a philosopher but I'm speaking existentially/experientially. If you can relate to the concept of truth/love then take a gamble and run the experiment I recommended and see what happens. It isn't unreasonable to suppose that an objective source of truth exists and even though I was a committed atheist with a naturalist bias, when I sacrificed a lot and was willing to sacrifice everything in search for truth and a meaningful way to impact our environmental issues, what initially appeared to be a "source code" pattern spoke back to me by shaping nature in ways that eventually became statistically impossible to dismiss as random. A conversation developed and evolved from there and I know the same will happen to you if you seek it because that's who God is.
@@MyContext Also a question related to you philosophical definition of truth as an adjudication of a proposition - does adjudication demand an adjudicator in that scenario, and is it objective or subjective if so?
That's Arianism Patrick! Jesus and the Holy Ghost are not creations of the Father like word and breath are creations of the speaker :P That's a BAD ANALOGY Patrick The Trinity is a mystery not understandable by human reason and analogies fail to capture it. We worship one God in Trinity and Trinity and unity, neither confusing the persons nor dividing the substance. Each distinct person is God and Lord, equal in glory, co-equal in majesty. Or in mathematical terms 1 infinite being= 3 infinite persons and vice versa. Also go watch Lutheran Satire :p
What if Monty Python’s depiction of god is actually accurate and Fr. Casey got it wrong? Since god is so nebulous and ill-defined, everyone’s idea of god is just as right as anyone else’s.
In personal prayers I put this line at the end of every prayer I do " I ask this through Jesus Christ your son our Lord Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the holy spirit one God forever and ever Amen" I got the general idea of it when I'm at church serving as an altar server almost every Sunday from 7am to 10am I'm at church and at 1pm to 4pm for weekly meetings and at Saturdays from 1pm to 6pm I pretty much kinda memories the mass itself during the pandemic however i wasn't allowed by my parents to go to church considering I'm only 12 at that time and now I'm 13 I'm hoping this December I can go back to serving God. And greetings from an altar server here at the Philippines and to God be the glory God bless.
what do think about the horrors of the residential schools in Canada run by the chaotic church and causing unbelievable harm to many ‘students’ such as the unreported deaths and rampant sexual abuse of children by priest
Those were the ones not following Christ properly. Judas was one of the 12 Apostles of Christ… There is such a thing as satanists who go to become pastors...
@@Love-jf7rs look I can understand one bad apple but it was institutionalized my father worked with the reconciliation process and he told me a lot of messed up stories. And he was a Catholic. The church would be much better conceived if it opened up to the mistakes that all humans do instead of pushing it onto Satan Because all this was done in the name of God not Satan
So i am watching the royal family arrive at the Ascot races in all their grandeur. Royalty who go to church probably a few times a week; and then some poor human might be lying on a concrete sidewalk dribbling blood and vomit from the corner of their mouth after consuming a concoction of methylated spirits and cheap wine and possibly in the last days of their tortured life: undeniably a common analogy. You preach that god comforts the poor and pours blessings on them. Am i missing something. Can someone explain?
It'll be confirmation-bias no matter how they try to approach it. Either something like "That unfortunate person didn't have enough faith" OR "God is blessing them by Ending Their Suffering Sooner rather than later." OR they'll give Ye Olde "Free-Will" Defense/Theodicy to say that the person Chose to suffer. And typically they'll follow one, or more, of those up with something like "You have to Believe [Faithfully] AND Ask for Help from God"... All the while they'll ignore every single instance of people doing exactly that and yet receiving no such help whatsoever.
@@pattisonpattison3639 Both Mormon/Church of LDS and mainstream Christianity believe in God the Father-Creator. They do differ with the view on incarnation of God in Jesus in the Trinitarian sense. Is this what you’re referring to? Also, LDS position on God’s divinity doctrine is shifting in focus from before… --------------- As for Judaism: it's understandable when people say God in Judaism is different from God in Christianity, but how do you say God in Protestantism and Catholicism is different?
God is that wise older neighbor/smart friend/loving caring widow all in one. Always with you ready to listen and advise. Quick to help when you get hurt and swift to laugh with you when you find yourself doing something stupid. And is glad when you take time to enjoy creation, be it a drop of dew or a star filled sky.
This is a fantastic video, though one aspect of it doesn't land correctly with me-when you refer to God as "a being." God is not a mere being, rather God is Being itself, Existence itself. Exodus 3:14 And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “This is what you shall say to the sons of Israel: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ” (NASB) And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you. (KJV)
I wish there was more revealed about the nature of the Holy Spirit. Also, I like to think of the "God Head" as 3 separate beings but one in purpose, but I do so knowing that it is an oversimplification of God. I think that a deeper understanding of the nature of God can come through prayerful study, but at the moments in my life when I feel closer to God I feel a more transcendent understanding, a "quickening". I suppose I won't fully understand God until I become like him.
No, I dont know what a "god" is. Simply because all the "claims" about that thing was not giving me any information at best, because, it was either, illogical, abstract, could not be verified, meant nothing, didnt provide any kind of information, irrefutable and such. So, that it. Also, I couldnt care less if a god exist or not, can I be a good person without believe in a god? yes? then I dont care, I dont need to waste time with frivolous search of something that may happens after my life.
I'm so happy I don't believe in that Bronze Age mythology and fairy tales. Every member of every cult claim their god is the true one, christianity has no exception.
Thank you for this great explanation of God. I especially like the way you explained the Trinity, I teach RCIA and have stumbled in trying to explain it but your explanation is easier to conceptualice and profound at the same time. Thank you for your vocation!
i bet you can't explain it to the next person though, like me. if my soul is eterrnal, am i the same age as god? where was my soul before i was born? where was jesus soul before he was born? if jsus is immortal how can he die? if he isn't immortal was he part of the trinity before he was killed? it's all bullshit you know, one big scam dreamed up by a drunk.
Ive always over-simplified it to a kind of phrase, "If you can feel God within you then it's the Holy Spirit; if you can shake God's hand, that's Jesus Christ; and everything else is Father." I think thats actually a type of historical heresy but it definitely helps me categorize it lmao 🤣😂
I can’t help but think that Westerners picture God as an old bearded man in the sky because that’s how so many artists over the centuries depicted Him after the Church decided it could ignore the Second Commandment.
Great video. Great message. God is much more than some outdated notion about a lower demiurge. Thank you so much for your dedicated work explaining Catholosism.
I left Christianity before because I believed in that moralistic, therapeutic deist version of God. I didn't actually care about my relationship with him and I became too far detached; it came to a head when I studied philosophy and encountered the problem of evil. I was an atheist for a year but I'm coming back to the faith, this time as a Catholic. I'm attending RCIA this fall and regularly meet with my local deacon to discuss my research into the Catechism and Catholic faith and history. Your videos have been a huge blessing and help to me. Keep up the good work!
Edit: thank you all for the encouragement I've received, and to those in this comment section who are atheist, I wish you well and pray you'll find God and his truth. 🙏
Good for you Roy , and godbless you
Yay! I'm so happy for you! Lots of love 🤍
Welcome Home.
The question you have to ask yourself is what convinced you that a god exists.
@Jebus Bhrist Why is Christianity the bad side?
I want to become a nun. For the Dominican order. I'm trying to do as much research as I can on it. I no longer wish to exist in the secular world. Because of the scandal founded in the church, my Baptist parents are very much not supportive. I'm a little nervous too but God has called me to a simple life of solitude and prayer
God bless
That's wonderful. I know having unsupportive parents is hard but hang in there. As far as I know you can visit some of those monasteries to see if it's a life you want. Maybe visit for a week or so. God bless, I'll pray for you
Praying for you . and may God grant you strength and patience. May your parents be shown the beauty of our Catholic faith and be proud .
God bless you.
I'm thriving to become a priest and I have non-Catholic parents as well. I wish you well!
go for it! i hope you succeed and enjoy your spirituality.
As an newly ex-muslim new christian, the trinity concept the hardest part to grasp like my many peers. You just fill me with joy with your amazing anologies. I didnt baptised yet and living in Turkey its quite hard and sometimes even dangerous to seek some advice publicly, you give me the same feeling when i first read new testament. Thanks for the great explanations. Nowadays i just read bible more and pray to Jesus but i hope i will be a real christian soon and sorry for my bad english.
There is no gatekeeping in Christianity. If you believe in and accept Jesus as your savior, then you are no less Christian than anyone else.
God bless you, brother, you have brought tears of joy to my eyes. Hope one day you can come to the west and live freely. God bless you. 🙏
In MY words think of it like you, your mother and your father were all one. Each has different duties, although the duties often overlap. The main point is love. Good luck.
Welcome! I hope you can find a good Church somewhere, Jesus loves you have a good day!
I, as a Muslim born agnostic, am an avid watcher of your channel. though i can not claim to have a theistic faith of any form or content, I am truly intrigued by religion and theology and you are so simple and at the same time eloquent in defining the principles of the Catholic faith.
and, theological and scholastic debates aside, Catholicism is the most beautiful faiths in the world.
I hope you keep searching Soroosh.
A lot of people are passing from this world daily now.
If anything, now is the time to determine what is True and real of the Afterlife
that awaits!
There is everything to lose and everything to gain if the person gets it right!
'Search and you will find' -Jesus Christ :)
As a Catholic born and raised, but I took it upon myself to study it. Catholicism is not as straight forward as protestantism and even Islam.
Catholicism really allows critical thinking despite the contrary in certain media outlets or people in general.
Catholicism to me is both intellectual and mysterious. Their theology is very rich and doesn't allow for closure of questioning.
Soroosh, as a Catholic I am happy to read that you consider "the Catholic faith is the most beautiful in the world." I think so, too.
@@jamesparson Yes
What’s so beautiful about a religion that actively protected convicted child molesters and stopped the poor children from seeking justice?
You’re disgusting and ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Understanding classical theism was the milestone that finally allowed me to admire the mystical beauty of God and gave me a reason why He is worthy of my worship and time. I find it sad how so many people don't know about this Catholic doctrine and misunderstand God. Maybe you could make a video on this.
It’s true. I’m a cradle Catholic, and I can say I finally found what I needed in the Catholic Church what I sought elsewhere. Once I started reading the catechism of the church, I realized how poor my religious education actually was. But then, my parents also were poorly educated in the catechism of the church. And like us, there are many.
Guess your religion didnt explain itself very well. It explained itself very well on women though. While it was idology stolen from greek philosof and it was not written in Bible, catholics took it very well that women are lesser to men.
But dont mind me. Im just stating one of many problems of christianity, especially catholism.
god killed everyone on the planet, including babies, christians defend this behaviour, why?
@@HarryNicNicholas If there was no death why would life matter?
@@martinhavlicek4011 Does Judaism not treat women as “lesser” than men, do most old world religions not do that?
Not a Catholic, but I have been a Christian my whole life and I have attended many churches, including Catholic ones. I have always thought depictions of the bearded old man in the sky as strange. That's not God to me. If God is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, He can't be limited by concepts human minds can easily put in a box. Too many people try to use Him to justify what they want to do, rather than listen to what He wants us to do.
what is it that he wants us to do, if he's not in our image ( or we in his) therefore he is not the ideal we can become?
I mean the bearded man in the sky makes a lot of sense from a pov which creates a paradise and is more normative than descriptive
That image of an old man in the sky that you probably saw at a Catholic Church is a depiction of wisdom, in literature and film n old person usually means wise in years. The father is wise.
@@pladimir_vutin He certainly want us to become Christ like, that's called life of sanctification (throught Holy Spirit and God Grace), and that's indeed what He want from us.
It's called 'anthromorphism'. Depicting God with human qualities in order for humans to understand. In the Bible, even in the Book of Genesis, describes God as breathing, walking, working with hands, etc. These are figurative literature so that humans can understand God's actions.
Well the image of "man with a white beard" is actually a description of the glorified Jesus from the Book of Revelation:
"Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the lampstands one like a Son of Man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around His chest. The hairs of His head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, His feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of many waters. In His right hand He held seven stars, from His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and His face was like the sun shining in full strength.
When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as though dead."
last time I was this early, the Tower of Babel was still intact
Great joke
Dear Alex, I am not joking.
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" The Holy Spirit can knock you over, even destroy" .... I really needed to hear this Father. My dad died one week ago; when confronted with simple yet brutal reality of death , I struggled to hang upon certain aspects of faith , that seemed to be real , logical, reasonable..... Just in my head ! Don't get me wrong: I do believe all that Holy Mother Church proclaims , but the fact that we don't have an immediate correlation to the reality of Resurrection , can be really daunting , when we make experience of death . Perhaps The Holy Spirit is taking my faith out of the envelope and make it much more alive . Thank you father . Please remember my dad when you say Mass . His name is Antonio ( He actually liked to be called Tonino) .
May THE LORD grant him eternal peace, life, and salvation...
It’s like trying to understand what infinity is. We can conceptualize it, even visualize it, work with that concept, but we can never really fully understand it. Our minds are limited. The same with God. (Nice video, btw)
The whole concept of infinity is something that I've contemplated my whole life. Almost every day I've contemplated infinity, God and the Universe.
A micro-organism or a fish at the bottom of our ocean could view its world to stretch for infinity, it or they could swim for an eternity and assume infinity BUT we know that their world is minuscule compared to ours.. infinity? is there such a thing? Numbers are our constraint..
If you could understand infinity, you would be Infinite yourself. Just as if you could understand Perfection, you would have to first be Perfect. That's why we call these things "mysteries" ... because while we can talk about them we cannot ever understand them completely.
@@williamlaudeman7157 I'm sorry William, honestly. What a load of rubbish.. if you could understand infinity you would be infinite yourself.. what on earth does that even try to mean? Again, I apologise but that's just rubbish that sounds pretty. It has zero meaning. Even the understand perfection bit. Understand perfection? What?
I actually wanted to post here that this young priest is devoid of original things to say about faith.. just the same old rhetoric with the watchmaker bit thrown in... no original thought or ideas or perspective. Are you a priest?
@@bottomline7923 a Church that is 2000 years old don’t necessary have to seek novelty. So Insee no problem in not having anything original to say. The book of Job was written in the 2nd millenium BCE. Pretty old. Nothing new. Most of the Christian theology is centuries old. Nothing new. Nothing “original”.
@@pseudomino3 Nothing new? What? We have since discovered that the earth isn't flat and that we, all of us have evolved on this planet over millions of years.. there have been people discovered, people who roamed this land for 80 thousand plus years, unchanged, with no thought or notion of a God.. in the Bible there is talk of slavery, of homosexuality being wrong and a sin... deserved of death?Nothing new? Same old boring rhetoric that hides, lures, tricks and deceives.. I'm sorry.. I wish I didn't see the church in this way..
Fr. Casey, I certainly don't want to give you anything that would detract from humility, but I have to say that I am blown away by how clearly and completely you explain things about our faith. How does one who is so obviously young have such great eloquence and possess such gifts of communication and wisdom?
I want to become a Catholic after watching your videos Father Casey!! Pray for me!!! (And I love your videos!)
🙏🙏🙏
Wonderful!!!! God is calling you home!!!!
@@truecatholic8692 if you forget about all the initiation rituals and things that restrict people from getting their sins forgiven.
3:30
"The Father is the one who speaks, Jesus is the Word that is spoken, and the Spirit is the breath that speak the Word"
That's Arianism Patrick! /j
The short answer would be: pretty much everything. :)
I am an russian orthodox myself, but your videos are so insightful, that now I have a renewed respect for my western christian cousins. God bless.
The Monty Python "god" in your thumbnail deserves a thumbs-up.Well done.
Yeah I was wondering what that was
I was 21 and sitting in jail for the 3rd time when I read the Holy Bible in its entirety. Doing that truly opened my eyes to the nature of God and to the fact that I hardly knew anything about Christianity. He is the Good Shepherd
Excellent. Growing up, the nuns told us God was an man in the sky who knew all, saw all: essentially, Santa Claus. Thank you for your words and guidance. They stir something in this old ex-Catholic.
Did they? That surprises me .. clearly, they did not have/ use/ know/ understand/ appreciate etc the basics of the Simple Catechism. Never just a series of quirky quizzes and pat answers, rather it is the very easy framework upon which to build a form of understanding (i.e. how to think clearly, not what to say, unthinkingly).
For example, stop now and think through this odd old question: 'What is God?'. The manner by which you begin to puzzle this out is telling; as a Catholic, it is intended to prompt you to question yourself - a shocking concept, I know. That is; what does your choice of answer .. actually 'mean' (for most of us, if honest, it would be something like a mystery, for others, it means a faith that seeks understanding ......aka 'Catholicism').
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...before I would inquire what god is, I would need to be convinced that god exists.
Up to the present day, there has been no good reason to believe in god.
So, it seems to me that should you wish to learn more about yourself, you do not need to spent time thinking about a potentially Non-existing deity. 🙃
@@andreasw.6425 Well said, Andreas .. this simple, subjective assessment is the only genuinely trustworthy argument available as an atheistic response to the concept of God, understood in Catholicism (though, naturally enough, not for the slippery image of 'God' < G / g > or gods formed elsewhere). However, the reason to believe 'in' God (that Catholic understanding) is not only a good one, and a pipterino at that, it is - of itself - objectively insuperable (as the ancient philosophers already understood, independently, by use of ordinary reason; thus, in general, they did not dispute it .. they simply slipped around it via deism, gnosticism, rationalism, scepticism, et al). Because, like it or not, once you begin to realise that you 'are'* - and accept that distinct oddity as such - you also have established the groundwork for what Christians call 'God' (as Aquinas would put it): i.e. Being, per se; after that radical admission, all else to the contrary is evasion or emotion.
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* Yes, that sense of 'being' includes the whole show of some fanciful mind game in conjuring up a 'real' mad scientist (a petty 'god') who invents 'you' - allowing that being = 'you' to imagine that 'you' are the real being, and independent of a more or less inconceivable hyper-controlling mind-gamer (of the decidedly .. umm .. insane i.e. unhealthy kind); or if you prefer a negative spin, the still unsatisfactory (if more healthy) imagination needed in Anselm's 'that than which nothing greater can be conceived' kind of stuff; for if, in either case, it 'is' or indeed 'it' isn't then that altogether petty reality leaves little more to add to the god-talk-game's quirkiness than ruffling a moralist's metaphorical feathers - if you see what I mean.
@@TheLeonhamm -
...I have no good reason to believe that my being requires a god.
There may be bad reasons to believe in god, but who would need those. 😉
@@andreasw.6425 Again, well said there, Andreas. The Catholic understanding of the concept 'God' relates to 'being' per se - therefore, accepting that you 'are' rationally involves that concept < Being > .. the ancient philosophers had a sound understanding of this 'reasoning'; sadly, all of this has long since been lost in the welter of emotion around terms like religion, belief, and faith, et al. I suspect that you have a better (if unexpressed) grasp of these matters than many Catholics today.
Yo! ( Oops! I forgot a .. ;o) )
Wonderful video! I'm forever thankful to Catholicism for radically changing my perception about God. From a distant, nonchalant, passive Being/Power, He became my Father, Brother and Best Friend. Catholicism taught me to approach Prayer as a beautiful process of communication rather than just an obligation. If I was bored and tired of prayer before, now I feel butterflies in my stomach every time I approach Him (sort of like a school crush, haha). I think I'm in love.
Yes, I agree. I am a cradle Catholic, and I will die a Catholic , with God's grace, I pray. Amen.
Maria, me too!
it must be so reassuring to hear someone spin all the evil crap that god does and make you feel all warm and fuzzy about it.
Maria, your comment on you being in love with God is an interesting one. When we read in the Song of Solomon, we see that God is in love with His people( the Shulamite) and that they are chasing each other. And then ofc in the New Testament, there are many mentions of Jesus being the bridegroom to the people which is the lady. So yes, the love between God and us is not just the agape between a father and his child but also a romantic courtship.
Fr. Casey best explanation ever! I too have a calling, but fear my age will keep me out of a convent, I am very Franciscan in my faith and wish to be a Sister, but am going to be 55 this year. I also live in Mexico so it is hard to find a Spiritual director. I attend mass at a beautiful little church in my town, but it has little to no outreach and currently I am the only lecturer because the English Mass is so small in the off season. Any and all advice welcome. I only seek to serve God and I know I am in the capacity that is needed now. But my whole being thirsts for more.
Saint Therese of Lisieux said we need to run to God, no matter what, so I am learning to do it 😊
Be like the little kid when seeing father come from work with God
@@sergiowinter5383 only difference is a father who comes home from work won't torture you for eternity if you don't love him back.
@@jaclo3112 But he would definitely spank the kid as well, love isn't just hugs and kisses.
@@sergiowinter5383 so a father comes home and not only physically assaults his children....but also tortures them for eternity for not loving him back as god would do? Yikes.
A Child that makes mistakes and if forgiven by their Parents represents God forgiveness
I wish my RCIA had covered more about what God is and isn't. I was raised fundamental evangelical where you're taught that God causes earthquakes and all that. God is a punisher. I still struggle with that mindset, even now after being Catholic for over two years. Seeing God as a loving figure who understands my heart better than even I do, is sometimes easy for me to forget.
So you traded one up, huh? Why not go all the way, though, and become a fully formed adult who doesn't need an overbearing father figure?
take away heaven and hell and christianity is just a hobby. carrots and sticks. bribes and grift.
@@HarryNicNicholas What are your hobbies? Mocking others beliefs? How brave.
There is a lot of misinformation out there about everything in this world. Politics, celebrities, world events, history and even religion. Father, your channel is very helpful in spreading the truth. A ray of hope 🌄in the dark, dark world🌌 of the internet. 🌐
Catholic church desinfomated all the time in medieval times and still does so to this day. Even internet is more trustable than catholic church. Or to be more precise religions in general. But its true its nice he stated this less known option on it.
Thank you Father Casey. Blessings and grace on all who believe and bring us Breaking in the Habit. This is food that keeps us on our feet and moving closer to truth and life.
For many years, as one of the RCIA group at our parish I have started my sessions by asking; "Where do you feel is, God and Heaven?" I found that most people looked upward. Then I like to tell them; "God is here, now, and always . . . and where God is, is Heaven!" But fallen as we are, we are barred from seeing Him -- so He came to us if human form; our RCIIA sponsor, Jesus.
Got a prayer request - my son has myocarditis from taking the J&J vaccine. He's in rough shape - please pray for healing, anyone who sees this. Thank you.
God will heal him dear
I believe that God hears and answers prayer. I will pray for your son. 🙏
Of course this was gonna be a trumptard nest. Surprise.
@@Titantr0n No one made it political. Why would you. Pray for him and leave that out of it.
I call bullshit.
There was a great New Yorker cartoon in which there was an image of an older man without a beard, and a couple of angels. One of the angels says to the other "I just can't take him seriously without the beard!" Thanks for this video. I love your analogy of Father as the speaker, Jesus as the word, and the Spirit as the breath. Lovely. I also love the one that depicts the Father as the lover, Jesus as the beloved, and the Spirit as the love that passes between them. Another describes it an invitation to a divine dance. Let the music play on!
my favourite cartoon was in playboy, jesus is looking under the hood of a broken down citroen 2cv and he's saying to the lady driver "it's your carburettor"
which of the many jesus are you talking about? any idea why jesus never wrote anything?
As Bruce Lee once said, 'Be like water.'
I like this video a lot. The God you described is exactly how I hoped He would be; always with us and purely loving and understanding. I normally tend to avoid Christian videos because the type of God they describe often sounds intimidating. So for me to find this video and watch it from start to finish was a real blessing for me.
"The God you described is exactly how I hoped He would be"
it is possible god is the muslim god you know.
it is possible god prefers atheists you know.
have you never used your brain?
Father Casey, after being Buddhist through my teen and young adult years, recently I’ve felt God and my ancestors calling me to the Church. I feel a deep devotion to Mother Mary, but struggle with the Church’s stance on abortion and lgbtq rights, as well as the abuse scandal and how the church responded. I’ve watched your videos for a while now and they’ve helped me a lot and cleared up many things. Thank you father. Please, pray for me
Absolutely an incredible video that is so needed. If people are taught to believe in a moralistic therapeutic deistic version of God they will see that they have no good reasons whatsoever to believe that this being exists. Once people understand what Christians mean be God they will see that we our not debating the existence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster but rather the ultimate cause of reality. Thank you Father for doing Great work!
How do you know that the ultimate cause of reality is the Christian God?
I think it is the most likely explanation that the cause of the universe is the Christian God. I believe this because of a number of reasons. But the first question is does God exist? If God does not exist then the Christian story makes no sense. Do you believe God exist? Do you believe there is a necessary creator who exists outside of the universe and sustains in being?
@@jonahkane7027 No I don't believe God exists and I don't believe there is a necessary creator who exists outside of space and time.
Are you willing to explain some of the reasons you think that God is the ultimate cause of reality?
Of course. I am by no means an expert so while I do love the classical arguments for God I would not do justice to them. So I like to start with the fact that it seems from experience that humans cannot live without feeling like their life truly matters. Humans are unable to go on without a sense of true purpose. Now if atheism is true then it seems to me that there is no ultimate sense of purpose sense their is no ultimate intelligence behind the universe. Now to me it would just seem odd that an absolutely meaningless universe would produce such an intelligent being that longed for and indeed needed ultimate purpose. Now don’t misunderstand my argument. I am not saying atheist can’t feel a sense of purpose. They most certainly can. That is precisely my point everyone needs to feel as if their life truly matters.
@@jonahkane7027 So if atheists can feel a sense of purpose and they do so without God, doesn't that negate your argument that having a sense of purpose can only come from God?
This is the most eloquent expression of the Holy Trinity I have heard. Keep churning out your videos on Catholicism. May the Holy Spirit continue to guide you in your ministry. The mother church needs more priests like you.
Evangelical Protestants need to hear this more than any other group.
.....Catholics need to hear the gospel more.
Christian Catholics meditate on the gospel when they pray the rosary. Hail Mary full of grace The Lord is with you (Luke 28) Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb (Luke 41-42)
Christian Catholics meditate on the gospel when they pray the rosary. Hail Mary full of grace The Lord is with you (Luke 28) Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb (Luke 41-42)
Christian Catholics meditate on the gospel when they pray the rosary. Hail Mary full of grace The Lord is with you (Luke 28) Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb (Luke 41-42)
Christian Catholics meditate on the gospel when they pray the rosary. Hail Mary full of grace The Lord is with you (Luke 28) Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb (Luke 41-42)
I love your sermons, Father. You always give me something to think about.
Have often thought a man's concept of God is limited by two things: The failures of our own earthly father, and our inadequacies in being a father to our children.
God, the Perfect Father for All !
The fulfillment of all, making what is incomplete and inadequate Complete
i love all your videos, but my favorite ones are these...that make me say "ha!" as I scribble notes, with a new discovery that is just mind blowing! It's likened to meeting the love of your life for the first time...again and again. Bless you, father. And thank you!
The Speaker, The Word, The Breath...
Beautiful analogy!
In French, "The Word" is translated as "Le Verbe"... implying Being and Action. Cool, eh?
RIGHT YOU ARE!!!
The Word is translated as La Parole
Yeah. In Portuguese it is translated as “O Verbo”. The Word.
@@addheading Only if the “word” means the literal symbol of alphabetical signs. But that’s not the correct translation for “Logos” in the Greek NT, which in the Latin Vulgata Bible was translated as “Verbum”. In Portuguese, the word (in the alphabetical sense) means “palavra”; in any Bible, either Catholic or Protestant, it is translated as “Verbo”. As it is said in the Prologue of St John, _”No princípio era o Verbo, e o Verbo estava junto de Deus e o Verbo era Deus”._
God bless you!
@@masterchief8179 in both Darby and Louis Segond, it is translated as La Parole.
Loves more than words.
Constantly repeating I love God an I love Jesus makes me feel fake.
I find it hard to adopt that mind set. 🙏🏻
God, spinning the galaxies. Yet taking note of a sparrow falling dead off a tree.
and yet not doing a damn thing.
Did he take note of the millions dead from Covid-19? Maybe he should have done something about that or better yet, never created viruses in the first place.
Life comes from single cells organisms thus you wouldn't be able to complain with out the invention of virus 🦠 and other single cells
@@ordinary_deepfake Huh? A virus isn't a cell and has nothing to do with the evolution from a single celled organism to a multicellular human.
@@tomandrews1429 well that might not necessarily be true. There is some thought that viruses have adjusted our DNA. google "The Viruses that made us human" on the PBS website.
Brilliant video. I'll share it with my friends
Sometimes it's really hard to remember it. You can be busy or just forget. You start to think, that you just must obey God and He is far away, you mustto do something and after that He will hears you and helps. But He always there and you can do nothing without Him. It's really encouranging than you can see Him in your everudaylive
Thank you for reminding)
What a beautiful, meaningful, helpful video!
what a lot of toss. crikey you're easily pleased.
As a Protestant I think one of the biggest reasons I’ve never thought of Catholicism as an option is I’ve never heard a catholic talk this way. Another amazing video!
God inhabits us. That's the catholic mystery that most touches me... No wonder I am a carmelite xD
Amen Sister
C.S. Lewis - "Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.
Thank you for taking the time to post this comment. In an appreciated and I believe needed way, it’s helped me with in seeing the Bible as God’s loving exposition of an unfolding and appropriately challenging salvation history- for humanity as a whole and for the special place He’s carved out for each of us as uniquely prized individuals that He actively wills fullness of life for.
@@jamesparson I am. As a catholic I believe in one God. He inhabits everyone, (At 17:28) but in a particular way the baptized ones. (Jo 14:23)
I'm a secular carmelite and my favorite book from this spirituality is Inner Castle from Saint Teresa de Avila. She explains way better than me.
@@jamesparson Hmmmm. Well, we should treat everyone with the same respect, right? But better to ask: how do you want to be treated? ( I ask with respect, I don't know if the tone is corresponding)
Love, love, love this video. Thank you so much for making it!
It’s difficult to say who God is. We are human and God transcends all humans. He is the creator and master designer of everything that dwells in this planet. He is spirit, physical, and thought. No one is able to look upon him physically. His energy powers the world we occupy spiritually and incarnate. Pray for understanding and godly knowledge 🕊🕊🙏🙏👍👍😇😇❤️❤️🌹🌹🇺🇸🇺🇸
God is knowing
Satan is thinking
@@jamesparson My Father, who is He to you?
Thanks for this message, Father Casey; it was just what I needed to hear this morning. I am a believer, and my flatmate is an atheist. Last evening, deep into the night, we had a long talk, and he brought up every point you made, and he still maintains "there is no God." Faith means nothing to him; it is everything to me. I'm going to share this message with him. I told him I will not try to change his mind; that is something he must do for himself.
well actually it's something YOU have to do for yourself, we atheists can explain stuff, we can't unstupid you though. if you want to go one worshipping a guy who can't control his own creation and decides the easiest way otu is to drown everyone, only to fk up again and again, then carry on. personally my morals are better than the christian gods' i haven't killed a soul.
@@HarryNicNicholas just cause someone is religious doesn't make them stupid. The whole controlling the world might be something to do with freewill??? I guess it depends how people read the Bible too right (allegorically) might change things, I dunno. People's morals can vary greatly within a religion and outside of it. As long as people are being peaceful in their morals and actions that is a good thing to aim for surely? Fellow atheist :)
Loved the speaker analogy of the Trinity. Brilliant!
The try this; "The Father is love, the Son is the Beloved, the Love is the Holy Spirit!"
The analogy doesn't make much sense. Is Father Casey saying that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are created by God, as the voice and breath are created by the speaker?
@@tomandrews1429 Fr. Casey is describing the missionary nature of the Trinity which sounds in the economic trinitarian theology of Rahner and Moltmann.
@@fatherscottalbergate Huh? How does that answer my question?
@@tomandrews1429 He is describing the functional nature of the three persons: each serves a differing function in mission to the world but are still united in their nature as the one God. The problem in explaining the Trinity in this way is that it sounds like three separate persons. Language can never fully capture the essence of this concept and always creates difficulties the more that it tries to explain. I recommend reading some articles explaining Jurgen Moltmann's theology of the Trinity. Moltmann was a German camp survivor who converted to Christianity after WWII. His understanding of God reflects a very personal struggle to understand and accept God in consideration of the horrors he personally witnessed. I think Fr. Casey does a pretty darn good job explaining such a difficult concept as the Trinity.
I could not put into words how needed this video right now Fr. Casey! Thank you so so so muuuch for enlightening us. Praying this riches more and more people who need the correct understanding of who God is. Praise God for this! ♥️
Hola amigos de habla hispana !! Yo
Leí un libro que se llama “las buenas cabras” !! Habla de la relación con Dios en nuestra vida. Me hizo llorar y entender muchas cosas.
Gracias, Anita
My philosophy professor used the fridge analogy so we could understand the way three persons are just one essence.
You forget another idea of God: for the ancient gnosticism, God is bad and cruel, and it is for this reason that the world contains too misfortunes. Currently, christians have never bring proof that it is not the case
Because evil is the absence or deviation from the Good. Just as darkness is the absence of light, cold the absence of warmth, and death the absence of life.
@@joshuabarnard5702 That's not an explanation for all the misfortunes whom happens in the world. God created the world and His Providence is the origin of all the events. So, if God was good, all the events would be good also. But it is not the case
@@letheatrecreepy3371 If beings have free will, then they can deviate from the perfect good of God's will. My point is that evil or sin is a falling short of the good, not a metaphysical entity in itself. Read some Neoplatonism.
@@joshuabarnard5702 You tell about free will, but the main misfortunes are not caused by men or by their sins. The worst misfortunes are more like natural disasters, or untreatable diseases. These afflictions are the work of God and His divine Providence, nobody else (not the men, and not the devil no more)
@@letheatrecreepy3371 Within Christianity, natural disasters, diseases, etc. are the work of the devil. The devil is "the god of this world" and has dominion over the earth. Humanity lost our dominion at the Fall and became subjects of the devil and the other "powers and principalities" as we joined in their rebellion against God. That is why God became man. That He could conquer sin, death, and the devil on our behalf, and free us from their power.
How do you know what the "actual" god is like? How can you be sure?
Is this a new studio? Looks great.
Of course I was interested in the content too;)
Nope, been here about a year!
This video touched me to the point of tears. I love God so much.
King Arthurs God in the intro. This is gonna be great.
Casey clearly doesn't understand humour.🙄
Thank you father. This is the best description of the Trinity I have heard.
God is a spiritual being he is everywhere at once.
He is the good and evil then.
Very nice video Fr. Casey. I find it very useful, and well reasoned. Keep these kind of contributions coming. Thanks!
It seems to me that if a divine being exists, it would be extremely difficult if not impossible for our mortal minds to comprehend it. At the very least, comprehending it would be the work of a lifetime. For that reason alone it seems obvious that the oversimplified Hollywood version of God can't be all there is to it!
My thoughts are of not your thoughts, my ways are of not your ways. I forgot which verse but that just explains we cannot understand all things. Even Jesus admitted that only the Father knows of the hours of a end of days.
@@daninspiration4064 Well, he is taking his sweet time, for sure. If we trust modern physics, then the universe has about 10^120 years to go. But then, again, a thousand years are like a day for him, so by his time it's only 2.74*10^114 years in heaven. That's much better, isn't it?
"The Lord is the Everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom."
(Book of Isaiah, Bible)
@@Love-jf7rs Well, he has 10^114 of his years to go. I hope he has good cable or he will be very bored.
@@jamesparson What is difficult to comprehend about slavery? People practiced it for thousands of years and the gods always approved. They did approve as recently as the 1850s in the American South. I am pretty sure they still approve in certain American churches.
I prefer the St Patrick explanation of the trinity, a clover or plant with three leaves distinct from one another yet they are part of the same plant.
in entertainment they keep portraying God as a greek god, it's weird how consistent that is.
Or Nordic, Odin.
Because he is a Greek god, of course! In the Greek myths, he is named as one of the many who overthrew the titans. Backed up by the bible itself, which names God as one amongst many. Know any other pantheons kicking about in that time? The Roman gods were also the Greek gods retold, the Norse gods likewise though of course, many years later. If you believe that the bible is the word of god, then you believe that god told you that he was one of the Greek gods.
@@PippetWhippet no. Also I was talking about a distant god at the mount olympus that from time to time meddles in humans affairs.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Father Casey! Your videos are so comprehensive and well thought out. Someone's been doing homework! Keep up the great work and let's all join together to save this crazy world! btw I'm a 60 yr. old lifetime Catholic and went to Catholic school for 12 years (1--12). Thanks again!
It is difficult for older people to envision the loving Father that is being understood today. Older people have engravened into their minds "God is going to punish you". That is what God was and is to most older people. If you wanted love and understanding you went to the Mother and intersession because God was just about punishing you. You went to God to ask for things. He was the one with the wallet and if you were good may open it.
Please don't ever hide your face behind a beard. You speak truth, and I see it in your face. Thank you for being you.
"Who on Earth has never heard of god?"
People on Sentinel island would seem a good bet.
North Korea Lao Perhaps Russia to some extent the deeper in u go the less religious more abstract it becomes
Very good young man. Be Blessed.
What is shown wherein the idea God isn't fiction?
Currently, lots of claims, but no substance.
As an ex atheist and scientist, I recommend to go back to basics.
Two questions:
Do you believe in truth? A sort of innate compass that allows you to relate to truth greater than you can ever fully grasp in such a way that when you do grasp elements of truth you experience epiphany?
Do you know love to be similar to truth? Maybe even the same thing we describe with a different word when the subject is other beings? When the the dots connected by truth are people?
Well if you answered yes then you already do know God. God is truth. God is love. Words and arguments are just abstract signposts - ever beside the point they point to. The truth deeper than natural reality itself needs you to choose to relate to it yourself. If you have in your heart the humility to accept whatever truth is, then ask what you know as truth/love to reveal itself to you in precisely the manner in which only truth/love would know you need. Then have patience and follow the signs. Don't worry what anyone will think of you. The truth shall set you free.
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I am familiar with Anton Flew and find his conclusion to be unwarranted due to there being no actual evidence for theological claims.
@@colmwhateveryoulike3240
Truth is an adjudication of a proposition (see Propositional Logic). Love is a concept entailing a variety of different notions about the mental and/or actions of individuals denoted as being in love.
I would agree that the term God denotes a concept, but I do not denote concepts as existent, since they are AT BEST descriptive of something that may exist.
@@MyContext That's fine and apologies I'm a biologist not a philosopher but I'm speaking existentially/experientially. If you can relate to the concept of truth/love then take a gamble and run the experiment I recommended and see what happens.
It isn't unreasonable to suppose that an objective source of truth exists and even though I was a committed atheist with a naturalist bias, when I sacrificed a lot and was willing to sacrifice everything in search for truth and a meaningful way to impact our environmental issues, what initially appeared to be a "source code" pattern spoke back to me by shaping nature in ways that eventually became statistically impossible to dismiss as random. A conversation developed and evolved from there and I know the same will happen to you if you seek it because that's who God is.
@@MyContext Also a question related to you philosophical definition of truth as an adjudication of a proposition - does adjudication demand an adjudicator in that scenario, and is it objective or subjective if so?
I'm on a journey to find the Truth, and your videos are so helpful. Thank you.
That's Arianism Patrick! Jesus and the Holy Ghost are not creations of the Father like word and breath are creations of the speaker :P That's a BAD ANALOGY Patrick
The Trinity is a mystery not understandable by human reason and analogies fail to capture it. We worship one God in Trinity and Trinity and unity, neither confusing the persons nor dividing the substance. Each distinct person is God and Lord, equal in glory, co-equal in majesty. Or in mathematical terms 1 infinite being= 3 infinite persons and vice versa. Also go watch Lutheran Satire :p
As usual so great every word Father gets us closer to God.
Thank you again
What if Monty Python’s depiction of god is actually accurate and Fr. Casey got it wrong? Since god is so nebulous and ill-defined, everyone’s idea of god is just as right as anyone else’s.
Don't see how your last statement follows
God is love
Plz make a video about Islam
Jesus Christ: "Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul;
rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in Hell."
In personal prayers I put this line at the end of every prayer I do " I ask this through Jesus Christ your son our Lord Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the holy spirit one God forever and ever Amen" I got the general idea of it when I'm at church serving as an altar server almost every Sunday from 7am to 10am I'm at church and at 1pm to 4pm for weekly meetings and at Saturdays from 1pm to 6pm I pretty much kinda memories the mass itself during the pandemic however i wasn't allowed by my parents to go to church considering I'm only 12 at that time and now I'm 13 I'm hoping this December I can go back to serving God. And greetings from an altar server here at the Philippines and to God be the glory God bless.
God bless you, your choice --"I ask..." -- is a really good one, God bless you as you serve at His altar and always.
what do think about the horrors of the residential schools in Canada run by the chaotic church and causing unbelievable harm to many ‘students’ such as the unreported deaths and rampant sexual abuse of children by priest
Those were the ones not following Christ properly.
Judas was one of the 12 Apostles of Christ…
There is such a thing as satanists who go to become pastors...
@@Love-jf7rs look I can understand one bad apple but it was institutionalized my father worked with the reconciliation process and he told me a lot of messed up stories. And he was a Catholic. The church would be much better conceived if it opened up to the mistakes that all humans do instead of pushing it onto Satan Because all this was done in the name of God not Satan
8:06 "Your image of God creates you." ~ Fr. Richard Rohr
I was looking for the Spaghetti Monster ...
So i am watching the royal family arrive at the Ascot races in all their grandeur. Royalty who go to church probably a few times a week; and then some poor human might be lying on a concrete sidewalk dribbling blood and vomit from the corner of their mouth after consuming a concoction of methylated spirits and cheap wine and possibly in the last days of their tortured life: undeniably a common analogy. You preach that god comforts the poor and pours blessings on them. Am i missing something. Can someone explain?
It'll be confirmation-bias no matter how they try to approach it. Either something like "That unfortunate person didn't have enough faith"
OR "God is blessing them by Ending Their Suffering Sooner rather than later." OR they'll give Ye Olde "Free-Will" Defense/Theodicy to say that the person Chose to suffer.
And typically they'll follow one, or more, of those up with something like "You have to Believe [Faithfully] AND Ask for Help from God"...
All the while they'll ignore every single instance of people doing exactly that and yet receiving no such help whatsoever.
@@TechySeven Confirmation-you are joking of course!
Of course there isn't just one God. There is the Jewish god, Protestant God, the Catholic God, Irish God, Mormon god.
Just to name a few.
i mean your not wrong, but your not right either
They’re all one and the same. Different groups, same God.
@@Love-jf7rs Having been both a Catholic, and a Mormon.
I seen two different God's, and not just one.
@@pattisonpattison3639 Both Mormon/Church of LDS and mainstream Christianity believe in God the Father-Creator.
They do differ with the view on incarnation of God in Jesus in the Trinitarian sense. Is this what you’re referring to?
Also, LDS position on God’s divinity doctrine is shifting in focus from before…
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As for Judaism: it's understandable when people say God in Judaism is different from God in Christianity, but how do you say God in Protestantism and Catholicism is different?
Also, what do you mean by the "Irish God" -Ireland is
majority Catholic-Christian.
God is that wise older neighbor/smart friend/loving caring widow all in one. Always with you ready to listen and advise. Quick to help when you get hurt and swift to laugh with you when you find yourself doing something stupid. And is glad when you take time to enjoy creation, be it a drop of dew or a star filled sky.
How did one so young become so wise? Thank you so much.
Good to know.
Thank you for sharing this with us!!
This is a fantastic video, though one aspect of it doesn't land correctly with me-when you refer to God as "a being." God is not a mere being, rather God is Being itself, Existence itself.
Exodus 3:14
And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “This is what you shall say to the sons of Israel: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ” (NASB)
And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you. (KJV)
"If you love Me, you will keep My commandments." Not, if you keep my commandments, then I'll love you.
I wish there was more revealed about the nature of the Holy Spirit. Also, I like to think of the "God Head" as 3 separate beings but one in purpose, but I do so knowing that it is an oversimplification of God. I think that a deeper understanding of the nature of God can come through prayerful study, but at the moments in my life when I feel closer to God I feel a more transcendent understanding, a "quickening". I suppose I won't fully understand God until I become like him.
No, I dont know what a "god" is. Simply because all the "claims" about that thing was not giving me any information at best, because, it was either, illogical, abstract, could not be verified, meant nothing, didnt provide any kind of information, irrefutable and such. So, that it. Also, I couldnt care less if a god exist or not, can I be a good person without believe in a god? yes? then I dont care, I dont need to waste time with frivolous search of something that may happens after my life.
These UA-cam videos are awesome ! Thank you
I'm so happy I don't believe in that Bronze Age mythology and fairy tales. Every member of every cult claim their god is the true one, christianity has no exception.
God bless you brother
As an evangelical Christian I have to wonder why the Catholic Church does not believe in the rapture and tribulation. Can you explain?
Do you think the trinity was taught in the OT and where was this missionary work in the OT?
Much love from your Orthodox brothers and sisters!
Thank you for this great explanation of God. I especially like the way you explained the Trinity, I teach RCIA and have stumbled in trying to explain it but your explanation is easier to conceptualice and profound at the same time. Thank you for your vocation!
i bet you can't explain it to the next person though, like me.
if my soul is eterrnal, am i the same age as god? where was my soul before i was born? where was jesus soul before he was born? if jsus is immortal how can he die? if he isn't immortal was he part of the trinity before he was killed? it's all bullshit you know, one big scam dreamed up by a drunk.
People: God only does good and helps the afflicted :D
Jews half of the old testament: Well...
Christians half of the new testament: Actually...
Ive always over-simplified it to a kind of phrase, "If you can feel God within you then it's the Holy Spirit; if you can shake God's hand, that's Jesus Christ; and everything else is Father."
I think thats actually a type of historical heresy but it definitely helps me categorize it lmao 🤣😂
That was beautiful explanation 💚🕊️🙏 Thank You
With Jesus we get a few selected moments of a life that was active on mission for three years and was living as a human for thirty.
Father, I happen to be reading Frank Sheed's 'Theology for Beginners' right now. He goes into this question quite deeply.
Does he answer the question why god had to invent the higgs boson?
Why is the Vatican calls the Seven Hills City?
Hello, Father Casey. Some people compare God to the Wizard of Oz. What do you make of this?
I can’t help but think that Westerners picture God as an old bearded man in the sky because that’s how so many artists over the centuries depicted Him after the Church decided it could ignore the Second Commandment.
Great video. Great message. God is much more than some outdated notion about a lower demiurge. Thank you so much for your dedicated work explaining Catholosism.