Bishop Barron on “All The Light We Cannot See”

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[@sarcasticsugar4466]

What a beautiful discourse. I loved this novel and I loved your commentary. Thank you so much.

[@reginasmith9155]

Sometimes I am overwhelmed at the beauty of God's truths. It's too much for my heart to contain. This video makes my heart overflow. Thank you Bishop Barron and thank our dear Lord!

[@milaszczecina5553]

wow this comment touched me deeply

[@reginasmith9155]

+Mila Szczecina Thank you ; )

[@kianadavenport474]

Bishop Barron ...SHAME ON YOU! To call someone an 'albino' is pure ignorance and insulting. You should say he 'suffers from albinism.' All your knowledge amounts to ZERO if you still insult minorities and disabled peoples. Your supposed to be a role model...so get it together!!

[@Lerian_V]

@@kianadavenport474 For you to spell out the word is purely hypocritical and ignorant. This is no space for micro aggression.

[@williewaynejennings4672]

God is love he iives

[@patrickbinter3715]

I don't understand why these atheists want to know God through, let's say, the newest branch of cosmology. What a weak god that would be! A god that is "out there beyond the cosmos"? Seriously? You have the arrogance to think you can use whatever scientific instrument it may be to tack Yahweh up in a physics textbook? No. Faith is much more wonderful and mysterious than that! Thank God!

[@tinman1955]

+Patrick Binter Why would you not want to know God empirically? Faith may be wonderful and mysterious but it seems to me that without objective evidence all you've got left is a believe-it-or-not story, however inspiring. It's fine for a professional scholar like Bishop Barron to send us to Aquinas' contingency argument and any number of books but who's ever found God in the pages of a book? In my experience the people who have strong, enduring faith have - or think they have - a personal relationship with God. They claim to KNOW God, not merely to know about God....and what could be more empirical than that?

[@patrickbinter3715]

+Tin Man Good points! I'm of course, in my last post, talking about philosophical problems, and the atheists labeling God as a 'pie in the sky". But if you've had spiritual experiences, as you and I can witness to, then the empirical evidence for God is certainly in no short supply! Thanks for the response! Totally a Holy Spirit comment :-)

[@tinman1955]

+Patrick Binter Actually I do not get spiritual experiences so far as I can tell. I have no idea how it's humanly possible to distinguish between "spiritual" and emotional.

[@patrickbinter3715]

Tin Man i think if you're in tune enough with God, you'll see the situations he's put you in to help others, etc. Of course, it might not hit you until after the fact!

[@andrewrussell2845]

In nature, there is a caterpillar in which a wasp (Glyptapanteles) implants up to 80 eggs, which subsequently develop into larvae, bursting from the caterpillar and extinguishing its life in the most brutal, gory and pain-filled manner, as a cascade of pupal life forms emerge. What a caring God you have!

[@TolkienStudy]

What a beautiful teaching! The visible and invisible, the question in CS Lewis' "Til We Have Faces" of why Holy Places must be dark places, etc., all put in an excellent frame through the Bishop's engagement with art and literature and exhautling them is fantastic and important work. Please keep up the great work!

[@elisanathalieheine7671]

Dear Bishop Barron, this is so beautiful it made me cry. I have watched so many videos of yours and every single time I find myself profoundly moved, something within myself that resonates so strongly with the truthfulness, wisdom and humanity in which you speak. And what a joy it is to listen to a mind of such intelligence and taste. I come from a family rather opposed to religion and yet felt from an early age on that this limitation of thought stifled the fullness of truth, that there was so much more to existence than what I was being told, not even merely believing in the transcendent but in some strange way KNOWING, entering a direct, personal relationship to God. I was experiencing the invisible which was indeed the most real of all experiences. That which I could not grasp was seemingly paradoxically the very thing I could grasp the most. Now hearing you speak is like recognition, like when listening to classical music, reading a great piece of literature or watching people act in unconditional love, the kind of beauty that shakes, shapes and refines the soul. Your commentary put me yet again in awe of the divine and filled me with gratitude and the sense of being fully alive. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the truly animating and inspiring work you are doing. God bless you.

[@thehistorywatcher]

It's a beautiful book. I've read it twice and am working on reading number three.

[@QuisutDeusmpc]

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of." Blaise Pascal

[@seancrockette]

I just finished reading "All The Light We Can Not See" last night. I became so addicted to reading this book, I averaged about 40 pages a night. I got this book for Christmas because I talked about it so much after watching your review. I totally agree with your analysis. This book has many Catholic themes. I would not have read this book if I did not watch your review, thank-you Bishop Barron. Please keep reviewing more books. I need to add more to my reading list. I enjoy your videos and look forward to them every week. Keep up the good work!

[@repm1959]

I totally agree with Regina Smith. I am overwhelmed with God love and beauty. Thank you Bishop Barron. You explain it so well. It gives me such peace to know that GOD is so real.

[@susanrobb3004]

I too loved this book, and have an actually read it twice. Like a great work of art, you see something different every time you look at it. Your discussion, made me think about so much more than I originally had after two readings. Beautiful!

[@Yolduranduran]

This is such a wonderful phrase. It's what I love about believing in God. The fact that there is so much more. Awesome, supernatural, beyond, all mighty. WOW!!!!!!

[@garrisgraham1153]

I always like to figure out the meaning of the title of a book. I appreciate your discourse on visible & invisible. I will refer to it during our church book club discussion of the book.

[@highburyponds9245]

Nicely said Bishop Barron! I read this book last year and I think it's one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. I was also shocked when I found out how young Anthony Doer is! I look forward to many more years of this man's talented writing. Blessings.

[@alessandromendonca9401]

Bishop Barron, have you heard about Alex Alcantara's novel "The Gadarene"? Have anyone read it? By the way: what exquisite review!

[@pyayaXC]

I've bought/read this book on account of your review. I thank you for the recommendation and the author for gracing us with such beautiful prose.

[@trishknaut1031]

Praise God for you Bishop! Your insights remind me of the gift of "discerment of spirits" from the Holy Sprit with visions & spiritual frequencies where we experience the wondrous presence of God whose Love is like the Quantim Physics Energy Light that melts the fear & anger pathways in our brain to let us understand how much our Father God loves us!

[@fredrickmuguro8874]

Actually there is so much light that not unless we are attentive we may not conscious to see it.

[@bradsebastian5909]

A wonderful, yet problematic take on one of my favorite books. I think you are way too harsh on the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was not an attack on God. It was an attack on the human abuse of God. In many ways, it was about economics. Voltaire, Locke, and ultimately Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson weren't trying to eliminate God from the conversation. They were all simply trying to eliminate the manipulative torture, oppression, starvation, and utter nonsense created under the guise of God's will. In many ways, they were"unwilling "Christians". As Catholics, "we" should be a little bit more cognizant of our role in human history. Papal history is not great. No matter how much theology you want to bake in, the Vatican is often a bad actor. A Jesuit Pope was a step in the right direction.

[@Phil-p7p]

Neither atheists nor scientists subscribe to the notion that for something to be 'real' it has to be 'visible'. Indeed it was scientists and atheists who demonstrated that there are also invisible things that are real ... sound waves, the non-visible spectrum, gravity etc etc. All these things can be demonstrated to actually exist. God on the either hand is neither visible nor demonstrable in any way.

[@elenafeick9459]

I'll add it to my list of reading material, Bishop Barron. :) Right after Interior Castle... (psst... in Canada the Nicene Crede is only recited a few times a year.... otherwise it's the Apostle's Creed.... cause Canada is special lol.... )

[@ipso-kk3ft]

Anyone here with an interest in "holocaust literature" by they way? I once had a great (and religious) professor who was an expert and great enthusiast of the genre.

[@niallhogan1565]

Where is God now ? This is having a serious effect on my faith. I don’t know what to say or think

[@dynamic9016]

Interesting.

[@MSpilot008]

St.Malo looks like a beautiful city.

[@dinhhoangtu311]

Love your video as always!

[@KvDenko]

Love what you did with that!

[@mrdongiri]

I have always wondered why most of the atheists come from christian back ground but not from any other religious back grounds. Why do people from other religion tend to remain in their faith but Christians give up their faith more readily.

[@pokeshorts3239]

Well my decision took a long time I didn't do it on a win

[@filthyswit]

+Jacob Maybe you see that because you live in the Western world where the majority of people are Christian. Also in the West we are allowed to follow our hearts and minds more freely than in a predominantly Islamic land. Not to mention we are now in the Information Age where we have more knowledge to at our disposal than ever before.

[@moonasha]

+Jacob well, there's no atheists in saudi arabia for example, because the wahhabists would chop yer head off if you announced it... Christians are allowed to question their faith without fear of death

[@guitardds]

You've never heard the term "Jack Muslim"?

[@pokeshorts3239]

+guitardds no what's that?

[@praxidescenteno3233]

Wow the Best! 😇😇😇

[@kevinfarris3763]

I know this is unrelated to the video but I need to ask you a question do you think that JRR Tolkien could someday be a saint please comment back if you can I would really appreciate it and I'd also like to see a video love you explaining the apocalypse in a Catholic perspective

[@tonydarcy1606]

How does our Bishop know that God made all things ? Is it because of stuff written in the Bible ? That collection of fairy stories written by anonymous authors over several centuries, before being edited corrected etc many time and redacted to what the RCC now has as God's Word ? Or does the Bishop have some other insight into how God made everything ?

[@bennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn]

his belief in God isnt simply based on scripture alone.. men believed in God long before the books of the Bible were ever written...watch his videos on Aquinas.. may help

[@tonydarcy1606]

+Ben Boudreaux So belief in God is based on scripture and belief ? Why should I have to acquaint myself with the ramblings of Aquinas, several centuries ago, in order to believe in God ? Do the Jews and Muslims accept Aquinas as an authority ?

[@bennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn]

Tony D'Arcy I'm just saying if you watch Barron's videos pertaining to Aquinas, it may answer some of your questions. Tony I don't know what Jews and Muslims think about Aquinas, I haven't spoken to any Jews or Muslims recently.

[@tonydarcy1606]

So God made all things according to Bishop Barron. Is there any evidence for such a claim ? As to God being unseen because He is contingent, how does our Bishop know about Him ? Apart from Church teachings that is.

[@BP26P]

Bishop Barron said that God is *non-* contingent. With regards to "evidence," if one reduces what is real to that which is empirically verifiable, then not only does one get rid of God, but also of evidence and even empirical verification itself, for all of these notions are empirically non-verifiable. But if there's more to reality than that which is empirically verifiable, then one can come to the conclusion - via reason alone and apart from any Church teaching - that even the eyes through which we are reading these words exist here and now only because a Reality that is Be-ing itself is actualizing their potential to be here and now.

[@tonydarcy1606]

+BP26P Apologies for missing out the "non" in contingent. Whatever, apparently your God is so absolutely everywhere that we poor mortals can't see Him ? A completely silly idea. As is your idea that requiring empirical evidence not only does away with God but also evidence and empirical evidence itself ! How do you reach that conclusion ? Unlike you, I have no faith that your God ( or any god) exists. However, I do have good reason to believe that the speed of light is approx 300,000 km /p s, or 186,000 mps. I also have good reasons to believe that much of the *light we cannot see*, has now been seen by humans with the help of man made technology. This of course includes the newly seen gravitational waves, and before that the Higgs boson, radio waves, infra red, microwave, x rays etc. I'm afraid I agree with Stephen Hawking that modern science has made much of philosophy redundant, so for all your "reasoning" and assertion of God as some sort of prime mover, the argument remains entirely unconvincing to me. Assertion is not good enough these days.

[@BP26P]

The claim that all of reality is reducible to that which is empirically verifiable is itself not empirically verifiable, and is thus self-refuting. You have "good reasons to *believe* . . ." ? That you employ the language of *faith* in the context of science isn't that all surprising: the scientific enterprise can't be meaningfully emptied of its fiduciary character. The notion that modern science has made much of philosophy "redundant" is itself a *philosophical* claim - not a scientific one - that ironically threatens to saw off the very branch that science sits on. Science is radically dependent on philosophical first principles that science assumes and can't justify, like non-contradiction and causality, without which science collapses into unintelligibility.

[@tonydarcy1606]

+BP26P You hide behind a fog of words. Your Bishop claims that God made everything. That is a claim about reality. OK, where is the evidence of such a claim ? If you are so disparaging about science and the scientific method, then what are you doing using a computer ?

[@BP26P]

Your question, "Where is the evidence of such a claim," rests on your *non-* scientific *assumption* that if something's not empirically verifiable, then it's not real - a *belief* (to use your language) that's devoid of any empirically verifiable evidence whatsoever. Such "reasoning" would make cause-and-effect total nonsense. It's therefore incoherent as a philosophy and as anti-scientific as you can get, and I stand on good grounds to challenge it. I don't disparage science and the scientific method. In fact, I value it highly. On the other hand, your non-scientific assumption about reality does the exact opposite: it ends up making science impossible as a source of genuine knowledge.