Julian of Norwich and the English Mystics by Fr. Benedict Groeschel. Lecture Date: March 12th, 2006. www.iiculture.o...
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@hanawaykp3 жыл бұрын
Fr. Benedict was a friend of mine. An amazing man. Humble and spiritual. During a retreat at Trinity Retreat House in Larchmont, NY I literally watched him levitate during a talk. And I don’t believe in such things, but I saw it. It was so natural. Fr. Benedict, please pray for us.
@citydrums75253 жыл бұрын
How much did he lift off the ground?
@lambchop19603 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful holy man
@John-tx8gs3 жыл бұрын
I visited at his place he was staying near the end of his life. My brief encounter... I walked in and saw a picture of him and Mother Teresa on his fridge, and jokingly said, pointing to Mother Teresa, “Who’s that Fr.?” He said immediately, “Yea right! Rather, who is that guy!” Pointing to himself.
@maureenbanks37023 жыл бұрын
I believe you
@berniefleming27662 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful testimony of a beautiful holy priest. Oh how we miss him and Fr Andrew Apostoli
@furusaogoge3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful teacher! I'm a Protestant. I believe the title Theotokos! I LOVE the title! I think his story highlights the fact that we Protestants don't do enough to explain theological terms. Once there is understanding, there is usually agreement. May the Holy Spirit lead us into full Communion with God and each other and may we follow! Thank you for posting this!!!! Blessings to you and yours!
@eleanorhouston2232 жыл бұрын
God bless you!
@furusaogoge2 жыл бұрын
@@eleanorhouston223 Your message is a blessing! May God bless you as well!
@margaretsleator55305 жыл бұрын
I pray that one day this Holy Man will be made Saint ☘️
@Anthonyinkz4 жыл бұрын
He is just a man reading from a book, many of us can read, should we all be called a saint.
@lorrettaprest86403 жыл бұрын
Amen 🙏
@Kitiwake3 жыл бұрын
@@Anthonyinkz you don't know who he was.
@mortalclown38122 жыл бұрын
@@Anthonyinkz This is the hill upon which you wish to die? Mercy.😂
@michaelj51682 жыл бұрын
@@Anthonyinkz yes may we all become saints!!!
@salmavillagomez2423 жыл бұрын
I miss you father Benedict! Please pray for my conversion and my family.
@patriciaware57885 жыл бұрын
We learn so much from this holy priest!
@yankee13765 жыл бұрын
A good man and a talented speaker. God Bless.
@myrnaleon84645 жыл бұрын
I miss your wisdom and great speaker of Truth/ Goodness / and Beauty. Sprinkled with human New York humor. 🙏🏼🤓❤️🇺🇸
@jessiesnider77044 жыл бұрын
@@myrnaleon8464 bibi
@DavidNWalker3 жыл бұрын
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, the sinner.
@markmitchell85395 жыл бұрын
Father Benedict was one of great spiritual guides. If there was something he didn’t know about Christian spirituality I’d be very surprised.
@ritaloscalzo20624 жыл бұрын
I miss. HIM soooo may he R.I.P.
@ritaloscalzo20624 жыл бұрын
No one today is like him
@dominikostheotopoulis68775 жыл бұрын
Some great authoritative teaching on the history of the church in England.
@jocelynyared21505 жыл бұрын
Jesus Christ is fully human and fully divine. One person with two natures.
@lmtt1232 жыл бұрын
Yes and none of it accurate
@TracyW-me8br3 жыл бұрын
Interesting. During the 1900 there were so few a priests in Mexico, If they were there, They were underground. There were instances where lay people were allowed to perform/witness some limited sacraments like marriage and baptism and probably funerals. It’s really interesting to read about. I’ve read a couple books on the Cristero Wars
@eleanorhouston2232 жыл бұрын
Please remember, including myself, to pray for Father Benedict's soul. He was concerned that after he died, people would not pray for him,probably thinking he would go straight to Heaven.
@karenalberini7147 ай бұрын
I pray for him everyday and also ask his intercession for me. He taught me so much during very trying times. I wanted to share his lectures with many protestants and Catholics who left the church. They were too focused on being right. My goal is not to be right but to share the gift of the Catholic Church and the many deep layers of the mystery of the Holy Trinity. There is such a superficial understanding of the Catholic Church and it's doctrines. The Holy Spirit if you allow will take you deep into really knowing God and not just believing in God. Seek with all your heart mind and soul.
@sandie1572 жыл бұрын
I love the Dies Ira. It's beautiful and poignant and yes the possibility of hell is scary. But if Father would remember fully it is a most hopeful prayer calling upon God to have mercy on the soul of the person who has diedand by the end of it ones is comforted.. There is no harm in facing the Truth. I had the joy of meeting Father in Washington when I was a student 😊 Such a gifted, wise and gentle man. He had so much presence.
@marcokite2 жыл бұрын
agreed! he was a very holy man but i fear that he often backed away from talking about hell and judgement and he seemed to water down purgatory.
@shafur33 жыл бұрын
Amen. Such a beautiful teaching. RIP🙏
@almeggs32475 жыл бұрын
Ive learned about many English mystics and martyrs on MARYS DOWRY!
@iampolkadot3 жыл бұрын
Funny because there’s not much talk on Julian of Norwich
@SedonaMTB3 жыл бұрын
How many sirens expressed during this all to short conversation. FR. G never flinched.
@francisbritto89752 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed every word.Enlightenig talk.
@padraicglynn26573 жыл бұрын
A great man
@18Tonks6 ай бұрын
That background he went over regarding Benedict 16, and council, and the mass becoming like a pep rally... Wow!
@mortalclown38122 жыл бұрын
Rest in peace, Father
@francisbritto89752 жыл бұрын
A lovely enlightens talk.
@markwurtz87593 жыл бұрын
It would be helpful if a list of the books and authors mentioned were provided.
@lmtt1232 жыл бұрын
He wouldn't have liked that! You would be able to contradict him!
@francesbernard2445 Жыл бұрын
I like this sermon about how the day of pentecost gifts believers in the U.K. too both in the past and today. You can recognize them by how they are so welcoming to newcomers and how unassuming they are towards people who come from different backgrounds than themselves. North America has been taking in English and the French believers whom the English mystics were loyal to as well for way longer than the secular world acknowledges. I am already onto fakes instead who only pretend to be welcoming to newcomers.
@jethrobradley7850 Жыл бұрын
Fr. Benedict speaks eloquently about the history and context of Christian mysticism but appears to belittle the author of the Cloud of Unknowing and, more importantly, to miss or deny the very point of mysticism itself - that a person may, through contemplation, have a direct relationship with God.
@daniellencooper79222 жыл бұрын
All things are moving back toward God
@juliepuhr23164 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this. Is this talk on a podcast anywhere?
@mortalclown38122 жыл бұрын
Check the date. That would be a 'no'.
@ek6321 Жыл бұрын
It appears St. Augustine describes a shared passing experience -- shared with his dying mother.
@cecejones27605 жыл бұрын
Intercede for me!
@Kitiwake3 жыл бұрын
England began sinking from the time of Henry VIII.
@mortalclown38122 жыл бұрын
@@Kitiwake.🤦
@bayreuth792 жыл бұрын
I wonder if the voluntarism of William of Occam was derived in some sense from Sunni Islam? Ash'arism teaches the exact same doctrine: God's will determines what is good and will.
@australopithecusafarensis8927 Жыл бұрын
Sola scriptura = Quran envy
@bayreuth79 Жыл бұрын
@@australopithecusafarensis8927 What are you talking about
@australopithecusafarensis8927 Жыл бұрын
@@bayreuth79 Occam’s disciple Luther also followed this trend of admiring the richer and more powerful Muslims
@bayreuth79 Жыл бұрын
@@australopithecusafarensis8927 You think that sola scriptura came out of an admiration for the Quran?
@australopithecusafarensis8927 Жыл бұрын
@@bayreuth79 yes
@jocelynyared21505 жыл бұрын
Jesus Christ is fully man and fully divine. One person with two natures united in hyposthasis.
@DianneElizabeth644 жыл бұрын
How appalled you would be today.
@australopithecusafarensis8927 Жыл бұрын
Saints don’t lose their peace
@MrResearcher1222 жыл бұрын
Those Medieval mystics were working within a Norman Latin World, as much as an English one. But good lecture, within the framework of Catholic piety and 19th century national identities.
@marcokite2 жыл бұрын
no it was English
@MrResearcher1222 жыл бұрын
@@marcokite Cloud of Unknowing was indebted to Pseudo-Dionysius and a Sorbonne Irish or Scottish Scholar. Works wrote in Latin and Greek. Though the books were written in Middle English, they bore the heavy print of the Latin heritage.
@louisaccardi68083 жыл бұрын
No it wasn't Martin Luther, but John Calvin who came up with the idea of extreme predestination. Luther came behind Calvin in some since on that topic, but not as extreme. Further, it was John Calvin's interpreters who held to his theology who did worse yet in teaching the doctrine of double predestination. Double predestination is the belief that God ordains certain individuals to salvation and nothing will alter it, and that He ordains others to eternal damnation, which is unalterable. It was the Calvinists'' that came after him that were the worse offenders. St. Augustine taught predestination, but not as Calvin thought of it.
@sharonchristine6643 жыл бұрын
Nope Luther came before Calvin
@marcokite2 жыл бұрын
@@sharonchristine664 - yes but the comment means Luther was 'behind' Calvin in the predestination stakes.
@marcokite2 жыл бұрын
yes! that's what i thought too
@bayreuth792 жыл бұрын
How can one have a human nature without being a human person?
@dannydoj4 күн бұрын
Nature and personhood are separate concepts in Greek philosophy
@bayreuth794 күн бұрын
@@dannydoj I understand that but the question is: is it possible to have a human nature without being a human person? The two, although conceptually distinct, cannot be conceived as really existing separately. If x has a human nature then x is a human person.
@bobyogisal36382 жыл бұрын
🎶❤️🎶
@jm-rf7kl2 жыл бұрын
Christianity still keeps that non believers are unsaved, thereby being guilty of exclusionary intolerance. Jesus himself did not start a new religion and was Jewish, not a Christian. All are God's own, all faiths and creeds. Christian acceptance of this is long overdue. We are all begotten and beloved of the Creator. Worship, adore and emulate Jesus to find your own inner Christ Self. We are all an aspect of Christ conciousness. All of us are Christed beings on the path of Self realization and God realization. Just like Jesus.
@dannydoj4 күн бұрын
You have been reading too much Richard Rohr my friend.
@TheGuiltsOfUs3 жыл бұрын
Realize the Krishna consciousness within!
@Lambsown782 жыл бұрын
There is only One true God - Three persons in One God - Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is the second person of the Holy Trinity who became incarnate as man so that mankind can be redeemed. He is pure love and loves you. God has chiseled in our souls the burning desire to search for Him , because we came from Him. And He wants us to know Him, love Him and be happy with Him in this life and for eternity after. He has revealed Himself through Holy scriptures and in Christ. Mankind in the quest for God has come up with their own explanations and names for God. And their own stories and false idols. Fallen angels can give you great feelings and experiences to make you feel that the false religion you are following is true and good. Realise the truth. You were created by God with so much love. Jesus loves you so much that He took on your sins and atoned for them with His precious blood, so that you can be redeemed. Seek and you shall find.
@marcokite2 жыл бұрын
@@Lambsown78 - Amen
@colinlavery6256 ай бұрын
Anyone who wants to live their entire life in a tiny cell has got to be "odd" This kind of lifestyle would drive most people crazy. Maybe her "visions" were hysterical / psychotic delusions.
@angryherbalgerbilАй бұрын
"It's part of God's nature He doesn't have to decide what's good" So Genesis is wrong? "God said let there be light and He saw that it was good" Either God made decisions in those 6 days of creation or He didn't... Science *is* reconcilable with religion. All it shows is *how* things work from within creation, not *why* things are the way that they are. What *is* incompatible with religion is human malice, greed, and corruption that takes those understandings gifted to them by the grace of God and then uses them to destroy each other, the earth, and creatures which God placed us as custodians of. With each discovery of science I am more firm in the belief of a creator and of intelligent design. Science *is* the proof of intelligent design. God cannot be observed from within creation, or understood by the mind. This gives many scientists their hubris to assume that there is no God... Except that the start of the universe and all creation still remains elusive with even the Big Bang theory still in question. Some things will always remain outside of our limited and fallible nature. God is beautiful and God's work is beautiful. And I thank both mystics, saints, prophets, scientists, and philosophers for giving us so many ways in which to see and know God. We are truly blessed in every moment and we are surrounded by major and minor miracles each day.
@dannydoj4 күн бұрын
God makes something and is pleased at it because it reflects His own desirable nature. The Hebrew word for ‘good’ (tov) has a meaning close to ‘desirable’. This is why Eve finds the ‘fruit’ desirable, but she makes an idol of a created thing as opposed to the Creator Himself.
@eclecticreader9615 жыл бұрын
Julian of Norwich had a unique perspective addressing that Christ is a mother. I'm sure that Jesus would consider that characterization humorous.
@LostArchivist5 жыл бұрын
God does compare Himself to a mother hen, protecting her brood, when referencing His relationship with Israe at one point in the Old Testament.
@adriancombe5 жыл бұрын
@Bert Clayton When and where did Jesus ostensibly say there is neither male nor female in heaven?
@adriancombe5 жыл бұрын
He made it very clear that He felt that way Himself, and in a way that was the very antithesis of 'humorous'. "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not! biblehub.com/matthew/23-37.htm
@adriancombe5 жыл бұрын
So you're basically admitting that Jesus did not say there are no males or females in heaven, correct?
@adriancombe5 жыл бұрын
@Bert Clayton so basically you're saying we can't prove Jesus set it so why are you saying you think he said it?
@ishiftfocus72953 жыл бұрын
We are saved from sin and death when we trust in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross and his bodily resurrection. His sinless blood pays for our sins, earns forgiveness, and gives us eternal life. Salvation is the gift of God by grace. It is not a product of: * - Prayer * - Popes * - Baptism * - Confession * - Good works * - Turning from sin * - Commandments * - Church membership * - Mass or the Lord’s Supper Salvation is free to the ungodly who will put their faith in the death, blood, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ for their sins (Romans 4:5; Romans 4:24-25; 1 Cor 15:1-4).
@marcokite2 жыл бұрын
protestants always get this wrong - it isn't either/or. we are saved only by the Most Precious Blood but we MUST also co-operate, this means for example the works of mercy AND the Seven Sacraments. the problem with protestants is that they throw out the baby with the bath water. 'saved by faith alone' and 'once saved always saved' are dangerous heresies
@alhilford23452 жыл бұрын
Wrong !
@AnastasiiaMaksymenko-x8l Жыл бұрын
Right
@saxglend94393 жыл бұрын
Aleister Crowley was an English mystic.
@thomasmcewen54933 жыл бұрын
And the Devil was an Angel.
@TheGuiltsOfUs3 жыл бұрын
One of the wisest mystics in the west!
@dannydoj4 күн бұрын
@@TheGuiltsOfUs His fruits were sexual irresponsibility and self worship