Right Worship vs. False Worship - G.K Chesterton Conference 2023

Friends, at the end of last year, I was delighted to attend my first G.K. Chesterton conference and to celebrate Mass for the attendees. During my homily, I spoke briefly on the difference between right worship and false worship.
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You wouldn't believe what an appetite protestants (like me) have for your biblical & faithful teaching. Thank you.

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What's keeping you from becoming catholic?

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[@camerond424]

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[@ella9693]

Might I ask, what does “appetite Protestant” mean?

[@WC3isBetterThanReforged]

He's referring to protestants who have an appetite for high church tradition i.e. catholic.

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[@marybussey4473]

I will picture Bishop Barron every time there is incense at Mass and I will reflect on this homily. 💙💙💙

[@flowersinthegarden457]

Thank you a lot Bishop Barron🕊✝️ I just love the beauty of our catholic faith. Every tradition and detail in mass.

[@BlueBelleBlooming]

this is a classic sermon for me. bishop barron, praying for you at every mass. please continue lighting the world on fire! 🔥

[@rebeccakahn3773]

Absolutely beautiful and joyful! Bishop Barron, you show the world just another reason we love our Church.

[@michelleburke5674]

Great sermon from Bishop Baron. Very thoughtful and helpful. A good reminder of the importance of worshipping God and not ourselves and our own interests.

[@zaq288]

Powerful - smoke, fire, thunder, we worship an amazing God. What an adventure!

[@imnotanalien7839]

Individual freedom with right worship is the true adventure in life. A beautiful sermon and timely for what is going on today in the material world. ❤✝️

[@fernandovega4816]

Thank-you Bishop Barron.

[@sonnyjoseph4217]

Oh...Dear Bishop Barron...What A Teaching❣...🙏🙏🙏DEO🙇‍♂️ Gratias!!!🙏🙏🙏

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Essence!

[@hannahherbold9611]

Excellent and really helpful!

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Bishop is the best lecturer,

[@michaelhaywood8262]

Before he was madea Bishop in California, he was a lecturer at a seminary [IDK where, or the subject he lectured on, perhaps someone could inform me]

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God bless you Amen

[@alfafusionPH]

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Jn 3:8

[@clairemcintosh8071]

I found GK Chesterton through you Bishop, I love him, love Everlasting Man, great reading and better understanding God's creation of man and His Son, "the Everlasting Man", Thankyou God Bless 🙏🏻🌈

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What a wonderful message, thank you!

[@MrDarshD]

Inspiring and empowering our faith in God. Thank you!

[@dominicflamiano452]

Bishop Barron, as always, informative and transformative and hilarious. Smoke and trumpets, double hot coals and lots of incense, fill up the place with smoke! Because, we can't see, we have to have faith in the invisible.

[@alfafusionPH]

The trumpet blast and the cloud remind me of the bells and incense at mass, there to signal the presence of God. We experience God in a sensory way.

[@clairemcintosh8071]

This sermon reminds me of St Ignatius Examen where we are invited to examine our conscience and decision making, whether our decisions are from the True Spirit or the False Spirit. I just found it this Lent and using this as my guide to hear the Voice of God within me.

[@michaelsteen3430]

Getting very reflective. Thank you for your insight into Exodus and its gods. I’ve confessed this, but this address of yours gives depth and gravity to the sin of worshiping gods and self.

[@UnremarkableMarx]

AMEN!!!!!!!!

[@josipstipic8000]

❤️🙏

[@SevenDeMagnus]

Cool

[@AnzalnaSatar]

Incense is my fsvourite

[@husq48]

What about peppermint?

[@SacraTessan]

🙏💙

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👍

[@NandKumar-qq3xk]

Warships for Demanding or my working worship ? Or Combined with Boths with Promised of each other's as Faith and truth with Combined" Stable Relationship as Worshiping of Truths"

[@michaelhaywood8262]

Wasn't Zechariah [John the Baptist's father] burning incense in the Temple when Gabriel appeared to him. I think this ceremony took place at Yom Kippur. This was a Jewish Holy Day which was observed at about the time of the autumnal equinox [late September].

[@Connor-np4ex]

Can someone share the readings read during this mass?

[@Saintvanillagorilla]

Your Church doesn’t have a misslete?

[@Connor-np4ex]

@@Saintvanillagorilla I don’t know the date this mass occurred and I don’t have a missal with me to look it up…

[@janegildart7585]

Read Exodus ch 19

[@Saintvanillagorilla]

@@Connor-np4exI think that day was exodus. But I would search up masses on that day

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Savage bishop barron: 6:57

[@praxidescenteno3233]

Or we could to pray to the Virgin of Pilar as in the Miracle from Calanda for she health all as did with young Miguel when she ask Every day to her by month cause He was too repented

[@st.mephisto8564]

11:37 shows the crude Duality of Abrahamism. A frog, a fly are little worthless things that god made for his own amusement they are somehow separate from God. This Duality refutes genuine Omnipresence and the true God is not just in high heavens but also in a puny frog. He is everything!

[@robertdolcetti450]

Omnipresence, as understood in the Abrahamic faiths, is the fact that God’s power dwells within all of Creation and sustains its existence. The frog is separate from God in that it is a separate creation that can act according to its own limited will. This is legitimate Omnipresence. Your view of God would stray from Monotheism and go into Pantheism. The Abrahamic faiths are not dualism because dualism implies physical existence of two warring gods or forces, one “good” and one “evil”. Often, in the West, this dualism takes the form of putting the created or physical world at odds with the spiritual. Catholicism denounces such things as heresy and declares that God is Creator and sovereign over all visible and invisible things.

[@st.mephisto8564]

@@robertdolcetti450 *God's power dwells within all of creation* If that is the case then the creation too is Divine and not absolutely seperate from it. You can either have absolute creature/Creator distinction which refutes Omnipresence or, Omnipresence divinizes the creation with divine presence/energies and hence makes everything Rocks, trees, mountains, rivers, animals as carrying the presence and spark of divinity. This is not Pantheism but Pan-entheism. Hinduism is a good example of Pan-entheism which maintains genuine Omnipresence of God and that's why the creation too is revered in its images, symbols and gods.

[@robertdolcetti450]

Creation is distinct from Divinity in that the various created things operate according to laws and/or wills that don’t directly apply to God himself. I am sustained by God’s power but I can separate my own will from His will. In a sense, you can find the image of God within me. In a sense, you can see God in all of Creation (see Ignation spirituality/philosophy. Even Franciscan philosophy posits a similar idea). But this does not mean that we should worship created beings, as there is only one God, who exists separately from His creation but also sustains that creation at the same time. A mother may sustain her child with milk but she is separate from her child. It’s a clumsy analogy but you get the idea. The point is simply that when you take a lesser thing and elevate it to the status of God, you turn away from the true God and worship something that is separate from but still sustained by its Creator. This is a bad idea and it inevitably results in destruction.

[@st.mephisto8564]

@@robertdolcetti450 I'm a Hindu so anything I say it's gonna come from that perspective. We don't believe in Creationism. We believe in Emanationism. God emanates and de-emanates the world from himself in a cyclic format. In our system, we can worship created beings because God is not jealous but is glorified when his creation/emanationis worshipped. Because through the creation, what's worshipped is the creator who is the indwellwer in every living being. "When you take a lesser thing and turn it into the status of God you turn away from the true God" A lesser thing cannot be God in and of itself but a lesser thing can be a doorway to God. You venerate Saints and Angels. In the same way Created beings (frogs, flies, Sun, moon, Stars) can be venerated because they emanate from God and hence are imbued with the energy of God. They can serve as symbols to understand God. The question implies a crude Duality which we reject.

[@josephchapman9575]

You have not described Abrahamic Omnipresence. Pantheism is crude since it crowns lesser goods as Absolute Good

[@marionjordaan]

Our parish seldom uses incense. Most disappointing

[@praxidescenteno3233]

All Churches with Holy Mass would help them to took off all Shadows

[@praxidescenteno3233]

And all got see that be Catholic never is easy is daily

[@barbaraseville4139]

Incense makes me cough and sneeze and choke. No thanks.

[@PrayerwarriorZelphamcdonald77]

You are a wise man Bishop why are you in the Catholic Church you talk about Jesus Christ all the time you love Jesus why don't you follow the example of Jesus.Jesus keep the 7th day Sabbath holy are you going to tell Jesus you were following tradition. You are nice person don't be like pilot he knows Jesus was innocent and give over to the people to cursified Jesus.If you truly love Jesus listen to his words John 14:13:14:15.God bless you 🙏

[@franrius1617]

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[@matsswede]

Wy the funny costume ? Nothing of what i see there is church rituals have nothing to do with the gospel of Christ ! So WY have it ?

[@marksmale827]

Read a bit of Christian history and find out how this came about.

[@matsswede]

@@marksmale827 Not intrested ! I like the reak deal !

[@robertdolcetti450]

If you aren’t interested in learning, don’t ask questions. Just as the Levitical priesthood had particular robes and vestments, so too our priesthood has particular vestments.

[@marksmale827]

@@matsswede Do you even know what the real deal is?

[@marksmale827]

@@matsswedeYou obviously have access to the Internet. There is no excuse for ignorance. I'm sure Wikipedia has a very good article on Christian vestments that covers all the major traditions of West and East.

[@peterroberts4509]

Worship is a pagan practice. God asks only for our love.

[@Saintvanillagorilla]

????

[@marksmale827]

NT talks about worship in spirit and truth.

[@peterroberts4509]

@marksmale827 Jesus never asked to be worshipped. ' Love others as I have loved you.' To suggest otherwise is a mockery.

[@robertdolcetti450]

Jesus told his disciples and apostles to worship. “When you bring your gift to the altar…”, “Worship in spirit and truth.” Look up worship in the New Testament.

[@peterroberts4509]

@robertdolcetti450 Jesus, surely, rejects worship at the altar as an empty (pagan) practice. Love (truth/spirit) is the core of the divine relationship.

[@lindiaDigal]

Very nice beautiful super 👌👌😍