"The Mystery of God" - Sample Lesson

[@afinalattempt8205]

As a protestant I must say that this is one of the best Sermons I have ever heard.

[@spinlok3943]

Wonderful speech! I think father Barron is what Catholics and many Christians need for that matter.

[@mjpottertx]

I think Barron is one of the best apologists the Western church has now, Catholic or Protestant.

[@evelineestopinan8961]

GOD is everything! GOD is love! GOD is a mystery, but real!!! Thanks and blessings to father Barron!

[@gaylemcvay1]

Wow !!!!! I am a protestant anglican. Your videos blow my mind and leave me pondering a-plenty. Thank you sooooo much for lifting my spirit, explaining and spelling this out. Keep going. I am following your videos. I am thinking of joining the Catholic church for a deeper and more intellectual understanding of The Almighty. The illumination is blinding.... and wonderful.

[@BishopBarron]

Gayle McVay Blessings!!

[@markspyrison9659]

This is beautiful. Fr. Robert Barron's insight, wisdom, and command of the language is a pleasure to experience.

[@artesiningart4961]

i don't know why I am starting to have teary eyes watching and listening to Father Robert and trying to understand his lecture but at the same time just letting myself be, to just feel what I should feel, to sense what I should sense, to not really try to over comprehend. What I found out after the lecture is simplicity but at the same time complexity all at the same time, something so complex to my mind but simple to my being, my heart, and my faith. I found out beauty in its finest and even beyond beauty and perfection which I can't explain more and understand but I acknowledge the presence. I am a Catholic Christian. People from all walks of life, experiences, upbringings, and my friends from other faiths and practices have always asked me about these questions they have in mind about Christianity. They all knew that I am a bit religious especially back then, that I always go to mass, attend church's activities, and have a strong practice of prayer in my family and clan. I try to answer them as much as I can and I know, and most of the time, either I just stop explaining, they stop asking, we decided to change topic, they can't still understand it and make sense out of what I am telling, or I gave up myself in trying to explain. I tried to do my own self-study, my own approaches to answer my own deep questions, until I got to a point of knowing some answers. Then in some time, depression hit me. I felt and thought that that was the last time I could carry on living. I was so hopeless, helpless, and I even ask for God for death just to get rid of the extreme loneliness and pain right away without thinking rationally but getting too emotional. On the other hand, I still have the teachings of my parents in me to not commit any thing against myself. So I tried to handle and heal myself on my own for a year. Even though I skip eating meals sometimes, but I still eat. Even though I can't sleep most of the time and have wrong sleeping patterns, but because of exhaustion and tiredness, I still sleep. I was a pretty well-raised person, pretty smart, known for my creativity, imagination, and intelligence. I thought that I could solve my own problem on my own by trying to be rational, use my skills, be intelligent as much as I could as I am experiencing depression. I tried to be aware every single time on what I feel and what I think. I thought I can, but I can't. Still, there are a lot of limitations.. My mind slowly becomes weak, as well as my memory, my concentration, my creativity, my imagination. I lost my interest in the things I love like writing stories and drawing or by painting, that when I see my works, I tear them apart out of anger, of self-blame, of hopelessness, of fear, of anxiety, of stress, of exhaustion and tiredness, and of trying to cope and live with the pain in identity, psyche, mind, emotion, and even spirit that I was experiencing those times. I don't know exactly why I got depressed and what may be the reason or what are the factors that lead me to experience it. It's just that I feel and am aware that I am already depressed because of a pre-knowledge of what depression is about, and so I knew already that I am experiencing some sort of it. I don't know exactly how I managed day by day to continue to live with the pain, but I know it is hard, so hard. I still remember how painful my chest and head was, how I just tried to bang my head against the wall to shift the pain from what's inside me and my feelings to the pain on my head. I still remember how I thought of not holding on to hope. I still remember how I am struggling to find my own worth, meaning, and purpose. I still remember how I tried to make sense and bring back myself again from its shattered pieces. All of my dreams are gone, I stopped schooling, my parents' dreams for me went to nowhere, all of the people around me and my friends knew what happened to me and the news spread about me which worsen my guilt and self-blame. So, for so many time and for 4 years until now, I am still struggling with it a little even though I already had been diagnosed and had therapy with a psychologist for my depression. Still, in the darkness times of my life or my week, when emotions rush back to me of sadness and loneliness, when anxiety attacks hit me, when worries come too much, when I feel that I am alone, are the times I start to ask questions. I go to doubts, questions, deep existential and philosophical questions that I could ever ask about existence, being, my identity, my worth, my life, and of the very nature of all and of itself, but during those times, there's one thing I always learned to pray as I am struggling for years with this, "Whatever happens, never let this small pile of faith be gone and perish into non-existence as every grain is perishing as I doubt, for I know as a grain or more grains will perish, I still hope that in tomorrow or in another day a grain will be added. Never let the small pile be gone and perish all in all." I never knew that there was still hope. I didn't realize that that practice of prayer I had is still in me, that there are my parents supporting and helping me, that my friends are concerned about me, that there is still a bright sun that shines, that the hours of day are still balancing with the hours of night, that the rooster still crows every morning, that I am still complete and breathing. I didn't realize that I was starting or beginning to see the world from a different perspective that I used to before. I was seeing it in a wider lens. I was understanding and beginning to have empathy especially to people with mental illness or depression that I am struggling with. I was emerging to see the beauty in the world, be grateful of little things, be contented of small things, be amazed again and appreciate for the simplicity, beauty, order, and nature of life. I was starting to know about hope and starting to have hope. Still, there are times of doubts, questions, worries, sadness, anxiety attacks, discomforts in my life, etc., but now I knew that I have a hope to hold on to which I never knew I always had in me. I am not a perfect human being, not one of the saintly, not holy at all, not even quite a good practicing Catholic. I am still a sinner and I can say that I would always still be one for I know that I am still even more commit sins against God even I am not knowing that I am sinning even more at all or that I am even not aware that I am sinning more, for there are sins I know that I am committing against God which are far beyond the sins I knew I am committing and aware and conscious of, but I still hold on to that prayer that hopes for the pile of grains of faith to not perish and be gone. I still hope and pray that I will conquer this depression on day, and that God gave me all of these factors in my life to not commit anything bad against my life and my self for something good in the future. I had this hope and a lot of dreams which are to teach children, to inspire other people, to spread more awareness about mental health issues in my place, to empower the youth which I belong into, to write a novel relating to my life and experiences, and to continue to live in prayer, to always strive to to good for other people, and to never stop trying and striving to strengthen my faith in God, to develop my talents and mind to serve people all for His glory. I know that the battle will always be there with my depression, fears, worries, anxieties, and sins, but with those small pile of grains I have and pray that will not ever be gone and perish, I know that with that I can face every battles. Though I may fall down again, and again, and again, and again, and to fail again, and again, and again, and to loose my track to the right path again, and again, and again, still, that small pile of grains, though how small as it gets to be will help me stand up again, and again, and again. Thanks be to God. :)

[@junglebook4916]

Read the Holy Bible. Try to know more about Jesus and why He is the way, the truth, and the life. Read also about life of saints or watch movies about them. God bless you. Always believe that you have a purpose in life and ask God to help you find it. If you can still read this, we can talk.

[@michaelaequtas2870]

Thank you Bishop Barron. God bless you. Please God, give us more priests that can defend your church and lead your people into deeper understanding of your will. Amen.

[@dicedup1489]

I searched for this and didn’t know exactly what I was searching for. I am very well pleased and excited to embrace this fresh understanding on God. ❤️

[@jamespennell8549]

This is great. Even though I am a Protestant Anglican, I've always enjoyed your videos on KZbin. Thank you Father!

[@jmsto87]

James Pennell Mt 23:9

[@lpe9376]

@@jmsto87 Then what are you to make of the Scriptures that contradict this one? For example, in Mark 7:9-13 Jesus criticizes the Pharisees and scribes for not honoring their "fathers". Furthermore, calling the apostles and their successors "father" was common within the early Christian communities.

[@jmsto87]

L Pe this pericope in no way contradicts Mt 23:9 bc scripture doesn’t contradict itself. This dialogue likely won’t go far bc it seems your authority is tradition (of man) whereas I appeal to the authority of God’s word alone. Jesus explaining how the Pharisees didn’t keep the 5th commandment doesn’t touch Jesus prohibiting believers from calling teachers “father” bc we have one Father which is in heaven.

[@lpe9376]

@@jmsto87 We cannot interpret Matthew 23:9 as prohibiting reference to dads or priests as "fathers" without contradicting other scriptural passages in which the word "father" is used. Such an interpretation would render the commandment "honor your father" meaningless and would diminish the authority of the apostles and their successors. It's incorrect to interpret Matthew 23:9 in an exclusively literal sense. Jesus’ words in Matthew 23:9 also contradict his claim in Matthew 5:17. But we know that the Son of God never contradicts Himself. In contrast to the attitudes of the Pharisees and others, Jesus is specifying the qualities Christian leaders must exhibit (Matthew 23:1-12). The Pharisees aspired to being called rabbi (or master or teacher), leaders of schools of thought. Among the schools headed by teachers called “rabbi” there were divergences of belief, some of them in actual contradiction. A similar situation prevailed with regard to the term “father” (in Aramaic, abba, a title of honor). The title was given to well-known Jewish religious authorities of the past. As with “rabbi,” so with “father.” The term designated the progenitor of a particular, even contradictory, interpretation of the Jewish faith.

[@jmsto87]

L Pe you’re grasping at straws. Jesus affirming the 5th commandment in the Decalogue doesn’t equate to “it’s ok to call religious leaders ‘father’ bc it’s two separate topics not to be conflated. Honoring your father doesn’t mean calling another person ‘father’, you’re going “beyond what is written” to justify your adopted tradition. He literally says “call no one ‘father’” but you can’t receive His words as they are, a very slippery slope.

[@bccwc]

We should all listen to these presentations from BISHOP Robert Barron. Years ago as I was growing up it seemed every parish had a Holy Name Society and at each meeting we were educated in our Faith . Thank you Bishop Barron.

[@markpowls]

Wow! Fr. Barron, you have a gift of explaining the impossible explanation. Thank you.

[@meuskaveny1164]

Wow! Fr. Barron! My theological IQ just went up 100 points just listening to you! You explained that so well, so clearly in beautiful language. Thank you Lord for this great opportunity to listen to your faithful servant, Fr. Barron. Please bless him with peace, joy, courage and good health so that he can teach us some more about YOU. Amen. Ad majorem Dei gloriam.

[@karenmorgan1645]

Illuminating , brilliant , inspiring , the incomprehensible made comprehensible as only Bishop Barron can . I learn so much from you Bishop , I have introduced you to all my friends and I am so grateful for you and your teaching . May the Lord bless you .

[@mukbangloverx]

Stay off drugs kids.

[@RCardone82]

One of the best sermons I have ever, ever witnessed. Thank you.

[@tessysingh1327]

Bishop Barron you are God's gift to me and to the world. I pray for your protection.

[@texasgiants]

God is good all the time, all the time God is good! Thank you Bishop Barron for this "layman's" explanation about God.

[@yourbluesmama]

Thank you so much, Father! I love your videos!

[@celsasarmiento3992]

Yes Fr. Barron, His highness is non comparable because God is only one an Ausome God, the most powerful one who knows everything in us . We have to believe, trust and hope only in Him. Thank you for your very inspiring talk. I hope ,many can watch your videos about the "Mystery of God". God bless

[@kussmannjv]

Thanks Bishop Barron... I'm grateful to God for your ministry..

[@ambu6478]

Father Baron what a blessing you are to me and all those who hear your videos. Thank you so much and I pray God's blessings with cover you and all you do!

[@teklomtesfaslasea133]

What a great teacher , i watch them again and again ,even i download a lots of your lessons , i found them very amazing , i got some of the answers which challenged me through out my age thank Fr. Robert Barron's

[@LASoto-zi4sb]

Uniquely transcendental explanation of the mystery of God! Thank you!

[@virginiaarellanocardenas2795]

I must say that you are right Fr. Barron and I just wish that all of my grown up sons and daughters would give your program attention for I see how they are living in ignorance of God as he truly is. And you are right we have been taught secular ideas from people who denied and still deny God as who he is. People, including me, are told those precise valid arguments about becoming humanly developed economically and politically; furthermore, the people who strive to get others to believe that God is not real or don't exist tend to believe that only they are fully developed as humans when in reality religious honest people are among those who have contributed in all the sciences, including politically and economically, their extraordinary knowledge and understanding of all that exist. The Good News is for everyone rich and poor, dumb or intelligent, black or white or from any created ethnicity on their own account, God's Word received freely and acted on freely does not makes us bound to God by force, but by love. We are truly free when we are in him and when he is in us. The premises of the unbelievers end in themselves whereas the premises of the believers end in God.

[@miajane3878]

Thank God for you and your wisdom it blows my mind when I watch you... Glory to God for you

[@deepaktripathi4417]

I'm not a believer,but i want to be .I just feel keep listening to you father! I can listen you all day.

[@Audrey78871]

The last portion on the burning bush was so eye-opening and insightful! Very true, indeed. Thank you for this message and sharing your wisdom with the KZbin community.

[@claireahmed7623]

My feeling exactly. It brought me instantly to my OBE experience where I saw luminous beings (people/angels) bowing to/revering the Virgin Mary who herself is enveloped by light as bright as the sun, light of.which didn't hurt me/my eyes.

[@JesusPedroza]

Incredibly well presented! Thank you and God bless you Fr. Robert Barron

[@mjpottertx]

I'm a mainline Presbyterian, but this series was recommended by a friend who is a Catholic priest. I highly recommend the series for all Christians and even curious agnostics. I've since used a lot of Bishop Barron's videos (including this one) when teaching our adult Sunday School class. By the way, Gagarin's flight was in 1961, not the 1950s.

[@mjpottertx]

Correction. Gagarin did not say this (he seems to have been a closet theist). It was Gherman Titov, the second cosmonaut in space, August 6th, 1961.

[@marquezedmon]

Never mentioned Paul Tillich's "the ground of being." Kidding with you Bishop Barron. Great job! I am actually teaching this right now to my senior high students! I will show this to them right now!

[@jovialmoshahary1556]

I live this introduction, ultimate catholic definition of God.

[@mukbangloverx]

I'm Protestant. God is a mystery. Great sermon.

[@nadiabruce99]

Awsome Bishop. What a gift from above. Praise God.

[@patalex7314]

I CAN WATCH THIS TWENTY TIMES OVER AND NEVR GET TIRED

[@jacobradler7159]

How? This is so boring

[@tomgreene6579]

@@jacobradler7159 Why?

[@natalie-sy2ps]

Me too!

[@mikefanofmovies]

"Thus says The Lord: Behold, the time has come. It is time for great things to be shown in the heavens above and upon the earth beneath, for the flood gates to be opened and the storehouses emptied, for all that is hidden to be uncovered and that which slumbers to be awakened. For it is written: It shall come to pass in the last days, says The Lord, that I will pour out My spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. Also on My menservants and on My maidservants, I will pour out My spirit in those days. And I will show wonders in the heavens above and in the earth beneath, blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, at the coming of the Great and Terrible Day of The Lord. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of The Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance, among the remnant whom The Lord shall call.[1] I tell you the truth, this Scripture is fulfilled, even now, as you read these words, and is also to come. Therefore, listen to the sound of My voice... Give heed to My speech, embrace My Word Spoken to this generation, and repent... Beloved ones, find solace in My words And have peace, whether brought to remembrance By My spirit or read upon the pages of My Book... For I am come." ~ "Behold, I am come to take My own, to plunge this world into darkness. Even with a heavy heart, it must be. For My heart is torn, My wounds remain, and My heart bleeds still. Yet the people of this world refuse to drink from My cup, nor will they accept that which I have poured out for them. Behold, even those who say they know Me do not really know Me, nor do they follow Me; indeed, they refuse to accept Me as I truly am. Thus I have given them many days to repent, many days to turn aside and return to Me. Yet they will not come, nor will they heed the call. Therefore I declare it to you plainly, O peoples of the earth, Yes, even to you, O churches of men... I shall draw back My hand, And My spirit, of which I have poured Out on all flesh, shall return to Me... Behold, The One who stays... Lets.[1]" [1] 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7 (KJV) ~ "The Lord has purposed, and that which I have purposed to do is established; the first of many called, their number accomplished, it is done. Thus there shall now be a great emptiness across the land. And among the churches, a void, a dullness of understanding, a great emptiness, with the way ahead unsure for those who have not known Me. For they have refused to accept Me as I truly am. Yet those who come out from among them shall have their eyes opened and their understanding brightened." ~ "Does not The Lord Himself search our hearts and minds, even our innermost thoughts and intentions? Does He not know who we are referring to, when we say “Jesus is Lord”? Even throughout the world, believers and unbelievers alike know the name “Jesus” (a name given to YahuShua by men) refers to He who was crucified and rose from the dead. And if we say YAHUSHUA is YAHUWAH, is this not also self-evident? Even before the earth was made, there is ONE alone who was and is and has always been THE LORD ABSOLUTE, which by definition demands there can be only one. Thus all others, whether man, false deity or carved image, referred to as “Lord” in English or in any other language, are false! - Deceivers! Impostors! Idols! - To call any of these “Lord” is blasphemy, even on the highest order! For thus has The Lord spoken: One God... One Son, The Only Way to The Father... One Truth, One Word, One Messiah, One Spirit; One Food, One Bread and One Drink... One Body... Of which I am all, The All in All." ~ "I tell you the truth, the very moment one has A change of heart do they pass from judgment into life... For I know the hearts of men, And their thoughts are not at all hidden from Me; Behold, I look upon their innermost desires, I know every hidden intention... Therefore when one calls upon Me, I know, I see, I hear, regardless of the name By which they have come to know Me, says The Lord... For there is but One God and One Savior, and I AM HE. Yet understand this: In times past I overlooked the ignorance of the people. Yet now I command all people everywhere to repent in sincerity and in truth.[1] In like manner, I have overlooked the ignorance of those who call The Messiah by another name. Yet now I command all who have ears to hear, to call upon His name as it is, was, and has always been, and not as they presume it to be.[2] Indeed I am calling all tribes, tongues, peoples and nations to embrace Him as He truly is, and not as the churches of men would have Him be,[3] says The Lord." ~ "For He alone is your salvation, He alone is your only escape!... He is The Light, The Only Way, The Only Truth!... There is no life apart from Him; Apart from Him is only darkness and death, The wide path which leads to destruction... YAHUSHUA-YAHUWAH Is His name, The Mashiach!... The Bearer of your cross, The Lover of your soul, The Risen One, The Mighty One of Jacob... Immanu El!"

[@maryjanebrant]

Beautiful and inspiring talk, Father. Thank you for giving it to us.

[@ronnoronha3202]

Thank You Bishop Barron for your Catholic perspective on defining God - "Ipsum Esse Subsistens" So much in tune with Advaita Vedanta: God "is" Sat Chit Ananda- Existence Consciousness Bliss.

[@georgeschlaline6057]

Why I waited 4 years to play this again Is beyond me

[@mariatheresialoyola5851]

Beautiful Image Father, thank you very much for give me a very delightful taste of God ❤

[@chaddopay]

GOD BLESS YOU, FATHER!

[@tomasdadamo6481]

Thanks for a great lecture, Fr. Barron. I also want to pay a complement to your production team as well! The opening sequence sets the tone so well: the music is great and the stained-glass windows are a fitting metaphor for the God who is the Light that illuminates without consuming! As always, great work, WOF.

[@natalie-sy2ps]

I love this sermon 🙌🏻

[@iloveamerica007]

Stunning videography. Superb quality.

[@m.kurbah8485]

Beautiful...love it ...I'm on my knees.🙏

[@elisabetbores3759]

I know that I don’t understand God but I think have an understanding of God, but i don’t want to get comfortable with that understanding!! Pray for me to be more humble, pray for me to realize how strange God is and that I will never get his existence

[@iloveamerica007]

Good stuff Father.

[@EustaceKirstein]

God is closer to me than I am... What in the... why... so strong... wow!

[@Ingrid0410]

These paritioners don't appreciate you.They're sitting there stunned. So glad you're gonna be in LA.

[@Louis.R]

I'm Jewish, but that doesn't change the truth!

[@stephanieGallantvlogs]

wow

[@candiceazzara8877]

Thank you and God Bless you.

[@petrasant5495]

“The Glory of GOD, is a Human Being Fully Alive”

[@blightsalado7960]

God is not a being, but the reason for being.

[@roanngo5262]

Fabulous!

[@LP-bu2zq]

BRILLIANT !!!

[@sfish681]

Fantastic!

[@stuartbell3968]

Really beautiful.

[@isaihisaih2024]

wow you described it so meaningful and nice👍😊 i need more from your intellectual mind😊

[@ryuninja1388]

I love the intro song.

[@joydurham5437]

Mind. Blown.

[@aruhe6650]

That was amazing.

[@aditicoolin1]

Thomas Aquinas -Ipsum esse subsistence - the very nature of “being” itself

[@restra1000]

Excellent!, I thrill for the next one

[@tungstensword9430]

Amazing!

[@villiestephanov984]

Excellent, Father ! Thanks. Except Marx' 66 books of utopian statement, when I was my father's son, tender and the only one in the sight of my mother, He also taught me: "wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom.."

[@kristinabalcee]

What's the name of the song in the background at the beginning? I've heard it in mass but can't remember!

[@danielt.9101]

"I Vow to Thee, My Country", a British Patriotic song.

[@tritongeeves9371]

I think it is a piano cover of o god beyond all praising

[@seanbeeson]

@@tritongeeves9371 It is a rendition of O God Beyond All Praising, also known as Thaxted. The original tune was written by Gustav Holst as part of the "The Planets" (Jupiter), but this particular arrangement is one that I created for this video series for Bishop and Word on Fire.

[@alexandrenmsantos]

The song of the beginning is beautiful. When i can find them in this version?

[@seanbeeson]

HI! Unfortunately this is the only rendition of this piece that I arranged. I can always inquire with WoF about releasing it for people to enjoy if you'd like.

[@Victoriacariad]

Been watching a lot of your videos the last few days and as someone from the UK I was so glad to hear the piano tune of 'I Vow to Thee My Country'. So beautiful and so very...British :P

[@jasperthorne3965]

The opening music - "I Vow to Thee, My Country"- this is perhaps the most beautiful version I have heard. Does anyone know where it can be obtained?

[@seanbeeson]

7 years too late... but someone pointed it out to me that there were people requesting it! I composed this arrangement, and unfortunately this is the only place it (currently) exists :D haha

[@salon201]

This is beautiful Bishop Barron!!! Hope you can add spanish subtitles so I can share with my friends. Please send your videos and books to catholic libraries in Mexico!!

[@praxidescentenoortiz9664]

Wonderful

[@minasoliman]

Thank you Father. A much needed concise and articulate answer to some of the questions of today's atheist issues. And this is coming from an anti-Chalcedonian Copt ;)

[@robertmiller5258]

Isn’t it curious that Bp Barron says that if you think you understand God you don’t and that Richard Feynman said the same think about quantum mechanics.

[@karlmahlmann]

inspiring

[@yourbluesmama]

My late mother graduated from HS in 1932 from a Catholic girls academy and then DePaul U. She studied Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and other phylosophers in Greek--6 years of Greek reading about the dignity of man. In addition, she studied 8 years of Latin, reading the great thinkers in that language. No wonder she thought the public schools her children attended provided a poor excuse for an education. Where do students these days learn morality, the dignity of man, and respect or life that these days?

[@kailaleegibbons6143]

yourbluesmama we don't, and it leaves us stranded when we become aware of this problem. self education is overwhelming.

[@nielknox]

thank you

[@Core1138]

Good stuff!

[@joancc]

BRAVO!!!

[@lauriethompson740]

Excellent presentation of a 'ground of being' rather than super-being version of the divine, which is exactly where I currently stand. However, I don't know how that takes you beyond Pantheism and Christ as the most connected to the divine human, rather than literally God anymore that any other very spiritual human? Personally I'm happy to see the rest as personification, archetype and meaningful myth, but I'm pretty confident that's a long way from Catholic doctrine. Still, this explanation is hugely helpful, thank you.

[@frankwhelan1715]

Amazing what some people "know" about God,while millions of others see no sign that he even exists.

[@br.benedictmarybartscho.p.8579]

Where can I find that particular rendition of "O God Beyond All Praising" that was played in the beginning? It was very beautiful! Also, I can tell this is going to be a great study program and can't wait to get it. Well done Bishop!

[@seanbeeson]

8 years too late in replying. But I composed the music for it. This is the only rendition of it!

[@DualFrodo]

Is that Archbishop Fulton Sheen at 0:20?

[@dominicperez3777]

Do you plan on uploading more of these in the future? I'd watch more of these

[@16vt1]

Beautiful talk. Does anybody have a link of the TV program Father Barron was talking about at the beginning?

[@blightsalado7960]

Feuerbach facilitated the transition of Marx from dialectical idealism to dialectical materialism.

[@Mochyeassc2]

Well said

[@rubendrakkar]

18:48 Saint Ireneas of Lyon quote

[@mariap5194]

Can anyone tell me the name of the piano song playing in the beginning?

[@robertschmaltz351]

Do you ever figure it out? I'm looking too...

[@johnclark546]

it sounds like "I vow to thee my country" Anglican Hymn.

[@ravissary79]

wonderful, thank you for sharing good long-form material. But I've wondered, since seminary really, if anyone really knows what "being itself" means. It's often accompanied by "if you understand it then you don't understand it"... but then it's just words, and not very useful ones except to somehow use an odd rhetorical category to rise above the perceived limits of the implications of other rhetorical categories used to talk about God. The Bible doesn't really go into things like essence, being, etc. It makes mysterious dips into words pictures that imply their own limitations, like "I Am", or the glorious infinite talk in the psalms... but no one in scripture talks about God like this. I understand that the Church dipped into this sort of rhetorically inspired train of metaphysical thought partly because of the debates over the divinity of Christ, and then they had to make sense of the Gnostics, the Marcion heressy, the donatists, etc. Hell, the origination of the Mother of God language that might have ended up accidentally sheltering unrepentant Mexican pagans via Our Lady of Guadeloupe... it all really innocently started with an argument for Jesus's divinity. It just seems that, depending on who you read, the "being itself" language was partly conplicit, by implication, to the notion that God isn't really real at all, but is like some sort of "the force" meets a kind of Jungian super-idea. "Being itself" language fits beautifully in with Panentheistic notions of the benign divine creative force of Process Theology, which by their own admission, isn't a personal God at all and, if you keep chasing that rabbit down its hole, that God may or may not even be "real" in any consequential sense in Process Theology. That God is both the ground of all existence, and simultaneously not a distinct identity with a will or plan or prophesy at all. I'd love to see the practicality of this idea explored further since it seems to me, God went through an awful lot of effort (historically, I know theoretically omnipotence can't break a sweat) to show he's distinctly an identity, he's three persons, he's emotional and acts, he has a plan and answers prayer. I agree he's his own genus... heck, it's a taxonomy of one far above kingdom or Phylum even. But it seems a problematical lyrics nebulous and obtusely distinct idea that I'm not sure needs to exist to solve the problem of God's "being".

[@tomaspenpen4756]

Can someone answer me on this..I've been struggling to reconcile the notion that God is a non-competitive being..but if God is non-competitive being, where does the miracles/powers of the mystics came from?

[@andrewhartigan5342]

DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS BEGINNING SONG IS????????? LIKE THE BEGINNING MELODIC TUNE TO THIS VIDEO??? I LOVE IT SO MUCH

[@atl3ss3gb60]

Bro, keep up the good work ! Reference the super long story book you and an atheist discussed. Good job

[@seanbeeson]

It is a rendition of O God Beyond All Praising, also known as Thaxted. The original tune was written by Gustav Holst as part of the "The Planets" (Jupiter), but this particular arrangement is one that I created for this video series for Bishop and Word on Fire.

[@rasecfishwhisperer2039]

What is he song in the begining? Great vid btw

[@danielt.9101]

"I Vow to Thee, My Country", a British Patriotic song.

[@sandrap9435]

I'm confused about the last couple of minutes. Discussing god/God interfering in human affairs...I immediately thought of Job and Sodom and Gomorrah. How is that different?

[@tinman1955]

***** That question occurred to me as well, and not for the first time. You might have mentioned Noah's flood, the tower of Babel, the firstborn of Egypt, etc etc. If there's an answer that will satisfy everyone I haven't found it. But to call something a mystery and then presume to explain it - can you really have it both ways?

[@carynbrady]

Tin Man If I understand it correctly, he is explaining that it IS a mystery, that if we think we have wrapped out heads around God, then we are mistaken because our finite minds cannot comprehend the TOTALITY of God. We can grasp some of God, God's attributes, God's presence in our lives. But if we look at the complexity of the universe, we can't even grasp what we are dealing with, how all these millions (x infinity) of stars, solar systems and so on can even exist, much less be comprehended in their immensity. At least for me, looking into the depth of a night sky (in the country), or pictures of galaxies, etc., overwhelms me with the awe of God, a God who is so personal and intimate to me yet at the same time is so everything that it is beyond my ability to take it all in intellectually, but in the soul, in the spirit, one can experience God, and that is enough. (But thinking and talking about God is fascinating still.)

[@tinman1955]

Caryn Brady Yes, it's an age old concept in religion and even in science. "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics." "If you meet the Buddha on the road, it's not the Buddha." "The dharma that you find is not the dharma." Yet Aquinas' Summa Theologica fills some thousands of pages and it's just one grain of sand in the ocean of authoritative religious literature. Is it not fascinating how not understanding a thing never stops people from writing books, lectures and sermons about it?

[@oscarin13]

I think that it's easily resolved by saying that God was not interfering with 'normal human affairs'. Sodom and Gomorrah, the Flood, the judgement of the pagan nations like Canaan and Jericho, etc, were not 'natural interventions'. They were judgements that God made because of the evil and wickedness of those nations. Let's remember that God is love, but He is also Holy and Justice. He's the only One who was any authority over human life. If you read the Gospels, Gabriel apperaed to Mary and Joseph and not God Himself. Humans can have authority over Earth but with caution and responsability.

[@pineapplepeanuts]

I've speculated that the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was done not by a God who popped his head out of the sky and shot a fireball at the cities, but rather by the Jewish armies who represented God and deemed the cities' deviant behavior to be unholy. So in that sense it was God destroying those cities. The question then sort of becomes, what constitutes God? To the ancient Jews, God lived in the Temple and within them, directly involved and motivating their actions. To modern Christians, our vision of God might be different, thereby making it more difficult to explain.

[@ralphselwyn525]

THIS EXPLAINS GOD AS FAR AS WE HUMANS WITH OUR LIMITED INTELLIGENCE CAN UNDERSTAND GOD THE MAIN HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT I GOT FROM THIS SERMON ARE 1. IPSUM ESSE . GOD 'S BEING IS NOT MERELY EXISTENCE. IN GOD HIS BEING ARE HIS VERY NATURE. WHEN MOSES ASKED GOD " WHAT IS YOUR NAME, WHAT SHALL I TELL MY PEOPLE TO CALL YOU ?" GOD REPLIED " TELL THEM I AM WHO AM " IN HUMAN LANGUAGE IT MEANS : IN ME BEING AND ESSENCE ARE ONE AND THE SAME. BY EXTENSION GOD IS ETERNAL. GOD CANNOT NOT BE. GOD IS N. O. T. ONE BEING AMONG ALL US OTHER BEINGS. 2. THE EXISTENCE OF THE UNIVERSE, OUR EXISTENCE, THE EXISTENCE OF EVERYTHING WHICH WE SEE TOTALLY DEPENDS ON GOD'S CAUSING THE ATOMS TO KEEP MOVING. IF GOD DIVERTED HIS ATTENTION FROM RUNNING THE UNIVERSE AND MOTION OF THE ATOMS, THE UNIVERSE WOULD COLLAPSE. THIS IS BETTER EXPLAINED IN THE WRITINGS OF ST. THOMAS AQUINAS. 3. GOD CREATED MATTER AND TIME. THEREFORE GOD IS ( emphasis on IS ) OUTSIDE OF OUR DECAYING MATTER AND OUTSIDE OF OUR CONSTANTLY CHANGING TIME. 4. GOD IS O U T S I D E OF OUR TIME, OUTSIDE OF THE UNIVERSE. GOOD DOES NOT EVER CHANGE 5. ATHEISTS REJECT THE ONLY THING OF VALUE IN HUMAN EXISTENCE 6. GOD HAVE MERCY ON US YOUR CREATION

[@jesscogan5582]

Ralph Selwyn very beautiful explanation sir!

[@tanvan802]

Ralph Selwyn 7. BUT IT IS NOTED THAT THIS UNDERSTANDING HAS BEEN COMMENTED AS JUST A BUNCH OF STRAWS IN COMPARE TO GRANDNESS OF GOD 8.THEREFORE HE IS, LIKE BLESSED DIONYSIUS WHO WAS MENTIONED MANY MANY TIME BY ST.THOMAS AQUINAS HAS SAID, BEYOND ALL CONCEPTS AND NON-CONCEPTS AND BEYOND BEYOND BEYOND THAT THUS MAKING HIM THE GOD THAT HE IS FOR HE SAID "I AM THAT I AM"

[@kevinlysaught8097]

Could someone please remind me the title of the hymn that is at the beginning of the video? My heart knows it well but my memory is lacking...I'd greatly appreciate it!

[@1solosoyyo1]

O God, Beyond All Praising

[@marymoser3396]

Also: I Vow to Thee my Country

[@tippybritton6668]

I tell you the presentation of our Lord being Caucasian has caused many of my brothers and sister discord. Even for a devout Christian, I too had to condition myself to look beyond this accepted representation of ou Lord.

[@danserrano100]

Jesus Christ is God and man. By Resurrection man becomes fully alive that is the glory of God..ipsum esse

[@stanio2002]

What church was it?

[@trishknaut1031]

Bishop! I have a perspective from my testimony that might help our apologetics if I could tell you with an email!

[@worframtimoth9781]

What is the name of a song at the beginning of video please?

[@seanbeeson]

It is a rendition of O God Beyond All Praising, also known as Thaxted. The original tune was written by Gustav Holst as part of the "The Planets" (Jupiter), but this particular arrangement is one that I created for this video series for Bishop and Word on Fire.

[@frederickanderson1860]

2 nature's are we same let us make man in our image we have 2 nature's then . Truly human like us then . Contradiction how come Adam sinned, free will or he was imperfect.

[@georgeschlaline6057]

What is Logos? Did he create God?

[@BishopBarron]

The Logos is the mind of God.