Since Labor Day, I have been a 24-7 caregiver of my 94 year old mother at home. With much free time on my hands, I watch many KZread videos. I really love listening to Bishop Barron who so well articulates the Faith (or in this case, Scripture). Bravo!

@danjf1

2 күн бұрын

God Bless you and your mother. I know how you feel in some way. Bishop Robert Barron is this century's Bishop J. Sheen. God bless you

Love your explanation Bishop Barron. We are truly blessed to have you as priest, prophet and bishop.

A very good sermon on a confusing parable. Thank you Father.

We must be Ready to see the lamb and his Church together for ever! 😇😇😇God bless all!

I have been in bible study and reading my Bible most of my like , but this lesson elusive to me, but lately I have been having a reoccurring dream. In one dream I am face down in worship, and being dressed for the wedding feast. In the second dream the angels in heaven are very excited about preparing for the coming wedding feast. It’s really getting my attention.

The best explanation I've heard of this parable! Wow!

@agnesrosenau8002

3 жыл бұрын

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@agnesrosenau8002

3 жыл бұрын

siouxhenzig@gmail.

Thanks fr.Barron for that video...I always enjoy your insights and dedication to our Lord.

Very well done as always Fr. Robert Barron! I always was troubled about this parable, it was and always was thought provoking every time I'd read it again. I mean at mass, our priest was pretty much on the mark with the interpretation in his homily, and even used a current example, but I really enjoy how much you go in depth with your explanations. Thank you Fr. Barron. God Bless.

Thank you for another awesome video Father Barron!

T Y ....I have often pondered in my ignorance about this parable....I understand it much better now....The Lord's Old and New Testament condensed into One parable...all Glory to Our Lord Jesus. !!!!! thank you Bishop.

Thanks Robert Barron. That was a great deal of help and well put.

Thank you Father. This is the first time I've understood this parable.

The wedding garment is Sanctifying Grace, without which we WILL be cast into the outer darkness. Sanctifying Grace, don't leave earth without it! 😇

Another awesome video Fr. Barron.

😂Thank you Bishop Baron. I've finally been enlightened as to the most significant and profound meaning of this parable. I love you in a very appreciative way.

smartest and beautiful explanation❤👍😊 need more from your teachings father

@vmd8057

3 жыл бұрын

We do not need to be that "smart" to go Heaven, Thanks be to God. We need to obey His commandments that is how we love Him. Heaven will be our reward. To be with him for Eternity!

@therealong

3 ай бұрын

@@vmd8057 Again, you need to love your neighbor as yourself, not just obeying His commandments without specifying what they are and what you obey!

Thankd God for this teaching. from honduras

Thank you for explaining this video, Father! Makes so much more sense now. God bless. :)

A normally conspiratorial, I instantly disagreed at the beginning of Bishop Barron's take on this sensitive story slash parable actually, until the end. When he states the person that did NOT change his garment, meaning his life, his attitude , how could he possibly sit at table with the saints. I was blind, and now I see. Thank you Bishop Barron. God's not finished w me yet, im still learning. ✝️ ♡

Beautiful indeed. God bless.

Father, have you considered talking about Interstellar, the new movie by Christopher Nolan? It exposes a number of Christian themes, though I'm unsure if Nolan was conscious of this, and is quite frankly one of the finest films I've seen in years. It seems to elegantly with themes such as Stewardship of Creation, Ordering the Garden, and the transcendent third form of unselfish love you talk about in many of your videos, along with the promotion of the Priestly Office (sacrifice) and an eloquent Lazurus motif about self-absorption leading to death. It would be an excellent chance to articulate the practical values espoused by the church.

Amazing explanation. Loved it.

Thank you Bishop. Very well explained and finally it make perfect sense to me now

Thank you Fr Barron..

Seeing that this was published on KZread five years ago (the Obama era) it’s easy for Bishop Barron to imagine how crazy it would seem for a person not to accept a personal invitation from the President; but now in the Trump era, people refuse all of the time, so the analogy no longer works... but great explanation from one of the most intelligent clergy in the Church today. Thank you.

@dragonboy718

4 жыл бұрын

perhaps because Rump is a racist bigot who is not accepting

@emilykamel2549

3 жыл бұрын

Your comment made me laugh in the morning. Thank you.

@richardounjian9270

8 ай бұрын

Oddly, you made Bishop Baron's point sharper. Only the depraved, evil leftists rejected Trump's invitation to the white house. The same types who rejected Jesus! Thanks for putting the cherry on top! Funny how evil finally presents itself 😂

Very insightful! Thank you.

I love this - I am wondering why this is subtitled in Chinese - I hope the Chinese people are listening; I pray they are listening 🙏(or is it in Japanese? idk)

Very profound and spiritual!

Thank you very much for this very clear explanation, especially on the guy who was thrown out because he was not properly clothed.

Wonderful video! Does anyone know where that O’Connor quotation comes from? “In the land of the deaf, you have to shout”? Thank you!

Thank you so much. Great explanation!

God Bless you always for all your much appreciated efforts. Thanks for sharing :)))))))

You're right i can't denied the happiness to no one i can denied me ever no matters. For ever i practice this too much time for me is no cost.

Thanks father Barron. Missing review of new movies.

Bishop Barron is wise and very educated, but the way he speaks is addicting. I love those videos or his book. Some things are much clearer.

Read this today and had no idea what it meant. Fr. Barron, thanks

Good explanation of the parable Fr. Barron. Thanks!

@NH165

3 жыл бұрын

Nice try.

So much beautiful! 😇😇😇

Thank you Father. Never saw it that way before.

Brilliant explanation, thank you 🙏

thank you bishop..the most tormenting consequence of sin is separation from God, of not being part of His kingdom..

@vmd8057

3 жыл бұрын

We just need to obey Him. Because if we obey his commandments we love him. And if we sinned we have to repent, go to confession and sin no more.

@therealong

3 ай бұрын

@@vmd8057 You need to love your neighbor as yourself, not just obeying His commandments without specifying what they are and what you obey!

Hello Father, I am a Theology teacher at a Catholic high school in Elmhurst, IL. After studying Genesis and learning that Eden represents the pre-Fall perfection of God's creation, a very intelligent and good-hearted student asked how we can reconcile the theory of evolution with the idea that creation was perfect before the Fall. The assumption was that if the world evolved in the way the theory is proposed, then that would involve violence and death (part of natural life, as we know it, on earth). I am deeply interested in hearing how we can approach this question as Catholics. I know you are busy, but if you have the chance to consider this question in a future video or blog post, it would be helpful for me and my future students. P.S.: In the moment, I told him that that is a question for people who are both committed Catholics and good scientists to look into and figure out...that maybe he would be investigating the question someday. Your videos have had such an impact on my development as a theologian and a teacher. Thank you and God bless! Sincerely, Joe

@ElectOne22_

5 жыл бұрын

Creation and evolution do not belong in the same conversation. One glorifies the creator of our world and the other glorifies satan. We cannot combine the two. Either you believe the word of God 100% or not. Remember Christ says in revelation, because you are neither hot or cold I will spit you from my mouth. Those who hold consider evolution while claiming to be of the faith are deceiving themselves and are luke warm.

@ElectOne22_

4 жыл бұрын

@@christiandpaul631 the issue with evolution is that it is just a theory. It is created in direct contention of Christianity (creation). The creation story was written thousands of years before the theory of evolution. The problem with evolution is that there has been no documentation to support the theory. No one has witnessed evolution. The creation story paints a different picture. The earth is immovable and the sun/moon revolve inside the firmament. The Catholic Nicolaus Copernicus introduced the Heliocentric theory. Where the Sun is the center and the earth and moon revolve around it. In essence creating sun worship. Evolution and the Heliocentric model both go against the bible. You cannot believe both.

@vmd8057

3 жыл бұрын

Read Thomas Aquinas, Fulton Sheen.

@therealong

3 ай бұрын

@@vmd8057 I wonder how far all of you have reached today, 2024

Thank you for this video. I would not have grokked that from the reading alone. God bless.

Thank you for your Way of telling pricely this " story " from the Bible

Thank you Father I really appreciate your videos. I've only just watched this video on the wedding banquet. I think a few months back our priest mentioned the wedding garment was obtained from our baptism and needed to be cleansed throughout our lives by the sacrament of confession. The poor chap at the wedding had been baptised but at some point rejected God. I hope I'm not mis-representing him but I believe that was his explanation.

@vmd8057

3 жыл бұрын

The explanation the priest gave is simple and in Charity, not a mumble jungle explanation that put us to sleep on our left side. El que tiene oidos que oiga y el que tiene ojos que vea.

Thanks for the INPUT. But how does the interpretation of this Parable fit in the immediately preceding 2 Parables (Matt 21), the Coming of Christ as King of Israel (cf Matt 21,Zech.9:8-9) and the rejection of the Chief Priest, Pharisees & Scrbes?

Father Baron: I always enjoy your enlightening monologues. Some of the parables are confusing. One really wants to believe that Christ is almost forcing us to work hard in order to get us to instill the self discipline necessary to understanding the nuances of God's intentions. Yet, some parables are so provocative (like His command to eat His flesh) that it almost seems as is God is daring us to hang on, to test our resolve, almost as though saying: "If you can stick with this, you are ready for the higher truths, but, first, you must overcome a limitation." God's love for us is unshakeable, eternal, and ever present. I know this, from having spent 45 years of my life rejecting God, yet His voice never truly left me. God's salvation for us is free, but has He ever claimed it would be necessarily simple, that only one stage of growth is necessary. It would not seem so. Plow through the tough ones to get to the nectar within.

@johnb4632

6 жыл бұрын

rockhound570 theist; Very interesting comment. Yes you are right about Jesus command on eating his flesh the eucharist. Jesus knew this would be the hardest teaching. The Jews treat eating Christ's body and blood metaphorically; protestants treat it symbolically and catholics treat literally.Yes Christ meant it literally. This will indicate if you are a worthy disciple. Judas did not believe at the last supper and walked away. Don't walk away believe then you will see the truth.

thanks father for explaining the wedding garment :)

Thankyou Bishop

Epic! Lord have mercy

"For many are called, but few are chosen." (Mt 22:14)-what do we make of the closing words to this parable in relation to the man who had no wedding garment?

Thank you

That was a great breakdown.

Wonderful.

Come Holy Spirit, teach us Faith, Hope and Love. Ps 84:1, Mt 8:8 “Let us preach the whole of God’s plan,to the powerful and to the humble, to rich and to poor,to men of every rank and age, as far as God gives us the strength, in season and out of season.” 😇 St. Boniface pray for us

I love this

Thank you Father ..

Gonna have to read more. Thank you, Bishop Barron, you understand that God is an artist, a poet.

Thank you for the educational video. I also was told the king would give each guest a wedding garment so there would be no reason not to be wearing it other than disrespect.

It's an astounding notion to understand there is no sin that can separate us from God's love. If we refuse God's love, He is still God. Us as humans can experience the worst of sin but God will not abandon us unless we refuse everything that He is.

Whoa! The greatest Catholic fiction writer of the last century? Definitely the second best. Prof. John R.R. Tolkien is the greatest! (Awesome video anyway :) )

@TheJoruselen

4 жыл бұрын

Anthony Fisher I don’t think you understand the Bible is a living breathing document. First, it started as a Hebrew account, written right to left, with no chapters, verses and vowels, but today it is now in multiple languages, written left to right, with chapters and verses. I doubt highly that one person living 3000 years ago is still living today to edit or put out updated version of a “fictional story.” Second, the Bible is not just an ethical, moral, and spiritual guide book, it is a astrology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, math, gps coordinator, and color book, to say the least. For example, the golden ration is just Genesis 1:6-1:8, pi is Exodus 3:14, Mark 14:13 and Luke 22:10 are about the constellation Aquarius, as waterbearer and house translate to these two words.We all carry God’s return date on our hands- February 10, as after 40 days and 40 nights, 41st day is what? If God is the word, how does make the written word, using what? Jesus’ first miracle is also his prophecy for the identity, time, date, birth order and name of the son of man. 2-10. I know this because I am the son of man, and you shall know I am lord.

@therealong

3 ай бұрын

March 10, 2024 Joseph R.B. Palm-Goodwin explain this: //The Son of Man, flesh made into the Word, fulfilling the covenant between God and Abram, and my birth is in the word, being the word, as foretold in Luke 22:10 and Mark 14:13. I am who I am.//

Why was the last verse completely left out verse 14?

*The Importance of Literary Hyperbole* "In a land of the deaf, we have to shout" - Mary Flannery O'Conner Sometimes you need to exaggerate the point to grab people's attention. Especially when they think they already have everything solved and are in actuality sliding gently down a slippery slope to oblivion.

Or you're right we Must to cause impacto with how much LOVE us God😇😇😇👼🔥☄️🕊️

8:10 God's passion to set things right...

👏🏼 bravo!!! 🌹

Just to say got the website but bible sold out good sign hope will be in soon thanks

Ok you're right i understand now if i told that i ever refuse me to all invitations you Must understand me pass from the lives of hermit and renounces to back to live in middle to much people all alone i feel me like Jeremiah where is hard often take decisions that only i understand cause i was not sharing nothing of my own only was living loving the good of others and when you see hermit you know much differences right? I'M trying. I'm still. It's hard much things and feelings that i eliminated of my Life but my feelings win me.

If I've received a invitation to a wedding, I wouldn't reject it but instead I humbly accept it. It's like this. I've been invited to daily Catholic mass and never once did I have any excuse of not going.

I'LL try to go

Is that the best one has ever heard??? I guess so, at least for me.

Hmmm I don't really buy it but I'll think about this parable and the interpretation

Is it possible that the murder of the messengers represents the crucifixion of Jesus?

@filthyswit

9 жыл бұрын

I guess we'll never know since the bible is rarely clear on what to take as literal and what to take as parable. That's why there are so many different religions based on this one book. It's also why these religions are still alive today.

@gregorywullaert8618

9 жыл бұрын

I would say no since Jesus is represented by the son to whom the wedding banquet is being held for. I think Fr. Barron is right in saying here the murdering of the messengers points to Israel's reaction to the prophets God sent. There is another parable where the son is killed that points more to the Crucifixion.

With all do respect Bishop. GOD IS LOVE and in his Love He is going to judge us. Can you explain how is it that God judge us. Is it because our sin against Him and His commandments. Or is it just an exaggeration? Why our Blessed Mother Ever Virgen Maria came to Fatima, Lourdes, Akita etc. Just to let us know that God love us and He is all Mercy or she has an urgent message for all of us? With all do respect I think you may be in the wrong line of work.

I think Dawkins and ilk are responding to biblical literalists more than Catholicism or more nuanced understanding of the bible. There is a significant movement in the USA of evangelical literalists who reject science and and wish to teach their beliefs in place of science and history. This is clearly a threat to a secular way of life that many people in the USA lead, and he is defending secularism against this threat. He also thinks that all religious belief could lead to similar threats against secularism, but he's a bit paranoid there. As an atheist, I think religious and secular lives should coexist with mutual respect and dialog. There is no need for these "culture wars" or worldview conflicts. It's fine to disagree.

@alejandromartin8347

9 жыл бұрын

The problem I think is that richard dawkins views anyone that believes in God as ignorant hicks. He tells his followers to purposely ridicule people that believe in God. But why don't you believe in God?

@Thagomizer

9 жыл бұрын

But don't you notice how Dawkins and his would-be catamites also tend to dismiss so-called religious moderates, and even the idea that there is another way to interpret the bible altogether? The reason they do this, I think, is because it's much easier to win a battle against a straw man.

@RoscoeKane

9 жыл бұрын

Thagomizer It may be that he is picking the easier fight. But I suspect it is also that he is fighting the movement that is fighting him.

@RoscoeKane

9 жыл бұрын

Alejandro Martin TLDR: I don't believe in God because I find the evidence insufficient. Why? That's a big claim to base on some stories you heard and read. Lets see some science! I think it's pretty easy to show that a literal interpretation of the Bible is highly problematic, and I don't think most of it was written literally. Jesus himself was known for speaking in parables, clearly drawing on a tradition of figurative speaking. To interpret his words, the texts he references, and the gospels written about his life literally is clearly off the mark. Catholicism has a long history of trying to understand the meaning behind the words. Admittedly there are clear examples of mistakes, but that's expected. Then, Martin Luther. He said you can read and understand The Bible yourself, you don't need the church to read it for you. He even had it printed in common languages. Heresy, I know. But now anybody can grab a copy, open it up, and decide for themselves what they think it means. Lots of people figure "Hey, this is the Word of the Lord. Seems like he would give it to us strait, right? If not, how can I know what it means." So anyway, Dawkins often encounters these folk who are upset about what he says. He addresses them most and they are the ones who respond most. They are the ones he knows best and sees most, so they are the ones he talks about. Why don't I believe in God? When I was young I was really into science, still am actually. Space, dinosaurs, loved it. But Santa Claws, how could he visit billions of houses in one night? And there were other things that didn't add up. I was about 4.5 or 5 when I stopped believing in Santa. Then I heard about people who didn't believe in God. This was a big deal to me, if there are people who don't believe in God, than that means the matter isn't settled. I wanted to know. At age 7 I had done a lot of thinking about it and asking people about weather or not they believed, I wasn't sure. A teacher even mentioned Pascal's Wager to me, though didn't mention it was called that. I decided that since it was so up in the air I would decide for myself what was true. This lead me to a strange place where I believed I had magical powers, like telekinesis. When I failed to make them work, I would figure I didn't try hard enough. One day I tried super hard and it didn't work. I decided to consider why and I realized that I had been lieing to myself, I was telling myself this was real when I kinda knew it wasn't. I vowed never to lie to myself again and seek the truth, whatever it may be. "What about God then?" I asked myself at the age of 9. "Well" I figured, "there are so many possible ways the universe might be, and God being a part of that seemed like only one of them." So I figured that I might as well assume He's not real. And indeed, He might be real, but absent any evidence, it's best to assume not, much as we can safely assume pixies and unicorns aren't real. Well what about all those great philosophical arguments? Eh, they fail to prove anything. Whatever created the world must be God? Alright, so accumulating material from dead stars and clouds of gas are God? No no, whatever created the universe. Well I sure don't know what that is, why would you call it God? Oh if the word "God" must refer to something then it must refer to something that is God, so if "God" has any meaning at, all then it means God is real. When exactly did you plan to demonstrate that the word "God" does indeed actually refer to this thing again? No? Yeah, by our modern standards these arguments are pretty awful. These days we expect you people to demonstrate that they know things. If you know God is real, lets test your idea. God's untestable? Well, then you haven't demonstrated that he is real. Show me some good evidence, then I will believe you. The evidence I have been presented so far is not good enough for me. Would the same evidence convince you If I were talking about Krishna and referencing Vedas? I think we can agree that the evidence itself is insufficient. Some people are happy to believe things based on things other than evidence. Personal experience in many cases. I encourage people to make evidence based beliefs and decisions, it works out better overall.

@Thagomizer

9 жыл бұрын

So go ahead and make an argument for Krishna and the Vedas. Compare it with the arguments for Christ's resurrection put forth by the likes of, say, Gary Habbermas and N. T. Wright. All religions aren't equal in terms of evidence.

I'm sorry, but I WOULD rather see a movie with my buddies than to go to Obama's house. But I do get the point. I appreciate your videos very much!

Bishop, if God is love, then how can he not have emotions?

@BishopBarron

6 жыл бұрын

Love isn't an emotion.

Wonderful video, thank you Father! P.S. I can honestly say I don't think I would except an invitation to hang out with our current President though haha. I know you were just using that as an example, and I got what you were getting at...just saying... :)

@vmd8057

3 жыл бұрын

Not surprised. So, you are OK with the killing of innocent babies and not only that, but you are OK with the enforcement of this barbaric ritual, offered to the devil, on all the citizens of this country.

Love the comparison to Israel's history

It wasn't the KING'S banquet. The king was in attendance.

I always thought that the person thrown out was someone who accepted salvation but lived an unworthy life and lost the privilege of salvation. Salvation is a privilege not a right and requires more than just faith to receive it and enter into the Lord's Holy Place - Paradise Heaven, Paradiso! ! BUT I still don't understand many are called few are chosen.

Any chance this points to: People kill the messenger (prophets being killed) King destroys city (destruction of Jerusalem 70AD) Other people invited (Gentiles welcomed into the covenant) Guy gets thrown out (One who is unbaptized) Or am I taking it too simplistically?

@majesticmelvin

6 жыл бұрын

Nah. You’re right. But the “baptism” you mention is baptism of the Holy Spirit. Not of waters. I just listened to Pastor Tawfiq Cotman El preach about this scripture for one hour. It’s very insightful.

@danamalar

5 жыл бұрын

@@majesticmelvin You are right , but the cloth is love and charity as Bishop told in this video., because gentiles are invited and enter the church through babtism, but started living a unworthy life , rather a mediocre life which may not merit heaven. Babtism removed the original sin but cannot guarantee heaven which had to be gained through one's faith and charity. As Holy Father explains about the oil and lamp of virgins parable, that the lamp is our faith and oil is charity , so who has real charity (not tokenistic charity ) can enter heaven.

@ElectOne22_

5 жыл бұрын

Ryan, you are correct. The "bishop" in this video twisted scripture. The people who don't receive the Holy Spirit are the ones that don't have the proper wedding garment. Those are the people that say a sinners prayer and think they are saved. Unless one truly repents and receives the Holy Spirit, he will not see the kingdom of God. The road that leads to destruction is wide and the gate is very wide, but the road that leads to heaven is narrow and straight and the gate is narrow. Many think they are Christian's, but if they read scripture they would see how wicked they are. The law was set in place to reveal sin to the world. The Holy Spirit is sent to reveal sin to the world, and to guide one unto righteousness. Something the Law could not do. Study to show yourself approved. Don't take mans word for it. Many are deceived by leaders in the church because they dont read the bible. There are many false prophets in the world and people follow them because they have itching ears.

Suddenly I see. 🎶

The presidential invitation analogy held true for all previous presidents

@mingo09able

4 жыл бұрын

Jeff Luehm You honor the office not the man.

Righteous anger as a desire to set things right... very interesting

Job 29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me my justice was like a turban and robe. Garment not clothes

I spend most of these videos trying to read the book titles on the Bishop's book shelves, lol.

Not one mention of the 'Queen'. 4:36 You get the same reaction with some people regarding the spreading of the gospel message. 10:28 Christ Righteousness, not self righteousness 'But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.' Romans 13v14 / 'For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.' Romans 14v17 / And be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith. Philippians 3v9

God wins ever!

Thank you bishop for your spiritual truths on this specific parable amazing. I am just getting caught up on your videos.Amazing that on Friday October 13th 100th year anniversary Conan O'Brien a catholic was on the Steven Colbert Show another catholic. On this show Conan mentioned Flannery O'Connor! as he graduated from Harvard as a writer and his best author was Flannery O'Connor as was Colbert's favorite author amazing. Then Sunday Oct 15th comes along and guess what the catholic mass gospel around the world was about this parable the king's wedding.Amazing. Yes the wedding banquet was unique first it was showing how catholics give excuses in going to mass to receive the eucharist.They are invited weekly and refuse too busy. As the bishop mentioned Israel killed all the prophets and of course God was showing us through the crucifixion that violence was the only thing the world offers. Now when the king sees the guest with improper wedding garments as the bishop describes very well that guest was not worthy because of his works or was not changing his lifestyle. But you also notice the guest was bound up and thrown out. This also refers to heretics protestants because notice that the king recognizes the improper wedding garment meaning certain threads of the garment was missing. To be catholic and worthy of Christ you should be putting on a seamless wedding garment. Heretic in Greek means to strip away a thread. This refers to the guest not living the full gospel complete catholic teachings 'according the whole'.Which means universal church.

@vmd8057

3 жыл бұрын

The truth is contained in the Deposit of Faith, the Magisterium of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Pray for clarity which condemns the sin of abortion both as the act and the advocacy. Pray for the voice of clarity which calls the sinner to repentance. This clarity is the true act of charity and what it means to be a Catholic and worthy of Christ.

The wedding banquet is the Holy Mass.

The person without the garments hears the prophets and understands the way, but does not live the way. That is, he or she understands the theology, but does not act accordingly. To my 21st-century mind, wedding garments connote ostentation. But, following the logic of the reading, the garments could be a sign of a well-travelled life while remaining true to tradition... Wedding Symbols of the Ancient World--would be a cool book to read. Also, I would enjoy your reading of Flannery O’Connor’s "Good Country People." So I have a video request....

The appletini bishop

What EXACTLY was exaggerated?

It's about a Hebrew wedding.

i like turtles

Many are called, but few are chosen. That is what it is all about.

@therealong

3 ай бұрын

@winstonbarwuez9538 It's rather: ALL are called, though NOT ALL respond...

By the wedding garment in the parable is represented the pure, spotless character which Christ's true followers will possess. To the church it is given "that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white," "not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing." Revelation 19:8; Ephesians 5:27. The fine linen, says the Scripture, "is the righteousness of saints." Revelation 19:8. It is the righteousness of Christ, His own unblemished character, that through faith is imparted to all who receive Him as their personal Saviour. The white robe of innocence was worn by our first parents when they were placed by God in holy Eden. They lived in perfect conformity to the will of God. All the strength of their affections was given to their heavenly Father. A beautiful soft light, the light of God, enshrouded the holy pair. This robe of light was a symbol of their spiritual garments of heavenly innocence. Had they remained true to God it would ever have continued to enshroud them. But when sin entered, they severed their connection with God, and the light that had encircled them departed. Naked and ashamed, they tried to supply the place of the heavenly garments by sewing together fig leaves for a covering. This is what the transgressors of God's law have done ever since the day of Adam and Eve's disobedience. They have sewed together fig leaves to cover the nakedness caused by transgression. They have worn the garments of their own devising, by works of their own they have tried to cover their sins, and make themselves acceptable with God. But this they can never do. Nothing can man devise to supply the place of his lost robe of innocence. No fig-leaf garment, no worldly citizen dress, can be worn by those who sit down with Christ and angels at the marriage supper of the Lamb. Only the covering which Christ Himself has provided can make us meet to appear in God's presence. This covering, the robe of His own righteousness, Christ will put upon every repenting, believing soul. "I counsel thee," He says, "to buy of Me ... white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear." Revelation 3:18. This robe, woven in the loom of heaven, has in it not one thread of human devising. Christ in His humanity wrought out a perfect character, and this character He offers to impart to us. "All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags." Isaiah 64:6. Everything that we of ourselves can do is defiled by sin. But the Son of God "was manifested to take away our sins; and in Him is no sin." Sin is defined to be "the transgression of the law." 1 John 3:5, 4. But Christ was obedient to every requirement of the law. He said of Himself, "I delight to do Thy will, O My God; yea, Thy law is within My heart." Psalm 40:8. When on earth, He said to His disciples, "I have kept My Father's commandments." John 15:10. By His perfect obedience He has made it possible for every human being to obey God's commandments. When we submit ourselves to Christ, the heart is united with His heart, the will is merged in His will, the mind becomes one with His mind, the thoughts are brought into captivity to Him; we live His life. This is what it means to be clothed with the garment of His righteousness. Then as the Lord looks upon us He sees, not the fig-leaf garment, not the nakedness and deformity of sin, but His own robe of righteousness, which is perfect obedience to the law of Jehovah. -Christ Object Lesson 310.3 - COL 311.4

This story really reminds me of modern American politics

Flannery O'Connor is the greatest catholic fiction writer of the last century? Father, did you forget about JRR Tolkien?!?!?!?!

@BishopBarron

9 жыл бұрын

No. I love Tolkien, but Flannery is a better writer.

@thedramaticcharismatic5664

9 жыл бұрын

Fr. Robert Barron You're hurting me here father.

@BishopBarron

9 жыл бұрын

Again, I love Tolkien! But from the standpoint of literary art, Flannery is his superior.

@thedramaticcharismatic5664

9 жыл бұрын

Fr. Robert Barron We're gonna have to agree to disagree on this one father. Though I think I have to forfeit my nerd card if I call anyone better than Tolkien.

@GideonsKnight

9 жыл бұрын

Fr. Robert Barron Two authors of incredible quality but they wrote very different types of literature. I wouldn't give the nod to Flannery; doesn't seem to accord with the facts. Flannery O'Connor was brilliant, subtle and profound but she wrote mainly short stories within an American genre. Tolkien wrote 2,000 pages of high medieval romance, gave rise to an entire genre, and was a linguist and literary critic of the highest caliber. Hard to name anyone his literary superior. Be careful dissing Tolkien on the internet, Father! (kidding)