He nailed it: contemporary society treats adults like children and children like adults

Less that one year ago I would have struggled understanding your video but since some time now I am ready to follow you and fully suscribe what you say in this video and many others of yours. With the help of your videos Bishop Barron I am learning how to let Jesus live within me and he is teaching me what means to forgive, love and to carry your own cross.

@juliemarquez92

8 ай бұрын

Congratulations on your great progress! Keep the faith🕊️

@hs78123

8 ай бұрын

❤❤❤ amen!

@lovelettknight9344

8 ай бұрын

....and to carry my own cross.... Yes.

This mans preaching really hits home, his word's speak directly to your heart. It's uncanny just how much I needed to hear this.

@bukurie6861

8 ай бұрын

Blessing&Love❤😍🌏

@richskalski7688

8 ай бұрын

You are not alone. You are loved.

I look forwards to these sermons every week 🔥🙏 praying for you Bishop Barron

@evelynong4452

8 ай бұрын

Me too. It's a must hear for me

@brendancarmody4390

8 ай бұрын

give us a break, bishop

@Don-ok6qu

8 ай бұрын

​@@brendancarmody4390 We break ourselves...😊

@andrewelliott1939

8 ай бұрын

​@@brendancarmody4390What's your problem?

I will admit this: I have always had a hard time understanding St. Paul, but I will make a better effort. Thank you always Bishop Barron for your teaching!

2.20am UK time. Monday 18th Seotember 2023. This Anglican follower of Bishop Barron's sermons and daily Gospel readings has found food for the soul. I loved all your world youth day sermons and I am 77 years old. Thank you Bishop. God be with you.

@christinadwyer9641

Ай бұрын

Goodmoring sir. That’s where we are with my son Joshua he stuck in that little world I was single mother just me and older brother Marcus my jumps on me for spoil ing him

Thank you Lord for your annointed priests, specially for Bishop Barron! 12 years ago I started to follow Bishop Barron and since then I started to comprehend much better the magnitude of God's love for me and for each human person. It helps me to understand that isn't an easy path to reach heaven, that we will find many obstacles, and that we will find ourselves sometimes out of the way, but constant prayers and going to confession more often will help us to endure and get back to the right path. Thank you Bishop Barron, God bless you always!

"I've been bought and had a price and I belong to this higher power, Jesus Christ living his life in me; and that's an invitation to real spiritual maturity and real spiritual adventure. *- Bishop Robert Barron*

Bishop Barron, thank you for this reminder about Who we belong to.

@brendamyc3173

8 ай бұрын

Bishop Barron teaches us that when our lives get taken up into the mission of Jesus Christ it gives our lives meaning and purpose and then we are able to use our gifts and talents to help and serve our fellow man. He’s such a wonderful teacher.

@elizabethdunn5036

8 ай бұрын

@@brendamyc3173😊😊😊

@ob2249

8 ай бұрын

wh0 we beI0ng t0 ??!! taIk ab0ut being an abject sIave rissanders3866 y0u want t0 be 0wned ??? ffs

These sermons are marvellous I look forward to them every week and reflecting on them

Brilliant! Permanent adolescence…what Fr Richard Rohr calls the first half of life, is exactly where so many remain stuck. Thank God for these two wise men who can articulate what we need to hear.

@aguerra1381

8 ай бұрын

But aren't we His workmanship? Isn't God responsible for our growth and for reaching our maturity? There's nothing we have that is not given us, without Him we can do NOTHING!

AMEN!! I have finally accepted this reality. My life is not about ME anymore! God Bless you Bishop Barron.

Thank you Bishop Barron, for all you do for our Faith. I started following you 6 yrs ago. Had cancer, radiation (which is killing me now), and I'm back subscribed to your Program. Our younger generations need you Sir; keep up God's work.

Amazing how every week think Bishop Barron can't best this homily & he does match or surpass the previous

Man oh man, Bishop Barron is on a HOT STREAK! Thank you Bishop for this challenge to enter the adventure that Jesus calls each of us to participate in. There is not a soul alive that won't be impacted by hearing this treasure of a homily! God Bless you Bishop Barron and thank you! My prayers are with you.

Wow! YES

You saved the day again! Thank you, thank you for your gift of your life. Your words today made me smile and reminded me of an uncle of mine who had this saying, “you can swim around that guy’s world in a melon skin!” My Dad was raised with 12 boys and 2 girls in a, then remote, area of north central Saskatchewan in Canada. My Grandpa brought his large family to a place where not one tree was cut and no roads. - the tale is too long to tell here but needless to say, this family did not think you were handed anything for nothing and slogged life out together. I’m sure my Grandma was and is a saint; her rosary always at the front of her life and many hardships including feeding the many “strays” Grandpa would bring home to feed and help who had wandered into a hard land they had no idea how to survive in. Anyway the “faith” prevailed, sometimes you never saw a priest for a few months. Grandma was also a staunch supporter of the priesthood, sending a few cents or a dollar or two whenever she could to support them in seminary. Every single day, the family lived out the initiation steps you talked about, it was clearly spelled out through everyday living and there were was so much joy and fun mixed in with all the work and trials. We knew God - and how to find Him when we were lost. We knew the way home. JMJ please keep your great servant, Bishop Barron safe and strong. Amen.

"My life, my death, my choice" Pretty much sums up the facile philosophy of Western secularism/consumerism; thus, the adolescent precepts that continue well into adulthood. Christianity has been reduced to a blandness in our world, so thank you to Bishop Barron for preaching the Good News.

Come, Holy Spirit, come Transform our faith, hope and love. Ps 103:1, Mt 18:22 Then Peter went up to him and said, 'Lord, how often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me? As often as seven times?' Jesus answered, “Not seven, I tell you, but seventy-seven times.” 😇Jesus, I love you

Bishop, you are living saint . Thanks be to God for you.🥰🙏

You described so succinctly the very essence of modern culture and the rise of narcissists, who are children in adult bodies, who are so self-absorbed and egocentric, there is no place for God in their lives. This is becoming more prevalent and this is our challenge as believers in God and in His son Jesus, Our role as parents and teachers to the next generation, is to ensure our children grow to become adults who are empathetic, kind and humble in their knowledge of God as Our King and the sacrifice made by his Son, Our Lord Jesus for us.

Thanks Bishop Barron. Been a fan of yours since you were Fr. Barron making commentaries on movies.

I belong to Jesus because he bought me with His Precious Blood.

Bishop, you are blessed with knowledge!

Loved your homily Father Baron. I am a lector and read the first and second reading during vigil mass, and it was not until you explained the second reading that it hit home for me. I constantly hear it is my life, my body, my way, etc. No, it is really the Lord's. Mind blowing!

Thank you Bishop Barron for such a beautiful reflection and reminder for us as we navigate against the self centered culture in today's world. God Bless you.

Dear Bishop Barón! Praying for you and all the bishops that are in danger for speaking valiantly defending the church of Jesus Christ. 🙏✝️

@brendamyc3173

8 ай бұрын

When I participated in the Cross once out of love and once out of mercy Bishop Robert was at the Cross too.

@carolynalameida709

8 ай бұрын

The Holy Cloak of St Joseph is needed now for our Church and bishops. Check it out!

@marypinakat8594

8 ай бұрын

​@@kut2459 Perhaps you ought to examine yourself with regard to a bias intellect.

@alwendedios

8 ай бұрын

THAT SEEMS LIKE SUCH A NICE EXPERIENCE OMG @@brendamyc3173

The whole of America needs to hear this message.

Sometimes I listen to these sermons twice. I wish every homilist that has as much fervor for public speaking and preaching the Word would record what they say. I like the theme: "I belong to someone else," therefore, I must live to serve the Creator who made me.

The permanent adolescence of our society......Boom!💥

This is perhaps the most impactful talk, to me, that Bishop Barron has given. Thank you for sharing this.

God bless you Bishop Barron!

Amen

WOW! I have turned my will and my life over to God. Thank you, Lord, for the affirmation through the words of Bishop Barron. Thank you, Bishop Barron, for being an earthen vessel. WOW!

Thank you, once again, Bishop Barron for your sermon. Lately, they have been challenging me to stand strong in our Catholic beliefs, even when I expect opposition. If I may say something a little about safe spaces - to my understanding, the motivation behind the opening up of these spaces is to give people whose narratives/voices/worldviews aren’t normally heard (whether that’s because the majority are usually the ones whose voices/stories are most vocalized/hearkened to, or because these people have lost their courage to express their views due to lack of support or resources, etc.) a chance to have their say. These spaces may seem bubble-wrapped and not in accordance with the harshness of reality, but I believe that’s the point. By creating these spaces, the hope is that they can help people gain courage in expressing their stories, as well as encourage others to actually listen to views that may be foreign to them instead of shutting them down.

The well-lighted space of your own self-regard versus being fully in the adventure of true existence and God's purpose for you. It's not my life, it's not my death, and it's not my choice, I have been bought at a price, and I belong to this higher power, Jesus Christ living his life within me.

Thank you Bishop Barron for REMINDING me!!! It's not I that LIVES but CHRIST WHO LIVES IN ME!!! It is not my ego that is in charge of my life but GOD!!! All that we have in this world; fame, riches, power, properties, attention seeking etc. we can't take with us in the grave, nor when our Lord comes again with GREAT HOPE to take us with Him into Heaven, according to His Perfect, Wonderful Will that we have strived in our lives on earth to do!!! That I am striving to do!!! May the Lord bless you Bishop Barron!!! Your sermons make me reflect, are encouraging, as well as questioning the conscience at times!!!

Thank you for reminding us that we belong to Christ. What a wonderful adventure we are called to participate in. Difficult, yet ultimately rewarding.

Beautiful thoughts Bishop Barron, especially for those who are already striving for holiness. Hopefully they will also touch the minds of those lacking any observable spiritual sensibilities.

Thank you Bishop Barron. Your sermons are always an inspiration. I only wish more people would tune in. May God give you Peace. 🙏

Thank you Bishop..... can't go a week without listening to you. You are so in tune with the culture of today. It must break your heart to see these children of God acting out!!

Dear Bishop Barron, Is it not funny that to be Catholic is counter-culture? And yet so many that do not know, accuse the Church of being "traditional", stuck in it's old ways, unwilling to get in step with the times? The one thing I would add to these wonderful words shared by Paul and your exposition, is that once we understand we don't live for ourselves, how liberating it is! Once I understood that Our Lord loves us no matter what we do, I felt a tremendous burden lift from my heart. And as you pointed out as a child, how everything is taken care for us, the sacred milieu created by God, it's absolutely wonderful how liberating it can be for each of us. Thanks for all you do and I pray that Our Mother keeps you under the mantle of protection, always!

Wonderful homily. I always look forward to Bishop's talks. Always learn or relearn. Thank you.

Thank you Bishop Barron. You are on point again. Sometimes our lives become too complicated and busy from work and family needs that we forget our purpose. Love and serve God as His children.

Thank you for this wonderful reminder, that life is all about serving God and others. God is the centre piece of our existence, He created us to love Him, to know Him and to serve Him.

Bishop Barron, this is next level wordsmithery. Truly deeply profound and earthshaking. Thank you!

Amen. 🙏

We live in an extremely child like country…everyone thinks what they want and how they want to live is the most important thing

I Love this man, his intellect, his ability to communicate is truly a blessing from God. Thank you Bishop Barron.

1 Bishop Barron, I liked when you gave the illustration about; the tooth knocked out; and then sent to the elements of nature; where there is no mercy; like a tough love. I am a new convert and I had to jump hurtles; of the things you just said. God always sent someone to clarify things. I wrote on this with the other channel; I write a lot there. I get a tear or two now. You made it understood; answering my question: why on earth would the Communists infiltrate the seminaries; as Fulton Sheen prophesied; by watching how Communism; brought in debauchery; and twisted reasoning... 2Like no police; and then: they came in full force. Then, the hypocrites; brought back morality; without Jesus Christ; because: they want to mock us; and say: Oh, you are Christians; and a Christian nation; and you are - way beneath your God given privilege; to evolve to adoption in Christ. BUT YOU ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL; YOU ARE NOT THE CREAM OF THE CROP; AN UNDERSTATEMENT. 3False Claim; Communism: WE ARE THE CREAM OF THE CROP; WITHOUT CHRIST; WE LIVE; EVOLVED HUMANS; BUT WITHOUT CHRIST. Like you said: - nothing is new under the sun. There has always been a battle between righteousness and darkness; even within your own ranks; like heaven also had a war. The Patriarch Job: the devil enters heaven; and is allowed to enter heaven; to accuse. 4I've written on how; a Caribbean minister; who specializes in Bible scriptures dealing with the order of the hierarchy of the unseen world whether; it be Heaven's angels vs the Fallen angels; always scripture based; knowledge knocks out questions and gets you on the Light path. I needed him; to get those scriptures and used them for the Catholic path of a new convert; and I jumped that hurtle of the thing that was sparring; like a boxer with his trainer; sparring. So, in real life; the seen world; there is a hierarchy; and if you are in the Church; you have to stay within this understanding; hierarchy of how the spiritual laws work. 5Geometry: We are like angles; - and angels for that post. We cannot get mad; and abandon ship. You said: the tribal training euphemism: it is to make you; evolve past the "Communism." We get punched in the mouth; by the sparring partner; really sparring hard. God is our sparring partner; he created the devil; so that is definitely sparring. At first: it is confusing that God created the devil; that is a sparring fact. But, God always sends someone to correct the spar; to become the spark; to Light the next candle; who are glued to their angle; like a hierarchy on earth.

This is one of Bishop Barron's best. God bless him and his ministry.

Not giving yourself away in love is suffering

Thank you Bishop Barron. May GOD bless and protect you always. ➕️♥️

Miraculous, incomparable God, I believe in Him, in His boundless Love and Mercy

I really wanted and prayed that someone teaches this message valiantly to our children, especially the young adults and even adults. Thanks to social media, we are able to listen to this great teaching. We are in deep need of the right education to bring us out of permanent adolescence. May God bless the world of today to get to the right space with proper change in thinking and understanding and acceptance of our belongingness to Christ, our Saviour. May metanoia preached and expected by Jesus for our own good get the souls back to God in this century too.

One of the best homilies I’ve ever heard! Going on repeat.. thank you, dear Bishop!

@elainegagne4810

8 ай бұрын

I think this same thing with everyone a Bishop Barron’s families. He is such a gift to our time. I have no doubt he will be known in history as one of the lords greatest messengers.

Thank you, Bishop Barron for always challenging us to think beyond what we already know. I can attest to the fact that when you live for God and demonstrate that in your love for others, you have achieved a high point in human existence. It’s when you experience overwhelming joy and awe.

That’s wisdom - our society in perpetual adolescence- I see it and believe it.

This is one of the best homilies that I've ever heard. I'm going to listen again and take notes. I'll also send it to the young person who I'm sponsoring for Confirmation.

thank you Bishop Baron for your wise words. Praise be the Lord !!! Amen.

“Permanent adolescence” - so spot on! God bless you, Bishop Barron!

Thank you Bishop Barron

Impressive Sermon! Great analysis of the culture of America today. Going away from GOD.

Every Sunday I listen to your sermon, I say to myself: "This is the best sermon you have given." Comes next Sunday, I think the same. Small humor here. Recently, my wife and I moved from Chicago southwest area to rural Plains. Originally, the area of our new home was settled by German-Cathollic immigrants. It remains overwhelming Catholic today. In asking myself how I could explain Bishop Barron's, Words on Fire, to my neighbor farmer down the gravel road, who is deeply religious in his Catholicism, I pictured myself saying how Bishop Barron is down to earth. He grew up in Chicago where I lived for 55 years. He played and followed baseball like many regular Joes from Chicago. He has debated atheists who have hit hard, shedding any silent reverence for his office of Bishop. Ok, nice. But this down-to-earth humanity molds a message all the more accessible, imo. I once shook hands with Joseph Campbell and asked a brief question after listening to him speak. Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces" was not about Hollywood glitter, but about the very thing you sermonized today. You remind me of the need to live beyond yourself, regardless of the size of your contribution. In the mother house of Great Bend, town near us in Kansas, we met Sister Terry, a Dominican Nun. She exuded love, sacrifice and... courage. She had been a Religious midwife for 23 years in Northern Nigeria until Boko Haram obliged her order to call her back to the states. She illustrated to me the life lived as Bishop Barron proclaims. Thank you, Bishop, as always. Be well, blessings.

Brothers and sisters: None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself. For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; so then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. For this is why Christ died and came to life, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. -- ROMANS 14: 7-9

Amen 🙏

Loved this! It’s been puzzling to me in recent years to hear members of the church primarily mourning the martyrdom of brothers and sisters in Christ, and I think this homily highlights why: are they victims of cruel murder? Yes. Lord, have mercy. But are they to be seen as victims? Not by the Church. The once-beheaded St. Paul and the rest of the “cloud of witnesses” welcomes martyrs as “MORE THAN CONQUERERS”. Mourn the dead, of course. But go beyond that to the reality that they “won the prize” “which the Lord, the Righteous Judge, will award…” They were already dead by being baptized into Christ. The martyrs are in a sense more alive than we are.

Bless you more Your Grace

Thank You Bishop Baron!!!

Let’s go!! Bishop is dropping spirit bombs out here.

we are NOT in control....and i struggle all my life to be in some kind of control or i get overwhelmed by fear, and it feels indeed so as STUCK in permanent childhood/adolescence

Bishop Barron’s homilies are always the high point of my Sundays! May God bless and keep him in the Hollow of His hands.

Amen!

Thank you for another brilliant sermon Bishop Barron. May we pray for all to turn away from the culture of narcissism and live for the Will of the Lord. Amen 🙏💞🕊️

O how very amazing…so liberating….freedom from your little self!!!

Buenos días! Gracias padre gracias! Bendiciones a todos!

I once read a Franciscan teacher's admonition to "love recklessly." That has always stuck with me, and it definitely sounds like a dangerous (and wonderful) adventure...

Fantastic!!! Thank you so much, Bishop Barron!!! 💙💙💙

This insightful homily reminds me of something Pope Benedict XIV said: "You were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness." We could stay in our own childish ways. But when we move beyond it and join ourselves to God's mission in life, we find the fullness of life in living according to His purpose for us. It's tough to consider the ideas in this homily, but when we consider where it leads us, it's a great motivator.

I’m part of the Christian Orthodox Church, and I’m thankful for your sermons. Challenging and inspiring. Very moving. Thank you ❤

Thank you Bisop Barron for this sermon and reminder that we are born and die for God , of our moral compass .

This really hits home. One of his best homilies yet. Thank you, Bishop Barron.

We live in an adolescent society ... Spiritual maturity: not my life, not my death, not my choice. Seek for real spiritual adventure ✨

THANK YOU!🙏❤‍🔥

I've been blessed with a long life and had time to think about my life and how much I wasted in doing so much wrong. Self inspection is good and can be bad for the individual, and in my case, it hurts to have wasted so much God gave me. I enjoy your sermons.

Now a senior and coming back to the Church, I see a lot of people who worship the Christ of the imagination which is idolatry. I'm guilty of that too and it's easy to fall into. I came to the conclusion that in order for me to get "fixed" it makes perfect sense to go to the One Who created me. I am realizing that who I think/thought I was is really a caricature and not who the Lord created me to be. The task of personal prayer now is for my Lord to reveal to me who He intended me to be. It's coming albeit slowly but peace comes from that and is an adventure to have your true self being revealed by my precious Lord.

Great summary of how we become adults in the world and the church

Powerful homily. Thank you Bishop Barron. I will keep you and your ministry in my prayers

I’m listening to one homily after another. ❤ God speaks so powerfully through you, so thankful for our priests that allow the Holy Spirit to work in them. We need your wisdom, courage, direction and hope! ❤ Thank you for your dedication.. thru Christ 😊

Thank you Jesus ❤

Amen. 🙏💙 Words to live by: "Your life is not about you." and "If you have two shirts in your closet, one of them belongs to you." Thank you, as always, Bishop Barron!

@chrisgwinnett1216

8 ай бұрын

Thank you Bishop Barron and team 🙏

@joannalow5422

8 ай бұрын

​@@chrisgwinnett12167888

How many others nodded knowingly throughout this entire sermon? My hands actually lifted up! Very powerful and much needed teaching Bishop Barron. Thanks be to God. 🙏😌

...And also important to not just note, but to know and believe with all our Heart...we have been purchased, true,,but NOT TO BE ENSLAVED By The Purchaser...rather, TO BE SET FREE...from the bondage of slavery to sin, aka the evil one...Yes...as The Rev. Bishop Barron reminded us in One Of His Eloquent Discourses, To Be Ourselves...NOT in competition with The Omnipotent GOD, but, (dare-say) enjoy Togetherness With 'N In The Omnopotence❣

. Agreed. Agreed. Agreed. If followers of Christ truly lived as prescribed in Romans 14: 7-8, Christianity wouldn't be laughed at the way it is today. Instead what the world sees are wanton followers of the Gospel of Prosperity. And so they scoff at our prayers for Mercedes Benzes, mansions, sprawling estates, bulging bank accounts and the so-called good life. We are not the Light of the World, as prescribed in Matthew 5:14. Thanks for the great reminder of who we are.

Thank you Bishop Baron! All of the cute kiddos at my Parish (mine included) make the homily hard to hear so you’re my weekly recap!❤

Very inspiring and informative sermon. Much needed in my life I believe. Fantastic thoughts you give. Thanks for your time.

God Bless you Bishop! Always pray for my vocation to the priesthood!

@jeanonyeagwara4949

8 ай бұрын

I will

@kevinmckay6815

8 ай бұрын

My prayers are with you in this holy vocation of service.

Thank you bishop. I am sharing this forward. Beautiful.

Your words speak directly to my heart. May God keep you safe.

Excellent message Bishop....please keep going encouraging our lives!