Another part of a video series from Wordonfire.org. Bishop Barron will be commenting on subjects from modern day culture. For more visit www.wordonfire.org/
@mhoowen Hey man, I'm a sinner. I stand in need of constant purification. He works through us effectively when our purified wills and minds can cooparate with his grace.
Thank you Fr Barron. I listened to this before mass today and it helped me to understand the meaning of the Pentecost. I always appreciate your videos as do many other Catholics in my church. Please keep up the work of God!
Tq your Lordship for this very clear insight into the workings of the Holy Spirit in our lives through the three symbols you have so exegeticaly expounded on. I have gained a completely new understanding on this most relevant topic. Richard D'Cruz from Malaysia.
You are annointed Bishop! In my experience I believe it is to gain compassion for others to not be attacked by the devil God has made me submit to my enemies because He wants me to love others who are victims of the devil as I have been but didnt understand how to fight the battle. I have more understanding now and hope I can tell you my perspective!
Amazing father.. a lot reflect on in what you said.. I await your videos with excitment from time to time.. Thank God for you! Bob Jerusalem, Holy Lands
@ShadowLink108 Ever hear of "tough love?" Love is willing the good of the other; and this sometimes means that, in Dostoevski's words, it is "harsh and dreadful." Or put it this way, God is always "yes," but sometimes "yes" is a "no" to a "no."
@mhoowen You've never known a good parent who engages in "tough love"? God is never abusive, but he sometimes allows suffering for his own finally good purposes.
I agree with you, Fr.Barron. I believe that indeed the Church is being chastised and set back upon the right path, back to her roots where her focus ought to be. Who but God can set the Church back on track if she does go off-course? And perhaps, in our enemies rising up against us, we can be in a position to better engage and overtake and win some of them over that could not be any other way. When people see the rotten fruits of evil mature, they may perhaps only then see the folly of their ways. Sometimes we must be reminded that what God wants of us is what is best of us and that He commands what He does for a reason. This may be one way, by getting people to move so they can feel their wounds and know what sin has done to them and society. Of course I do not know for certain, but I think it may be possible. Sometimes treating an infection involves going through pain, but it is always worth it in the end.
@ThisRestlessPilgrim "Is the stock (he asks in his commercial way) really a sound investment, when those who hold it are so anxious to unload it on any terms?" - Ronald Knox. Sadly I now find that in some churches here in Australia, I feel that, that is a liturgical abuse. Although again like my first post, there is a counter revolution in place and that is splendid. May God Bless you restless pilgrim, you have a Just heart.
@mhoowen Yeah, but what if he can't do wonderful work through me unless and until I'm purified of my selfishness and sin? I don't think this is an either/or.
Continuation Of: Canticle Of The Holy Spirit Holy Speaks: ah …. My (Your name)…. I have chosen you and I have not rejected you although you too had ceased to be; and so it will be that I will show in this same manner My ineffable affection and My divine power to anyone who is willing; 2 I will not reject you but see how lenient My Love for you compels Me to be? in these days I am descending together with the Father and the Son as three Witnesses; God the Father is Spirit, 3 in that He sends Me, the Spirit of Truth, 4to be with you for ever and lead you to the complete Truth; the Word of God, Light and Saviour and who existed since the beginning, who is nearest to the Father’s Heart, has witnessed and made the Father known to you; you have been bought and paid for with His own Blood; have you not read that the Word of God is alive and active and testifies on earth as I and the Father testify? the Holy One who bought His Church with His own Blood5testifies with His Blood and I, the Holy Spirit of Truth, who leads you to the complete Truth6 testify with Water; 7 therefore, We are three Witnesses and all three of Us agree as We are One God alone, 8 with one Will, one Power and one Dominion; what image, creation, have you contrived of Me and you still do not know Me? … and yet I never stopped testifying; I was never hiding …. 9 O Ineffable Light of Beauty, Your Divine Eyes were soft and smiling; You smiled at me and I found myself smiling back at You; Your Face, O Holy One, contained an angelic charm; Your Holy Face, radiating Love and Purity was ever so near mine; I was not even in profound meditation when You surprised me by appearing to me; Although His Face was altogether adorable, His Eyes were the ones which drew my attention, leaving me in awe and in admiration the love of Your gaze looking into mine with ineffable tenderness were like two glittering stars, they were like a turquoise transparent sea filled with serenity; what can I, the poor worm, say? Your Divine Eyes, my Lord, are like a Liturgy, an ocean of Love, a Paradise and a consuming fire for the one who undeservedly was allowed to contemplate them … how blessed you are, you whose ears I opened, may your ways remain straight in Our Wisdom so that you may do Our Divine Will; count on Me, beloved, for I will bring as many as possible in union with Our Oneness and I will fill them with Light so that they will be filled with the absolute fullness of Our Trinitarian Deity; - come and learn: in hardships I am always with you; I am your Consoler and where there is despair, I console and heal; I am the Giver of Life and with My baptismal kiss, I blow on you, I renew you; I renew you so that your natural inclinations that are so opposed to God and ever so human and worldly, leading you to death, can be transformed and deified in My Divinity and My Nobility and become as those of the angels and saints; I am trying to draw you all into a filial union of divine Love with the Father and the Son and Myself so that you move in Us and We move in you; I can transform your imprisoned minds and free them so that your thoughts and sayings will be only on spiritual things; therefore do not say: “I am doomed by Satan’s baptismal kiss of death”; no! not if you come to Me now; I am the antidote to Satan’s deathly kiss; I am the antidote to Death itself …. it is true that without Me your body is dead, but with Me your body is alive and in Me and through Me you will be counted as a child of God; this is why you must allow Me to reign in your hearts and make you into sons and daughters of the Most High; Scripture says: 10 “happy the pure in heart: they shall see God;” in order to see God, and acknowledge Him as your Father you have to be born of Me, the Holy Spirit, by grace; how else would you see God? a child, before being born, has he ever seen his father? not until he is born will he see his father; and so it is with your spiritual birth of Me; flesh is flesh and has the vision of flesh; but who is born of the Spirit is given a vision of God enabling him to seize Him, acknowledge Him and penetrate in His depths; so come and advance your step, go forward, and I will carry you on My Wings to soar the skies and bring you in Our adoption place, there where all My saints are, anointed by Us thrice Holy; why, did you not know that you too have an assigned place among them? be confident and come to Me and from a rebel I will transfigure you into an upright being, leading your soul into sanctification and then sin will no longer have any power over you; sin is like an evil master in you and you should not give that master any opportunity in any instance to overrule you; but I, who am the Source of all that is Good can overpower your evil master which is sin, because My Law is a Law of Goodness and Life, overpowering all your evil inclinations; come and find Me in simplicity of heart and fasten your heart on Me; do not come to Me with mistrust nor with brilliance of worldly speech; do not approach Me with conceit, vice or deceitfulness, no one who comes in that manner ever seizes Me or sees Me, but the souls who walk in the light of contrition and innocence will not be deprived from My Presence; I will fly to them from My Glory in a brilliant light, followed by myriads of angels to heal them, renewing them and making them one spirit with Mine to inherit My Kingdom; flesh and blood cannot inherit My Kingdom, for what is perishable cannot inherit what lasts for ever; then to make you understand who is the Unique, Trinitarian God, yet One in the unity of essence, I will be healing your guilt, flowing in you as a river, refreshing your aridity and sterility; no one is worthy to see God, indeed, were anyone perfect among you, if he lacked the Wisdom and the Light that comes from Me, he would still count for nothing; the depths of God are riches which are not of this world, and to contain them without Me is impossible; to penetrate God’s motives or understand His methods without Me, is impossible, but were you to allow Me to be recognised in your consciousness, penetrating your intelligence, I will model you in Myself to be truly pleasing to Us; your abandonment to Me is the only way I could transform your mind to have the mind of Christ, discovering Our Will and knowing what is good and what it is that We want and what is the perfect thing to do; so do not allow your flesh11 to protest …. although I seem to appear inaccessible to the eye and unattainable, unseen altogether, I let Myself be seen in full clarity; I utter words of Wisdom and as a friend who confides himself to a friend I confide My secrets to you, hiding none of them from you; I face you, and I, the formless one, take form in your spirit; 12 ah, Vassula, I am altogether a reflection of the eternal light and as an untarnished mirror My Magnificence is magnified in all the creation; here I am now, becoming knowable to you in this way too, 13 yet without losing My transcendence; I am filling you with My Knowledge, even though this flow of transcendent light which I am pouring in you goes beyond what you can contain, 14 I offer, nevertheless, all those treasures of Our Kingdom to adorn not only your soul, but all of the others too; I am, for those who love Me, indeed more resplendent than the sun, outshining all the constellations put together, and as I transcend, I can fill all things with My brightness without being contained by their limits; this is the way I deploy My Light in your soul, ordering all things within you to be good so that you, in your turn reflect My Goodness and grow in virtue; 1 The Orthodox Calendar. 2 The Holy Spirit speaks to the whole world now. 3 Jn. 4:24. St Paul too in 1 Co. 15:45 speaks of Christ as “life-giving Spirit”. The description “Spirit” in the biblical sense does not define God’s nature so much as it describes His life-giving activity. God is Spirit in that He gives the Spirit. 4 Jn. 14:17. 5 With the Sacrifice we obtained Eternal life. 6 In Jn. 16:12-13 Jesus says to His disciples: “I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now; but when the Spirit of Truth comes He will lead you to the complete Truth …” It is a mistake to speak of an end to Revelation and treat it as a deposit of sentences. God is active and alive and will continue showing Himself through the Holy Spirit, never stopping in doing so. When one says in Latin: ‘complere’, it means that Christ is the full, complete revelation of God; and not that He will stop revealing Himself to mankind. The Holy Bible is the narrative testimony of Jesus Christ. It is not God’s last word. 7 With Baptism. 8 In the unity of essence. 9 At this moment, I saw a Face inundated with light, fairer than the fairest angel. The Unformed took form; in this vision of the Holy Spirit, who wanted to show Himself out of His boundless love, an undeserved gift to an unworthy being as myself, left my heart rejoicing; every time the memory of this vision returned to me, my heart anew rejoiced. It cannot fade away from my memory; this vision of His Holy Face is going to remain with me for ever. 10 Mt. 5:8. 11 Here it means human spirit. 12 At this moment, again the same vision appeared to me, the vision of the Holy Spirit’s Face inundated in an ineffable light. 13 By appearing and showing His Face to me. 14 In other words, beyond my capacity.
@wordonfirevideo We are in a world of suffering people and we willingly suffer with them in order to do Gods great works. It is this witness of suffering of others and our desire an attempt to relieve it and do Gods great works that ultimately purifies us. God made us in his image, to be like him in Eternal life! By doing his good works we become more ready to face him on the last day. Of course we can't achieve purification ourselves, so we need Jesus to forgive our sins through his priests.
@wordonfirevideo You ARE doing good work. Am I to assume that you have been purified, you will not suffer any-more, you will not have to spend time in purgatory? Likewise I too am a sinner and yet I do Gods work. Do you feel that the omnipotent God cannot work through sinners? We are all sinners, so how does he work through us?
Day 1 - The Pentecost Novena O Come Holy Spirit, Living In Mary. JN 14:26 “I will carry out a revolution by renewal in the Holy Spirit.” “I will speak one language and wear one uniform: charity.” “I will have one very special love: the Blessed Virgin Mary.” 😇 Bl Cardinal Van Thuan Please Pray 4us Jn 16:20-23
@ThisRestlessPilgrim I believe they are two real issues, that are no where near the same level. The protection of the most vulnerable is of up most importance. I feel there is a counter revolution among young Catholics, studying and claiming what is rightfully theirs in teachings and traditions; which I know have been watered down in an attempt to meet them halfway, a way of thinking i might pressume would be "spirit of the council"
Looks like the Holy Spirit works with the 4 (or 5) Classical Elements: "Water", "Fire", wind or "Air", and also our lives on "Earth" and through our "Spirit".
@ThisRestlessPilgrim where they would attempt to reach the congregation "halfway" (not in the form of a vessel like the new media but in teaching) and may even dismiss dogma to do so. Msgr Ronald Knox wrote a while back about the latitudinarian culture within the anglican churches and the weslyians and linking the reduction in dogma to the reduction of pew sitters and the squabbling among sects.
(The Holy Spirit speaks:) peace be with you; for this noble theme that I will divinely reveal to you, you will have to allow Me to penetrate into your intellect and give you a sublime light of understanding; I will stoop in My benevolence to speak not only to you, but Prodigy Himself will dispose His Knowledge to all mankind; behold, the Bridegroom is stooping over you to communicate to you all words of Life that will adorn you all with royal purple; by grace, you will receive from Me, if you open your heart, sanctifying graces which will invigorate your soul and lead you into perfection; those who would read these words of Life and are undisposed and not in the truth, will see everything as nonsense, for, accustomed to walk with Sterility, they will not be touched; but for those who seek Paradise in simplicity of heart and who do not put Me to the test, on those will I shed My Light and Rays and I will illuminate them; I will then make My way in them and purify them; and when they will come trembling to the reckoning of their impurity and sins, with a groan that will sound more of a new-born’s wailing, they will give birth to a new life in Me, capitulated by Jealous Love; after having conquered them in Blessedness, I shall flow like a vivifying River inside them; My vivifying passage within them will not go by unnoticed; I will not be like a ship that cuts through heaving waves and leaves no trace to show where it passed, or like a bird flying through the air, leaving no proof of its passing or a sign of its passage; I will come to them and wed them and clothe them with Christ; I will transfigure their soul into an Eden because they would be carrying God within them as their Lamp; this will be the sign given to them in My invincible Holiness; I will remain in them taking care of them; and I Myself will be the One who will adorn them with bridal vestments; crowning them with My Deity, a royal crown of splendour, the diadem beauty from the Hand of the Trinity; no one is worthy of such favours, but in My ineffable Love, I said: “night now must yield to light, vice to virtue”; I will work in their soul so that temperance, prudence, justice and fortitude will be their wealth; ah, (Your name), I will cultivate your generation and make them understand that immortality is found in being kin to Us the Triune God; what is more wealthy than this Work of Mercy I, God, will be doing in them? then, having breathed Life in these souls, I will despatch Wisdom from My throne of glory to become their Prodigy; - then everything that had been reduced to ashes in the sterility of this earth through all these years, I, in My divine benevolence, will make anyone who is willing, revive and blossom; fecundated by My warm rays of Light, I tell you, generation, you will be divinised and deified in Our Trinitarian Deity; today, My (Your name), everyone sees as far as they are able to see, but after My passage through you all, you will not be limited and see the way you see now; but, in a most ineffable manner and most divine, you will see with My Light penetrating even the hidden things of God since you will be seeing things in My radiance; 2your entire body will be shining with a brilliant Light; I will be the Lamp of your body3 that will fill it with the splendours of Our Kingdom, which are: soundness, gentleness, love, mercy, joy, peace, patience, truthfulness, goodness and kindness; from the beginning We made you in the image of Our Own Nature; We had said: “let Us make mankind in Our Own Image, yes, in the likeness of Ourselves;” but it was the devil’s envy that brought you all to death; now the earth groans with pain, chastising itself, sighing and crying, weary of no longer being, tearful and suffocating for lack of air, 4 moulding in its interior and putrefying in its entrails; yes, you have ceased to be …. come, My (Your name), this will do for now; be one with Me! (Here the Holy Spirit stopped His divine dictation to me and He made me understand that He will continue His Message later on: see message of June 7, 1998.) 2 The Holy Spirit is foretelling us of the ‘era of the Spirit’. 3 Mt. 6:22-23. 4 I understood this as: lack of the Holy Spirit blowing on us because of the earth’s prohibition of the Holy Spirit to act freely on us. In truth we can say that the Holy Spirit is stifled beyond imagination by this generation. ww3.tlig.org/en/messages/1025/
The more wonderful something is, the more terrible it is when it is abused. The wonderful gift of our children, and the wonderful gift of the priesthood both being misused on the most basic level. It is really horrible for those of us who love the Church. We shall need to spend the rest of our lives making the Church the safest place of all for children
Good idea! But perhaps we just have to 'mature', deepen' our understanding of those 'old words'. Concepts such as Love, Sacrifice, Glory, have to take on flesh, be experienced, in order to 'know the reality' signified by those words. "Man fully alive is God's Glory." We glorify, show forth, God's 'Wonder' as we grow, by 'Grace' to BE more! "Grace does not destroy our humanity, but makes it 'glow' with a certain 'Divine' brightness, not merely 'human' glory! [Can old words be reignited thusly?]
@ShadowLink108 I'm not sure what is mean by sounding like an Evangelical. I have said nothing that any of the Church Fathers would disagree with, and certainly what has been in line with what the Church has always taught about God's love.
@wordonfirevideo Touche. I understand that No to a No is required. After all, when a parent says no to a child and takes away scissors, that child will kick and scream, unknowingly aware of the dangers of scissors. But what does the Holy Spirit's destructive nature have to do will "harsh and dreadful." The parent doesn't strike a child to take away scissors? "Tough love," confirmed by Dr. William Pollack and Dr. Mary Pipher is bad and sometimes destructive parenting? Explain more, please?
@ThisRestlessPilgrim I agree with you on the grounds that, What in the world was he thinking?! linking the two issues together! sorry however for unloading my thoughts in a jumbled manner in the form of replies to you; it is rather unorthodox but you're on topic! so i'll leave you with this thought: we find ourselves in an age where clergymen unlike Fr Robert Barron STD are preaching in a manner .....
I have awakened the Holy Spirit inside of me, does this mean he is opening me up? Then is he cleansing me? I have also seen the dove of the Holy Spirit through meditation.
Jack A (The Holy Spirit speaks:) behold, the Bridegroom is stooping over you to communicate to you all words of Life that will adorn you all with royal purple; by grace, you will receive from Me, if you open your heart, sanctifying graces which will invigorate your soul and lead you into perfection; those who would read these words of Life and are undisposed and not in the truth, will see everything as nonsense, for, accustomed to walk with Sterility, they will not be touched; but for those who seek Paradise in simplicity of heart and who do not put Me to the test, on those will I shed My Light and Rays and I will illuminate them; I will then make My way in them and purify them; and when they will come trembling to the reckoning of their impurity and sins, with a groan that will sound more of a new-born’s wailing, they will give birth to a new life in Me, capitulated by Jealous Love; after having conquered them in Blessedness, I shall flow like a vivifying River inside them; My vivifying passage within them will not go by unnoticed; I will not be like a ship that cuts through heaving waves and leaves no trace to show where it passed, or like a bird flying through the air, leaving no proof of its passing or a sign of its passage; I will come to them and wed them and clothe them with Christ; I will transfigure their soul into an Eden because they would be carrying God within them as their Lamp; this will be the sign given to them in My invincible Holiness; I will remain in them taking care of them; and I Myself will be the One who will adorn them with bridal vestments; crowning them with My Deity, a royal crown of splendour, the diadem beauty from the Hand of the Trinity; no one is worthy of such favours, but in My ineffable Love, I said: “night now must yield to light, vice to virtue”; I will work in their soul so that temperance, prudence, justice and fortitude will be their wealth; ah, (Your name), I will cultivate your generation and make them understand that immortality is found in being kin to Us the Triune God; what is more wealthy than this Work of Mercy I, God, will be doing in them? then, having breathed Life in these souls, I will despatch Wisdom from My throne of glory to become their Prodigy; - then everything that had been reduced to ashes in the sterility of this earth through all these years, I, in My divine benevolence, will make anyone who is willing, revive and blossom; fecundated by My warm rays of Light, I tell you, generation, you will be divinised and deified in Our Trinitarian Deity; today, My (Your name), everyone sees as far as they are able to see, but after My passage through you all, you will not be limited and see the way you see now; but, in a most ineffable manner and most divine, you will see with My Light penetrating even the hidden things of God since you will be seeing things in My radiance; 2your entire body will be shining with a brilliant Light; I will be the Lamp of your body3 that will fill it with the splendours of Our Kingdom, which are: soundness, gentleness, love, mercy, joy, peace, patience, truthfulness, goodness and kindness; from the beginning We made you in the image of Our Own Nature; We had said: “let Us make mankind in Our Own Image, yes, in the likeness of Ourselves;” but it was the devil’s envy that brought you all to death; now the earth groans with pain, chastising itself, sighing and crying, weary of no longer being, tearful and suffocating for lack of air, 4 moulding in its interior and putrefying in its entrails; yes, you have ceased to be …. come, My (Your name), this will do for now; be one with Me! (Here the Holy Spirit stopped His divine dictation to me and He made me understand that He will continue His Message later on: see message of June 7, 1998.) 2 The Holy Spirit is foretelling us of the ‘era of the Spirit’. 3 Mt. 6:22-23. 4 I understood this as: lack of the Holy Spirit blowing on us because of the earth’s prohibition of the Holy Spirit to act freely on us. In truth we can say that the Holy Spirit is stifled beyond imagination by this generation. ww3.tlig.org/en/messages/1025/
Jack A Continuation Of: Canticle Of The Holy Spirit Holy Speaks: ah …. My (Your name)…. I have chosen you and I have not rejected you although you too had ceased to be; and so it will be that I will show in this same manner My ineffable affection and My divine power to anyone who is willing; 2 I will not reject you but see how lenient My Love for you compels Me to be? in these days I am descending together with the Father and the Son as three Witnesses; God the Father is Spirit, 3 in that He sends Me, the Spirit of Truth, 4to be with you for ever and lead you to the complete Truth; the Word of God, Light and Saviour and who existed since the beginning, who is nearest to the Father’s Heart, has witnessed and made the Father known to you; you have been bought and paid for with His own Blood; have you not read that the Word of God is alive and active and testifies on earth as I and the Father testify? the Holy One who bought His Church with His own Blood5testifies with His Blood and I, the Holy Spirit of Truth, who leads you to the complete Truth6 testify with Water; 7 therefore, We are three Witnesses and all three of Us agree as We are One God alone, 8 with one Will, one Power and one Dominion; what image, creation, have you contrived of Me and you still do not know Me? … and yet I never stopped testifying; I was never hiding …. 9 O Ineffable Light of Beauty, Your Divine Eyes were soft and smiling; You smiled at me and I found myself smiling back at You; Your Face, O Holy One, contained an angelic charm; Your Holy Face, radiating Love and Purity was ever so near mine; I was not even in profound meditation when You surprised me by appearing to me; Although His Face was altogether adorable, His Eyes were the ones which drew my attention, leaving me in awe and in admiration the love of Your gaze looking into mine with ineffable tenderness were like two glittering stars, they were like a turquoise transparent sea filled with serenity; what can I, the poor worm, say? Your Divine Eyes, my Lord, are like a Liturgy, an ocean of Love, a Paradise and a consuming fire for the one who undeservedly was allowed to contemplate them … how blessed you are, you whose ears I opened, may your ways remain straight in Our Wisdom so that you may do Our Divine Will; count on Me, beloved, for I will bring as many as possible in union with Our Oneness and I will fill them with Light so that they will be filled with the absolute fullness of Our Trinitarian Deity; - come and learn: in hardships I am always with you; I am your Consoler and where there is despair, I console and heal; I am the Giver of Life and with My baptismal kiss, I blow on you, I renew you; I renew you so that your natural inclinations that are so opposed to God and ever so human and worldly, leading you to death, can be transformed and deified in My Divinity and My Nobility and become as those of the angels and saints; I am trying to draw you all into a filial union of divine Love with the Father and the Son and Myself so that you move in Us and We move in you; I can transform your imprisoned minds and free them so that your thoughts and sayings will be only on spiritual things; therefore do not say: “I am doomed by Satan’s baptismal kiss of death”; no! not if you come to Me now; I am the antidote to Satan’s deathly kiss; I am the antidote to Death itself …. it is true that without Me your body is dead, but with Me your body is alive and in Me and through Me you will be counted as a child of God; this is why you must allow Me to reign in your hearts and make you into sons and daughters of the Most High; Scripture says: 10 “happy the pure in heart: they shall see God;” in order to see God, and acknowledge Him as your Father you have to be born of Me, the Holy Spirit, by grace; how else would you see God? a child, before being born, has he ever seen his father? not until he is born will he see his father; and so it is with your spiritual birth of Me; flesh is flesh and has the vision of flesh; but who is born of the Spirit is given a vision of God enabling him to seize Him, acknowledge Him and penetrate in His depths; so come and advance your step, go forward, and I will carry you on My Wings to soar the skies and bring you in Our adoption place, there where all My saints are, anointed by Us thrice Holy; why, did you not know that you too have an assigned place among them? be confident and come to Me and from a rebel I will transfigure you into an upright being, leading your soul into sanctification and then sin will no longer have any power over you; sin is like an evil master in you and you should not give that master any opportunity in any instance to overrule you; but I, who am the Source of all that is Good can overpower your evil master which is sin, because My Law is a Law of Goodness and Life, overpowering all your evil inclinations; come and find Me in simplicity of heart and fasten your heart on Me; do not come to Me with mistrust nor with brilliance of worldly speech; do not approach Me with conceit, vice or deceitfulness, no one who comes in that manner ever seizes Me or sees Me, but the souls who walk in the light of contrition and innocence will not be deprived from My Presence; I will fly to them from My Glory in a brilliant light, followed by myriads of angels to heal them, renewing them and making them one spirit with Mine to inherit My Kingdom; flesh and blood cannot inherit My Kingdom, for what is perishable cannot inherit what lasts for ever; then to make you understand who is the Unique, Trinitarian God, yet One in the unity of essence, I will be healing your guilt, flowing in you as a river, refreshing your aridity and sterility; no one is worthy to see God, indeed, were anyone perfect among you, if he lacked the Wisdom and the Light that comes from Me, he would still count for nothing; the depths of God are riches which are not of this world, and to contain them without Me is impossible; to penetrate God’s motives or understand His methods without Me, is impossible, but were you to allow Me to be recognised in your consciousness, penetrating your intelligence, I will model you in Myself to be truly pleasing to Us; your abandonment to Me is the only way I could transform your mind to have the mind of Christ, discovering Our Will and knowing what is good and what it is that We want and what is the perfect thing to do; so do not allow your flesh11 to protest …. although I seem to appear inaccessible to the eye and unattainable, unseen altogether, I let Myself be seen in full clarity; I utter words of Wisdom and as a friend who confides himself to a friend I confide My secrets to you, hiding none of them from you; I face you, and I, the formless one, take form in your spirit; 12 ah, Vassula, I am altogether a reflection of the eternal light and as an untarnished mirror My Magnificence is magnified in all the creation; here I am now, becoming knowable to you in this way too, 13 yet without losing My transcendence; I am filling you with My Knowledge, even though this flow of transcendent light which I am pouring in you goes beyond what you can contain, 14 I offer, nevertheless, all those treasures of Our Kingdom to adorn not only your soul, but all of the others too; I am, for those who love Me, indeed more resplendent than the sun, outshining all the constellations put together, and as I transcend, I can fill all things with My brightness without being contained by their limits; this is the way I deploy My Light in your soul, ordering all things within you to be good so that you, in your turn reflect My Goodness and grow in virtue; 1 The Orthodox Calendar. 2 The Holy Spirit speaks to the whole world now. 3 Jn. 4:24. St Paul too in 1 Co. 15:45 speaks of Christ as “life-giving Spirit”. The description “Spirit” in the biblical sense does not define God’s nature so much as it describes His life-giving activity. God is Spirit in that He gives the Spirit. 4 Jn. 14:17. 5 With the Sacrifice we obtained Eternal life. 6 In Jn. 16:12-13 Jesus says to His disciples: “I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now; but when the Spirit of Truth comes He will lead you to the complete Truth …” It is a mistake to speak of an end to Revelation and treat it as a deposit of sentences. God is active and alive and will continue showing Himself through the Holy Spirit, never stopping in doing so. When one says in Latin: ‘complere’, it means that Christ is the full, complete revelation of God; and not that He will stop revealing Himself to mankind. The Holy Bible is the narrative testimony of Jesus Christ. It is not God’s last word. 7 With Baptism. 8 In the unity of essence. 9 At this moment, I saw a Face inundated with light, fairer than the fairest angel. The Unformed took form; in this vision of the Holy Spirit, who wanted to show Himself out of His boundless love, an undeserved gift to an unworthy being as myself, left my heart rejoicing; every time the memory of this vision returned to me, my heart anew rejoiced. It cannot fade away from my memory; this vision of His Holy Face is going to remain with me for ever. 10 Mt. 5:8. 11 Here it means human spirit. 12 At this moment, again the same vision appeared to me, the vision of the Holy Spirit’s Face inundated in an ineffable light. 13 By appearing and showing His Face to me. 14 In other words, beyond my capacity.
@wordonfirevideo This video seems contradictory to 'Fr. Barron comments on God, the Tsunami, and the Problem of Evil' which I loved and agreed with wholeheartedly. The God I know advises and guides me through life's trials. When something threatens to destroy me, he protects me. 'The yoke I give you is easy and my burden is light.' God is like a good parent, not like an abusive overly disciplinarian one.
Personally I believe the Holy Spirit is one of the most complex concept in existence well beyond the understanding of man. I have spent time trying to understand the father, son and the Holy spirit but I can't solve the last puzzle. It is quite absolute in nature pretty much incompatible with our concept of reality till we fully understand that reality first. I could be seriously wrong though.
Onion Eye (The Holy Spirit speaks:) behold, the Bridegroom is stooping over you to communicate to you all words of Life that will adorn you all with royal purple; by grace, you will receive from Me, if you open your heart, sanctifying graces which will invigorate your soul and lead you into perfection; those who would read these words of Life and are undisposed and not in the truth, will see everything as nonsense, for, accustomed to walk with Sterility, they will not be touched; but for those who seek Paradise in simplicity of heart and who do not put Me to the test, on those will I shed My Light and Rays and I will illuminate them; I will then make My way in them and purify them; and when they will come trembling to the reckoning of their impurity and sins, with a groan that will sound more of a new-born’s wailing, they will give birth to a new life in Me, capitulated by Jealous Love; after having conquered them in Blessedness, I shall flow like a vivifying River inside them; My vivifying passage within them will not go by unnoticed; I will not be like a ship that cuts through heaving waves and leaves no trace to show where it passed, or like a bird flying through the air, leaving no proof of its passing or a sign of its passage; I will come to them and wed them and clothe them with Christ; I will transfigure their soul into an Eden because they would be carrying God within them as their Lamp; this will be the sign given to them in My invincible Holiness; I will remain in them taking care of them; and I Myself will be the One who will adorn them with bridal vestments; crowning them with My Deity, a royal crown of splendour, the diadem beauty from the Hand of the Trinity; no one is worthy of such favours, but in My ineffable Love, I said: “night now must yield to light, vice to virtue”; I will work in their soul so that temperance, prudence, justice and fortitude will be their wealth; ah, (Your name), I will cultivate your generation and make them understand that immortality is found in being kin to Us the Triune God; what is more wealthy than this Work of Mercy I, God, will be doing in them? then, having breathed Life in these souls, I will despatch Wisdom from My throne of glory to become their Prodigy; - then everything that had been reduced to ashes in the sterility of this earth through all these years, I, in My divine benevolence, will make anyone who is willing, revive and blossom; fecundated by My warm rays of Light, I tell you, generation, you will be divinised and deified in Our Trinitarian Deity; today, My (Your name), everyone sees as far as they are able to see, but after My passage through you all, you will not be limited and see the way you see now; but, in a most ineffable manner and most divine, you will see with My Light penetrating even the hidden things of God since you will be seeing things in My radiance; 2your entire body will be shining with a brilliant Light; I will be the Lamp of your body3 that will fill it with the splendours of Our Kingdom, which are: soundness, gentleness, love, mercy, joy, peace, patience, truthfulness, goodness and kindness; from the beginning We made you in the image of Our Own Nature; We had said: “let Us make mankind in Our Own Image, yes, in the likeness of Ourselves;” but it was the devil’s envy that brought you all to death; now the earth groans with pain, chastising itself, sighing and crying, weary of no longer being, tearful and suffocating for lack of air, 4 moulding in its interior and putrefying in its entrails; yes, you have ceased to be …. come, My (Your name), this will do for now; be one with Me! (Here the Holy Spirit stopped His divine dictation to me and He made me understand that He will continue His Message later on: see message of June 7, 1998.) 2 The Holy Spirit is foretelling us of the ‘era of the Spirit’. 3 Mt. 6:22-23. 4 I understood this as: lack of the Holy Spirit blowing on us because of the earth’s prohibition of the Holy Spirit to act freely on us. In truth we can say that the Holy Spirit is stifled beyond imagination by this generation. ww3.tlig.org/en/messages/1025/
Onion Eye Continuation Of: Canticle Of The Holy Spirit Holy Speaks: ah …. My (Your name)…. I have chosen you and I have not rejected you although you too had ceased to be; and so it will be that I will show in this same manner My ineffable affection and My divine power to anyone who is willing; 2 I will not reject you but see how lenient My Love for you compels Me to be? in these days I am descending together with the Father and the Son as three Witnesses; God the Father is Spirit, 3 in that He sends Me, the Spirit of Truth, 4to be with you for ever and lead you to the complete Truth; the Word of God, Light and Saviour and who existed since the beginning, who is nearest to the Father’s Heart, has witnessed and made the Father known to you; you have been bought and paid for with His own Blood; have you not read that the Word of God is alive and active and testifies on earth as I and the Father testify? the Holy One who bought His Church with His own Blood5testifies with His Blood and I, the Holy Spirit of Truth, who leads you to the complete Truth6 testify with Water; 7 therefore, We are three Witnesses and all three of Us agree as We are One God alone, 8 with one Will, one Power and one Dominion; what image, creation, have you contrived of Me and you still do not know Me? … and yet I never stopped testifying; I was never hiding …. 9 O Ineffable Light of Beauty, Your Divine Eyes were soft and smiling; You smiled at me and I found myself smiling back at You; Your Face, O Holy One, contained an angelic charm; Your Holy Face, radiating Love and Purity was ever so near mine; I was not even in profound meditation when You surprised me by appearing to me; Although His Face was altogether adorable, His Eyes were the ones which drew my attention, leaving me in awe and in admiration the love of Your gaze looking into mine with ineffable tenderness were like two glittering stars, they were like a turquoise transparent sea filled with serenity; what can I, the poor worm, say? Your Divine Eyes, my Lord, are like a Liturgy, an ocean of Love, a Paradise and a consuming fire for the one who undeservedly was allowed to contemplate them … how blessed you are, you whose ears I opened, may your ways remain straight in Our Wisdom so that you may do Our Divine Will; count on Me, beloved, for I will bring as many as possible in union with Our Oneness and I will fill them with Light so that they will be filled with the absolute fullness of Our Trinitarian Deity; - come and learn: in hardships I am always with you; I am your Consoler and where there is despair, I console and heal; I am the Giver of Life and with My baptismal kiss, I blow on you, I renew you; I renew you so that your natural inclinations that are so opposed to God and ever so human and worldly, leading you to death, can be transformed and deified in My Divinity and My Nobility and become as those of the angels and saints; I am trying to draw you all into a filial union of divine Love with the Father and the Son and Myself so that you move in Us and We move in you; I can transform your imprisoned minds and free them so that your thoughts and sayings will be only on spiritual things; therefore do not say: “I am doomed by Satan’s baptismal kiss of death”; no! not if you come to Me now; I am the antidote to Satan’s deathly kiss; I am the antidote to Death itself …. it is true that without Me your body is dead, but with Me your body is alive and in Me and through Me you will be counted as a child of God; this is why you must allow Me to reign in your hearts and make you into sons and daughters of the Most High; Scripture says: 10 “happy the pure in heart: they shall see God;” in order to see God, and acknowledge Him as your Father you have to be born of Me, the Holy Spirit, by grace; how else would you see God? a child, before being born, has he ever seen his father? not until he is born will he see his father; and so it is with your spiritual birth of Me; flesh is flesh and has the vision of flesh; but who is born of the Spirit is given a vision of God enabling him to seize Him, acknowledge Him and penetrate in His depths; so come and advance your step, go forward, and I will carry you on My Wings to soar the skies and bring you in Our adoption place, there where all My saints are, anointed by Us thrice Holy; why, did you not know that you too have an assigned place among them? be confident and come to Me and from a rebel I will transfigure you into an upright being, leading your soul into sanctification and then sin will no longer have any power over you; sin is like an evil master in you and you should not give that master any opportunity in any instance to overrule you; but I, who am the Source of all that is Good can overpower your evil master which is sin, because My Law is a Law of Goodness and Life, overpowering all your evil inclinations; come and find Me in simplicity of heart and fasten your heart on Me; do not come to Me with mistrust nor with brilliance of worldly speech; do not approach Me with conceit, vice or deceitfulness, no one who comes in that manner ever seizes Me or sees Me, but the souls who walk in the light of contrition and innocence will not be deprived from My Presence; I will fly to them from My Glory in a brilliant light, followed by myriads of angels to heal them, renewing them and making them one spirit with Mine to inherit My Kingdom; flesh and blood cannot inherit My Kingdom, for what is perishable cannot inherit what lasts for ever; then to make you understand who is the Unique, Trinitarian God, yet One in the unity of essence, I will be healing your guilt, flowing in you as a river, refreshing your aridity and sterility; no one is worthy to see God, indeed, were anyone perfect among you, if he lacked the Wisdom and the Light that comes from Me, he would still count for nothing; the depths of God are riches which are not of this world, and to contain them without Me is impossible; to penetrate God’s motives or understand His methods without Me, is impossible, but were you to allow Me to be recognised in your consciousness, penetrating your intelligence, I will model you in Myself to be truly pleasing to Us; your abandonment to Me is the only way I could transform your mind to have the mind of Christ, discovering Our Will and knowing what is good and what it is that We want and what is the perfect thing to do; so do not allow your flesh11 to protest …. although I seem to appear inaccessible to the eye and unattainable, unseen altogether, I let Myself be seen in full clarity; I utter words of Wisdom and as a friend who confides himself to a friend I confide My secrets to you, hiding none of them from you; I face you, and I, the formless one, take form in your spirit; 12 ah, Vassula, I am altogether a reflection of the eternal light and as an untarnished mirror My Magnificence is magnified in all the creation; here I am now, becoming knowable to you in this way too, 13 yet without losing My transcendence; I am filling you with My Knowledge, even though this flow of transcendent light which I am pouring in you goes beyond what you can contain, 14 I offer, nevertheless, all those treasures of Our Kingdom to adorn not only your soul, but all of the others too; I am, for those who love Me, indeed more resplendent than the sun, outshining all the constellations put together, and as I transcend, I can fill all things with My brightness without being contained by their limits; this is the way I deploy My Light in your soul, ordering all things within you to be good so that you, in your turn reflect My Goodness and grow in virtue; 1 The Orthodox Calendar. 2 The Holy Spirit speaks to the whole world now. 3 Jn. 4:24. St Paul too in 1 Co. 15:45 speaks of Christ as “life-giving Spirit”. The description “Spirit” in the biblical sense does not define God’s nature so much as it describes His life-giving activity. God is Spirit in that He gives the Spirit. 4 Jn. 14:17. 5 With the Sacrifice we obtained Eternal life. 6 In Jn. 16:12-13 Jesus says to His disciples: “I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now; but when the Spirit of Truth comes He will lead you to the complete Truth …” It is a mistake to speak of an end to Revelation and treat it as a deposit of sentences. God is active and alive and will continue showing Himself through the Holy Spirit, never stopping in doing so. When one says in Latin: ‘complere’, it means that Christ is the full, complete revelation of God; and not that He will stop revealing Himself to mankind. The Holy Bible is the narrative testimony of Jesus Christ. It is not God’s last word. 7 With Baptism. 8 In the unity of essence. 9 At this moment, I saw a Face inundated with light, fairer than the fairest angel. The Unformed took form; in this vision of the Holy Spirit, who wanted to show Himself out of His boundless love, an undeserved gift to an unworthy being as myself, left my heart rejoicing; every time the memory of this vision returned to me, my heart anew rejoiced. It cannot fade away from my memory; this vision of His Holy Face is going to remain with me for ever. 10 Mt. 5:8. 11 Here it means human spirit. 12 At this moment, again the same vision appeared to me, the vision of the Holy Spirit’s Face inundated in an ineffable light. 13 By appearing and showing His Face to me. 14 In other words, beyond my capacity.
@AdversusHaereses Also, the liturgical "crisis" (I think "problem" would be a better word) isn't really even the issue - it's much more a problem concerned with catechesis - people simply don't know their faith because it isn't being taught, and when it is, it's been taught badly. What liturgical abuse do you think has led to a widespread disassociation of the Eucharist with the sacrifice on Calvary?
Restless pilgram, really? Many catholics are upset over liturical abuses because that's the heart and center of our beliefs. Now I will agree that we should show some sort of unity on the public front, however that is compromise that can't be made, I love father barron, he's brilliant and God bless him for his work.
@AdversusHaereses "...not facing east...not on the tongue...." Unfortunately, I suspected you'd eventually say something like this. Now, I go to a Byzantine Rite parish where we face east, communion is distributed into the mouth only by the priest etc, so I definitely like all these things... However, I'm afraid the absence of these things do not constitute "liturgical abuses", they are just consequences of the Novus Ordo Mass.
@ShadowLink108 Love is not warm and fuzzy, but dangerous, because true love will obliterate and destroy all that goes against love. That is God. Look at the language in the psalms, and in the prophets, to see how God devours up the enemy, the enemy of Love, which is sin.
@ShadowLink108 Fr Barrons views are not necessarily the views of the Catholic Church. He sees all the bad things in life as chastisement or purification then says that purification continues AD in purgatory. How much purification does he think we need. While I agree that a hard life moulds good people, I don't see my suffering as purification. Why did Jesus have to suffer, did he need bulk purification or was it to show us that he loved us and would willingly share our pain?
mhoowen, I don't think Bishop Barron entirely regards the suffering as chastisement. He is not mentioning other reasons for the suffering because he is concentrating on the Holy Spirit and trying to make some things clear. Not all suffering is for your destruction. The suffering meant for your chastisement is the will of the Spirit of God. If you strive to have a relationship with your God, he will guide you to discern and know which suffering is meant for your chastisement and which one isn't, and he will guide your prayer. Without the Holy Spirit you can't even pray about the sufferings right
mhoowen, I also forgot this - let me share my understanding of the blessings of God: Adam was placed in Eden which had everything he would ever need, and a wife was given. Disobedience made him lose a lot, and qualify for death. God blesses us so that we can recognise his existence. But often, we do forget because the devil Interferes So much with out connection. And some of the things we do have serious consequences that affect us and even our children to the fourth generation... Because we are one- what your parents did in disobedience to God is affecting you today, what you do in disobedience will affect you and your children and their children, etc. When King David, the man after God's own heart killed Uriah after making his wife pregnant, he repented, God forge him, but there were consequences: the child died, etc. When you disobey, there are consequences. Whatever you suffer as a consequence of your sin is a price. Jesus suffered and died for us so that we dont suffer. But we only obtain this gift fully when we live in obedience. He is slow to anger, but when you take too long and his anger is out into operation, you have to finish the package. Strive to be either hot or cold and not lukewarm in your faith. Consistently repent for your family because their sins are yours too. Avoid complaining because it's hard to see God's love when complaining. Be thankful that even with little understanding (when you are more likely to sin unknowingly), he gives you another chance to reconcile with him. ....
@ThisRestlessPilgrim The simple fact that in most parishes, the mass is not celebrated with the celebrant facing east, the Holy Eucharist is no longer given in the tongue while kneeling, most sacred music has been thrown out of the window and replaced with secular music. All of this has taken out the reverence and solemnity of the mass and has diminished and the understanding of it has completely changed. Cardinal Burke in a book recently said that a bad faith comes from a bad liturgy practice.
@ShadowLink108 I agree with you! This video seems like nonsense. Anything in the wrong proportions or used in the wrong way is destructive. Gods love is gentle. The fire of the holy spirit is a metaphor for the feeling of intense enthusiasm such as burning with desire. It is not unpleasant or dangerous in any way. Water in it's right form is the cradle of life, where life originated. Baptism of water is neither unpleasant or dangerous. Wind is a metaphor for God breathing life into the living.
@AdversusHaereses A young child, a precious life made in the image and likeness of God, abused and scarred for life by someone who should be caring for and protecting them vs. Fr. Joe adding "and each other" to the dismissal at Mass Yeah, sorry, you're not going to convince me on this one.
I agree with Father Barron about the Holy Spirit. The church may have some issues on the inside, but that is the Holy Spirit at its dangerous level in existence. It is showing itself in the Catholic Church! The Holy Spirit will first open up the pain, and then it will cleanse the entire Catholic Church. This will happen in the upcoming years. We will see religion at a new level of consciousness.
***** Everything on this planet happens by nature. Nature does it all, life and death. Anything that dies in this universe is not eternal, and anything that lives is God. But how can we live on this planet without so much suffering? To turn within is to turn to God, because he is inside of us. Some people awaken from their illusions to truth, some people don't. A human will never be perfect, but when he realizes he is part of the whole, a sort of awareness comes into play, a new dimension of life as living with God, then life becomes joyful and peaceful. But that is when we are truly ready to love. To live a life full of love or lack of it.
Tim Spangler God is consciousness. God is in all, why should I worship God when I can just be? We all have the ability to be pure consciousness, that is not worship, that is BEING. Bacteria has its purpose, but it is just a different form and a different purpose. It may be living a 1d or unconscious life, but it was created by the same thing, and it is part of the whole, which is God.
@ThisRestlessPilgrim In the importance it has to the faith of the Church as a whole. The sexual abuse was a big scandal, but does not undermine the faith by dumbing it down. The Church is made of sinners but when the very foundations of it, namely the liturgy, are changed then the entire faith is compromised.
The Holy Spirit is very much more than the fire, the water or the wind. In fact, He is more than everything that has been created by God. Nature can be destructive because the universe is not perfect like Heaven; and God has already ordained it that we all die physically-- through and with nature. So let us not complicate the course of nature; but we should always accept the WILL OF GOD for us to be holy and righteous obeying His Laws and Precepts, so that we will be ready in case we die.
@AdversusHaereses Now, two other things I would like to address: (1) You kept talking about "liturgical abuses" when you appear to really meant "Novus Ordo". This is a valid form of the Mass. It might not be to your taste. It might have lost some beautiful, ancient elements of the Mass, but please call it what it is, rather than "liturgical abuses". It's the kind of language I associate with sedevacantists...
@AdversusHaereses " the sexual abuse is something relatively local to the US and Europe" Firstly, these are the areas where the Church membership is in *serious* trouble. Secondly, this is what characterizes the Church for the rest of the world.
@ThisRestlessPilgrim I am not saying that these are problems on the same level. Their nature is different. But one undermines the faith of individuals when a liturgical crisis undermines the entire sacred doctrine of the Church. Both are terrible atrocities.
@wordonfirevideo On the Hell video you said that the door is locked on the inside. We suffer and are punished because of our own wrong choice. Why do the poor and innocent suffer more than many who are sinful? Fr. you suffer because God wants to do wonderful work through you, not because he needs to punish or purify you.
@AdversusHaereses ...but now we come to the meat of your point - your assertion of the disassociation with the Eucharist and Calvary. I really don't see how the things you complain about bring this about. Now, *bad catechesis* could easily lead to a disassociation between the two, but that can happen regardless of the form of the Mass. Cardinal Burke is right, but I would suggest that the formation of Catholics has an far greater influence in forming bad faith.
@Hirduin God does not have physical gender, only grammatical gender. Father and Son are both grammatically masculine in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English, and probably most of languages (not necessarily all, as there are grammatically masculine words for the naturally feminine word woman in Greek and Latin). Spirit may be masculine in Latin, but it is feminine in Hebrew and Neuter in Greek so the original new testament manuscripts use the neuter pronoun. This in no way implies a lack of person-hood.
@ThisRestlessPilgrim I will have to agree with you that the nature of these two is completely different. However, the sexual abuse is something relatively local to the US and Europe, yet they do undermine the faith and cause deep scandal. On the other hand the liturgical crisis has undermined the entire faith of the Church as a whole. The mass has seized to be understood as a sacrifice of Calvary for the remission of sins to be merely a supper. This has undermined the very core of the Church.
GenXer82 🤔. Not at all. It God’s divine works (hands) suppressing aspects of the unchanging natural divine laws to bring out of chaos, order upon the world 🌍
@AdversusHaereses There is also the question why you bring up this topic at all Imagine a non-Catholic or a non-believer watches this video and then starts looking through the comments and finds Catholics saying that the sex scandal is is "nowhere near the liturgical crisis". How is that person going to perceive Catholics? Concerned with human welfare? Protection of the weak? Or will they perceive a religious huddle which gets upset because their priest doesn't say Mass the way they like it?
@MQ1611 My friend you are jumping to conclusions that I never did. I indicated that John deliberately inserted masculine pronouns with a neuter noun to demonstrate that the Holy Spirit was a person and not a force or an "it". The rules of grammar are only man made and not divine. God can do what he wants with what is His own and this He did when He inspired John to write the Greek the way He did. The AV 1611 is not the last word on the English scriptures as it has protestant biases in it.
@AdversusHaereses I don't deny that there have been liturgical abuses and these need to be reformed, but to claim that it's a bigger crisis than the sexual scandals of recent years I just don't think is tenable (and it comes off to the non-Catholic as insensitive, placing internal liturgical wranglings above that of serious sin and human punishment).
Im a Christian sympathiser but on a point of logic you say that the holy spirit is cleansing the church; however you don't need to invoke any contingency other than the pedophile scandal.
The Holy Spirit can be understood easily by making a comparison between Revelation 1: 1 and John 16: 13. Jehovah gives a revelation to Christ Jesus, who passed it to his angel, who then gave it to John in signs. So the one who 'does not speak of his own impulse, but what things he hears he will speak' is the angel. The Holy Spirit is not a person. This is a misunderstanding. The Holy Spirit is God's Active force.
Are you still convicted of our faith/pope? I asked God last year if this church has the truth. ‘You will know by the fruits” kept coming to me. In a prayer response, I was sent me to the book of Jude which I had NEVER read or even had a thought of what was in there...and it seemed quite condemning. This has not yet led me to leave the Catholic Church but I certainly feel lost...all the sheep are being scattered.
@AdversusHaereses "The sexual abuse was a big scandal, but does not undermine the faith by dumbing it down" No, it undermines the faith by demonstrating hypocrisy of some priests and bishops who hurt a lot of innocent people. Do you see bitter against the Church because Father Ted allows high-fiving at the sign of peace? No. You find people bitter against the Church because of real people who have been scarred by a Church which hasn't come close to living up to the morality it proclaims.
@AdversusHaereses Just like to circle back to your original point... In the face of children being raped, you complain that the priest doesn't face eastwards. When confronted with kids being abused, you object to the faithful not receiving communion directly on the tongue. When sickness and sin in some clergy rocks the faith of much of the laity and scandalizes the Church, you see the problems found in a *valid* form of the Mass *more* important? Don't you see something wrong with this?
Not Even the purpose is inocents yes more than clean is get separated all from God if his Will at Heaven and get a lesson of all humanity that only He's the Creator, the Father who's live at Earth and Heaven Who's decides all not we SO if we have some authority we can't be far from himself cause the counts of Every acts Will be solved with Godself SO is better if no one get to abuse of no one less the poor, orfans or widows is written at Sacred words. His Will ever isn't abuse. And natural disasters only too He could stop it as when He with Moses part in two the sea or when Jesús Christ told yo the storm shut up and this happen. Only if we wait all in Godself and ask to him everyday with the Heart in our hands
@MQ1611 Please look up the NT Greek for John 15:25 and 16:13. John deliberately violates Greek grammar by putting the masculine demonstrative pronoun “ekeinos” with the neuter definite article for spirit, which in Greek is “pneuma”. It is not therefore good form or usage to refer to the Holy Spirit as an “it” but it is a pandering to feminism or political correctness. Your last example is unfair, we often use it with nothing said about the gender: It is John Paul who bears witness.."
You made little sense in this video. If God is perfect love, why is the Holy Spirit dangerous? If love isn't warm and soothing, why is it obliterating and destructive. Water drowns, fire consumes, wind annihilates. What the Holy Spirit sounds is vindictive and wrathful, not forgiving and healing. "Father forgive them for they not know what they do." Are Catholics so masochistic? If God is perfect love and Jesus is all-forgiving, what's up with the Holy Spirit? Catholicism sounds dysfunctional
ShadowLink108 (The Holy Spirit speaks:) behold, the Bridegroom is stooping over you to communicate to you all words of Life that will adorn you all with royal purple; by grace, you will receive from Me, if you open your heart, sanctifying graces which will invigorate your soul and lead you into perfection; those who would read these words of Life and are undisposed and not in the truth, will see everything as nonsense, for, accustomed to walk with Sterility, they will not be touched; but for those who seek Paradise in simplicity of heart and who do not put Me to the test, on those will I shed My Light and Rays and I will illuminate them; I will then make My way in them and purify them; and when they will come trembling to the reckoning of their impurity and sins, with a groan that will sound more of a new-born’s wailing, they will give birth to a new life in Me, capitulated by Jealous Love; after having conquered them in Blessedness, I shall flow like a vivifying River inside them; My vivifying passage within them will not go by unnoticed; I will not be like a ship that cuts through heaving waves and leaves no trace to show where it passed, or like a bird flying through the air, leaving no proof of its passing or a sign of its passage; I will come to them and wed them and clothe them with Christ; I will transfigure their soul into an Eden because they would be carrying God within them as their Lamp; this will be the sign given to them in My invincible Holiness; I will remain in them taking care of them; and I Myself will be the One who will adorn them with bridal vestments; crowning them with My Deity, a royal crown of splendour, the diadem beauty from the Hand of the Trinity; no one is worthy of such favours, but in My ineffable Love, I said: “night now must yield to light, vice to virtue”; I will work in their soul so that temperance, prudence, justice and fortitude will be their wealth; ah, (Your name), I will cultivate your generation and make them understand that immortality is found in being kin to Us the Triune God; what is more wealthy than this Work of Mercy I, God, will be doing in them? then, having breathed Life in these souls, I will despatch Wisdom from My throne of glory to become their Prodigy; - then everything that had been reduced to ashes in the sterility of this earth through all these years, I, in My divine benevolence, will make anyone who is willing, revive and blossom; fecundated by My warm rays of Light, I tell you, generation, you will be divinised and deified in Our Trinitarian Deity; today, My (Your name), everyone sees as far as they are able to see, but after My passage through you all, you will not be limited and see the way you see now; but, in a most ineffable manner and most divine, you will see with My Light penetrating even the hidden things of God since you will be seeing things in My radiance; 2your entire body will be shining with a brilliant Light; I will be the Lamp of your body3 that will fill it with the splendours of Our Kingdom, which are: soundness, gentleness, love, mercy, joy, peace, patience, truthfulness, goodness and kindness; from the beginning We made you in the image of Our Own Nature; We had said: “let Us make mankind in Our Own Image, yes, in the likeness of Ourselves;” but it was the devil’s envy that brought you all to death; now the earth groans with pain, chastising itself, sighing and crying, weary of no longer being, tearful and suffocating for lack of air, 4 moulding in its interior and putrefying in its entrails; yes, you have ceased to be …. come, My (Your name), this will do for now; be one with Me! (Here the Holy Spirit stopped His divine dictation to me and He made me understand that He will continue His Message later on: see message of June 7, 1998.) 2 The Holy Spirit is foretelling us of the ‘era of the Spirit’. 3 Mt. 6:22-23. 4 I understood this as: lack of the Holy Spirit blowing on us because of the earth’s prohibition of the Holy Spirit to act freely on us. In truth we can say that the Holy Spirit is stifled beyond imagination by this generation. ww3.tlig.org/en/messages/1025/
ShadowLink108 Continuation Of: Canticle Of The Holy Spirit Holy Speaks: ah …. My (Your name)…. I have chosen you and I have not rejected you although you too had ceased to be; and so it will be that I will show in this same manner My ineffable affection and My divine power to anyone who is willing; 2 I will not reject you but see how lenient My Love for you compels Me to be? in these days I am descending together with the Father and the Son as three Witnesses; God the Father is Spirit, 3 in that He sends Me, the Spirit of Truth, 4to be with you for ever and lead you to the complete Truth; the Word of God, Light and Saviour and who existed since the beginning, who is nearest to the Father’s Heart, has witnessed and made the Father known to you; you have been bought and paid for with His own Blood; have you not read that the Word of God is alive and active and testifies on earth as I and the Father testify? the Holy One who bought His Church with His own Blood5testifies with His Blood and I, the Holy Spirit of Truth, who leads you to the complete Truth6 testify with Water; 7 therefore, We are three Witnesses and all three of Us agree as We are One God alone, 8 with one Will, one Power and one Dominion; what image, creation, have you contrived of Me and you still do not know Me? … and yet I never stopped testifying; I was never hiding …. 9 O Ineffable Light of Beauty, Your Divine Eyes were soft and smiling; You smiled at me and I found myself smiling back at You; Your Face, O Holy One, contained an angelic charm; Your Holy Face, radiating Love and Purity was ever so near mine; I was not even in profound meditation when You surprised me by appearing to me; Although His Face was altogether adorable, His Eyes were the ones which drew my attention, leaving me in awe and in admiration the love of Your gaze looking into mine with ineffable tenderness were like two glittering stars, they were like a turquoise transparent sea filled with serenity; what can I, the poor worm, say? Your Divine Eyes, my Lord, are like a Liturgy, an ocean of Love, a Paradise and a consuming fire for the one who undeservedly was allowed to contemplate them … how blessed you are, you whose ears I opened, may your ways remain straight in Our Wisdom so that you may do Our Divine Will; count on Me, beloved, for I will bring as many as possible in union with Our Oneness and I will fill them with Light so that they will be filled with the absolute fullness of Our Trinitarian Deity; - come and learn: in hardships I am always with you; I am your Consoler and where there is despair, I console and heal; I am the Giver of Life and with My baptismal kiss, I blow on you, I renew you; I renew you so that your natural inclinations that are so opposed to God and ever so human and worldly, leading you to death, can be transformed and deified in My Divinity and My Nobility and become as those of the angels and saints; I am trying to draw you all into a filial union of divine Love with the Father and the Son and Myself so that you move in Us and We move in you; I can transform your imprisoned minds and free them so that your thoughts and sayings will be only on spiritual things; therefore do not say: “I am doomed by Satan’s baptismal kiss of death”; no! not if you come to Me now; I am the antidote to Satan’s deathly kiss; I am the antidote to Death itself …. it is true that without Me your body is dead, but with Me your body is alive and in Me and through Me you will be counted as a child of God; this is why you must allow Me to reign in your hearts and make you into sons and daughters of the Most High; Scripture says: 10 “happy the pure in heart: they shall see God;” in order to see God, and acknowledge Him as your Father you have to be born of Me, the Holy Spirit, by grace; how else would you see God? a child, before being born, has he ever seen his father? not until he is born will he see his father; and so it is with your spiritual birth of Me; flesh is flesh and has the vision of flesh; but who is born of the Spirit is given a vision of God enabling him to seize Him, acknowledge Him and penetrate in His depths; so come and advance your step, go forward, and I will carry you on My Wings to soar the skies and bring you in Our adoption place, there where all My saints are, anointed by Us thrice Holy; why, did you not know that you too have an assigned place among them? be confident and come to Me and from a rebel I will transfigure you into an upright being, leading your soul into sanctification and then sin will no longer have any power over you; sin is like an evil master in you and you should not give that master any opportunity in any instance to overrule you; but I, who am the Source of all that is Good can overpower your evil master which is sin, because My Law is a Law of Goodness and Life, overpowering all your evil inclinations; come and find Me in simplicity of heart and fasten your heart on Me; do not come to Me with mistrust nor with brilliance of worldly speech; do not approach Me with conceit, vice or deceitfulness, no one who comes in that manner ever seizes Me or sees Me, but the souls who walk in the light of contrition and innocence will not be deprived from My Presence; I will fly to them from My Glory in a brilliant light, followed by myriads of angels to heal them, renewing them and making them one spirit with Mine to inherit My Kingdom; flesh and blood cannot inherit My Kingdom, for what is perishable cannot inherit what lasts for ever; then to make you understand who is the Unique, Trinitarian God, yet One in the unity of essence, I will be healing your guilt, flowing in you as a river, refreshing your aridity and sterility; no one is worthy to see God, indeed, were anyone perfect among you, if he lacked the Wisdom and the Light that comes from Me, he would still count for nothing; the depths of God are riches which are not of this world, and to contain them without Me is impossible; to penetrate God’s motives or understand His methods without Me, is impossible, but were you to allow Me to be recognised in your consciousness, penetrating your intelligence, I will model you in Myself to be truly pleasing to Us; your abandonment to Me is the only way I could transform your mind to have the mind of Christ, discovering Our Will and knowing what is good and what it is that We want and what is the perfect thing to do; so do not allow your flesh11 to protest …. although I seem to appear inaccessible to the eye and unattainable, unseen altogether, I let Myself be seen in full clarity; I utter words of Wisdom and as a friend who confides himself to a friend I confide My secrets to you, hiding none of them from you; I face you, and I, the formless one, take form in your spirit; 12 ah, Vassula, I am altogether a reflection of the eternal light and as an untarnished mirror My Magnificence is magnified in all the creation; here I am now, becoming knowable to you in this way too, 13 yet without losing My transcendence; I am filling you with My Knowledge, even though this flow of transcendent light which I am pouring in you goes beyond what you can contain, 14 I offer, nevertheless, all those treasures of Our Kingdom to adorn not only your soul, but all of the others too; I am, for those who love Me, indeed more resplendent than the sun, outshining all the constellations put together, and as I transcend, I can fill all things with My brightness without being contained by their limits; this is the way I deploy My Light in your soul, ordering all things within you to be good so that you, in your turn reflect My Goodness and grow in virtue; 1 The Orthodox Calendar. 2 The Holy Spirit speaks to the whole world now. 3 Jn. 4:24. St Paul too in 1 Co. 15:45 speaks of Christ as “life-giving Spirit”. The description “Spirit” in the biblical sense does not define God’s nature so much as it describes His life-giving activity. God is Spirit in that He gives the Spirit. 4 Jn. 14:17. 5 With the Sacrifice we obtained Eternal life. 6 In Jn. 16:12-13 Jesus says to His disciples: “I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now; but when the Spirit of Truth comes He will lead you to the complete Truth …” It is a mistake to speak of an end to Revelation and treat it as a deposit of sentences. God is active and alive and will continue showing Himself through the Holy Spirit, never stopping in doing so. When one says in Latin: ‘complere’, it means that Christ is the full, complete revelation of God; and not that He will stop revealing Himself to mankind. The Holy Bible is the narrative testimony of Jesus Christ. It is not God’s last word. 7 With Baptism. 8 In the unity of essence. 9 At this moment, I saw a Face inundated with light, fairer than the fairest angel. The Unformed took form; in this vision of the Holy Spirit, who wanted to show Himself out of His boundless love, an undeserved gift to an unworthy being as myself, left my heart rejoicing; every time the memory of this vision returned to me, my heart anew rejoiced. It cannot fade away from my memory; this vision of His Holy Face is going to remain with me for ever. 10 Mt. 5:8. 11 Here it means human spirit. 12 At this moment, again the same vision appeared to me, the vision of the Holy Spirit’s Face inundated in an ineffable light. 13 By appearing and showing His Face to me. 14 In other words, beyond my capacity.
Why do you keep refering to the Holy Spirit as an "it" when the Bible and the Creed both refer to the Holy Spirit as a "he"? This is disconcerting and disturbing to an orthodox Catholic for the Holy Spirit is a Divine Person not a mere force, an "it". Dear God, why are our priests so vague on points like this? Is this PC talk so as not to offend feminist ears?
What is the origin of the Roman Catholic Church? The Roman Catholic Church contends that its origin is the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ in approximately AD 30. The Catholic Church proclaims itself to be the church that Jesus Christ died for, the church that was established and built by the apostles. Is that the true origin of the Catholic Church? On the contrary. Even a cursory reading of the New Testament will reveal that the Catholic Church does not have its origin in the teachings of Jesus or His apostles. In the New Testament, there is no mention of the papacy, worship/adoration of Mary (or the immaculate conception of Mary, the perpetual virginity of Mary, the assumption of Mary, or Mary as co-redemptrix and mediatrix), petitioning saints in heaven for their prayers, apostolic succession, the ordinances of the church functioning as sacraments, infant baptism, confession of sin to a priest, purgatory, indulgences, or the equal authority of church tradition and Scripture. So, if the origin of the Catholic Church is not in the teachings of Jesus and His apostles, as recorded in the New Testament, what is the true origin of the Catholic Church? For the first 280 years of Christian history, Christianity was banned by the Roman Empire, and Christians were terribly persecuted. This changed after the “conversion” of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Constantine provided religious toleration with the Edict of Milan in AD 313, effectively lifting the ban on Christianity. Later, in AD 325, Constantine called the Council of Nicea in an attempt to unify Christianity. Constantine envisioned Christianity as a religion that could unite the Roman Empire, which at that time was beginning to fragment and divide. While this may have seemed to be a positive development for the Christian church, the results were anything but positive. Just as Constantine refused to fully embrace the Christian faith, but continued many of his pagan beliefs and practices, so the Christian church that Constantine promoted was a mixture of true Christianity and Roman paganism. Constantine found that, with the Roman Empire being so vast, expansive, and diverse, not everyone would agree to forsake his or her religious beliefs to embrace Christianity. So, Constantine allowed, and even promoted, the “Christianization” of pagan beliefs. Completely pagan and utterly unbiblical beliefs were given new “Christian” identities. Some clear examples of this are as follows: (1) The Cult of Isis, an Egyptian mother-goddess religion, was absorbed into Christianity by replacing Isis with Mary. Many of the titles that were used for Isis, such as “Queen of Heaven,” “Mother of God,” and theotokos (“God-bearer”) were attached to Mary. Mary was given an exalted role in the Christian faith, far beyond what the Bible ascribes to her, in order to attract Isis worshippers to a faith they would not otherwise embrace. Many temples to Isis were, in fact, converted into temples dedicated to Mary. The first clear hints of Catholic Mariology occur in the writings of Origen, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, which happened to be the focal point of Isis worship. (2) Mithraism was a religion in the Roman Empire in the 1st through 5th centuries AD. It was very popular among the Romans, especially among Roman soldiers, and was possibly the religion of several Roman emperors. While Mithraism was never given “official” status in the Roman Empire, it was the de facto official religion until Constantine and succeeding Roman emperors replaced Mithraism with Christianity. One of the key features of Mithraism was a sacrificial meal, which involved eating the flesh and drinking the blood of a bull. Mithras, the god of Mithraism, was “present” in the flesh and blood of the bull, and when consumed, granted salvation to those who partook of the sacrificial meal (this is known as theophagy, the eating of one’s god). Mithraism also had seven “sacraments,” making the similarities between Mithraism and Roman Catholicism too many to ignore. Church leaders after Constantine found an easy substitute for the sacrificial meal of Mithraism in the concept of the Lord’s Supper/Christian communion. Even before Constantine, some early Christians had begun to attach mysticism to the Lord’s Supper, rejecting the biblical concept of a simple and worshipful remembrance of Christ’s death and shed blood. The Romanization of the Lord’s Supper made the transition to a sacrificial consumption of Jesus Christ, now known as the Catholic Mass/Eucharist, complete. (3) Most Roman emperors (and citizens) were henotheists. A henotheist is one who believes in the existence of many gods, but focuses primarily on one particular god or considers one particular god supreme over the other gods. For example, the Roman god Jupiter was supreme over the Roman pantheon of gods. Roman sailors were often worshippers of Neptune, the god of the oceans. When the Catholic Church absorbed Roman paganism, it simply replaced the pantheon of gods with the saints. Just as the Roman pantheon of gods had a god of love, a god of peace, a god of war, a god of strength, a god of wisdom, etc., so the Catholic Church has a saint who is “in charge” over each of these, and many other categories. Just as many Roman cities had a god specific to the city, so the Catholic Church provided “patron saints” for the cities. (4) The supremacy of the Roman bishop (the papacy) was created with the support of the Roman emperors. With the city of Rome being the center of government for the Roman Empire, and with the Roman emperors living in Rome, the city of Rome rose to prominence in all facets of life. Constantine (AD 272-337) and his successors gave their support to the bishop of Rome as the supreme ruler of the church. Of course, it is best for the unity of the Roman Empire that the government and state religion be centralized. While most other bishops (and Christians) resisted the idea of the Roman bishop being supreme, the Roman bishop eventually rose to supremacy, due to the power and influence of the Roman emperors. When the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in 476, the popes took on the title that had previously belonged to the Roman emperors-Pontifex Maximus. Pope Gregory I, ruling from 590-604, is usually considered the first bishop to truly wield papal authority. Many more examples could be given. These four should suffice in demonstrating the origin of the Catholic Church. Of course, the Roman Catholic Church denies the pagan origin of its beliefs and practices. The Catholic Church disguises its pagan beliefs under layers of complicated theology and “church tradition.” Recognizing that many of its beliefs and practices are utterly foreign to Scripture, the Catholic Church is forced to deny the authority and sufficiency of Scripture. The origin of the Catholic Church is the tragic compromise of Christianity with the pagan religions that surrounded it. Instead of proclaiming the gospel and converting the pagans, the Catholic Church “Christianized” the pagan religions, and “paganized” Christianity. By blurring the differences and erasing the distinctions, yes, the Catholic Church made itself attractive to the people of the Roman Empire. One result was the Catholic Church becoming the supreme religion in the Roman world for centuries. However, another result was the most dominant form of Christianity apostatizing from the true gospel of Jesus Christ and the true proclamation of God’s Word. Second Timothy 4:3-4 declares, “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.”
Bishop Robert Barron you only need literacy, good eyesight, a bible and a repentant heart to know who God and Jesus are. the statue of the 'virgin mary'? both a graven image AND breaking the first commandment. 'easter' BLATANTLY PAGAN CELEBRATION brother, i COULD go on but i'm just doing my due diligence in warning you of danger in your path. i'm not judging you, i'm concerned for your spiritual well being. it's out of love, brother...i've lived a rotten life, and i am no example of what a truly great christian is, but i certainly can discern what is NOT christian...and in this case, it's the catholic church.
Bishop Robert Barron jewish scribes. the catholics wrote their books in latin so that the papacy could twist the word and mislead people, as ONLY catholic 'leaders' were taught latin. thank God for the king james
Jewish scribes chose the books of the New Testament and then preserved them for the first 15 centuries of the Christian era?! You need to get your nose out of the Golden Book of Anti-Catholicism!
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@mhoowen Hey man, I'm a sinner. I stand in need of constant purification. He works through us effectively when our purified wills and minds can cooparate with his grace.
Always so articulate! And for a while he was my bishop in the Santa Barbara region of the Diocese of Los Angeles.
Thank you Fr Barron. I listened to this before mass today and it helped me to understand the meaning of the Pentecost. I always appreciate your videos as do many other Catholics in my church. Please keep up the work of God!
The Catholic Church is fortunate to have such an intelligent and in-depth defender of the faith!
Amen!
Thank you for this beautiful clarification 📿💗🕊
Tq your Lordship for this very clear insight into the workings of the Holy Spirit in our lives through the three symbols you have so exegeticaly expounded on. I have gained a completely new understanding on this most relevant topic. Richard D'Cruz from Malaysia.
You are annointed Bishop! In my experience I believe it is to gain compassion for others to not be attacked by the devil God has made me submit to my enemies because He wants me to love others who are victims of the devil as I have been but didnt understand how to fight the battle. I have more understanding now and hope I can tell you my perspective!
Amazing father.. a lot reflect on in what you said.. I await your videos with excitment from time to time.. Thank God for you!
Bob
Jerusalem, Holy Lands
@ShadowLink108 Ever hear of "tough love?" Love is willing the good of the other; and this sometimes means that, in Dostoevski's words, it is "harsh and dreadful." Or put it this way, God is always "yes," but sometimes "yes" is a "no" to a "no."
@samuelsixvids Excellent! God bless you.
I love You Father Barron.
@mhoowen You've never known a good parent who engages in "tough love"? God is never abusive, but he sometimes allows suffering for his own finally good purposes.
I agree with you, Fr.Barron. I believe that indeed the Church is being chastised and set back upon the right path, back to her roots where her focus ought to be. Who but God can set the Church back on track if she does go off-course? And perhaps, in our enemies rising up against us, we can be in a position to better engage and overtake and win some of them over that could not be any other way. When people see the rotten fruits of evil mature, they may perhaps only then see the folly of their ways. Sometimes we must be reminded that what God wants of us is what is best of us and that He commands what He does for a reason. This may be one way, by getting people to move so they can feel their wounds and know what sin has done to them and society. Of course I do not know for certain, but I think it may be possible. Sometimes treating an infection involves going through pain, but it is always worth it in the end.
@ShadowLink108 Well, I like Evangelicals!
Me parecen muy interesantes sus reflexiones... Puede subtitular sus videos en español?
@ThisRestlessPilgrim "Is the stock (he asks in his commercial way) really a sound investment, when those who hold it are so anxious to unload it on any terms?" - Ronald Knox.
Sadly I now find that in some churches here in Australia, I feel that, that is a liturgical abuse. Although again like my first post, there is a counter revolution in place and that is splendid. May God Bless you restless pilgrim, you have a Just heart.
@mhoowen Yeah, but what if he can't do wonderful work through me unless and until I'm purified of my selfishness and sin? I don't think this is an either/or.
Thank you Bishop Barron. The Power of the Holy Spirit. How do we cooperate.
Continuation Of: Canticle Of The Holy Spirit
Holy Speaks: ah …. My (Your name)…. I have chosen you and I have not rejected you although you too had ceased to be; and so it will be that I will show in this same manner My ineffable affection and My divine power to anyone who is willing; 2 I will not reject you but see how lenient My Love for you compels Me to be? in these days I am descending together with the Father and the Son as three Witnesses; God the Father is Spirit, 3 in that He sends Me, the Spirit of Truth, 4to be with you for ever and lead you to the complete Truth;
the Word of God, Light and Saviour and who existed since the beginning, who is nearest to the Father’s Heart, has witnessed and made the Father known to you; you have been bought and paid for with His own Blood; have you not read that the Word of God is alive and active and testifies on earth as I and the Father testify? the Holy One who bought His Church with His own Blood5testifies with His Blood and I, the Holy Spirit of Truth, who leads you to the complete Truth6 testify with Water; 7
therefore, We are three Witnesses and all three of Us agree as We are One God alone, 8 with one Will, one Power and one Dominion; what image, creation, have you contrived of Me and you still do not know Me? … and yet I never stopped testifying; I was never hiding …. 9
O Ineffable Light of Beauty,
Your Divine Eyes were soft and smiling;
You smiled at me and I found myself smiling back at You;
Your Face, O Holy One, contained an angelic charm;
Your Holy Face, radiating Love and Purity
was ever so near mine;
I was not even in profound meditation
when You surprised me by appearing to me;
Although His Face was altogether adorable,
His Eyes were the ones which drew my attention,
leaving me in awe and in admiration
the love of Your gaze
looking into mine with ineffable tenderness
were like two glittering stars,
they were like a turquoise transparent sea
filled with serenity;
what can I, the poor worm, say?
Your Divine Eyes, my Lord,
are like a Liturgy, an ocean of Love,
a Paradise and a consuming fire
for the one who undeservedly
was allowed to contemplate them …
how blessed you are, you whose ears I opened, may your ways remain straight in Our Wisdom so that you may do Our Divine Will;
count on Me, beloved, for I will bring as many as possible in union with Our Oneness and I will fill them with Light so that they will be filled with the absolute fullness of Our Trinitarian Deity;
- come and learn: in hardships I am always with you; I am your Consoler and where there is despair, I console and heal; I am the Giver of Life and with My baptismal kiss, I blow on you, I renew you; I renew you so that your natural inclinations that are so opposed to God and ever so human and worldly, leading you to death, can be transformed and deified in My Divinity and My Nobility and become as those of the angels and saints;
I am trying to draw you all into a filial union of divine Love with the Father and the Son and Myself so that you move in Us and We move in you;
I can transform your imprisoned minds and free them so that your thoughts and sayings will be only on spiritual things; therefore do not say: “I am doomed by Satan’s baptismal kiss of death”; no! not if you come to Me now; I am the antidote to Satan’s deathly kiss; I am the antidote to Death itself …. it is true that without Me your body is dead, but with Me your body is alive and in Me and through Me you will be counted as a child of God; this is why you must allow Me to reign in your hearts and make you into sons and daughters of the Most High;
Scripture says: 10 “happy the pure in heart: they shall see God;” in order to see God, and acknowledge Him as your Father you have to be born of Me, the Holy Spirit, by grace; how else would you see God? a child, before being born, has he ever seen his father? not until he is born will he see his father; and so it is with your spiritual birth of Me; flesh is flesh and has the vision of flesh; but who is born of the Spirit is given a vision of God enabling him to seize Him, acknowledge Him and penetrate in His depths;
so come and advance your step, go forward, and I will carry you on My Wings to soar the skies and bring you in Our adoption place, there where all My saints are, anointed by Us thrice Holy; why, did you not know that you too have an assigned place among them?
be confident and come to Me and from a rebel I will transfigure you into an upright being, leading your soul into sanctification and then sin will no longer have any power over you; sin is like an evil master in you and you should not give that master any opportunity in any instance to overrule you; but I, who am the Source of all that is Good can overpower your evil master which is sin, because My Law is a Law of Goodness and Life, overpowering all your evil inclinations;
come and find Me in simplicity of heart and fasten your heart on Me; do not come to Me with mistrust nor with brilliance of worldly speech; do not approach Me with conceit, vice or deceitfulness, no one who comes in that manner ever seizes Me or sees Me, but the souls who walk in the light of contrition and innocence will not be deprived from My Presence; I will fly to them from My Glory in a brilliant light, followed by myriads of angels to heal them, renewing them and making them one spirit with Mine to inherit My Kingdom; flesh and blood cannot inherit My Kingdom, for what is perishable cannot inherit what lasts for ever;
then to make you understand who is the Unique, Trinitarian God, yet One in the unity of essence, I will be healing your guilt, flowing in you as a river, refreshing your aridity and sterility; no one is worthy to see God, indeed, were anyone perfect among you, if he lacked the Wisdom and the Light that comes from Me, he would still count for nothing;
the depths of God are riches which are not of this world, and to contain them without Me is impossible; to penetrate God’s motives or understand His methods without Me, is impossible, but were you to allow Me to be recognised in your consciousness, penetrating your intelligence, I will model you in Myself to be truly pleasing to Us; your abandonment to Me is the only way I could transform your mind to have the mind of Christ, discovering Our Will and knowing what is good and what it is that We want and what is the perfect thing to do; so do not allow your flesh11 to protest ….
although I seem to appear inaccessible to the eye and unattainable, unseen altogether, I let Myself be seen in full clarity; I utter words of Wisdom and as a friend who confides himself to a friend I confide My secrets to you, hiding none of them from you; I face you, and I, the formless one, take form in your spirit; 12
ah, Vassula, I am altogether a reflection of the eternal light and as an untarnished mirror My Magnificence is magnified in all the creation; here I am now, becoming knowable to you in this way too, 13 yet without losing My transcendence; I am filling you with My Knowledge, even though this flow of transcendent light which I am pouring in you goes beyond what you can contain, 14 I offer, nevertheless, all those treasures of Our Kingdom to adorn not only your soul, but all of the others too;
I am, for those who love Me, indeed more resplendent than the sun, outshining all the constellations put together, and as I transcend, I can fill all things with My brightness without being contained by their limits; this is the way I deploy My Light in your soul, ordering all things within you to be good so that you, in your turn reflect My Goodness and grow in virtue;
1 The Orthodox Calendar.
2 The Holy Spirit speaks to the whole world now.
3 Jn. 4:24. St Paul too in 1 Co. 15:45 speaks of Christ as “life-giving Spirit”. The description “Spirit” in the biblical sense does not define God’s nature so much as it describes His life-giving activity. God is Spirit in that He gives the Spirit.
4 Jn. 14:17.
5 With the Sacrifice we obtained Eternal life.
6 In Jn. 16:12-13 Jesus says to His disciples: “I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now; but when the Spirit of Truth comes He will lead you to the complete Truth …” It is a mistake to speak of an end to Revelation and treat it as a deposit of sentences. God is active and alive and will continue showing Himself through the Holy Spirit, never stopping in doing so. When one says in Latin: ‘complere’, it means that Christ is the full, complete revelation of God; and not that He will stop revealing Himself to mankind. The Holy Bible is the narrative testimony of Jesus Christ. It is not God’s last word.
7 With Baptism.
8 In the unity of essence.
9 At this moment, I saw a Face inundated with light, fairer than the fairest angel. The Unformed took form; in this vision of the Holy Spirit, who wanted to show Himself out of His boundless love, an undeserved gift to an unworthy being as myself, left my heart rejoicing; every time the memory of this vision returned to me, my heart anew rejoiced. It cannot fade away from my memory; this vision of His Holy Face is going to remain with me for ever.
10 Mt. 5:8.
11 Here it means human spirit.
12 At this moment, again the same vision appeared to me, the vision of the Holy Spirit’s Face inundated in an ineffable light.
13 By appearing and showing His Face to me.
14 In other words, beyond my capacity.
@wordonfirevideo We are in a world of suffering people and we willingly suffer with them in order to do Gods great works. It is this witness of suffering of others and our desire an attempt to relieve it and do Gods great works that ultimately purifies us. God made us in his image, to be like him in Eternal life! By doing his good works we become more ready to face him on the last day. Of course we can't achieve purification ourselves, so we need Jesus to forgive our sins through his priests.
@wordonfirevideo You ARE doing good work. Am I to assume that you have been purified, you will not suffer any-more, you will not have to spend time in purgatory? Likewise I too am a sinner and yet I do Gods work. Do you feel that the omnipotent God cannot work through sinners? We are all sinners, so how does he work through us?
Bishop Barron, do you have any books?
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God Turmp.Amen
Day 1 - The Pentecost Novena
O Come Holy Spirit, Living In Mary. JN 14:26
“I will carry out a revolution by renewal in the Holy Spirit.”
“I will speak one language and wear one uniform: charity.”
“I will have one very special love: the Blessed Virgin Mary.”
😇 Bl Cardinal Van Thuan Please Pray 4us
Jn 16:20-23
@ThisRestlessPilgrim I believe they are two real issues, that are no where near the same level.
The protection of the most vulnerable is of up most importance.
I feel there is a counter revolution among young Catholics, studying and claiming what is rightfully theirs in teachings and traditions; which I know have been watered down in an attempt to meet them halfway, a way of thinking i might pressume would be "spirit of the council"
Looks like the Holy Spirit works with the 4 (or 5) Classical Elements: "Water", "Fire", wind or "Air", and also our lives on "Earth" and through our "Spirit".
@ThisRestlessPilgrim where they would attempt to reach the congregation "halfway" (not in the form of a vessel like the new media but in teaching) and may even dismiss dogma to do so. Msgr Ronald Knox wrote a while back about the latitudinarian culture within the anglican churches and the weslyians and linking the reduction in dogma to the reduction of pew sitters and the squabbling among sects.
(The Holy Spirit speaks:)
peace be with you;
for this noble theme that I will divinely reveal to you, you will have to allow Me to penetrate into your intellect and give you a sublime light of understanding; I will stoop in My benevolence to speak not only to you, but Prodigy Himself will dispose His Knowledge to all mankind;
behold, the Bridegroom is stooping over you to communicate to you all words of Life that will adorn you all with royal purple; by grace, you will receive from Me, if you open your heart, sanctifying graces which will invigorate your soul and lead you into perfection;
those who would read these words of Life and are undisposed and not in the truth, will see everything as nonsense, for, accustomed to walk with Sterility, they will not be touched;
but for those who seek Paradise in simplicity of heart and who do not put Me to the test, on those will I shed My Light and Rays and I will illuminate them;
I will then make My way in them and purify them; and when they will come trembling to the reckoning of their impurity and sins, with a groan that will sound more of a new-born’s wailing, they will give birth to a new life in Me, capitulated by Jealous Love;
after having conquered them in Blessedness, I shall flow like a vivifying River inside them; My vivifying passage within them will not go by unnoticed; I will not be like a ship that cuts through heaving waves and leaves no trace to show where it passed, or like a bird flying through the air, leaving no proof of its passing or a sign of its passage;
I will come to them and wed them and clothe them with Christ; I will transfigure their soul into an Eden because they would be carrying God within them as their Lamp; this will be the sign given to them in My invincible Holiness;
I will remain in them taking care of them; and I Myself will be the One who will adorn them with bridal vestments; crowning them with My Deity, a royal crown of splendour, the diadem beauty from the Hand of the Trinity; no one is worthy of such favours, but in My ineffable Love, I said: “night now must yield to light, vice to virtue”; I will work in their soul so that temperance, prudence, justice and fortitude will be their wealth;
ah, (Your name), I will cultivate your generation and make them understand that immortality is found in being kin to Us the Triune God; what is more wealthy than this Work of Mercy I, God, will be doing in them? then, having breathed Life in these souls, I will despatch Wisdom from My throne of glory to become their Prodigy;
- then everything that had been reduced to ashes in the sterility of this earth through all these years, I, in My divine benevolence, will make anyone who is willing, revive and blossom; fecundated by My warm rays of Light, I tell you, generation, you will be divinised and deified in Our Trinitarian Deity;
today, My (Your name), everyone sees as far as they are able to see, but after My passage through you all, you will not be limited and see the way you see now; but, in a most ineffable manner and most divine, you will see with My Light penetrating even the hidden things of God since you will be seeing things in My radiance; 2your entire body will be shining with a brilliant Light; I will be the Lamp of your body3 that will fill it with the splendours of Our Kingdom, which are: soundness, gentleness, love, mercy, joy, peace, patience, truthfulness, goodness and kindness;
from the beginning We made you in the image of Our Own Nature; We had said: “let Us make mankind in Our Own Image, yes, in the likeness of Ourselves;” but it was the devil’s envy that brought you all to death;
now the earth groans with pain, chastising itself, sighing and crying, weary of no longer being, tearful and suffocating for lack of air, 4 moulding in its interior and putrefying in its entrails; yes, you have ceased to be ….
come, My (Your name), this will do for now; be one with Me!
(Here the Holy Spirit stopped His divine dictation to me and He made me understand that He will continue His Message later on: see message of June 7, 1998.)
2 The Holy Spirit is foretelling us of the ‘era of the Spirit’.
3 Mt. 6:22-23.
4 I understood this as: lack of the Holy Spirit blowing on us because of the earth’s prohibition of the Holy Spirit to act freely on us. In truth we can say that the Holy Spirit is stifled beyond imagination by this generation.
ww3.tlig.org/en/messages/1025/
"He's not a tame lion" - The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
@samuelsixvids Wow congrats, I want to do this.
The more wonderful something is, the more terrible it is when it is abused. The wonderful gift of our children, and the wonderful gift of the priesthood both being misused on the most basic level. It is really horrible for those of us who love the Church. We shall need to spend the rest of our lives making the Church the safest place of all for children
@AdversusHaereses "Nowhere near" in what sense? Importance? Sinfulness? Evangelisticly?
Good idea! But perhaps we just have to 'mature', deepen' our understanding of those 'old words'. Concepts such as Love, Sacrifice, Glory, have to take on flesh, be experienced, in order to 'know the reality' signified by those words. "Man fully alive is God's Glory." We glorify, show forth, God's 'Wonder' as we grow, by 'Grace' to BE more! "Grace does not destroy our humanity, but makes it 'glow' with a certain 'Divine' brightness, not merely 'human' glory! [Can old words be reignited thusly?]
@ShadowLink108 I'm not sure what is mean by sounding like an Evangelical. I have said nothing that any of the Church Fathers would disagree with, and certainly what has been in line with what the Church has always taught about God's love.
@wordonfirevideo Touche. I understand that No to a No is required. After all, when a parent says no to a child and takes away scissors, that child will kick and scream, unknowingly aware of the dangers of scissors. But what does the Holy Spirit's destructive nature have to do will "harsh and dreadful." The parent doesn't strike a child to take away scissors? "Tough love," confirmed by Dr. William Pollack and Dr. Mary Pipher is bad and sometimes destructive parenting? Explain more, please?
@ThisRestlessPilgrim I agree with you on the grounds that, What in the world was he thinking?! linking the two issues together!
sorry however for unloading my thoughts in a jumbled manner in the form of replies to you; it is rather unorthodox but you're on topic! so i'll leave you with this thought: we find ourselves in an age where clergymen unlike Fr Robert Barron STD are preaching in a manner .....
I have awakened the Holy Spirit inside of me, does this mean he is opening me up? Then is he cleansing me? I have also seen the dove of the Holy Spirit through meditation.
Jack A (The Holy Spirit speaks:)
behold, the Bridegroom is stooping over you to communicate to you all words of Life that will adorn you all with royal purple; by grace, you will receive from Me, if you open your heart, sanctifying graces which will invigorate your soul and lead you into perfection;
those who would read these words of Life and are undisposed and not in the truth, will see everything as nonsense, for, accustomed to walk with Sterility, they will not be touched;
but for those who seek Paradise in simplicity of heart and who do not put Me to the test, on those will I shed My Light and Rays and I will illuminate them;
I will then make My way in them and purify them; and when they will come trembling to the reckoning of their impurity and sins, with a groan that will sound more of a new-born’s wailing, they will give birth to a new life in Me, capitulated by Jealous Love;
after having conquered them in Blessedness, I shall flow like a vivifying River inside them; My vivifying passage within them will not go by unnoticed; I will not be like a ship that cuts through heaving waves and leaves no trace to show where it passed, or like a bird flying through the air, leaving no proof of its passing or a sign of its passage;
I will come to them and wed them and clothe them with Christ; I will transfigure their soul into an Eden because they would be carrying God within them as their Lamp; this will be the sign given to them in My invincible Holiness;
I will remain in them taking care of them; and I Myself will be the One who will adorn them with bridal vestments; crowning them with My Deity, a royal crown of splendour, the diadem beauty from the Hand of the Trinity; no one is worthy of such favours, but in My ineffable Love, I said: “night now must yield to light, vice to virtue”; I will work in their soul so that temperance, prudence, justice and fortitude will be their wealth;
ah, (Your name), I will cultivate your generation and make them understand that immortality is found in being kin to Us the Triune God; what is more wealthy than this Work of Mercy I, God, will be doing in them? then, having breathed Life in these souls, I will despatch Wisdom from My throne of glory to become their Prodigy;
- then everything that had been reduced to ashes in the sterility of this earth through all these years, I, in My divine benevolence, will make anyone who is willing, revive and blossom; fecundated by My warm rays of Light, I tell you, generation, you will be divinised and deified in Our Trinitarian Deity;
today, My (Your name), everyone sees as far as they are able to see, but after My passage through you all, you will not be limited and see the way you see now; but, in a most ineffable manner and most divine, you will see with My Light penetrating even the hidden things of God since you will be seeing things in My radiance; 2your entire body will be shining with a brilliant Light; I will be the Lamp of your body3 that will fill it with the splendours of Our Kingdom, which are: soundness, gentleness, love, mercy, joy, peace, patience, truthfulness, goodness and kindness;
from the beginning We made you in the image of Our Own Nature; We had said: “let Us make mankind in Our Own Image, yes, in the likeness of Ourselves;” but it was the devil’s envy that brought you all to death;
now the earth groans with pain, chastising itself, sighing and crying, weary of no longer being, tearful and suffocating for lack of air, 4 moulding in its interior and putrefying in its entrails; yes, you have ceased to be ….
come, My (Your name), this will do for now; be one with Me!
(Here the Holy Spirit stopped His divine dictation to me and He made me understand that He will continue His Message later on: see message of June 7, 1998.)
2 The Holy Spirit is foretelling us of the ‘era of the Spirit’.
3 Mt. 6:22-23.
4 I understood this as: lack of the Holy Spirit blowing on us because of the earth’s prohibition of the Holy Spirit to act freely on us. In truth we can say that the Holy Spirit is stifled beyond imagination by this generation.
ww3.tlig.org/en/messages/1025/
Jack A Continuation Of: Canticle Of The Holy Spirit
Holy Speaks: ah …. My (Your name)…. I have chosen you and I have not rejected you although you too had ceased to be; and so it will be that I will show in this same manner My ineffable affection and My divine power to anyone who is willing; 2 I will not reject you but see how lenient My Love for you compels Me to be? in these days I am descending together with the Father and the Son as three Witnesses; God the Father is Spirit, 3 in that He sends Me, the Spirit of Truth, 4to be with you for ever and lead you to the complete Truth;
the Word of God, Light and Saviour and who existed since the beginning, who is nearest to the Father’s Heart, has witnessed and made the Father known to you; you have been bought and paid for with His own Blood; have you not read that the Word of God is alive and active and testifies on earth as I and the Father testify? the Holy One who bought His Church with His own Blood5testifies with His Blood and I, the Holy Spirit of Truth, who leads you to the complete Truth6 testify with Water; 7
therefore, We are three Witnesses and all three of Us agree as We are One God alone, 8 with one Will, one Power and one Dominion; what image, creation, have you contrived of Me and you still do not know Me? … and yet I never stopped testifying; I was never hiding …. 9
O Ineffable Light of Beauty,
Your Divine Eyes were soft and smiling;
You smiled at me and I found myself smiling back at You;
Your Face, O Holy One, contained an angelic charm;
Your Holy Face, radiating Love and Purity
was ever so near mine;
I was not even in profound meditation
when You surprised me by appearing to me;
Although His Face was altogether adorable,
His Eyes were the ones which drew my attention,
leaving me in awe and in admiration
the love of Your gaze
looking into mine with ineffable tenderness
were like two glittering stars,
they were like a turquoise transparent sea
filled with serenity;
what can I, the poor worm, say?
Your Divine Eyes, my Lord,
are like a Liturgy, an ocean of Love,
a Paradise and a consuming fire
for the one who undeservedly
was allowed to contemplate them …
how blessed you are, you whose ears I opened, may your ways remain straight in Our Wisdom so that you may do Our Divine Will;
count on Me, beloved, for I will bring as many as possible in union with Our Oneness and I will fill them with Light so that they will be filled with the absolute fullness of Our Trinitarian Deity;
- come and learn: in hardships I am always with you; I am your Consoler and where there is despair, I console and heal; I am the Giver of Life and with My baptismal kiss, I blow on you, I renew you; I renew you so that your natural inclinations that are so opposed to God and ever so human and worldly, leading you to death, can be transformed and deified in My Divinity and My Nobility and become as those of the angels and saints;
I am trying to draw you all into a filial union of divine Love with the Father and the Son and Myself so that you move in Us and We move in you;
I can transform your imprisoned minds and free them so that your thoughts and sayings will be only on spiritual things; therefore do not say: “I am doomed by Satan’s baptismal kiss of death”; no! not if you come to Me now; I am the antidote to Satan’s deathly kiss; I am the antidote to Death itself …. it is true that without Me your body is dead, but with Me your body is alive and in Me and through Me you will be counted as a child of God; this is why you must allow Me to reign in your hearts and make you into sons and daughters of the Most High;
Scripture says: 10 “happy the pure in heart: they shall see God;” in order to see God, and acknowledge Him as your Father you have to be born of Me, the Holy Spirit, by grace; how else would you see God? a child, before being born, has he ever seen his father? not until he is born will he see his father; and so it is with your spiritual birth of Me; flesh is flesh and has the vision of flesh; but who is born of the Spirit is given a vision of God enabling him to seize Him, acknowledge Him and penetrate in His depths;
so come and advance your step, go forward, and I will carry you on My Wings to soar the skies and bring you in Our adoption place, there where all My saints are, anointed by Us thrice Holy; why, did you not know that you too have an assigned place among them?
be confident and come to Me and from a rebel I will transfigure you into an upright being, leading your soul into sanctification and then sin will no longer have any power over you; sin is like an evil master in you and you should not give that master any opportunity in any instance to overrule you; but I, who am the Source of all that is Good can overpower your evil master which is sin, because My Law is a Law of Goodness and Life, overpowering all your evil inclinations;
come and find Me in simplicity of heart and fasten your heart on Me; do not come to Me with mistrust nor with brilliance of worldly speech; do not approach Me with conceit, vice or deceitfulness, no one who comes in that manner ever seizes Me or sees Me, but the souls who walk in the light of contrition and innocence will not be deprived from My Presence; I will fly to them from My Glory in a brilliant light, followed by myriads of angels to heal them, renewing them and making them one spirit with Mine to inherit My Kingdom; flesh and blood cannot inherit My Kingdom, for what is perishable cannot inherit what lasts for ever;
then to make you understand who is the Unique, Trinitarian God, yet One in the unity of essence, I will be healing your guilt, flowing in you as a river, refreshing your aridity and sterility; no one is worthy to see God, indeed, were anyone perfect among you, if he lacked the Wisdom and the Light that comes from Me, he would still count for nothing;
the depths of God are riches which are not of this world, and to contain them without Me is impossible; to penetrate God’s motives or understand His methods without Me, is impossible, but were you to allow Me to be recognised in your consciousness, penetrating your intelligence, I will model you in Myself to be truly pleasing to Us; your abandonment to Me is the only way I could transform your mind to have the mind of Christ, discovering Our Will and knowing what is good and what it is that We want and what is the perfect thing to do; so do not allow your flesh11 to protest ….
although I seem to appear inaccessible to the eye and unattainable, unseen altogether, I let Myself be seen in full clarity; I utter words of Wisdom and as a friend who confides himself to a friend I confide My secrets to you, hiding none of them from you; I face you, and I, the formless one, take form in your spirit; 12
ah, Vassula, I am altogether a reflection of the eternal light and as an untarnished mirror My Magnificence is magnified in all the creation; here I am now, becoming knowable to you in this way too, 13 yet without losing My transcendence; I am filling you with My Knowledge, even though this flow of transcendent light which I am pouring in you goes beyond what you can contain, 14 I offer, nevertheless, all those treasures of Our Kingdom to adorn not only your soul, but all of the others too;
I am, for those who love Me, indeed more resplendent than the sun, outshining all the constellations put together, and as I transcend, I can fill all things with My brightness without being contained by their limits; this is the way I deploy My Light in your soul, ordering all things within you to be good so that you, in your turn reflect My Goodness and grow in virtue;
1 The Orthodox Calendar.
2 The Holy Spirit speaks to the whole world now.
3 Jn. 4:24. St Paul too in 1 Co. 15:45 speaks of Christ as “life-giving Spirit”. The description “Spirit” in the biblical sense does not define God’s nature so much as it describes His life-giving activity. God is Spirit in that He gives the Spirit.
4 Jn. 14:17.
5 With the Sacrifice we obtained Eternal life.
6 In Jn. 16:12-13 Jesus says to His disciples: “I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now; but when the Spirit of Truth comes He will lead you to the complete Truth …” It is a mistake to speak of an end to Revelation and treat it as a deposit of sentences. God is active and alive and will continue showing Himself through the Holy Spirit, never stopping in doing so. When one says in Latin: ‘complere’, it means that Christ is the full, complete revelation of God; and not that He will stop revealing Himself to mankind. The Holy Bible is the narrative testimony of Jesus Christ. It is not God’s last word.
7 With Baptism.
8 In the unity of essence.
9 At this moment, I saw a Face inundated with light, fairer than the fairest angel. The Unformed took form; in this vision of the Holy Spirit, who wanted to show Himself out of His boundless love, an undeserved gift to an unworthy being as myself, left my heart rejoicing; every time the memory of this vision returned to me, my heart anew rejoiced. It cannot fade away from my memory; this vision of His Holy Face is going to remain with me for ever.
10 Mt. 5:8.
11 Here it means human spirit.
12 At this moment, again the same vision appeared to me, the vision of the Holy Spirit’s Face inundated in an ineffable light.
13 By appearing and showing His Face to me.
14 In other words, beyond my capacity.
@wordonfirevideo This video seems contradictory to 'Fr. Barron comments on God, the Tsunami, and the Problem of Evil' which I loved and agreed with wholeheartedly. The God I know advises and guides me through life's trials. When something threatens to destroy me, he protects me. 'The yoke I give you is easy and my burden is light.' God is like a good parent, not like an abusive overly disciplinarian one.
What about the earthquake is it a holy spirit?
Personally I believe the Holy Spirit is one of the most complex concept in existence well beyond the understanding of man. I have spent time trying to understand the father, son and the Holy spirit but I can't solve the last puzzle. It is quite absolute in nature pretty much incompatible with our concept of reality till we fully understand that reality first. I could be seriously wrong though.
Onion Eye (The Holy Spirit speaks:)
behold, the Bridegroom is stooping over you to communicate to you all words of Life that will adorn you all with royal purple; by grace, you will receive from Me, if you open your heart, sanctifying graces which will invigorate your soul and lead you into perfection;
those who would read these words of Life and are undisposed and not in the truth, will see everything as nonsense, for, accustomed to walk with Sterility, they will not be touched;
but for those who seek Paradise in simplicity of heart and who do not put Me to the test, on those will I shed My Light and Rays and I will illuminate them;
I will then make My way in them and purify them; and when they will come trembling to the reckoning of their impurity and sins, with a groan that will sound more of a new-born’s wailing, they will give birth to a new life in Me, capitulated by Jealous Love;
after having conquered them in Blessedness, I shall flow like a vivifying River inside them; My vivifying passage within them will not go by unnoticed; I will not be like a ship that cuts through heaving waves and leaves no trace to show where it passed, or like a bird flying through the air, leaving no proof of its passing or a sign of its passage;
I will come to them and wed them and clothe them with Christ; I will transfigure their soul into an Eden because they would be carrying God within them as their Lamp; this will be the sign given to them in My invincible Holiness;
I will remain in them taking care of them; and I Myself will be the One who will adorn them with bridal vestments; crowning them with My Deity, a royal crown of splendour, the diadem beauty from the Hand of the Trinity; no one is worthy of such favours, but in My ineffable Love, I said: “night now must yield to light, vice to virtue”; I will work in their soul so that temperance, prudence, justice and fortitude will be their wealth;
ah, (Your name), I will cultivate your generation and make them understand that immortality is found in being kin to Us the Triune God; what is more wealthy than this Work of Mercy I, God, will be doing in them? then, having breathed Life in these souls, I will despatch Wisdom from My throne of glory to become their Prodigy;
- then everything that had been reduced to ashes in the sterility of this earth through all these years, I, in My divine benevolence, will make anyone who is willing, revive and blossom; fecundated by My warm rays of Light, I tell you, generation, you will be divinised and deified in Our Trinitarian Deity;
today, My (Your name), everyone sees as far as they are able to see, but after My passage through you all, you will not be limited and see the way you see now; but, in a most ineffable manner and most divine, you will see with My Light penetrating even the hidden things of God since you will be seeing things in My radiance; 2your entire body will be shining with a brilliant Light; I will be the Lamp of your body3 that will fill it with the splendours of Our Kingdom, which are: soundness, gentleness, love, mercy, joy, peace, patience, truthfulness, goodness and kindness;
from the beginning We made you in the image of Our Own Nature; We had said: “let Us make mankind in Our Own Image, yes, in the likeness of Ourselves;” but it was the devil’s envy that brought you all to death;
now the earth groans with pain, chastising itself, sighing and crying, weary of no longer being, tearful and suffocating for lack of air, 4 moulding in its interior and putrefying in its entrails; yes, you have ceased to be ….
come, My (Your name), this will do for now; be one with Me!
(Here the Holy Spirit stopped His divine dictation to me and He made me understand that He will continue His Message later on: see message of June 7, 1998.)
2 The Holy Spirit is foretelling us of the ‘era of the Spirit’.
3 Mt. 6:22-23.
4 I understood this as: lack of the Holy Spirit blowing on us because of the earth’s prohibition of the Holy Spirit to act freely on us. In truth we can say that the Holy Spirit is stifled beyond imagination by this generation.
ww3.tlig.org/en/messages/1025/
Onion Eye Continuation Of: Canticle Of The Holy Spirit
Holy Speaks: ah …. My (Your name)…. I have chosen you and I have not rejected you although you too had ceased to be; and so it will be that I will show in this same manner My ineffable affection and My divine power to anyone who is willing; 2 I will not reject you but see how lenient My Love for you compels Me to be? in these days I am descending together with the Father and the Son as three Witnesses; God the Father is Spirit, 3 in that He sends Me, the Spirit of Truth, 4to be with you for ever and lead you to the complete Truth;
the Word of God, Light and Saviour and who existed since the beginning, who is nearest to the Father’s Heart, has witnessed and made the Father known to you; you have been bought and paid for with His own Blood; have you not read that the Word of God is alive and active and testifies on earth as I and the Father testify? the Holy One who bought His Church with His own Blood5testifies with His Blood and I, the Holy Spirit of Truth, who leads you to the complete Truth6 testify with Water; 7
therefore, We are three Witnesses and all three of Us agree as We are One God alone, 8 with one Will, one Power and one Dominion; what image, creation, have you contrived of Me and you still do not know Me? … and yet I never stopped testifying; I was never hiding …. 9
O Ineffable Light of Beauty,
Your Divine Eyes were soft and smiling;
You smiled at me and I found myself smiling back at You;
Your Face, O Holy One, contained an angelic charm;
Your Holy Face, radiating Love and Purity
was ever so near mine;
I was not even in profound meditation
when You surprised me by appearing to me;
Although His Face was altogether adorable,
His Eyes were the ones which drew my attention,
leaving me in awe and in admiration
the love of Your gaze
looking into mine with ineffable tenderness
were like two glittering stars,
they were like a turquoise transparent sea
filled with serenity;
what can I, the poor worm, say?
Your Divine Eyes, my Lord,
are like a Liturgy, an ocean of Love,
a Paradise and a consuming fire
for the one who undeservedly
was allowed to contemplate them …
how blessed you are, you whose ears I opened, may your ways remain straight in Our Wisdom so that you may do Our Divine Will;
count on Me, beloved, for I will bring as many as possible in union with Our Oneness and I will fill them with Light so that they will be filled with the absolute fullness of Our Trinitarian Deity;
- come and learn: in hardships I am always with you; I am your Consoler and where there is despair, I console and heal; I am the Giver of Life and with My baptismal kiss, I blow on you, I renew you; I renew you so that your natural inclinations that are so opposed to God and ever so human and worldly, leading you to death, can be transformed and deified in My Divinity and My Nobility and become as those of the angels and saints;
I am trying to draw you all into a filial union of divine Love with the Father and the Son and Myself so that you move in Us and We move in you;
I can transform your imprisoned minds and free them so that your thoughts and sayings will be only on spiritual things; therefore do not say: “I am doomed by Satan’s baptismal kiss of death”; no! not if you come to Me now; I am the antidote to Satan’s deathly kiss; I am the antidote to Death itself …. it is true that without Me your body is dead, but with Me your body is alive and in Me and through Me you will be counted as a child of God; this is why you must allow Me to reign in your hearts and make you into sons and daughters of the Most High;
Scripture says: 10 “happy the pure in heart: they shall see God;” in order to see God, and acknowledge Him as your Father you have to be born of Me, the Holy Spirit, by grace; how else would you see God? a child, before being born, has he ever seen his father? not until he is born will he see his father; and so it is with your spiritual birth of Me; flesh is flesh and has the vision of flesh; but who is born of the Spirit is given a vision of God enabling him to seize Him, acknowledge Him and penetrate in His depths;
so come and advance your step, go forward, and I will carry you on My Wings to soar the skies and bring you in Our adoption place, there where all My saints are, anointed by Us thrice Holy; why, did you not know that you too have an assigned place among them?
be confident and come to Me and from a rebel I will transfigure you into an upright being, leading your soul into sanctification and then sin will no longer have any power over you; sin is like an evil master in you and you should not give that master any opportunity in any instance to overrule you; but I, who am the Source of all that is Good can overpower your evil master which is sin, because My Law is a Law of Goodness and Life, overpowering all your evil inclinations;
come and find Me in simplicity of heart and fasten your heart on Me; do not come to Me with mistrust nor with brilliance of worldly speech; do not approach Me with conceit, vice or deceitfulness, no one who comes in that manner ever seizes Me or sees Me, but the souls who walk in the light of contrition and innocence will not be deprived from My Presence; I will fly to them from My Glory in a brilliant light, followed by myriads of angels to heal them, renewing them and making them one spirit with Mine to inherit My Kingdom; flesh and blood cannot inherit My Kingdom, for what is perishable cannot inherit what lasts for ever;
then to make you understand who is the Unique, Trinitarian God, yet One in the unity of essence, I will be healing your guilt, flowing in you as a river, refreshing your aridity and sterility; no one is worthy to see God, indeed, were anyone perfect among you, if he lacked the Wisdom and the Light that comes from Me, he would still count for nothing;
the depths of God are riches which are not of this world, and to contain them without Me is impossible; to penetrate God’s motives or understand His methods without Me, is impossible, but were you to allow Me to be recognised in your consciousness, penetrating your intelligence, I will model you in Myself to be truly pleasing to Us; your abandonment to Me is the only way I could transform your mind to have the mind of Christ, discovering Our Will and knowing what is good and what it is that We want and what is the perfect thing to do; so do not allow your flesh11 to protest ….
although I seem to appear inaccessible to the eye and unattainable, unseen altogether, I let Myself be seen in full clarity; I utter words of Wisdom and as a friend who confides himself to a friend I confide My secrets to you, hiding none of them from you; I face you, and I, the formless one, take form in your spirit; 12
ah, Vassula, I am altogether a reflection of the eternal light and as an untarnished mirror My Magnificence is magnified in all the creation; here I am now, becoming knowable to you in this way too, 13 yet without losing My transcendence; I am filling you with My Knowledge, even though this flow of transcendent light which I am pouring in you goes beyond what you can contain, 14 I offer, nevertheless, all those treasures of Our Kingdom to adorn not only your soul, but all of the others too;
I am, for those who love Me, indeed more resplendent than the sun, outshining all the constellations put together, and as I transcend, I can fill all things with My brightness without being contained by their limits; this is the way I deploy My Light in your soul, ordering all things within you to be good so that you, in your turn reflect My Goodness and grow in virtue;
1 The Orthodox Calendar.
2 The Holy Spirit speaks to the whole world now.
3 Jn. 4:24. St Paul too in 1 Co. 15:45 speaks of Christ as “life-giving Spirit”. The description “Spirit” in the biblical sense does not define God’s nature so much as it describes His life-giving activity. God is Spirit in that He gives the Spirit.
4 Jn. 14:17.
5 With the Sacrifice we obtained Eternal life.
6 In Jn. 16:12-13 Jesus says to His disciples: “I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now; but when the Spirit of Truth comes He will lead you to the complete Truth …” It is a mistake to speak of an end to Revelation and treat it as a deposit of sentences. God is active and alive and will continue showing Himself through the Holy Spirit, never stopping in doing so. When one says in Latin: ‘complere’, it means that Christ is the full, complete revelation of God; and not that He will stop revealing Himself to mankind. The Holy Bible is the narrative testimony of Jesus Christ. It is not God’s last word.
7 With Baptism.
8 In the unity of essence.
9 At this moment, I saw a Face inundated with light, fairer than the fairest angel. The Unformed took form; in this vision of the Holy Spirit, who wanted to show Himself out of His boundless love, an undeserved gift to an unworthy being as myself, left my heart rejoicing; every time the memory of this vision returned to me, my heart anew rejoiced. It cannot fade away from my memory; this vision of His Holy Face is going to remain with me for ever.
10 Mt. 5:8.
11 Here it means human spirit.
12 At this moment, again the same vision appeared to me, the vision of the Holy Spirit’s Face inundated in an ineffable light.
13 By appearing and showing His Face to me.
14 In other words, beyond my capacity.
@AdversusHaereses Also, the liturgical "crisis" (I think "problem" would be a better word) isn't really even the issue - it's much more a problem concerned with catechesis - people simply don't know their faith because it isn't being taught, and when it is, it's been taught badly.
What liturgical abuse do you think has led to a widespread disassociation of the Eucharist with the sacrifice on Calvary?
Restless pilgram, really? Many catholics are upset over liturical abuses because that's the heart and center of our beliefs. Now I will agree that we should show some sort of unity on the public front, however that is compromise that can't be made, I love father barron, he's brilliant and God bless him for his work.
@AdversusHaereses "...not facing east...not on the tongue...."
Unfortunately, I suspected you'd eventually say something like this.
Now, I go to a Byzantine Rite parish where we face east, communion is distributed into the mouth only by the priest etc, so I definitely like all these things...
However, I'm afraid the absence of these things do not constitute "liturgical abuses", they are just consequences of the Novus Ordo Mass.
@ShadowLink108 Love is not warm and fuzzy, but dangerous, because true love will obliterate and destroy all that goes against love. That is God. Look at the language in the psalms, and in the prophets, to see how God devours up the enemy, the enemy of Love, which is sin.
@ShadowLink108 Fr Barrons views are not necessarily the views of the Catholic Church. He sees all the bad things in life as chastisement or purification then says that purification continues AD in purgatory. How much purification does he think we need. While I agree that a hard life moulds good people, I don't see my suffering as purification. Why did Jesus have to suffer, did he need bulk purification or was it to show us that he loved us and would willingly share our pain?
mhoowen, I don't think Bishop Barron entirely regards the suffering as chastisement. He is not mentioning other reasons for the suffering because he is concentrating on the Holy Spirit and trying to make some things clear. Not all suffering is for your destruction. The suffering meant for your chastisement is the will of the Spirit of God. If you strive to have a relationship with your God, he will guide you to discern and know which suffering is meant for your chastisement and which one isn't, and he will guide your prayer. Without the Holy Spirit you can't even pray about the sufferings right
mhoowen, I also forgot this - let me share my understanding of the blessings of God: Adam was placed in Eden which had everything he would ever need, and a wife was given. Disobedience made him lose a lot, and qualify for death. God blesses us so that we can recognise his existence. But often, we do forget because the devil Interferes So much with out connection. And some of the things we do have serious consequences that affect us and even our children to the fourth generation... Because we are one- what your parents did in disobedience to God is affecting you today, what you do in disobedience will affect you and your children and their children, etc. When King David, the man after God's own heart killed Uriah after making his wife pregnant, he repented, God forge him, but there were consequences: the child died, etc. When you disobey, there are consequences. Whatever you suffer as a consequence of your sin is a price. Jesus suffered and died for us so that we dont suffer. But we only obtain this gift fully when we live in obedience. He is slow to anger, but when you take too long and his anger is out into operation, you have to finish the package.
Strive to be either hot or cold and not lukewarm in your faith. Consistently repent for your family because their sins are yours too. Avoid complaining because it's hard to see God's love when complaining. Be thankful that even with little understanding (when you are more likely to sin unknowingly), he gives you another chance to reconcile with him. ....
@ThisRestlessPilgrim The simple fact that in most parishes, the mass is not celebrated with the celebrant facing east, the Holy Eucharist is no longer given in the tongue while kneeling, most sacred music has been thrown out of the window and replaced with secular music. All of this has taken out the reverence and solemnity of the mass and has diminished and the understanding of it has completely changed. Cardinal Burke in a book recently said that a bad faith comes from a bad liturgy practice.
@ShadowLink108 I agree with you! This video seems like nonsense. Anything in the wrong proportions or used in the wrong way is destructive. Gods love is gentle. The fire of the holy spirit is a metaphor for the feeling of intense enthusiasm such as burning with desire. It is not unpleasant or dangerous in any way. Water in it's right form is the cradle of life, where life originated. Baptism of water is neither unpleasant or dangerous. Wind is a metaphor for God breathing life into the living.
@AdversusHaereses
A young child, a precious life made in the image and likeness of God, abused and scarred for life by someone who should be caring for and protecting them
vs.
Fr. Joe adding "and each other" to the dismissal at Mass
Yeah, sorry, you're not going to convince me on this one.
I agree with Father Barron about the Holy Spirit. The church may have some issues on the inside, but that is the Holy Spirit at its dangerous level in existence. It is showing itself in the Catholic Church! The Holy Spirit will first open up the pain, and then it will cleanse the entire Catholic Church. This will happen in the upcoming years. We will see religion at a new level of consciousness.
***** Everything on this planet happens by nature. Nature does it all, life and death. Anything that dies in this universe is not eternal, and anything that lives is God. But how can we live on this planet without so much suffering? To turn within is to turn to God, because he is inside of us. Some people awaken from their illusions to truth, some people don't. A human will never be perfect, but when he realizes he is part of the whole, a sort of awareness comes into play, a new dimension of life as living with God, then life becomes joyful and peaceful. But that is when we are truly ready to love. To live a life full of love or lack of it.
***** Anything that lives is God? Do you worship bacteria?
Tim Spangler God is consciousness. God is in all, why should I worship God when I can just be? We all have the ability to be pure consciousness, that is not worship, that is BEING. Bacteria has its purpose, but it is just a different form and a different purpose. It may be living a 1d or unconscious life, but it was created by the same thing, and it is part of the whole, which is God.
***** Wake the heck up!
@ThisRestlessPilgrim In the importance it has to the faith of the Church as a whole. The sexual abuse was a big scandal, but does not undermine the faith by dumbing it down. The Church is made of sinners but when the very foundations of it, namely the liturgy, are changed then the entire faith is compromised.
The Holy Spirit is very much more than the fire, the water or the wind. In fact, He is more than everything that has been created by God. Nature can be destructive because the universe is not perfect like Heaven; and God has already ordained it that we all die physically-- through and with nature. So let us not complicate the course of nature; but we should always accept the WILL OF GOD for us to be holy and righteous obeying His Laws and Precepts, so that we will be ready in case we die.
@AdversusHaereses Now, two other things I would like to address:
(1) You kept talking about "liturgical abuses" when you appear to really meant "Novus Ordo". This is a valid form of the Mass. It might not be to your taste. It might have lost some beautiful, ancient elements of the Mass, but please call it what it is, rather than "liturgical abuses". It's the kind of language I associate with sedevacantists...
@AdversusHaereses " the sexual abuse is something relatively local to the US and Europe"
Firstly, these are the areas where the Church membership is in *serious* trouble. Secondly, this is what characterizes the Church for the rest of the world.
@ThisRestlessPilgrim I am not saying that these are problems on the same level. Their nature is different. But one undermines the faith of individuals when a liturgical crisis undermines the entire sacred doctrine of the Church. Both are terrible atrocities.
@wordonfirevideo On the Hell video you said that the door is locked on the inside. We suffer and are punished because of our own wrong choice. Why do the poor and innocent suffer more than many who are sinful? Fr. you suffer because God wants to do wonderful work through you, not because he needs to punish or purify you.
@AdversusHaereses ...but now we come to the meat of your point - your assertion of the disassociation with the Eucharist and Calvary. I really don't see how the things you complain about bring this about. Now, *bad catechesis* could easily lead to a disassociation between the two, but that can happen regardless of the form of the Mass. Cardinal Burke is right, but I would suggest that the formation of Catholics has an far greater influence in forming bad faith.
@Hirduin God does not have physical gender, only grammatical gender. Father and Son are both grammatically masculine in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English, and probably most of languages (not necessarily all, as there are grammatically masculine words for the naturally feminine word woman in Greek and Latin). Spirit may be masculine in Latin, but it is feminine in Hebrew and Neuter in Greek so the original new testament manuscripts use the neuter pronoun. This in no way implies a lack of person-hood.
@ThisRestlessPilgrim I will have to agree with you that the nature of these two is completely different. However, the sexual abuse is something relatively local to the US and Europe, yet they do undermine the faith and cause deep scandal. On the other hand the liturgical crisis has undermined the entire faith of the Church as a whole. The mass has seized to be understood as a sacrifice of Calvary for the remission of sins to be merely a supper. This has undermined the very core of the Church.
Water, fire and wind are natural forces, the Holy Spirit is God’s works upon the earth, supernatural
Sounds like the 5 elements: water, fire, wind, earth, and spirit
GenXer82 🤔. Not at all. It God’s divine works (hands) suppressing aspects of the unchanging natural divine laws to bring out of chaos, order upon the world 🌍
@@chosenskeptic5319 www.uscatholic.org/articles/201907/connect-god-and-earth-praying-four-elements-31775
GenXer82 🤔 I pray only to God
Self condemnation knowing this truth is alike Jesús Christ told us all tests resolved and we said not thanks You.
@AdversusHaereses There is also the question why you bring up this topic at all
Imagine a non-Catholic or a non-believer watches this video and then starts looking through the comments and finds Catholics saying that the sex scandal is is "nowhere near the liturgical crisis". How is that person going to perceive Catholics? Concerned with human welfare? Protection of the weak?
Or will they perceive a religious huddle which gets upset because their priest doesn't say Mass the way they like it?
@act2128 I thought this was a Catholic response. You sound like a Evangelical Christian!
Wow God is chastising his church?
@MQ1611 My friend you are jumping to conclusions that I never did. I indicated that John deliberately inserted masculine pronouns with a neuter noun to demonstrate that the Holy Spirit was a person and not a force or an "it". The rules of grammar are only man made and not divine. God can do what he wants with what is His own and this He did when He inspired John to write the Greek the way He did. The AV 1611 is not the last word on the English scriptures as it has protestant biases in it.
@AdversusHaereses I don't deny that there have been liturgical abuses and these need to be reformed, but to claim that it's a bigger crisis than the sexual scandals of recent years I just don't think is tenable (and it comes off to the non-Catholic as insensitive, placing internal liturgical wranglings above that of serious sin and human punishment).
Im a Christian sympathiser but on a point of logic you say that the holy spirit is cleansing the church; however you don't need to invoke any contingency other than the pedophile scandal.
The Holy Spirit can be understood easily by making a comparison between Revelation 1: 1 and John 16: 13. Jehovah gives a revelation to Christ Jesus, who passed it to his angel, who then gave it to John in signs. So the one who 'does not speak of his own impulse, but what things he hears he will speak' is the angel. The Holy Spirit is not a person. This is a misunderstanding. The Holy Spirit is God's Active force.
Are you still convicted of our faith/pope? I asked God last year if this church has the truth. ‘You will know by the fruits” kept coming to me. In a prayer response, I was sent me to the book of Jude which I had NEVER read or even had a thought of what was in there...and it seemed quite condemning. This has not yet led me to leave the Catholic Church but I certainly feel lost...all the sheep are being scattered.
@AdversusHaereses "The sexual abuse was a big scandal, but does not undermine the faith by dumbing it down"
No, it undermines the faith by demonstrating hypocrisy of some priests and bishops who hurt a lot of innocent people. Do you see bitter against the Church because Father Ted allows high-fiving at the sign of peace? No. You find people bitter against the Church because of real people who have been scarred by a Church which hasn't come close to living up to the morality it proclaims.
@AdversusHaereses Just like to circle back to your original point...
In the face of children being raped, you complain that the priest doesn't face eastwards. When confronted with kids being abused, you object to the faithful not receiving communion directly on the tongue. When sickness and sin in some clergy rocks the faith of much of the laity and scandalizes the Church, you see the problems found in a *valid* form of the Mass *more* important?
Don't you see something wrong with this?
Not Even the purpose is inocents yes more than clean is get separated all from God if his Will at Heaven and get a lesson of all humanity that only He's the Creator, the Father who's live at Earth and Heaven
Who's decides all not we SO if we have some authority we can't be far from himself cause the counts of Every acts Will be solved with Godself SO is better if no one get to abuse of no one less the poor, orfans or widows is written at Sacred words. His Will ever isn't abuse. And natural disasters only too He could stop it as when He with Moses part in two the sea or when Jesús Christ told yo the storm shut up and this happen. Only if we wait all in Godself and ask to him everyday with the Heart in our hands
@MQ1611 Please look up the NT Greek for John 15:25 and 16:13. John deliberately violates Greek grammar by putting the masculine demonstrative pronoun “ekeinos” with the neuter definite article for spirit, which in Greek is “pneuma”. It is not therefore good form or usage to refer to the Holy Spirit as an “it” but it is a pandering to feminism or political correctness. Your last example is unfair, we often use it with nothing said about the gender: It is John Paul who bears witness.."
You made little sense in this video. If God is perfect love, why is the Holy Spirit dangerous? If love isn't warm and soothing, why is it obliterating and destructive. Water drowns, fire consumes, wind annihilates. What the Holy Spirit sounds is vindictive and wrathful, not forgiving and healing. "Father forgive them for they not know what they do." Are Catholics so masochistic? If God is perfect love and Jesus is all-forgiving, what's up with the Holy Spirit? Catholicism sounds dysfunctional
ShadowLink108 (The Holy Spirit speaks:)
behold, the Bridegroom is stooping over you to communicate to you all words of Life that will adorn you all with royal purple; by grace, you will receive from Me, if you open your heart, sanctifying graces which will invigorate your soul and lead you into perfection;
those who would read these words of Life and are undisposed and not in the truth, will see everything as nonsense, for, accustomed to walk with Sterility, they will not be touched;
but for those who seek Paradise in simplicity of heart and who do not put Me to the test, on those will I shed My Light and Rays and I will illuminate them;
I will then make My way in them and purify them; and when they will come trembling to the reckoning of their impurity and sins, with a groan that will sound more of a new-born’s wailing, they will give birth to a new life in Me, capitulated by Jealous Love;
after having conquered them in Blessedness, I shall flow like a vivifying River inside them; My vivifying passage within them will not go by unnoticed; I will not be like a ship that cuts through heaving waves and leaves no trace to show where it passed, or like a bird flying through the air, leaving no proof of its passing or a sign of its passage;
I will come to them and wed them and clothe them with Christ; I will transfigure their soul into an Eden because they would be carrying God within them as their Lamp; this will be the sign given to them in My invincible Holiness;
I will remain in them taking care of them; and I Myself will be the One who will adorn them with bridal vestments; crowning them with My Deity, a royal crown of splendour, the diadem beauty from the Hand of the Trinity; no one is worthy of such favours, but in My ineffable Love, I said: “night now must yield to light, vice to virtue”; I will work in their soul so that temperance, prudence, justice and fortitude will be their wealth;
ah, (Your name), I will cultivate your generation and make them understand that immortality is found in being kin to Us the Triune God; what is more wealthy than this Work of Mercy I, God, will be doing in them? then, having breathed Life in these souls, I will despatch Wisdom from My throne of glory to become their Prodigy;
- then everything that had been reduced to ashes in the sterility of this earth through all these years, I, in My divine benevolence, will make anyone who is willing, revive and blossom; fecundated by My warm rays of Light, I tell you, generation, you will be divinised and deified in Our Trinitarian Deity;
today, My (Your name), everyone sees as far as they are able to see, but after My passage through you all, you will not be limited and see the way you see now; but, in a most ineffable manner and most divine, you will see with My Light penetrating even the hidden things of God since you will be seeing things in My radiance; 2your entire body will be shining with a brilliant Light; I will be the Lamp of your body3 that will fill it with the splendours of Our Kingdom, which are: soundness, gentleness, love, mercy, joy, peace, patience, truthfulness, goodness and kindness;
from the beginning We made you in the image of Our Own Nature; We had said: “let Us make mankind in Our Own Image, yes, in the likeness of Ourselves;” but it was the devil’s envy that brought you all to death;
now the earth groans with pain, chastising itself, sighing and crying, weary of no longer being, tearful and suffocating for lack of air, 4 moulding in its interior and putrefying in its entrails; yes, you have ceased to be ….
come, My (Your name), this will do for now; be one with Me!
(Here the Holy Spirit stopped His divine dictation to me and He made me understand that He will continue His Message later on: see message of June 7, 1998.)
2 The Holy Spirit is foretelling us of the ‘era of the Spirit’.
3 Mt. 6:22-23.
4 I understood this as: lack of the Holy Spirit blowing on us because of the earth’s prohibition of the Holy Spirit to act freely on us. In truth we can say that the Holy Spirit is stifled beyond imagination by this generation.
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ShadowLink108 Continuation Of: Canticle Of The Holy Spirit
Holy Speaks: ah …. My (Your name)…. I have chosen you and I have not rejected you although you too had ceased to be; and so it will be that I will show in this same manner My ineffable affection and My divine power to anyone who is willing; 2 I will not reject you but see how lenient My Love for you compels Me to be? in these days I am descending together with the Father and the Son as three Witnesses; God the Father is Spirit, 3 in that He sends Me, the Spirit of Truth, 4to be with you for ever and lead you to the complete Truth;
the Word of God, Light and Saviour and who existed since the beginning, who is nearest to the Father’s Heart, has witnessed and made the Father known to you; you have been bought and paid for with His own Blood; have you not read that the Word of God is alive and active and testifies on earth as I and the Father testify? the Holy One who bought His Church with His own Blood5testifies with His Blood and I, the Holy Spirit of Truth, who leads you to the complete Truth6 testify with Water; 7
therefore, We are three Witnesses and all three of Us agree as We are One God alone, 8 with one Will, one Power and one Dominion; what image, creation, have you contrived of Me and you still do not know Me? … and yet I never stopped testifying; I was never hiding …. 9
O Ineffable Light of Beauty,
Your Divine Eyes were soft and smiling;
You smiled at me and I found myself smiling back at You;
Your Face, O Holy One, contained an angelic charm;
Your Holy Face, radiating Love and Purity
was ever so near mine;
I was not even in profound meditation
when You surprised me by appearing to me;
Although His Face was altogether adorable,
His Eyes were the ones which drew my attention,
leaving me in awe and in admiration
the love of Your gaze
looking into mine with ineffable tenderness
were like two glittering stars,
they were like a turquoise transparent sea
filled with serenity;
what can I, the poor worm, say?
Your Divine Eyes, my Lord,
are like a Liturgy, an ocean of Love,
a Paradise and a consuming fire
for the one who undeservedly
was allowed to contemplate them …
how blessed you are, you whose ears I opened, may your ways remain straight in Our Wisdom so that you may do Our Divine Will;
count on Me, beloved, for I will bring as many as possible in union with Our Oneness and I will fill them with Light so that they will be filled with the absolute fullness of Our Trinitarian Deity;
- come and learn: in hardships I am always with you; I am your Consoler and where there is despair, I console and heal; I am the Giver of Life and with My baptismal kiss, I blow on you, I renew you; I renew you so that your natural inclinations that are so opposed to God and ever so human and worldly, leading you to death, can be transformed and deified in My Divinity and My Nobility and become as those of the angels and saints;
I am trying to draw you all into a filial union of divine Love with the Father and the Son and Myself so that you move in Us and We move in you;
I can transform your imprisoned minds and free them so that your thoughts and sayings will be only on spiritual things; therefore do not say: “I am doomed by Satan’s baptismal kiss of death”; no! not if you come to Me now; I am the antidote to Satan’s deathly kiss; I am the antidote to Death itself …. it is true that without Me your body is dead, but with Me your body is alive and in Me and through Me you will be counted as a child of God; this is why you must allow Me to reign in your hearts and make you into sons and daughters of the Most High;
Scripture says: 10 “happy the pure in heart: they shall see God;” in order to see God, and acknowledge Him as your Father you have to be born of Me, the Holy Spirit, by grace; how else would you see God? a child, before being born, has he ever seen his father? not until he is born will he see his father; and so it is with your spiritual birth of Me; flesh is flesh and has the vision of flesh; but who is born of the Spirit is given a vision of God enabling him to seize Him, acknowledge Him and penetrate in His depths;
so come and advance your step, go forward, and I will carry you on My Wings to soar the skies and bring you in Our adoption place, there where all My saints are, anointed by Us thrice Holy; why, did you not know that you too have an assigned place among them?
be confident and come to Me and from a rebel I will transfigure you into an upright being, leading your soul into sanctification and then sin will no longer have any power over you; sin is like an evil master in you and you should not give that master any opportunity in any instance to overrule you; but I, who am the Source of all that is Good can overpower your evil master which is sin, because My Law is a Law of Goodness and Life, overpowering all your evil inclinations;
come and find Me in simplicity of heart and fasten your heart on Me; do not come to Me with mistrust nor with brilliance of worldly speech; do not approach Me with conceit, vice or deceitfulness, no one who comes in that manner ever seizes Me or sees Me, but the souls who walk in the light of contrition and innocence will not be deprived from My Presence; I will fly to them from My Glory in a brilliant light, followed by myriads of angels to heal them, renewing them and making them one spirit with Mine to inherit My Kingdom; flesh and blood cannot inherit My Kingdom, for what is perishable cannot inherit what lasts for ever;
then to make you understand who is the Unique, Trinitarian God, yet One in the unity of essence, I will be healing your guilt, flowing in you as a river, refreshing your aridity and sterility; no one is worthy to see God, indeed, were anyone perfect among you, if he lacked the Wisdom and the Light that comes from Me, he would still count for nothing;
the depths of God are riches which are not of this world, and to contain them without Me is impossible; to penetrate God’s motives or understand His methods without Me, is impossible, but were you to allow Me to be recognised in your consciousness, penetrating your intelligence, I will model you in Myself to be truly pleasing to Us; your abandonment to Me is the only way I could transform your mind to have the mind of Christ, discovering Our Will and knowing what is good and what it is that We want and what is the perfect thing to do; so do not allow your flesh11 to protest ….
although I seem to appear inaccessible to the eye and unattainable, unseen altogether, I let Myself be seen in full clarity; I utter words of Wisdom and as a friend who confides himself to a friend I confide My secrets to you, hiding none of them from you; I face you, and I, the formless one, take form in your spirit; 12
ah, Vassula, I am altogether a reflection of the eternal light and as an untarnished mirror My Magnificence is magnified in all the creation; here I am now, becoming knowable to you in this way too, 13 yet without losing My transcendence; I am filling you with My Knowledge, even though this flow of transcendent light which I am pouring in you goes beyond what you can contain, 14 I offer, nevertheless, all those treasures of Our Kingdom to adorn not only your soul, but all of the others too;
I am, for those who love Me, indeed more resplendent than the sun, outshining all the constellations put together, and as I transcend, I can fill all things with My brightness without being contained by their limits; this is the way I deploy My Light in your soul, ordering all things within you to be good so that you, in your turn reflect My Goodness and grow in virtue;
1 The Orthodox Calendar.
2 The Holy Spirit speaks to the whole world now.
3 Jn. 4:24. St Paul too in 1 Co. 15:45 speaks of Christ as “life-giving Spirit”. The description “Spirit” in the biblical sense does not define God’s nature so much as it describes His life-giving activity. God is Spirit in that He gives the Spirit.
4 Jn. 14:17.
5 With the Sacrifice we obtained Eternal life.
6 In Jn. 16:12-13 Jesus says to His disciples: “I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now; but when the Spirit of Truth comes He will lead you to the complete Truth …” It is a mistake to speak of an end to Revelation and treat it as a deposit of sentences. God is active and alive and will continue showing Himself through the Holy Spirit, never stopping in doing so. When one says in Latin: ‘complere’, it means that Christ is the full, complete revelation of God; and not that He will stop revealing Himself to mankind. The Holy Bible is the narrative testimony of Jesus Christ. It is not God’s last word.
7 With Baptism.
8 In the unity of essence.
9 At this moment, I saw a Face inundated with light, fairer than the fairest angel. The Unformed took form; in this vision of the Holy Spirit, who wanted to show Himself out of His boundless love, an undeserved gift to an unworthy being as myself, left my heart rejoicing; every time the memory of this vision returned to me, my heart anew rejoiced. It cannot fade away from my memory; this vision of His Holy Face is going to remain with me for ever.
10 Mt. 5:8.
11 Here it means human spirit.
12 At this moment, again the same vision appeared to me, the vision of the Holy Spirit’s Face inundated in an ineffable light.
13 By appearing and showing His Face to me.
14 In other words, beyond my capacity.
The Sex abuse scandal though a big crisis, is nowhere near the liturgical crisis the Church is going throughout the entire world.
Why do you keep refering to the Holy Spirit as an "it" when the Bible and the Creed both refer to the Holy Spirit as a "he"? This is disconcerting and disturbing to an orthodox Catholic for the Holy Spirit is a Divine Person not a mere force, an "it". Dear God, why are our priests so vague on points like this? Is this PC talk so as not to offend feminist ears?
@MQ1611 You're rather mean-spirited. I feel sorry for you but will no longer make comments to you or other mean people.
What is the origin of the Roman Catholic Church?
The Roman Catholic Church contends that its origin is the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ in approximately AD 30. The Catholic Church proclaims itself to be the church that Jesus Christ died for, the church that was established and built by the apostles. Is that the true origin of the Catholic Church? On the contrary. Even a cursory reading of the New Testament will reveal that the Catholic Church does not have its origin in the teachings of Jesus or His apostles. In the New Testament, there is no mention of the papacy, worship/adoration of Mary (or the immaculate conception of Mary, the perpetual virginity of Mary, the assumption of Mary, or Mary as co-redemptrix and mediatrix), petitioning saints in heaven for their prayers, apostolic succession, the ordinances of the church functioning as sacraments, infant baptism, confession of sin to a priest, purgatory, indulgences, or the equal authority of church tradition and Scripture. So, if the origin of the Catholic Church is not in the teachings of Jesus and His apostles, as recorded in the New Testament, what is the true origin of the Catholic Church?
For the first 280 years of Christian history, Christianity was banned by the Roman Empire, and Christians were terribly persecuted. This changed after the “conversion” of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Constantine provided religious toleration with the Edict of Milan in AD 313, effectively lifting the ban on Christianity. Later, in AD 325, Constantine called the Council of Nicea in an attempt to unify Christianity. Constantine envisioned Christianity as a religion that could unite the Roman Empire, which at that time was beginning to fragment and divide. While this may have seemed to be a positive development for the Christian church, the results were anything but positive. Just as Constantine refused to fully embrace the Christian faith, but continued many of his pagan beliefs and practices, so the Christian church that Constantine promoted was a mixture of true Christianity and Roman paganism.
Constantine found that, with the Roman Empire being so vast, expansive, and diverse, not everyone would agree to forsake his or her religious beliefs to embrace Christianity. So, Constantine allowed, and even promoted, the “Christianization” of pagan beliefs. Completely pagan and utterly unbiblical beliefs were given new “Christian” identities. Some clear examples of this are as follows:
(1) The Cult of Isis, an Egyptian mother-goddess religion, was absorbed into Christianity by replacing Isis with Mary. Many of the titles that were used for Isis, such as “Queen of Heaven,” “Mother of God,” and theotokos (“God-bearer”) were attached to Mary. Mary was given an exalted role in the Christian faith, far beyond what the Bible ascribes to her, in order to attract Isis worshippers to a faith they would not otherwise embrace. Many temples to Isis were, in fact, converted into temples dedicated to Mary. The first clear hints of Catholic Mariology occur in the writings of Origen, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, which happened to be the focal point of Isis worship.
(2) Mithraism was a religion in the Roman Empire in the 1st through 5th centuries AD. It was very popular among the Romans, especially among Roman soldiers, and was possibly the religion of several Roman emperors. While Mithraism was never given “official” status in the Roman Empire, it was the de facto official religion until Constantine and succeeding Roman emperors replaced Mithraism with Christianity. One of the key features of Mithraism was a sacrificial meal, which involved eating the flesh and drinking the blood of a bull. Mithras, the god of Mithraism, was “present” in the flesh and blood of the bull, and when consumed, granted salvation to those who partook of the sacrificial meal (this is known as theophagy, the eating of one’s god). Mithraism also had seven “sacraments,” making the similarities between Mithraism and Roman Catholicism too many to ignore. Church leaders after Constantine found an easy substitute for the sacrificial meal of Mithraism in the concept of the Lord’s Supper/Christian communion. Even before Constantine, some early Christians had begun to attach mysticism to the Lord’s Supper, rejecting the biblical concept of a simple and worshipful remembrance of Christ’s death and shed blood. The Romanization of the Lord’s Supper made the transition to a sacrificial consumption of Jesus Christ, now known as the Catholic Mass/Eucharist, complete.
(3) Most Roman emperors (and citizens) were henotheists. A henotheist is one who believes in the existence of many gods, but focuses primarily on one particular god or considers one particular god supreme over the other gods. For example, the Roman god Jupiter was supreme over the Roman pantheon of gods. Roman sailors were often worshippers of Neptune, the god of the oceans. When the Catholic Church absorbed Roman paganism, it simply replaced the pantheon of gods with the saints. Just as the Roman pantheon of gods had a god of love, a god of peace, a god of war, a god of strength, a god of wisdom, etc., so the Catholic Church has a saint who is “in charge” over each of these, and many other categories. Just as many Roman cities had a god specific to the city, so the Catholic Church provided “patron saints” for the cities.
(4) The supremacy of the Roman bishop (the papacy) was created with the support of the Roman emperors. With the city of Rome being the center of government for the Roman Empire, and with the Roman emperors living in Rome, the city of Rome rose to prominence in all facets of life. Constantine (AD 272-337) and his successors gave their support to the bishop of Rome as the supreme ruler of the church. Of course, it is best for the unity of the Roman Empire that the government and state religion be centralized. While most other bishops (and Christians) resisted the idea of the Roman bishop being supreme, the Roman bishop eventually rose to supremacy, due to the power and influence of the Roman emperors. When the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in 476, the popes took on the title that had previously belonged to the Roman emperors-Pontifex Maximus. Pope Gregory I, ruling from 590-604, is usually considered the first bishop to truly wield papal authority.
Many more examples could be given. These four should suffice in demonstrating the origin of the Catholic Church. Of course, the Roman Catholic Church denies the pagan origin of its beliefs and practices. The Catholic Church disguises its pagan beliefs under layers of complicated theology and “church tradition.” Recognizing that many of its beliefs and practices are utterly foreign to Scripture, the Catholic Church is forced to deny the authority and sufficiency of Scripture.
The origin of the Catholic Church is the tragic compromise of Christianity with the pagan religions that surrounded it. Instead of proclaiming the gospel and converting the pagans, the Catholic Church “Christianized” the pagan religions, and “paganized” Christianity. By blurring the differences and erasing the distinctions, yes, the Catholic Church made itself attractive to the people of the Roman Empire. One result was the Catholic Church becoming the supreme religion in the Roman world for centuries. However, another result was the most dominant form of Christianity apostatizing from the true gospel of Jesus Christ and the true proclamation of God’s Word.
Second Timothy 4:3-4 declares, “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.”
if you REALLY love God and want to follow Jesus, burn that collar and run from the catholic church.
don't walk at a brisk pace, don't jog...RUN!!!
Why?! The Catholic Church taught me who God is and who Jesus is.
Bishop Robert Barron you only need literacy, good eyesight, a bible and a repentant heart to know who God and Jesus are.
the statue of the 'virgin mary'? both a graven image AND breaking the first commandment. 'easter' BLATANTLY PAGAN CELEBRATION brother, i COULD go on but i'm just doing my due diligence in warning you of danger in your path. i'm not judging you, i'm concerned for your spiritual well being.
it's out of love, brother...i've lived a rotten life, and i am no example of what a truly great christian is, but i certainly can discern what is NOT christian...and in this case, it's the catholic church.
Who organized the books of the Bible and then carefully preserved them for centuries?
Bishop Robert Barron jewish scribes. the catholics wrote their books in latin so that the papacy could twist the word and mislead people, as ONLY catholic 'leaders' were taught latin.
thank God for the king james
Jewish scribes chose the books of the New Testament and then preserved them for the first 15 centuries of the Christian era?! You need to get your nose out of the Golden Book of Anti-Catholicism!
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