How to Make a Holy Hour
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Friends, what is a Holy Hour? How do you do it, and why should you start? On today’s episode of the “Word on Fire Show,” Brandon Vogt and I discuss one of the most powerful spiritual disciplines you can adopt.
A listener asks, if the Eucharist is so important, why isn’t it mentioned in the Nicene Creed?
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After 60 years suffering from Bi-polar I received healing after being in the presence of the Lord for 30 days for one hour. Thankyou Jesus.
Bless your heart .
Shame babies born with cancer don't get healed in the presence of the lord like you.
Wow!
Doesn't sound to me that you've recovered: you're just taking a bitterer pill
Praise the Lord!
Bishop Baron is a great priest.
Bishop?
Thanks for prayers it is God that avengeth me and that bings down the people under me.....Nori my nefew has a healhy baby Zsombor on the world born...happy mother he will bee baptized.
@@jimnoel3025 Yes, his vocation is a shepherd of shepherd’s. He guides the priests and laypersons (especially those of his diocese) into the everlasting hills of Christ’s Kingdom.
@@joshuaslusher3721 I just found it a bit funny.
@@jimnoel3025 you didn't know that he was a bishop?
My holy hour is more like a holy five minutes. Before my feet hit the floor, I tell Him I love Him ,and ask Him to be by my side as I face another day without my late husband. He never fails…sigh.❤️ peace and love to you both . You’re beautiful men. Thank you.
God bless you Anne. May God, in the Person of Jesus Christ, accompany and comfort you as you endure the loss of your beloved husband. I bid you solace and comfort.
@@johnsposato5632 with deep thanks …
If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed."
-St. Francis de Sales
I was moved so very much when you mentioned that Jesus called out to his "friends" to stay with him during his crisis moment---the Lord calling out to us; and we failed him when he needed the comfort of those closest to him. I've read that passage so many times over the years, without realizing the depth of our Lord's humanity, as you expressed it here.
Yeah so sad knowing he was sweating blood because he knew what was gonna happen to him.
Our precious Jesus , I’m no where and nothing without Him .
Uh uh TV TV
@@anneturner2759 jj
Your “gabbing” as you call it, Bishop Barron, is changing lives, my own especially. Thank you! Keep gabbing for many, many years to come! Welcome to Minnesota! How honored we are to have you!!
*"A Holy Hour brings Heaven's choicest blessings on those who are faithful to their Hour."* - ST. POPE PAUL VI
I did today went to stay with Blessed Sacrament. Prayed and just sat in the silence looking at each other❤🙏
I am so glad my lunch hour was worth listening toBishop Baron on an Hour in silent with the Lord , help me to be more persistent in my Holy Hour🙏 thank you Bishop Baron😊
Thank you Bishop Barron 🙏I know now that I have been doing a Holy Hour without realizing it. I attended daily Mass, praying with the Pope, Pray Priests of Missions I'm with and much more 🙏💙 and Talk with my Lord throughout the day until I fall asleep at night. GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS 🙏
Thats several holy hours daily
Beautiful!
Thank you Jesus Christ for this special time of the Eucharist, an incredible blessing to be able to sit before the blessed Sacrament in adoration!
It is very important for the Christian’s who have no possibility to get it in church, but can now receive it on TH-cam!!!🙏🙏🙏
💓💖💓
I love listening to Bishop Barron.
God bless you Bishop!
Holy Hour
It is to enter intimacy with Christ.
It is to enter into privacy with the Lord.
It is to unlock the Tabernacle with in you.
To bath in the Light of Christ and draw food from it like a flower.
It is to sit at his feet and enjoy his presence, the Light that fills our inners.
Love your Holy Hour! ❤
Beautiful!
In His Presence! We are Blessed! Amen!
I think of it more as going to see a friend, a friend who wants to be with you to talk using God language. But He has a difficult time doing this because you never call, you never write a letter, you never visit. All of these things require effort, but not a lot of effort.
Thank you for sending the Liturgy of the Hours. Been reading the morning prayer every day and attending weekday Mass when I can. Always read your Gospel reflections daily, as well. Things are changing here for the better. Thanks be to God for your service 🙏
You're an inspiration. ❤️🙏♥️
Hi Bp Robert Barron,as a member of this group,CRUSADERS OF HOLY FACE OF JESUS every tuesday we have this 3 hour for Holy Hour for reparation not that im asking heaven but to purify my soul ,who knows GOD will give me a reward for heaven,God bless...
Love to listen to Bishop Barron. Amazing how calming & peaceful it is to be in silence with the Lord, I wish someday, He will let me hear His Voice:)
Lord, may I always find time to talk to You. Clear my mind so I can give You all of my attention .Please always be with me.Amen.
I absolutely love the new Holy Hour book. It's gorgeous and so spiritual. Also the Liturgy of the Hours is so amazing. Such a beautiful devotion.
Thank you Bishop Barron for teaching us what the Holy Hour can be. Now I have a clear idea of what I can do during my daily Holy Hour. I am a cradle Catholic and have learned so much form your Word on Fire Ministry. Thank you and God Bless.
I’ve been building up my prayer stamina and formulating my prayer “framework” for a holy hour through the larger Exodus 90 spiritual exercise/journey. I experience a lot of the same things Bishop Baron has described. I start with a rosary to “clear my monkey mind” and petition to the Lord for his help with keeping my E90 disciplines and for the deliverance of me and those closest to me (I even dedicate a bead or two to my enemies). Envision their faces as I say a Hail Mary. If there is something particular about a person that my mind can’t help but expand on, I let it flow before I do another HM.
Doing the Rosary first really helped me get the Holy Hour started. After that, I read a passage of scripture and then enter into about 10-20min of “contemplative prayer”. Like Bishop Baron describes its more of a free form period where I reflect on whatever is closest to my heart. Often what to do for the day in one way or another. Often times i exit this period with at least a few missions or focuses or guidances for my day.
I always pray that God give me the strength to focus on the gift of the present day/moment. Up until recently, I have built up a strange habit of getting distracted with the cares and pleasures of the world. A lot of these things are outside of my sphere of influence (national/international politics or pro-sports are good examples). I find that it’s a subtle, yet significant, form of sin to lose your time to these wonderings which amount to almost fantasy even though they exist in the real world. I have my family, my parish, my local community right before me that suffer my lack of attention if I’m “fantasizing” about worldly issues neither here nor there.
Exodus 90 is really hammering home for me three pillars of Christian life: prayer, asceticism, and fraternity. I’m new to it. I don’t know anyone else on Guam who has heard of it or has tried it. I’ve cut out bad habits and addictions I’ve been struggling with for years. This isn’t a 90 day exercise for me. It will become my lifestyle. I honestly think attempting an E-90 type exercise should be maybe a final exam of sorts for confirmation students or RCIA students. Not as a pass/fail but as a gift so that they have tangible practices and a minimum of 90 days developing their own relationship to Jesus, and God willing a life long devotion to God Almighty.
My holy hours started out taking more like 1.5-2hrs because of a lack of focus. Starting with the “warm-up” of something structured really improved the effectiveness AND efficiency of my time.
Thank you Bishop Baron and Word on Fire.
Vivat Jesus!
thank you word on fire team and the good Bishop. God bless
Thank you so much for how you are and testimony
God bless you
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I’ve committed to weekly adoration and this video was much needed!!
Thank you Bishop Barron, as you shared l will keep with me as you shared, " lf you have trouble doing The Holy Hour, do an hour and a half." 🕊
After retirement I thought I'd have more free time for meditation. Instead, I've become more fidgety and distracted unless something big is going on in my life that I need to bring to the Lord. Now I know he's there either way and it doesn't matter where I'm at in my head. This commentary has really helped. Thank you.
Thank you Bishop Barron. It’s wonderful and intimate to just talk to our Lord and bring about the day’s work before him. Very encouraged indeed.
Thank you Bishop Barron and Brandon, i love listening to both of you on Word on Fire show. i never miss it. Yes, i do the holy hour every day without fail, but at home. GOD bless you both. ➕❤
Finally a discussion about this 🥰
I liked this video a lot. I have read most of the comments…. Everybody sounds so Holy ….I have never tried a Holy hour … I think I would be better at it … at Church … home has so many distractions … I need to
Ask God to keep me still.
Thank you for the inspiring video.
Thanks Bishop Barron.
I'll incorporate this to my daily holy hour at 5am in the church before the daily 6am mass.
Thank you for this. We have Perpetual Adoration in our Church - I’m so thankful for that! I almost always take a notebook with me - sometimes my prayer is in writing. I love being with Jesus, even when it’s very difficult. ❤️🙏🏻🕊
I really appreciate you sharing about your personal practice. I found this talk very inspiring. 🙏
Thanks much Bishop Barron and Brandon, thinking this can be well-adapted to non-Catholic believers as well, maybe I could start with a half-hour.
Thank you for Explaining the Holy Hour. I never really new what it meant. My mom always told me to kneel and pray to the Holy Sacrament like her but I never knew what to pray and why. Cathy
Thank you both for bringing this very inspiring video to us! How wonderful and important it is! I enjoyed hearing how Bishop Barron does his!
Thank you bishop Barron
Thanks for this my Lord. It is eye opening for me as I do a weekly hour and I've been struggling with not only keeping my hour but what to do when I get there..
Reviewing my week with the Lord is indeed a good piece I'll take going forward.
I will sure take some tips
Print as a small leaflet and place it while Holy Hour take place just like how to do confession.
oh yes can't wait to get the book! so happy with the gospel! great design, quality and the best explanation. 💚💚💚
I love his talks really and hoping praying to slowly put everything to practice by God’s Gracs and Mercy🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
God bless Word on Fire ministries and God bless Bishop Barron 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️✝️
I love holy hour
so good to hear your heart and starting with the "how to" approach to prayer.....Matthew Kelly's book, "I heard God Laugh..........." is much like what you are describing: An I-Thou relationship with Our Father in Heaven......
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10:00 Bishop thank you for your humility and acknowledging how we lost our way.
If you can't get to a chapel with the Blessed Sacrament, stop and think: Is Jesus restricted by walls? By distance? No. So He's just as present to you wherever you are. The difference is our attitude and attention. Yes, it is very difficult to not be distracted at home or wherever, but objectively there's no difference for Him. But try to make a sacred space where you are if you can't get to a church or chapel.
God bless you Bishop Barron. You are the Fulton Sheen of our time!❤ God love you and shine his perpetual light upon you❤
Loved this…very re-enforcing and motivating!
Thank you Bishop Baron for focusing on explaining the Faith
Fulton sheen was my inspiration for doing holy hour daily he sheen in turn had the inspiration to daily holy hour from a unnamed Chinese martyr
I'm going to try this today thanks. Bishop.
Excellent
Thank you Bishop Barron as always. When you come to England next year I fear you may clash with the coronation! But whenever you come you will be most most welcome - by Catholics and others.
Another Good one.
This the best use of my time.
Thank You 🙏❤️
Thank you Bishop Barron , Brandon for all that you offer us from 'Word on Fire'. I am a staunch supporter and recipient of many of your publications. I received my Holy Hour book a while ago and am appreciating it greatly. Just Friday I noticed that my parish had 1/2 doz copies outside of the Chapel for use while in the Chapel. Bishop, your answers help me so much. I feel like maybe I am doing my Holy Hour okay. I had not said the Jesus Prayer, but will add that to my prayers! God Bless you and your team!
As someone in vows who prays the Divine Office daily, if you pray/even recite Matins&Lauds&Sext you have already used about 40 mins of the Holy Hour leaving only 20 mins of listening to Our Blessed Lord. You have set the bar very high.
Your show is a blessing to many...watched Fulton Sheen on tv with mother on my childhood years..
Holy Hour book ordered, hoping for good things from it.
Beautiful!
I enjoy doing the Office of Readings. The Scripture is more in depth, and the commentary is most enlightening. It has away of staying with me all day.
Thank you for your life changing messages.
Beautiful. I wish to have a read on the new Holy hour book. In the same way, I have written a book on Encountering Christ in the Blessed Sacrament which I look forward to sharing with you all too about my encounter with Our Lord, in adoration and what lessons I have drawn over my Eucharistic encounter over the years.
Sorry brendon .. thank you for everything .. and thanks for being very clear to all of us !!!
Word.
Thank you Your Grace.. I'm relieved that you too take the Graceful Opportunity to get your 'Must Say' Prayers said during Adoration... please Holy Spirit allow me to be the loyal sheep dog attentively sitting at my Master Shepherd's feet.
I love Marytown in Mundelein Bishop. Miss it terribly, live in FL now. I remember the 1st time entering those doors in the 90’s. You just want to fall to your knees immediately. I was from Libertyville then up to Lindenhurst after I got married.
This is so insightful.....
Our NO parish now has kneelers that we can elect to kneel when we receive communion. Belief in the real presence is directly related to the reverence and how we individually and collectively receive our Lord.
"Can you not watch one hour with me?" is powerful motivation. Go off alone and sit in silence. Below you forget the world, forget your prayers, forget your holy visions and fears. Above you, place a cloud between yourself and God and simply wait, expecting nothing. A perfect dark and holy night with a naked intent for only the presence of God Almighty, nothing else. The first fleeting sensations of this holy darkness may come between breaths after exhalation. Ignore the demons of ego until they are quiet. Be single for God alone. Be patient. Persist.
thank you,
Blessed be God Be still and know I am your God! And I surrender all my mind,
Body aches, and look at my BELOVED.
"Could you not watch with me one hour?" Yes, Lord 🙏
WOW, absolutely correct about scripture. I've never felt as close to Jesus as I have one time standing with my hands on the bible, I can attest this is so true. and I do alot of Holy Hours
I would have loved to attend some of the events in here in London! Hopefully they are able to reschedule! Can't wait 😊
COFFEE IN THE HOLY HOUR -- YESSSSS!!
Muchas gracias
I used to go to vespers with Eucharistic Adoration. I miss going. Exposition and benediction with the priests at our parish giving a small homily.
It would probably still happen, but our parish priests say we parishioners have to ask for it. Jesus needs us always, yes, but when He's exposed in the Monstrance, we need to be even more present. Thank you for offering this talk. I just went to confession and said to the priest that I wish I could get to a holy hour more frequently. I also sometimes grieve not being able to make it to Mass in person and serve by choir or cantoring. I go to Mass online more, right now. "It's like the Lord begging his friends to come." That's very true.
I have been praying for my fiance for his return to being Catholic. But that doesn't happen overnight. He comes sometimes. He says he will receive communion and the Sacraments when he's ready. He says he will be happy to marry me but he won't be ready for Mass until he's sure he's ready to receive Jesus Christ fully.
I first learned about the Holy Hour from Fr. Ed Broom and the Oblates of the BVM. He said it's not a 60-minute hour but 70 minutes, because of distractions and stuff. You actually don't get started right away.
Very enjoyable❣😃✌ Thank You
Eminence Barron: Every day before going to mass I have my Holy Hour or Hour of Spiritual Communion. I put my I-Pad on my right side (that's where the power cable goes) with the Holy Eucharist live, a crucifix in front with a poster of the Divine Mercy on one side and on the other side a poster of the Virgin Mary (The Virgin of Guadalupe) and, on my left side, the Holy Trinity (La Divina Providencia). Blessings
I Look At You, You Look At Me
Thank you, Lord.
Your goodness truly knows no bounds.
Though we sinners
oft forsake thee.
Yet you woo our wayward hearts.
And bring us back to you,
again, and again.
Faithful Lord, loyal Lord.
Patient, steadfast friend.
Nothing can stay your hand,
nor bend your will.
And you will that we love you.
O set us free, Holy One,
to love you freely and wholly.
There is nothing on earth,
or in our vain imaginations
so precious as your love.
Though men hunt and mine
the earth for hidden treasures,
no treasure is greater
than your simple Presence.
Aid us that we may stay!
And remain with you,
that we may keep watch with you,
forever.
A theologian by the name of David Torkington wrote a small book called “How to Pray”; in it he suggests the English transliteration of the Greek word parousia, term for the arrival of a king/The King of Kings. It breaks down into: profession, adoration, reconciliation, offering, union, silence, intercession, and action. Do as the Holy Spirit moves you.
I am a new Catholic, was a Charismatic Protestant for 30 years. It was the Eucharist that brought me home to the Catholic Church. Is it only considered as a Holy Hour if the Eucharist is exposed for Adoration? I go to a chapel where the Host is veiled.
At 21:52 I was just thinking about shia LaBeouf just do it video🤣 when bishop Barron said about just do it and later they themselves admitted they are using shia LaBeouf words
Thank you for all the wonderful book recommendations for Adoration! I would like to add, "My Daily Bread" by Fr. Anthony J. Paone S.J.
Thank you for your comments
I might also suggest the book “Manual of Eucharistic Adoration from the Poor. Lares of Perpetual Adoration (Tan books), page 35 , but for sure it’s a very helpful resource
St Thérèse of Liseux also had very simple advice based on her experiences
I also find it interesting that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ asked the three apostles with him if they could just give one hour, even after they had pledged their loyalty at Jesus’ proclamation of his body and blood, and the last supper .
In Catholic school you don't get study hall, that time is used for Theology courses. The school would schedule one hour a week in our church for the entire school to go to Holy Hour and Benediction. It was so easy back then! Once a month they would do the First Friday mass during theology. All Catholic Schools should do this. The Bishops of the Arch Diocese should renew this.
Bishop Barron, can you please bring up making the Holy Hour accessible for working men and women during the next Bishop’s Conference? Around my diocese, I find that Adoration wraps up before working men and women can even get there.
I read The Holy Bible as prayer.
Thank you, Brian, for bringing up the point that many lay people don't have a Chapel as part of their residence. Can the "Holy Hour" be the ultimate, but also, one's own devotional reading & prayer time satisfy that good practice? Also, this new book of the HOLY HOUR looks (to my thinking) more useful than the monthly prayer books that are dated & once the month ends, are basically good only for recycling. That bothered me @ having that subscription.
Christianity is a Relationship !!!!
A Relationship between God and Man !
Hey appreciate what you're doing. It's Thanksgiving here, was wondering what's your favorite dish/snacks?
Bishop barron do you have any advice on how to pray the breviary when you're alone?
I asked that same question! What's the difference between Exposition and just going into church to pray any other time?
In Him, only rather than alone, we are able to overcome the world because He has conquered the world. This is who we are in Him. This is who He is in us. This is the message to the Apostles before the Passion. It is so because what Our Lord says, is. His Words change us in world.
Can't you do it online?....there are many Blessed Sacrament Adoration.
"Go to Mass then stay in the chapel praying until it has been 60mins since Mass started. BOOM Holy Hour" - Fulton Sheen (probably)
Things Jesus said:
"The world hates me because I testify about it that it's works are evil"
"Don't be surprised when the world hates you, it hated me first"
"If any man looks at a woman with lust he has already committed adultery in his heart with her."
"Unless you eat my body and drink my blood you have no life in you"
"Those that believe the Son have eternal life, those that do not obey the Son will not see life but the wrath of God abides on them"
"Unless you believe in me you will die in your sins"
"Unless you repent you will likewise perish"
Read your Bible or you will be misinformed.