God’s Grace and Flannery O’Connor
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Friends, how do we understand God’s grace, especially in a fallen world? Flannery O’Connor’s short stories search for an explanation in beautiful, dark ways. In the upcoming episode of Bishop Barron Presents, Ethan and Maya Hawke join me to discuss Flannery O’Connor, her short stories, their new film “Wildcat,” and so much more.
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I would never have thought that Ethan Hawke, his daughter and Bishop Barron would ever make a video together. Definitely going to watch this.
Jesus save me because I’m losing hope. Please come soon I don’t know how much longer I can hang on. But I’m keeping faith. I keep faith even as I constantly struggle to take care of my children and I’m constantly struggling to buy groceries. BUT I TRUST YOU LORD! My husband died years ago. At times I feel so alone. I’m a single mom. I suffered an heart attack a year ago and I’m battling lupus so my health is failing. Both of my sons are autistic. I praise you Lord even as I constantly struggling to pay rent. Help me Jesus as I struggle to buy my children’s school supplies because I want to give up. I don’t know how I’m going to get through this, but thankfully I have you Lord! I know you will provide. Faith over fear! Praise God and his son Yeshua!
My prayers are with you.
It's ok to ask for help.
It is ok to ask for help.
Just be very very careful who you ask.
You should definitely reach out for assistance to your Church. 100% do this because they can provide help. Also, you should definitely try and get assistance from your local government. Please do this.
Dear Tiff, you may at present feel unable to bear the difficulties you are facing, but for anyone reading your story, all we can see is a tremendous and remarkable strength. During my own period of intense suffering, the book "Man's Search For Meaning" by Viktor Frankl aided me in combatting feelings of despair - I am confident it will serve you too. Keep fighting. I believe in you.
I think you've been deceived by the catholic church brother. In order to be saved, you don't have to "maintain" faith or anything like that, you just believe the gospel once and recieve the FREE gift of everlasting life as Paul calls it in Romans "For the wages of sin is death but the FREE GIFT of God is eternal life through Christ jesus our lord." No works added, in fact the word grace literally translates in the greek to "unmeritted favor," if we are saved by grace then obviously you don't have to do anything other than to believe in order to recieve it. I also would like to point you to the book of John, which is written with the expressed purpose of saving the lost (see john 21:30-31.) John gives the criteria for Salvation 99 times in this book and its too believe (which translates to "pisteuo" meaning to place hope or trust in) we are simply trusting that Christ paid our sin debt on the cross two thousand years ago and then rose again. If he paid your debt on the cross, then it is literally impossible to go to hell because hell is a punishment for sin.
Ethan Hawke rules. Supremely underrated actor.
Italian writer Carlo Carretto:
How baffling you are, oh Church, and yet how I love you!
How you have made me suffer, and yet how much I owe you!
I would like to see you destroyed, and yet I need your presence.
You have given me so much scandal and yet you have made me understand what sanctity is.
I have seen nothing in the world more devoted to obscurity, more compromised, more false, and yet I have touched nothing more pure, more generous, more beautiful.
How often I have wanted to shut the doors of my soul in your face, and how often I have prayed to die in the safety of your arms.
No, I cannot free myself from you, because I am you, though not completely.
And besides, where would I go?
Would I establish another?
I would not be able to establish it without the same faults, for they are the same faults I carry in me.
And if I did establish another, it would be my Church, not the Church of Christ.”
So many gems in under 4 minutes!
Dude, Ethan Hawke is full of surprises… this was awesome
Flannery O'Connor = automatic like
Me too. Perked right up when I saw this
If I don't get my weekly dose of bishop Robert. You know, you know...
I enjoyed the entire 3 minutes of this conversation.
This is a densely-packed peak into hard but edifying and ultimately soul-saving truths most miss.
God is good!!
You are stronger than you think and GOD is closer than you know❤
I'm a true cinephile. From being bedridden for the first 6 years of my life watching films 24/7, and for the next 12 years a continued obsession with movie theaters all around Manhattan, always looking forward to doing movie marathons on 42nd Street. I never read a book those first 20 years. My brain since birth adapted to processing information through cinema logic, Proust merrily haunting every reel in defiance of Time and Space that comes easy to film art, which, I now realize at age 76, made me an outsider my entire life, making it impossible for me to socialize, for no one I knew knew film language and logic, how I communicated.
An excellent example of how film can dive into the depths of a subject that linguistic logic hasn’t even attempted yet is in the exploration of solipsism during this Age of Solipsism, having long ago transitioned from the Age of Narcissism. None of this to be found in books, but was explored to perfection in a Spierig brothers’ film, Predestination, where Ethan Hawke gets to display his radically unique and always entertaining approach to acting that has made him one of my favorite actors of all time (to begin an adventure into his acting, it can’t hurt to start with The Northman, Daybreakers and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead; and if really bold, try his Hamlet).
Although I would eventually read all of what Flannery wrote, John Huston’s cinema adaptation of Wise Blood is my favorite dive into the imagination of Flannery and what she was up to, having watched it at least 40 times. And the making of that film contains my favorite story related to Flannery’s art:
Brad Dourif, playing the protagonist, Hazel Motes (an actor in that rare category of being radically unique and deep as an actor, like Hawke), along with Benedict and Michael Fitzgerald, screenwriters and advisors on set who had been lovingly close to Flannery since childhood, and other members on the set, including John Huston, all arguing about the religious framework of the film, Huston insisting on a strictly psychological interpretation, and the Fitzgeralds insisting God must remain in how the story is told, with Brad Dourif bravely and adamantly taking sides with the Fitzgeralds. At a certain point, Huston, an avowed atheist, had enough and stormed out.
The next morning all were at table for breakfast, except Huston. Halfway into breakfast, Huston arrives with his gargantuan ego hovering over them, and then saying with the authority of Samuel, “Ok-you can have your Jesus!”
And as far as grace, it is what’s always present sustaining and helping us to advance down many avenues of expression with degrees of intensity (“It’s not a matter of dialectics, but a matter of degrees.” - Nietzsche). The problem is we fight against grace because it always conforms to the incomprehensible logic and motion of God’s Providence that is always moving inside the will of the Father in his incomprehensible ways, what we most often reject in our willfulness, and thereby reject the graces present to and for us, an understanding of which is in my experience more easily accessed through film art, as in Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice. And what art form travels deeper into the mystery of Man and Woman pulled irrevocably in the direction of one another while simultaneously trying to get away from each other, even unto death, than in Tarkovsky’s Solaris? Or Persona at war with Person in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona?
Very well said. And you didn't need a film to convey it. 😉
@@strangetex Sometimes words and images coalesce into one art form, no division, as with Tarkovsky, Bergman and Visconti. And I'm sure there are those who prefer reading to films who have gone deeper than I in many respects into understanding the human condition. I did read and write rabidly, from age 20 - 30, in an attempt to adapt to and catch up to the literary world, and although I failed miserably in that mission, it was a joy-filled journey, meeting a lot of wonderful minds that had gone a lot deeper than me in my cinema journeys, from Dostoevsky, to Kafka to J.G. Ballard (his masterwork, High-Rise, was transcribed into cinema by Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump, a masterwork of cinema, and thus a great joy to watch and learn from). But I still couldn’t fit in in any way. No judgment in any comparative analysis regarding paths of perception, just affirming different paths of perception accommodating one's penchant in deepening one's understandings.
Shuttyty
THere are no words to explain how excited I am about this. I can't wait for this movie and I can't wait for this conversation.
Im very excited to watch this whole thing. It sounds facinating so far.
I'm so pumped for this interview!! I love both of these actors so this will be a really interesting interview to watch.
Thanks for this conversation!
Screened the film. I was initially skeptical over Ethan Hawke's interpretation of Flannery O'Connor but the film was surprisingly good and did a fine job of portraying Flannery's faith at the core of her character. I will watch this one again.
He is correct about God's revelation and moments grace. I have experienced it in a profound way that disrupted and still disrupts my day to day.
“And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.”
Isaiah 2:3 KJV
A good man is hard to find is a story that takes you on a lazy country road and then the last second your power steering goes in your car and steers you into the path of an oncoming semi.
Insanely talented actor
gripping TV...amen
Ethan Hawke 😮
❤❤❤
I’m surprised to hear Ethan Hawke talk like that- “that religion is not a warm fuzzy blanket..it is the cross”
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
I'm having a beer and some snacks right now. That's wassup. God's good. This world is trash. But we do what we gotta do, whatever it is.
Though the church discourages intentional martyrdom now, in the early days of Christianity, martyrdom was quite the thing to be desired. It promised instant and guaranteed sainthood. I read an account of a particular person (I'm sorry, I can't find the specific reference) who taught and trained people how to become Christian martyrs in the early days. This particular guy lived to a ripe old age and died comfortably in his bed.
I’m saying this without yet watching the full interview, but Maya Hawke was on Jimmy Fallon boasting of her mother’s abortion and how that abortion made both their lives successful and possible.
Of course there’s always mercy, forgiveness and compassion available for us-but I’m curious to see how this interview plays out as this 3 min clip is very interesting.
PS-“First Reformed” is a great movie.
Is Ethan catholic? I pray for him and his daughter, may God bless his family and may God show his daughter the evil of abortion. I pray she will see the error in her opinion and become a advocate of pro life.
He’s Episcopalian. He joked with Stephen Colbert that Episcopalians want to be Catholics but don’t want to do the hard work. Agree about Maya.
@@baraka92 thanks. Now I got to see that interview, Colbert talking about his faith or faith in general were always my favorite segments of his...well that and Tolkien.
Ethan Hawke = since I was 14 serious fantasy man💘💋😛
Where do I hear the rest?!
Ethan Hawke?
IS THAT YOU?
Didn't she play a lesbian?
...So?
They are Not Catholic
Say what you want, this looks just like all the others. Which I love, but this isn't really anything crazy
It was great until the failure of community.
Hawke has only been playing pagan roles for decades
I like Ethan hawke. Maya meh 😒
This isn't a fallen world. This is the Kingdom of God. If only you would open your eyes and see what lies before you. Heaven is already here. But the blind refuse to see the truth. You look for heaven in the skies, instead of realizing that this entire planet is a temple and heaven has come since the beginning of time and will remain for all eternity. Which is where we already are. You keep looking for heaven above in the skies instead of realizing that God is all around us. God has left their finger prints in every type of creation. In a tree branch, in a leaf. We are living in God's heavenly creation, this is something to be joyful about. Something to celebrate. Not something to weep. Not to keep looking in the future for paradise. There is only now, and now is an eternity. We are eternally in heaven, as we are. Open your eyes.
Actually, no. Satan is the ruler of this world. Jesus asked the Father to not take us out of the world, but to protect us in it. That is to say if it's Jesus world, why would we need protection? This is temporary, life with Christ is eternal, and definitely not in this realm
You have to make the distinction between the Kingdom of God and worldly kingdoms (human society, empires, nations, human ideologies...etc.). When Bishop Baron says "fallen world", he isn't talking about tree branches and leaves, but rather "something that has gone terribly wrong with God's creation" (as he puts it in his Sorrowful Mysteries rosary reflection), i.e. people. By your logic, it seems that removing people from the world so that only God's Garden exists would make this world a perfect Kingdom. But that's not the point. God has created us incredibly, out of love, and put us on this Earth for a purpose, which is to love Him. (By the way, speaking of branches and leaves, Jesus speaks many times of the vine, or the fig tree, that can become fruitless and corrupted). Yes, the Kingdom of God can be momentarily felt in this world, during the Mass for example, but most importantly embodied physically in the person of Jesus Christ and of course in the Breath of the Holy Spirit which moves grace onto this world. Moments of grace and holiness that we are lucky to receive are but a fraction (though intimately tied to) the eternal Kingdom that awaits us IF we honor Christ and choose to wage daily the spiritual battle existing within all of us and not remain complacent and prime targets for the devil.
I understand where you are coming from - to be grateful to God for everything that happens to us - actually that is an assured way to salvation according to Saint Therese of Lisieux. However you cannot be naive and pretend that there is no sin or suffering in this world, in fact you have to embrace suffering, take it on your shoulders and if you have the courage to do that, you are loving Christ.
Never heard of this guy. Is he supposed to be famous?
...You're kidding, right?