"A miracle is a sign, not an obliterating of the laws of nature but a kind of intensification of them, for the sake of communicating a sign of God's presence." (13: 02 - 13: 12)
What a fantastic show. I especially appreciate it that it was recommended to me by Liberty University, a Protestant institution. I learned more about miracles in this show than almost 70 years in my own church.
Welcome! I love Bishop Robert Barron. His talks have made it possible for me to return to the faith, and i'll be forever deeply grateful for his work! I think he is a gift from God to us, so we can understand Him better. So happy to see brothers from other denominations here. I love you all!
He is one to try to imitate and follow. Bishop Barron is the real Gift from God because he speaks all truths and loves everyone. Please pray for him everyday.He is truly needed in this time.He will clear the air from coocu ideas to confuse humans.
Lord Jesus please give me strength. I seem to bear the weight of the world on my shoulders as a single mom, I often face challenges that can seem insurmountable especially with raising two children with special needs. I’m trying to balance everything but Lord I’m struggling to make ends meet, to pay bills, and to put food on the table for my children. Jesus hear my prayers and please continue to give me strength.🙏🏾
Thank you for your statements on the misconstrual of science and faith, the difference between semantic and actual possibilities, and the information that panels considering miracles include non-believers! I never feel patronized when listening to Bishop Barron.
I enjoy very much how Bishop Barron answers questions with such human warmth and compassion. Despite his high office, there's nothing about him that's authoritarian or magisterial; on the contrary, he's a humble searcher, like the rest of us.
That last part just makes me think of how people feel the need to tell everyone everything. Something happens out of the ordinary and they have to call up all their friends and family and give each one a slightly different recounting of events. I have worked to overcome that desire and instead listen to what others have to say, and I have noticed that they will frequently go into great detail about things and then once they are done they will leave. A large part of what causes people to engage with others is just the desire to tell stories and certainly not to listen, the listening is just a means towards another end, a kind of politesse or social grace, but 9/10 they aren't really listening and are just waiting for an opportunity to speak some more. Being around such people is part of the reason I have learned to be such a good listener, I just know they don't actually care what I have to say and probably won't be listening to anything but the voice inside their own heads. To me this is what Jesus was instructing them not to do, the same as not praying in public or going to the synagogues for public show. Don't do everything just to draw attention to yourself.
There can't be real full communio between people if everyone only listens or only speaks, it is most fully imho, best a free mutual interweaving of humble souls in truth and love. But there are definitely times this involves listening much, and it is better to listen and give your time to them. There is a time to wash ours brothers feet and a time to instruct our brother (and times many other things of course, including at times letting your brother tend to and listen to you). I think the key is to do whatever is good and is called for to serve one another.
I was out in my garden this morning enjoying the beauty of all the flowers and vegetables I planted 3 months ago everything has grown so lush and abundant and all the bees were buzzing about pollinating GODS miracle and perfection GOD IS GOOD
Could you do one year of TH-cam shows on the story of our Lady of champion so many people throughout the nation, unaware of mother Mary’s apparition in the Vatican‘s approval as worthy of belief
It would be interesting to see Robert Barron confront David Hume’s famous discussion of miracles in a candid, “steel-manning” fashion. A forthright conversation with Stephen Woodford (aka “Rationality Rules”) on the topic of miracles could also prove enlightening, much as an earlier conversation with Alex O’Connor turned out to be.
In your charity, lets all pray 7 Hail Mary for the propagation of all Catholic Teachings and for the success of all Catholic Social Media Influencer that all may be guided by the Holy Trinity, Holy Family, all Great Saints, and Angels ❤
Loved the question at the end - a well phrased question indeed. The question lines up with the discussion on miracles as I heard that when Jesus healed someone, there were many many more who were not healed - Jesus loved those not healed also. Jesus didn’t want the message to be that God only loves those who were healed. Jesus loves all of us. He chose to heal for His divine purpose- which is beyond our understanding. When healing doesn’t come, it’s because God, in His divine providence, willing your salvation, chose this cross for you to bear.
I was saved from death by a miracle in January 1976 In Fayetteville Ohio at the seminary of the Brothers of the poor Saint Francis.I was a19 year old new candidate but was running trying to escape from my problems and addictions having a breakdown there and feeling like my life was in danger I tried to escape danger by leaping out a fourth floor window but miraculously was stuck halfway through and was pulled inside by Brother Howard. I will never forget that event and thank God every day for saving my life
I always that transubstantiation was a miracle. I appreciate your comments on saints levitating, etc. I’ve always been a little bit skeptical of those miracles.
Miracles happen, sometimes we do not recognize them as they happen but we tend to share with family and avoid sharing them with strangers to avoid any embarrassing skepticism. I still remember when in 2008 I had a dream of a "nun in brown" whom I had knowledge of opening a gate that had a cross on top and lead to a spring heavenly like place, when I shared the dream with my mom she said according to my description that the lady was a Muslim. My sister said the same. Well the dream was a nun in brown with a rope around the waist and a scarf urging me to enter and there, there were golden trays with loaves of bread, olives, olive oil, grapes, and dairy. My children were standing in suites on the left of the trays. In 2009 I was baptized Catholic. In 2018, I googled nun in brown, of course there was a reason for me to do that something happened that made me remember that dream, so I googled to find out that Franciscan have the same clothing. Thinking in my ignorance that Franciscans were French, I discovered that it was attributed to St Francis of Assisi. This made me search further to know who st Francis was, so I found a movie about St. Francis, the actress who played st clare was beautiful, and I wondered what the real st clare looked like, 8 Googled , and oh my God, there is no mistake, I recognized only the painting in the lower basilica to be the one who opened the gate for me in the dream . I rushed and called my mom and I asked her, what color do nun wear, she said black and white, and I ask her who the Franciscans are, she said of course they are the French, I said of course. My sister said the same. Well, NO. We all didn't know what I saw in my dream. Again in December 2002, I had a dream of a woman in black. Well, I googled, and guess, all those movies in black, horror movies about nun in black. I stopped googling. Months later on EWTN, Gemma Galgani. I can never forget her face, in the dream her face was so distinctive. I dreamt again of a saint whom I had no knowledge of whatsoever. Let say that, somehow, I saw her face on the Internet and it stayed in my subconscious, how my brain managed to put that face on a black dress! I've no idea. Each one of my children God gave them to me after a Christian prayer, my oldest in the name of mother Mary, my middle Jesus saved him from a miscarriage in the fourth month after reading the gospel of Mark, and my youngest whom I had after giving thanks to mother Mary for her blessing. My discussion of getting baptized was after knowing that one of my relatives who was a physician was baptized in Bulgaria after he was miraculously healed from cancer. If the whole wide world tells me now that there are no miracles, I won't believe them and deny the experience I had. There are miracles for the faithful. I admit that we all tend not to share, and thank God, no one knows me as I'm sharing these, as there is always a thought "what people will say, and what people will think".
I believe that the spirit evolves, just as the world evolves--and that some miracles that were possible to prior generations (levatation and Teresa of Avila) may not be available to us: but instead, we have the miracle of the personal computer--that was unfathomable to the time of Teresa of Avila: something that made Leonardo de Vinci so special was his ability to 'see' into the future and see what was to come (planes; helicopters; etc)...dts/usa
Also, I believe that people are very wrong to lose their faith when god says no and doesn't give them the perfect miracle that they are hoping for...just as god said to Job--where were you when I created the world? and why should we reject god just because he can't seem to help us personally? yet, people do that all the time--if I am not good enough for one of your miracles, then god, you are good enough for me--tit for tat--that is not the way that god works...all you can do is put up your request and hope for the best...we are not the ones that can see the future: god does....dts/usa
That which is manifested in substance, absent of absolute reason alone understood through the wisdom of faith, enlightenment through the Countenance of the Holy Spirit.. The Conception of Life.
In response to the listener's question, it could be that Jesus told them not to go out and tell people because they weren't ready or fully formed as evangelists to convey the message that Jesus wanted to be proclaimed. So at worst maybe they presented an image of Jesus that would later need to be clarified.
Absolutely! I have heard stories of people who started with little or no knowledge but managed to emerge victorious thanks to Ana Graciela Blackwelder.
A particle physicist once said to me: "There are just these particles, and they behave in this way... there's no god." I said, "No, not so. Why? Why are these particles? Why do they do these things? You are just watching God stir His tea." 73 de W3IHM
We have to remember that the spirit realm has good ad evil. The bible is the final authority. And we have the Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth, What would be the purpose And how would levigating bring glory to God Christ and bring someone to salvation? The purpose of the veil being rent in two is so that all men can have access to the throne of grace.
Your protestant false doctrine makes water!!!! The bible did not exist for 350 years!!! The Holy Spirit dwells in the Catholic Church since the year 33AD! Deal with it!
Trivia question, To canonize a saint, the church needs a concrete proif, a tanhjble miracle to discern on so she can initiate a cause for ssntuguxation. What miracle did she use to canonize Thomas Aquinas, a saint?
Miracles are works of God, as creation is a work of God, both reveal the power and dominion of God. Miracles are elevation of the natural, because miracles are not there on their own. Miracles never contradict the works of God, but rather affirm the truths of God in the most visible and dramatic ways.
decide in a Holy way, based on the Law of God the Creator, those who live in His Commandments to be Affiliated as His; in the Law of the Righteous of God Christ, the Blessed; and in those who observe the Jurisprudence of the Saints, blessed Vessels of God Paraclete God Christ Loves us more than we love ourselves, perhaps one day we will come to understand Him.
Again though, how do you tell if a miracle is from God or from the enemy? Is it enough that it does not seem to go against Christian doctrine? I don't think so! ... Priests levitating does not seem to go against Christian doctrine, yet, what holy purpose does that serve? Does it make you more loving? ... If it doesn't, it may be wrought by another power.
Philippians 2:14-15, this is perfect, too. Do everything without complaining or arguing. Then you will be innocent and without any wrong. You will be God's children without fault. But you are living with crooked and mean people all around you, among whom you shine like stars in the dark world."
I have a question about something you say 5 min from the beginning that you both describe as “silly talk” like 0 is also 1. Could you please explain the example? In quantum computers, 0 can be 1 at the same time. So, from the point of view of quantum physics, it is not “silly talk.” Do I misunderstand you? Warm regards from Athens, Greece, K
The tremendously easy thing, the grotesquely simple thing, is to remain embedded in the infamy of this world, where we are hunted at the end of this brief test. Sin blinds and deafens us, it tells us to continue like this, infamy does not confront us because we are already deceived. To a deceived brother, the beasts do not declare war because that brother is already defeated, and that defeated brother is used to seek more defeated ones, ensuring the condemnation of the first because of the condemnation of the others. Let us be prudent, let us be sensible, let us try not to fall into the pride of believing ourselves to be saved, because we will be saved when God Christ says, until the end of our trial, everything is a trial.
God Christ Teaches us, out of Love for us, creatures of His Most High Father, to call Him as we should have called Him since Genesis, if we were creatures worthy of Him, Father Let us proclaim, and above all, let us act, deciding as if we were children of the Most High Creator, Father of God Christ, and Father of every Holy creature, of every creature worthy of HIM. in the Commandments, in the Beatitudes and in the Jurisprudence of our holy brothers, small Words of the sacred Paraclete, worthy little children are born
Guys! You metioned that many "Protestants" do not hold with miracles. Um...I don't think that is accurate, based on my 30 years of direct ministry with thousands of people (mostly some variety of "non-Catholic/RC"), my acquaintances, and my reading rather broadly in this area. I am not a cessationist and am (technically) not a Protestant, but I am conservative Lutheran church worker and missionary. I love your resources and materials. I've seen miraculous things! 🙂 Peace!
@@ceciliadreger6319…unsure what you are indicating here. I was surprised by the comment. I know very, very few non-Catholic people who would discredit miracles. Peace! 😊
for most part we humans fit into normal beings, within the bell shaped curve Almost 99% percent we are born normal without any deformities . its on either side of the bell shaped curve , the fringes we have the deformities like Our Lord said " “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him." to have deformities is not a normal human condition. Our Lord normalized these extreme manifestation of human condition or miracles , which in way signifies God's works. Today we have medical science that tries to normalize these abnormalities through science. But Our Lord could normalize human condition with his divine will and as a proof of his divinity. He is God and was with God when man evolved through billions years of evolution. and these anomalies arise due to genetic malfunctions due to evolutionary processes....................
God reveals to the crook and the broke to make a difference not only in the Diocese but in the world. Make a life by what you give by helping your parish church.
I had a science teacher in my undergraduate years that says nature and science proves God's existence. Look at the snowflake: each one is different. All uniquely different, but all together falling into the earth it can give a job to a city snowplow.
The absence of determinism is literally a square-circle. But probabilities only really measure our ignorance about a particles position and says nothing of the particles actual position. We can't rely on physicists to explain this because they are only human as well. How can something be in an up spin and a down spin at the same time without actually contradicting itself? And then we are back to the beginning of this conversation where we said such things are ridiculous. I like Bishop Barron, but.. let's call a spade a spade. Saying logical contradictions are impossible even for God and then saying within a few minutes that particles can be two opposite things simultaneously, is simultaneously saying two opposite things. That is a total logical square-circle. If there is any contradiction in nature, it is most likely to be in our estimation of it. Quite likely particles are not contradictory, but what we understand as a particle is what is contradictory. According to physics they aren't actually particles anyway, but perturbances in one of the fields (electron field) being dragged by the Higgs field. In this view there are no particles to be located anywhere. But I mean the simplest logic is of course you don't know what's in the box before you open it and look inside. You don't know what you don't know until you know it. Somehow this got twisted into particles popping in and out of existence randomly, when its actually a goopy soup that swirls and condenses in different areas and some of those condensations are trapped by the drag of the Higgs field and appear to us as particles for their short 'existence'. Eddies in a stream might be a good metaphor, due to the chaotic motion of the stream you don't always know where they will appear, but they don't appear at random either, and the same eddy certainly does not exist in two places at the same time, since eddies don't really exist they are just an appearance, a means for the human mind to understand what is going on.
@@anneturner2759 If I am wrong its a pretty public space, plenty of opportunity from someone wiser to demonstrate it. I'm certainly not a math genius, it is only my understanding that if you sum the total set of all probabilities the result is 1 and that if you average out those probabilities with Feynman's equations the result is what will actually happen. It would be pretty strange that things were wholly unpredictable and illogical but still somehow predictable and consistent given the right equations.
The Churches keep detailed records of supposed miracles with medical and scientific evidence that these occurrences are beyond anything normal or even exceptional. X-rays. Scans. Lab results. It's very moving to read about various miracles that have medical and scientific evidence supporting them. Roger
My family has big farmland 😢. I learned that most farmers are dealing with the environment and a love for good food. They've always wanted to protect and take care of our earth and to help all people have access to high-quality, nutritious food. Farming is also most importantly and appealing to us because of its connection to food eating and helps me for garden education (souls) as one of my favorite jobs in my families farm properties. God bless America ❤
@@bethmcmullan7686 So people know there is the Catholic faith out there. I was mislead by these modernists for many years and had no clue anything else existed but by the grace of God I found prevatican 2 Catholicism. Its been so amazing I just hope others can find it and not get stuck in the Novus Ordo so I feel I should share the truth. Thats all
@@bethmcmullan7686@bethmcmullan7686 I think you are constantly bombards here with irritating messages and none sense in bishop Barron's channel. I don't let attackers remain a part of my life anyway. Actualy, I unfriend them , unfollow them and block them as well. Anti- catholic is hostility towards to the Catholics believers and opposition to the Catholic Church, its clergy, and it's followers who support the love offering.
Mark 12:31), to treat others the way we would like to be treated and (Luke 6:31), there is no room in the Christian faith for belittling or abusing someone. Stop by 🫖☕️👁.
The Eucharistic celebration is the highest miracle of all. The Lord is with us at every mass. The promise is true, " I will be with you every day until the end of time"!!
@maggiesace389 incarnated in the body of a peasant barefoot humble girl, Obedient and servant! The perfect creature of God, Blessed virgin mother, Mother of God!! Psalm 45
The Eucharistic celebration is the highest miracle of all. The Lord is with us at every mass. The promise is true, " I will be with you every day until the end of time"!! Which is why it was no small issue those 2 weeks the globe went without ability to consume Christ! Look what began to take place in the Church and the world shortly thereafter. Any good exorcist would explain how bad that was for the spiritual health of the world and the Church.
Divine Intervention! I’ve personally witnessed several unbelievable miracles in my life! One of them was my sister at 18 months old, fell waist deep in fire ants, went into anaphylactic shock, slipped into a 6 week coma. During the 6 weeks she was completely unresponsive & Specialists said she would die or be vegetative for life. Our Msgr came to bless her with The True Cross (Splinter of Jesus’ Cross encased). He said some prayers, placed The Cross on her chest,as soon as The Cross touched her skin, she immediately shot straight up, turned on her side and laid down. She woke up an hour later. Mk5:41 She’s had a few issues, but lives a normal life, college, children, grandchildren, etc. My dad converted to Catholic afterwards as he knew The Catholic Church is the only one established by Jesus Christ & he wanted to be a part of Gods Kingdom. He said you can’t argue with what you see. My parents thought they were being punished for whatever, but God knew it would take my dad witnessing this miracle to want to convert to His One True Apostolic Catholic Church. God has a reason for everything!
Waist deep in fire ants at 18 months old??? Wha? How? Whe..?! Glad to hear God miraculously healed her and she went on to live a fruitful life. Growing up, I though quicksand would be a bigger problem than it actually was, especially now that I find out that there were 1-2 foot holes filled with fire ants.
The most famous site for miracles is the grotto at Lourdes, where since the first miracle in 1858, there have been a total of 70 recognized by the Catholic Church. Let’s perform the real miracle and get people back to church, praying, and reading the word of God. That’s the only miracle that really matters.
The Bishop appears to live and speaks the language of the 21st century. He is a bright light shining through the dusty stained glass for this lapse RC, and I suspect many others share the same opinion.
It is such a treat to listen to Dr. Barron and Dr. Petrusek. Bishop Barron’s depth and coherence is always admirable and Dr. Petrusek is a great asset to WOF! We are very fortunate to have the best and brightest explaining the mysteries of our faith with reason, credibility, clarity and intelligibility. The somewhat fine line between divine non -competitive intervention in creation and being present in creation (without crossing the line into pantheism) is a very interesting matter of consideration. Nobody better than Bishop Barren to clarify these theological questions. Thank you!
Bishop Barron is smarter than me and also more educated. "Nevertheless," I would be careful about pointing to modern science/the quantum world as an opening to find evidence of God. I doubt that we are meant to discover God through science (--even if he can be seen there, an important distinction). For whatever reason, our reality has been made to look mechanistic, and it would be surprising if the future of science does not continue to find mechanisms within mechanisms in whatever new and amazing ways. I believe we are meant to find God through forgiveness and love; and once this is accomplished, God can be perceived everywhere, as the bishop said of mystics. Science, on the other hand, will probably continue to find the machine in everything, and there is nothing threatening in this. Science will never (by its nature) have anything to say about a single person's interior experience of his true love for his brother. It can go on forever detailing materialistic correlations and physical principles, and that is interesting; but it is not metaphysically meaningful. We don't need quantum flexibility to justify miracles or faith. *I am sorry if I have misrepresented what was being said. **It is difficult to find true love for one's brother, which is why God is mostly invisible.**
Why does it look like Bishop Barron is in this man’s office…I get the sense that this man is interviewing Bishop for a position…the pen held in his hand as if he’s checking off boxes…not a relaxed and comfortable conversation between two people.
I think the atmosphere is meant to convey intellectual seriousness and adventure. The paper and pen indicate earnestness, not authority. I like it! (*Just the way I see it. Of course.)
Jesus told those recently-healed men not to spread word of their healing abroad simply because doing so may attract crowds, which in turn may hinder His work (which it did). ... They themselves, on the other hand, obviously meant well, as they could not contain their joy!
Romans 12:20. 'If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink." You don't need to serve God or find ways to reduce complaining and can have a positive impact on your life and well-being. It means keeping your money and effort to improve your relationship with me, it can also help you solve your problem without harassing somebody.
You wrote because you love the shape of the story by sharing your religious beliefs, especially your rosary's miracles with Christian ones, and with other people. Ask yourself, what makes your heart change to come alive? Or What in your work inspires you, and what has become dry and stale?
Bishop, would you agree thar miracles happen continuously? These are not events that are big or very visual. I strongly believe, I live the presence of God and His manifestations very often. Aren't these miracles? These to me are proofs of presence of God.
If it is written in the Gospel as the Word of God nothing can be a sin. It was God’s will that this was written - so we can see the story of Christ evolve and build to the revelation on the Cross and what follows. The Disciples and apostles did what was asked of them as best they could - and then obeyed when the written word was finally necessary for US to know.
Some of God's miracles are small and we are surrounded by an enormous amount of them every day, every where.
Agreed Mary .
God's nature is always present everywhere, and miracles grow.
That is what I meant to say. The miracles they do not need to be amazing.
It seems that miracles need to show up publicly to be called miracles
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Miracles big or small, be amazed✨
"A miracle is a sign, not an obliterating of the laws of nature but a kind of intensification of them, for the sake of communicating a sign of God's presence."
(13: 02 - 13: 12)
I like Jesus' miracle. The resurrecting Lazarus John 11.
What a fantastic show. I especially appreciate it that it was recommended to me by Liberty University, a Protestant institution. I learned more about miracles in this show than almost 70 years in my own church.
The Holy Spirit dwells in the Catholic Church since 33AD
1 Timothy 3:15
Acts of the Apostles 5:38-39!! will never be destructed!!!
Welcome!
I love Bishop Robert Barron. His talks have made it possible for me to return to the faith, and i'll be forever deeply grateful for his work!
I think he is a gift from God to us, so we can understand Him better.
So happy to see brothers from other denominations here. I love you all!
I really love Bishop Barron .
Such a joyful way of speaking.
So happy I found him many years ago❤❤❤
Thank you, Dr Matthew Petrusek for another great conversation, and insightful, with Bishop Barron! God bless you both, and WOF team.
He is one to try to imitate and follow.
Bishop Barron is the real Gift from God because he speaks all truths and loves everyone.
Please pray for him everyday.He is truly needed in this time.He will clear the air from coocu ideas to confuse humans.
Very Reverently thank you for your wisdom, Bishop Berron! Thank you for another very good show.
Lord Jesus please give me strength. I seem to bear the weight of the world on my shoulders as a single mom, I often face challenges that can seem insurmountable especially with raising two children with special needs. I’m trying to balance everything but Lord I’m struggling to make ends meet, to pay bills, and to put food on the table for my children. Jesus hear my prayers and please continue to give me strength.🙏🏾
My best to Brandon too.
Can I help?
Keep praying
God loves you
Pray to St. Thomas more, the man for all season and great English martyr, especially bully free.
Jesus have mercy on you and your family
Thank you for your statements on the misconstrual of science and faith, the difference between semantic and actual possibilities, and the information that panels considering miracles include non-believers! I never feel patronized when listening to Bishop Barron.
It’s great you have your own building with everything you need to teach Catholic Word Of God.
I enjoy very much how Bishop Barron answers questions with such human warmth and compassion. Despite his high office, there's nothing about him that's authoritarian or magisterial; on the contrary, he's a humble searcher, like the rest of us.
Precisely.
All truth. Thank you for this comment
That last part just makes me think of how people feel the need to tell everyone everything. Something happens out of the ordinary and they have to call up all their friends and family and give each one a slightly different recounting of events. I have worked to overcome that desire and instead listen to what others have to say, and I have noticed that they will frequently go into great detail about things and then once they are done they will leave. A large part of what causes people to engage with others is just the desire to tell stories and certainly not to listen, the listening is just a means towards another end, a kind of politesse or social grace, but 9/10 they aren't really listening and are just waiting for an opportunity to speak some more. Being around such people is part of the reason I have learned to be such a good listener, I just know they don't actually care what I have to say and probably won't be listening to anything but the voice inside their own heads. To me this is what Jesus was instructing them not to do, the same as not praying in public or going to the synagogues for public show. Don't do everything just to draw attention to yourself.
There can't be real full communio between people if everyone only listens or only speaks, it is most fully imho, best a free mutual interweaving of humble souls in truth and love.
But there are definitely times this involves listening much, and it is better to listen and give your time to them. There is a time to wash ours brothers feet and a time to instruct our brother (and times many other things of course, including at times letting your brother tend to and listen to you).
I think the key is to do whatever is good and is called for to serve one another.
Very nice presentation, thank you for sharing.
I was out in my garden this morning enjoying the beauty of all the flowers and vegetables I planted 3 months ago everything has grown so lush and abundant and all the bees were buzzing about pollinating
GODS miracle and perfection GOD IS GOOD
Fatima had reporters, Atheists, camera's. Everyone felt the mud dry under their feet. Oh, don't forget the sun dance witnessed by thousands.
You need a 3 o'clock prayer for a miracle. For an hour of great mercy for the whole world.
Awesome stuff. Thank you, Bishop.
Could you do one year of TH-cam shows on the story of our Lady of champion so many people throughout the nation, unaware of mother Mary’s apparition in the Vatican‘s approval as worthy of belief
It would be interesting to see Robert Barron confront David Hume’s famous discussion of miracles in a candid, “steel-manning” fashion. A forthright conversation with Stephen Woodford (aka “Rationality Rules”) on the topic of miracles could also prove enlightening, much as an earlier conversation with Alex O’Connor turned out to be.
In your charity, lets all pray 7 Hail Mary for the propagation of all Catholic Teachings and for the success of all Catholic Social Media Influencer that all may be guided by the Holy Trinity, Holy Family, all Great Saints, and Angels ❤
Amen 🙏🏼
The Holy Spirit dwells in the Catholic Church since 33AD!
She will never be destroyed Acts of the Apostles 5:48-39!
More! I could listen to this conversation about miracles all day long. Beautiful! ❤
Loved the question at the end - a well phrased question indeed.
The question lines up with the discussion on miracles as I heard that when Jesus healed someone, there were many many more who were not healed - Jesus loved those not healed also. Jesus didn’t want the message to be that God only loves those who were healed. Jesus loves all of us. He chose to heal for His divine purpose- which is beyond our understanding. When healing doesn’t come, it’s because God, in His divine providence, willing your salvation, chose this cross for you to bear.
Amen!
I was saved from death by a miracle in January 1976 In Fayetteville Ohio at the seminary of the Brothers of the poor Saint Francis.I was a19 year old new candidate but was running trying to escape from my problems and addictions having a breakdown there and feeling like my life was in danger I tried to escape danger by leaping out a fourth floor window but miraculously was stuck halfway through and was pulled inside by Brother Howard. I will never forget that event and thank God every day for saving my life
I am a few days late listening to this. I was looking forward to having the time to do so.
Thank you
The truth will always unveil itself no matter what science claims to be.
Miracles happen in almost instantenous minutes.....
What God makes is good. He uses nature, the good thing He made, to enact his miracles.
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I always that transubstantiation was a miracle. I appreciate your comments on saints levitating, etc. I’ve always been a little bit skeptical of those miracles.
My answer to the listener question, making a mistake is different from committing a sin.
Miracles happen, sometimes we do not recognize them as they happen but we tend to share with family and avoid sharing them with strangers to avoid any embarrassing skepticism. I still remember when in 2008 I had a dream of a "nun in brown" whom I had knowledge of opening a gate that had a cross on top and lead to a spring heavenly like place, when I shared the dream with my mom she said according to my description that the lady was a Muslim. My sister said the same. Well the dream was a nun in brown with a rope around the waist and a scarf urging me to enter and there, there were golden trays with loaves of bread, olives, olive oil, grapes, and dairy. My children were standing in suites on the left of the trays. In 2009 I was baptized Catholic. In 2018, I googled nun in brown, of course there was a reason for me to do that something happened that made me remember that dream, so I googled to find out that Franciscan have the same clothing. Thinking in my ignorance that Franciscans were French, I discovered that it was attributed to St Francis of Assisi. This made me search further to know who st Francis was, so I found a movie about St. Francis, the actress who played st clare was beautiful, and I wondered what the real st clare looked like, 8 Googled , and oh my God, there is no mistake, I recognized only the painting in the lower basilica to be the one who opened the gate for me in the dream . I rushed and called my mom and I asked her, what color do nun wear, she said black and white, and I ask her who the Franciscans are, she said of course they are the French, I said of course. My sister said the same. Well, NO. We all didn't know what I saw in my dream. Again in December 2002, I had a dream of a woman in black. Well, I googled, and guess, all those movies in black, horror movies about nun in black. I stopped googling. Months later on EWTN, Gemma Galgani. I can never forget her face, in the dream her face was so distinctive. I dreamt again of a saint whom I had no knowledge of whatsoever. Let say that, somehow, I saw her face on the Internet and it stayed in my subconscious, how my brain managed to put that face on a black dress! I've no idea. Each one of my children God gave them to me after a Christian prayer, my oldest in the name of mother Mary, my middle Jesus saved him from a miscarriage in the fourth month after reading the gospel of Mark, and my youngest whom I had after giving thanks to mother Mary for her blessing. My discussion of getting baptized was after knowing that one of my relatives who was a physician was baptized in Bulgaria after he was miraculously healed from cancer. If the whole wide world tells me now that there are no miracles, I won't believe them and deny the experience I had. There are miracles for the faithful. I admit that we all tend not to share, and thank God, no one knows me as I'm sharing these, as there is always a thought "what people will say, and what people will think".
Just curious how Brandon is doing, did he get a new job?
He's the head of publishing at WOF, so he would preside over the books they produce
I believe that the spirit evolves, just as the world evolves--and that some miracles that were possible to prior generations (levatation and Teresa of Avila) may not be available to us: but instead, we have the miracle of the personal computer--that was unfathomable to the time of Teresa of Avila: something that made Leonardo de Vinci so special was his ability to 'see' into the future and see what was to come (planes; helicopters; etc)...dts/usa
Also, I believe that people are very wrong to lose their faith when god says no and doesn't give them the perfect miracle that they are hoping for...just as god said to Job--where were you when I created the world? and why should we reject god just because he can't seem to help us personally? yet, people do that all the time--if I am not good enough for one of your miracles, then god, you are good enough for me--tit for tat--that is not the way that god works...all you can do is put up your request and hope for the best...we are not the ones that can see the future: god does....dts/usa
God creates and upholds time so He is not in time and sees all time as a single eternal now. God does not change, He is infinite and eternal.
You are confusing oranges with rice!!
That which is manifested in substance, absent of absolute reason alone understood through the wisdom of faith, enlightenment through the Countenance of the Holy Spirit.. The Conception of Life.
❤Amen 💖💖💖🙏
Really helpful,thanks. +
In response to the listener's question, it could be that Jesus told them not to go out and tell people because they weren't ready or fully formed as evangelists to convey the message that Jesus wanted to be proclaimed. So at worst maybe they presented an image of Jesus that would later need to be clarified.
Hallelujah!!! I’m favored and blessed with $60,000 every week! Now I can afford anything and also support the work of God and the church.
Oh really? Tell me more!
This is what Ana Graciela Blackwelder does, she has changed my life.
After raising up to 60k trading with her, I bought a new house and car here in the US and also paid for my son’s (Oscar) surgery. Glory to God.shalom.
I know Ana Graciela Blackwelder, and I have also had success...
Absolutely! I have heard stories of people who started with little or no knowledge but managed to emerge victorious thanks to Ana Graciela Blackwelder.
A particle physicist once said to me: "There are just these particles, and they behave in this way... there's no god." I said, "No, not so. Why? Why are these particles? Why do they do these things? You are just watching God stir His tea." 73 de W3IHM
We have to remember that the spirit realm has good ad evil. The bible is the final authority. And we have the Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth, What would be the purpose And how would levigating bring glory to God Christ and bring someone to salvation? The purpose of the veil being rent in two is so that all men can have access to the throne of grace.
Your protestant false doctrine makes water!!!!
The bible did not exist for 350 years!!!
The Holy Spirit dwells in the Catholic Church since the year 33AD! Deal with it!
When you say "Thomas Aquinas taught that God is in all things by his essence, presence, and power" is that pantheism?
That's a sick question, Dan from Georgia
Bishop, what is your stand on the miracles at Garabandal?
Trivia question,
To canonize a saint, the church needs a concrete proif, a tanhjble miracle to discern on so she can initiate a cause for ssntuguxation.
What miracle did she use to canonize Thomas Aquinas, a saint?
17:40 Would anyone help with the name of the priest? John...
they are of God
Miracles are works of God, as creation is a work of God, both reveal the power and dominion of God. Miracles are elevation of the natural, because miracles are not there on their own. Miracles never contradict the works of God, but rather affirm the truths of God in the most visible and dramatic ways.
I Believe In Miracles But I Tend To Keep The Ones Iv Been The Subject Of A Secret Because People Judge If I Speak About What Iv Experienced.
decide in a Holy way, based on the Law of God the Creator, those who live in His Commandments to be Affiliated as His; in the Law of the Righteous of God Christ, the Blessed; and in those who observe the Jurisprudence of the Saints, blessed Vessels of God Paraclete
God Christ Loves us more than we love ourselves, perhaps one day we will come to understand Him.
Again though, how do you tell if a miracle is from God or from the enemy? Is it enough that it does not seem to go against Christian doctrine? I don't think so! ... Priests levitating does not seem to go against Christian doctrine, yet, what holy purpose does that serve? Does it make you more loving? ... If it doesn't, it may be wrought by another power.
Philippians 2:14-15, this is perfect, too. Do everything without complaining or arguing. Then you will be innocent and without any wrong. You will be God's children without fault. But you are living with crooked and mean people all around you, among whom you shine like stars in the dark world."
I have a question about something you say 5 min from the beginning that you both describe as “silly talk” like 0 is also 1. Could you please explain the example? In quantum computers, 0 can be 1 at the same time. So, from the point of view of quantum physics, it is not “silly talk.” Do I misunderstand you?
Warm regards from Athens, Greece,
K
The tremendously easy thing, the grotesquely simple thing, is to remain embedded in the infamy of this world, where we are hunted at the end of this brief test.
Sin blinds and deafens us, it tells us to continue like this, infamy does not confront us because we are already deceived.
To a deceived brother, the beasts do not declare war because that brother is already defeated, and that defeated brother is used to seek more defeated ones, ensuring the condemnation of the first because of the condemnation of the others.
Let us be prudent, let us be sensible, let us try not to fall into the pride of believing ourselves to be saved, because we will be saved when God Christ says, until the end of our trial, everything is a trial.
God Christ Teaches us, out of Love for us, creatures of His Most High Father, to call Him as we should have called Him since Genesis, if we were creatures worthy of Him, Father
Let us proclaim, and above all, let us act, deciding as if we were children of the Most High Creator, Father of God Christ, and Father of every Holy creature, of every creature worthy of HIM.
in the Commandments, in the Beatitudes and in the Jurisprudence of our holy brothers, small Words of the sacred Paraclete, worthy little children are born
Quantum mechanics doesn't explain miracles. It's misleading.
It doesn't explain soul and consciousness either. Some idiot think it does.
Fatima Medjugorje the signs of the times look around you and see these two great signs of Gods intervention ⚡️⚡️⚡️
❤ "idk, but it's pretty interesting" 😅
miracles transcend the Natural Laws on this plane.. so cannot be UNDER-stood !
Guys! You metioned that many "Protestants" do not hold with miracles. Um...I don't think that is accurate, based on my 30 years of direct ministry with thousands of people (mostly some variety of "non-Catholic/RC"), my acquaintances, and my reading rather broadly in this area. I am not a cessationist and am (technically) not a Protestant, but I am conservative Lutheran church worker and missionary. I love your resources and materials. I've seen miraculous things! 🙂 Peace!
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot...
@@ceciliadreger6319…unsure what you are indicating here. I was surprised by the comment. I know very, very few non-Catholic people who would discredit miracles. Peace! 😊
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Luke 9: 3, "I said to you, Do not take anything for your journey. Do not take a stick, or a bag, or food. Do not take any money."
for most part we humans fit into normal beings, within the bell shaped curve Almost 99% percent we are born normal without any deformities . its on either side of the bell shaped curve , the fringes we have the deformities like Our Lord said " “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him." to have deformities is not a normal human condition. Our Lord normalized these extreme manifestation of human condition or miracles , which in way signifies God's works. Today we have medical science that tries to normalize these abnormalities through science. But Our Lord could normalize human condition with his divine will and as a proof of his divinity. He is God and was with God when man evolved through billions years of evolution. and these anomalies arise due to genetic malfunctions due to evolutionary processes....................
Avanka valaa muhunata prsna karanna
Did the diocese need uplifting?
God reveals to the crook and the broke to make a difference not only in the Diocese but in the world. Make a life by what you give by helping your parish church.
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Please give an example of anything "super nature."
What is Being?
God.
@@BishopBarron what an expected answer given god is a presupposition.
God? God is an example of your natural imagination. Nothing super nature there.@@BishopBarron
@@rick984imagination more important than 'fact'.
(gasp!)
omg!! he’s going to shake his head and grow horns!!
Maksimum i am a dervish, i have good and evil faces
I had a science teacher in my undergraduate years that says nature and science proves God's existence. Look at the snowflake: each one is different. All uniquely different, but all together falling into the earth it can give a job to a city snowplow.
Brother Dutton canonization
Errrr mind CANNOT Understand miracles.. its beyond minds understanding.. thats why they are miracles ! ?
I think arrogance has dulled our senses. In the scope of history many things today would be considered "miracles"
Matthew 12:39, "A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah."
You are full of dregde and dross
The whole ball of wax is miraculous.
The absence of determinism is literally a square-circle. But probabilities only really measure our ignorance about a particles position and says nothing of the particles actual position. We can't rely on physicists to explain this because they are only human as well. How can something be in an up spin and a down spin at the same time without actually contradicting itself? And then we are back to the beginning of this conversation where we said such things are ridiculous. I like Bishop Barron, but.. let's call a spade a spade. Saying logical contradictions are impossible even for God and then saying within a few minutes that particles can be two opposite things simultaneously, is simultaneously saying two opposite things. That is a total logical square-circle.
If there is any contradiction in nature, it is most likely to be in our estimation of it. Quite likely particles are not contradictory, but what we understand as a particle is what is contradictory. According to physics they aren't actually particles anyway, but perturbances in one of the fields (electron field) being dragged by the Higgs field. In this view there are no particles to be located anywhere.
But I mean the simplest logic is of course you don't know what's in the box before you open it and look inside. You don't know what you don't know until you know it. Somehow this got twisted into particles popping in and out of existence randomly, when its actually a goopy soup that swirls and condenses in different areas and some of those condensations are trapped by the drag of the Higgs field and appear to us as particles for their short 'existence'. Eddies in a stream might be a good metaphor, due to the chaotic motion of the stream you don't always know where they will appear, but they don't appear at random either, and the same eddy certainly does not exist in two places at the same time, since eddies don't really exist they are just an appearance, a means for the human mind to understand what is going on.
It’s miraculous that you wrote this .
@@anneturner2759 If I am wrong its a pretty public space, plenty of opportunity from someone wiser to demonstrate it. I'm certainly not a math genius, it is only my understanding that if you sum the total set of all probabilities the result is 1 and that if you average out those probabilities with Feynman's equations the result is what will actually happen. It would be pretty strange that things were wholly unpredictable and illogical but still somehow predictable and consistent given the right equations.
I believe miracles and divine intervention occurs, but we can't prove it scientifically. It's all a matter of faith.
The Churches keep detailed records of supposed miracles with medical and scientific evidence that these occurrences are beyond anything normal or even exceptional. X-rays. Scans. Lab results. It's very moving to read about various miracles that have medical and scientific evidence supporting them. Roger
Why is the Vatican 2 religion acting so weird about Fatima and Sr Lucia?
My family has big farmland 😢. I learned that most farmers are dealing with the environment and a love for good food. They've always wanted to protect and take care of our earth and to help all people have access to high-quality, nutritious food. Farming is also most importantly and appealing to us because of its connection to food eating and helps me for garden education (souls) as one of my favorite jobs in my families farm properties. God bless America ❤
@@bethmcmullan7686
So people know there is the Catholic faith out there. I was mislead by these modernists for many years and had no clue anything else existed but by the grace of God I found prevatican 2 Catholicism. Its been so amazing I just hope others can find it and not get stuck in the Novus Ordo so I feel I should share the truth.
Thats all
@@bethmcmullan7686@bethmcmullan7686 I think you are constantly bombards here with irritating messages and none sense in bishop Barron's channel. I don't let attackers remain a part of my life anyway. Actualy, I unfriend them , unfollow them and block them as well. Anti- catholic is hostility towards to the Catholics believers and opposition to the Catholic Church, its clergy, and it's followers who support the love offering.
@@BrianBenson-rc9muThere is always Novus Ordo in here all the time as well. @BrianBenson-r
They don't belong to the deposit of the faith. Nobody needs to believe in them.
I miss Brandon. This dude doesn't sit right with me... or maybe I just don't do well with change 🤷🏽♂️
Mark 12:31), to treat others the way we would like to be treated and (Luke 6:31), there is no room in the Christian faith for belittling or abusing someone. Stop by 🫖☕️👁.
I've had many miracles in my life. You need to have your mind and heart opened to the goodness and greatness of God.
Yes. And, the more we see… the more we see!
The Eucharistic celebration is the highest miracle of all.
The Lord is with us at every mass. The promise is true, " I will be with you every day until the end of time"!!
Gods Incarnation is His Greatest Miracle
@maggiesace389 incarnated in the body of a peasant barefoot humble girl,
Obedient and servant! The perfect creature of God, Blessed virgin mother, Mother of God!! Psalm 45
The Eucharistic celebration is the highest miracle of all.
The Lord is with us at every mass. The promise is true, " I will be with you every day until the end of time"!!
Which is why it was no small issue those 2 weeks the globe went without ability to consume Christ! Look what began to take place in the Church and the world shortly thereafter. Any good exorcist would explain how bad that was for the spiritual health of the world and the Church.
Yes💯 we witness a miracle everytime we go to mass
Divine Intervention! I’ve personally witnessed several unbelievable miracles in my life! One of them was my sister at 18 months old, fell waist deep in fire ants, went into anaphylactic shock, slipped into a 6 week coma. During the 6 weeks she was completely unresponsive & Specialists said she would die or be vegetative for life. Our Msgr came to bless her with The True Cross (Splinter of Jesus’ Cross encased). He said some prayers, placed The Cross on her chest,as soon as The Cross touched her skin, she immediately shot straight up, turned on her side and laid down. She woke up an hour later. Mk5:41 She’s had a few issues, but lives a normal life, college, children, grandchildren, etc. My dad converted to Catholic afterwards as he knew The Catholic Church is the only one established by Jesus Christ & he wanted to be a part of Gods Kingdom. He said you can’t argue with what you see. My parents thought they were being punished for whatever, but God knew it would take my dad witnessing this miracle to want to convert to His One True Apostolic Catholic Church. God has a reason for everything!
Great testimony
The Divine Mercy Miracle, your suffering turned into joy. Peace be with you.
Waist deep in fire ants at 18 months old??? Wha? How? Whe..?! Glad to hear God miraculously healed her and she went on to live a fruitful life. Growing up, I though quicksand would be a bigger problem than it actually was, especially now that I find out that there were 1-2 foot holes filled with fire ants.
“Let’s be sceptical of our scepticism “. Yes. Loved this discussion . Thank you .
Thank you Bishop
Thank you…..WOF
God comes to show his glory.
The most famous site for miracles is the grotto at Lourdes, where since the first miracle in 1858, there have been a total of 70 recognized by the Catholic Church. Let’s perform the real miracle and get people back to church, praying, and reading the word of God. That’s the only miracle that really matters.
The Bishop appears to live and speaks the language of the 21st century. He is a bright light shining through the dusty stained glass for this lapse RC, and I suspect many others share the same opinion.
The Nativity of the Holy Gloriuos prophet. It is the most worthy miracle for such a noble panel of mind.
@ceciliadreger6319 the nativity of the Son of God, Eternal King of Glory
What happened to Brandon Vogt?
He runs the publishing arm of Word on Fire.
My definition has become: Wisdom=I don't know!
Thank Bishop Barron for clearly 🙏❤explaining the good news of miracles by God through Jesus Christ ✝️
Thank you both!!
It is such a treat to listen to Dr. Barron and Dr. Petrusek. Bishop Barron’s depth and coherence is always admirable and Dr. Petrusek is a great asset to WOF! We are very fortunate to have the best and brightest explaining the mysteries of our faith with reason, credibility, clarity and intelligibility. The somewhat fine line between divine non -competitive intervention in creation and being present in creation (without crossing the line into pantheism) is a very interesting matter of consideration. Nobody better than Bishop Barren to clarify these theological questions. Thank you!
Bishop Barron is smarter than me and also more educated. "Nevertheless," I would be careful about pointing to modern science/the quantum world as an opening to find evidence of God. I doubt that we are meant to discover God through science (--even if he can be seen there, an important distinction). For whatever reason, our reality has been made to look mechanistic, and it would be surprising if the future of science does not continue to find mechanisms within mechanisms in whatever new and amazing ways. I believe we are meant to find God through forgiveness and love; and once this is accomplished, God can be perceived everywhere, as the bishop said of mystics. Science, on the other hand, will probably continue to find the machine in everything, and there is nothing threatening in this. Science will never (by its nature) have anything to say about a single person's interior experience of his true love for his brother. It can go on forever detailing materialistic correlations and physical principles, and that is interesting; but it is not metaphysically meaningful. We don't need quantum flexibility to justify miracles or faith.
*I am sorry if I have misrepresented what was being said.
**It is difficult to find true love for one's brother, which is why God is mostly invisible.**
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Why does it look like Bishop Barron is in this man’s office…I get the sense that this man is interviewing Bishop for a position…the pen held in his hand as if he’s checking off boxes…not a relaxed and comfortable conversation between two people.
He wants to jot down any prompt from the Holy Spirit on Bishop Barron, he could miss!!!
I think the atmosphere is meant to convey intellectual seriousness and adventure. The paper and pen indicate earnestness, not authority. I like it! (*Just the way I see it. Of course.)
I don't know. If you can figure it out, do share. I'll listen.
Nature is God’s magic.
Jesus told those recently-healed men not to spread word of their healing abroad simply because doing so may attract crowds, which in turn may hinder His work (which it did). ... They themselves, on the other hand, obviously meant well, as they could not contain their joy!
Romans 12:20. 'If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink." You don't need to serve God or find ways to reduce complaining and can have a positive impact on your life and well-being. It means keeping your money and effort to improve your relationship with me, it can also help you solve your problem without harassing somebody.
Miracles do not need to be public in order to be miracles. I prayed many rosaries for an impossible miracle, and I received it.
You wrote because you love the shape of the story by sharing your religious beliefs, especially your rosary's miracles with Christian ones, and with other people. Ask yourself, what makes your heart change to come alive? Or What in your work inspires you, and what has become dry and stale?
Bishop, would you agree thar miracles happen continuously? These are not events that are big or very visual. I strongly believe, I live the presence of God and His manifestations very often. Aren't these miracles? These to me are proofs of presence of God.
If it is written in the Gospel as the Word of God nothing can be a sin.
It was God’s will that this was written - so we can see the story of Christ evolve and build to the revelation on the Cross and what follows.
The Disciples and apostles did what was asked of them as best they could - and then obeyed when the written word was finally necessary for US to know.
It seems that miracles need to show up publicly to be called miracles
What happened to chancellery in Winona?