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Robert Barron | – 5 Ways to Draw Young People Back to God
Please share this video to view it At the recent USCCB meeting, I gave a presentation to all the American bishops on five ways to draw young people back to God. Today, Brandon Vogt and I discuss each way. A listener asks which books I would recommend to counter his biology teacher who tells him […]
Robert Barron | – 5 Ways to Draw Young People Back to God
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At the recent USCCB meeting, I gave a presentation to all the American bishops on five ways to draw young people back to God. Today, Brandon Vogt and I discuss each way.
A listener asks which books I would recommend to counter his biology teacher who tells him to read Bertrand Russell and Christopher Hitchens.
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Bishop Robert Barron
These are brief and insightful commentaries on faith and culture by Catholic theologian and author Bishop Robert Barron. The videos complement his weekly sermons posted and podcasted at WordOnFire.org.
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God bless you Bishop yes we have to go out and evangelise not just be spactacors
Blessed Pope John Paul 11 said we need to use the social media
33:00 "protestants" do not rightly Present first ABBA:FATHER Of Ours Being ONE:ALEF as Adored By Christ (to help aTheists in the spiritual quagmire of aTheism/s)
Sacred Scripture Alive and Active Answers each and all like Letters Though Christ's Sanctifying Body and HIS Holy Spirit Indwelling OmniPotent
The church is responsable off the teaching from the first time but not the priest are too much into im a saint and they want to talk to but the people they know are they too bussy or what. God forgive us.
For those of you that love the Latin mass, I like the high mass but it’s hard to follow. I’m lost in the low mass.I enjoy my regular parish because I can follow it. I do however love the reverence in the Latin mass. How did you’all switch? I have a hard time following it and it is longer than a regular Mass. Any tips are welcomed.
Why is it so important for you to draw people back to god? So they won’t go to hell? If people aren’t convinced any of this religion is real, why do you care? Shouldn’t you be willing to be drawn AWAY from god just as much as you want people to be drawn back to god?
I am a former Pentecostal protestant here, and am getting confirmed this Christmas. I can say that aside from my local priest Fr. Brian, even before I set foot into my local parish I have 3 people to name as ones who were able to reach me inside my own room: Bishop Robert Barron, Fr. Mike Schmidtz (and the whole Ascension Presents team), & Brian Holdsworth. Thank the Lord for these great men and women that have worked in their vocation and those who help produce these channels of reaching people like me.
Charity has become a secular. Focus on faith sexual reaching value of relationship. Etc
Thanks for covering the Church Fathers. I have been a life-long Catholic, but this is one topic about which I would like to know more.
Due to better education, greater discernment and critical thinking, we're less inclined to believe or accept mythology and superstition as a foundation for our existence.
Catholic faith is much more than beauty, the crucifixion was never beautiful.
How to bring people back…?
Easy…
Demonstrate any truth in the ridiculous nonsense you claim
Pachamama
My take away is keep sowing seeds!
One question I ask the bishop is why you throw away the chance to unite American Catholics by not celebrating the patronal feast of the US?. You treat it even when it is a holy day of obligation as an inconvenience on your way to celebrating the patronal feast of Mexico. Making the Immaculate Conception a real celebrated feast could be used to unite the Church in America.
Yes!!!!! Missionary parishioners!!! I want this. I’ve seen it stated by priests/bishops/ etc (and maybe it’s my own poor understanding) that it is the special place of priests to go on mission and evangelize and this is not the place for lay people. This is all I’ve ever wanted to do but I’m a woman and cannot be a priest. When I was young, it was easy to talk to peers about faith, there was nothing on the line, but I couldn’t go freely into the world either-I could only “evangelize” at school. Now that I have the full freedom of an adult, we are placed in a world that hates Catholics, and I have no practice or guidance. I’m often reminded that my business may be negatively effected if I do not tread lightly living in a VERY atheistic and liberal city. Why should I be concerned about wishing anyone a merry Christmas?? This weighs on my heart and conscience because really I want to tell the whole Good News
Praying for our bishops to be very strong on abortion and morality!!! Praying for rules that show greater respect for the Holy Eucharist!
I’m thirteen and I want to become Catholic
OK nobody addressed the elephant in the room that is politics and our current pope. It seems blatantly obvious to me that with a radical leftist as the head of the church no wonder people would leave Catholicism. We're just going to have to ride this wave and pray to God that the Cardinals do not make the same mistake twice.
Thank you Bishop Barron! We need more people like you in the Church!
If people are in mortal danger because they are living outside the teachings of Scripture and the Church, outside of the sacraments, why is there less of a sense of urgency to teach about morality (sexual or otherwise)? Why isn’t it better to share the whole truth about sin, death, and salvation all at once, to say it like it is? If anyone enters the Church without a proper understanding of the devastating nature of our sinfulness and what the Church requires of her members, how defeated might they feel for not understanding the gravity of the faith into which they’ve entered? When morality isn’t emphasized – when people aren’t warned of the danger of their actions, which they may not even know are wrong…where is the urgency when people’s souls are in grave danger?
This is a wonderful insightful and helpful discussion on how to get young people to do anything not just bring them back to God … I’m so grateful for hearing this … Thank you !
New media is how I'm coming to understand and appreciate those I'm coming more and more to think of as my Catholic brethren and those things which are to me a great truly important tradition.
Latin Mass, Latin Mass, Latin all the way!! Novus Ordo is protestant, and will make you go astray!! hey!! The Traditional Latin Mass will lead all Catholics back to the truth.
One of the Alumni of your Institute has summed up your own and your followers’ attitude toward unbelievers and critics in a nutshell. It’s clearly visible in responses under all your offerings whenever there’s critique. Bluntly stated, but she’s got the nub of your Overall “message"
https://youtu.be/y23CMK_U22Q
Bishop Barron, and Brandon, Great work here. I'm taking these suggestions to a meeting called to set up a youth ministry . I notice you didn't mention the Latin Mass. I can't think how that would work unless everyone studies Latin. These 5 ways are more realistic.
Barron supports homosexual priests predators and he is a heretic.
The best trained priests come out of the SSPX seminaries. Even Barron teaches heresies everyday on his YouTube. Even with the opportunity to edit mistakes. Because he is a heretic
Thanks for so much! From Argentina:)
Bishop Barron ever since I have listened to you and Curtis Martin, founder of Fellowship of Catholic University Students I have been praying you two dynamic speakers and founders to serve inside Catholic Churches. Our steadfast members are missing the education of how to Evangelize in our lives. Most Catholics need membership training to become missionaries and disciples. We also need prayer partners to increase both your movements lead us together. I pray this will surge forth as an expansion of the Catholic membership: of those already active and multitudes of inactive Souls who cry out for Jesus and can't find him because they have not been introduced to The Blessed Trinity. Catholics will return and bring others who never been members and others become new actives members. This is my sincerest prayer. Please pray with me that God will guide Bishop Barron's and Curtis Martins to teach us to live the way of true gospel lifestyle. I also need an open gateway of sales for my art work. So I can contribute to this noble and truly central growth objective that is central to our beloved Roman Catholic Churches' history and future. This is my dream of the future of our Church if it is God's will!
Tell Mirrium to say this to her professor I respect your beliefs but this is my opinion. It is a way of aproaching a subject without making a mockery of the person.
One reason why I actually engage with Bishop Barron's thoughts is that he is an intellectual. I am at heart a philosopher and a seeker. I have what Wittgenstein (I am not 100 percent sure die to having a few drinks) calls the taste for the eternal, but the answers of my church don't really satisfy my questions. I like to listen and think about what the people who have an almost two millenia tradition behind them have to say – and even if we disagree, this makes us part of the same tradition and society. I may never be a good catholic, but engaging with me in that way, I may see some points they have. I mean it is very optimistic to get a social-anarchist polyamorous bisexual trans woman to agree with the catholic church, but there may be ways to influence me. To be perfectly honest, the hope that there is something greater than the world we have and that the people I love who died haven't just disappeared appears to me. I think I'm not special that way: you can't stop hoping and wondering that there is some superior love behind it all.
Very interesting and points on education of youth so true.
This is a very good discussion.
Young people must first be filled with the presence of God. They must also be taught how to acquire a constant flow of divine revelations. These are NOT options. Far too many are evangelising and prophesying about a God they don't know very well. Their ministry should flow from the pure and holy divine presence. They will never burn out.
It is a great and serious danger to be busy in ministry without intimacy with God. From experience, it is vital to know God through His Word and the Holy Unction before engaging in any form of ministry. The worse injustice is how we have twisted and distorted God's Word, His image, nature, character and function over the centuries. There are many circles where sincere and devout Christians are drowning in the grapes of Sodom, wormwood and dung doctrines and theology. We need an urgent and profound Holy Ghost reformation in the way we view God and all the problems in the world. We desperately need God's heart, mind, eyes, ears, likeness.
We need to pray for the fullness (pleroma) of Christ, the hope of divine glory. As Moses said, "Lord, I will not go if your presence doesn't go with me."
May this young generation of Christian believers be filled and full of God's Glory. AMEN!
How can one in the Philippines give donations?
Thank you for this video. Watched from Nigeria.
Thank you, Bishop and Brandon! I so love listening to your show. I wanted to tell you about one way I stumbled upon to bring my 3 "none" children (who were raised VERY Catholic), and 8 grandchildren closer to Catholicism. At Christmas and for my birthday I ask for each of my children to contribute $40 to buy a goat from Heifer.org for $120 for a poor family. It's a great way for them to explain social justice to their still young children. They think pretty soon they are going to have to buy me a shepherd!
The world map behind Bishop Barron looks like he has an aureole sometimes
Me gusta. El señor Obispo se explica muy bien, el interlocutor lo hace muy bien. Gracias. Desde Arenas de san Pedro (Ávila), España. Paz y bien. Éxitos en su misión evangelizadora a través de los Medios . Gracias.
I dislike the word "justice" what a much better word is "charity"
Excellent ideas. Cant wait to get started after lockdown. (Uk)
Dostoyevsky converted me.
Please Bishop Barron can you talk about John Hus….i think he talked and fought for the truth!!!
Many tks Bishop zbarton and Brandon….you both give the courage of Christ to persons who are lost like me, or those who are so eager to learn more about Christ our Lord and our God!!
But there is a completes families is insane like You the movie! What's their ways no way!
Like i with king kong no way!
Traditional Latin Mass + Orthodox and UNCOMPROMISING teaching of the Truth
Jordan Peterson reinvigorated my interest in God. Because he presented the Bible in a sophisticated and intellectual way. He is a brilliant mind. Astonishing.
Then, Bishop Barron spoke with Dr. Peterson. I can’t express how grateful I am to have discovered someone on the intellectual level as Dr. P with deep theological insight. DON’T DUMB IT DOWN!
Thank you.
God bless you.
I wonder why the Catholic Church are so concerned with bringing young people in specifically? Hmm…