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Robert Barron
By Bishop Robert Barron
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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.

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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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  6. 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.

  7. 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?

  8. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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

  20. 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.

  22. 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?

  27. 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.

  31. 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!

  33. 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.

  35. 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!

  38. 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!

  49. 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.

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