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Robert Barron | – God’s Rules for Life — Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermon

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Robert Barron
By Bishop Robert Barron
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Friends, the Books of Moses teach that the three types of Israelite law—liturgical law, ritual law, and moral law—shape and direct God’s people toward holiness and purity. While the liturgical laws have been carried over and the ritual laws largely set aside, the moral laws remain unchanged, for they represent those great abiding intuitions by which our lives should be structured.

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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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  2. Dear Bishop Barron. I am subscriber for your Utube channel. You requested me to make a donation to some Orphanage in Nigeria. Could you please give me the name of its website. Please thank you Dear Bishop Barron.

  3. Your Excellency Bishop Barron,
    I have accidently deleted your reply to my comment. In that you asked me specifically, to make a donation to some orphanage in Nigeria. Was it Motherless Babies oprphanage? Please send me the proper name and Iwill happily and willingly make a donation. Thank you Boshop Barron.

  4. ‘And with your spirit’ Thank you bishop for another, as always, insightful sermon.

    Question to whom ever can answer, what is the difference between homily and sermon? I had thought ‘sermon’ is a non-catholic referrence, as to what (catholic) homilies are to us. I see bishop Barron’s Sunday ‘talks’ are listed as sermons?

  6. In today’s homily you discussed treatment of aliens and treatment of the helpless and vulnerable in today’s society. According to recent guidance by the Catholic bishops regarding voting, the issues at the top of of the hierarchy of values is the termination of the unborn and religious freedom. That you mentioned the treatment of aliens and widows and orphans but did not even mention the abortion issue speaks volumes. I have not heard you mention the unborn is a serious moral wrong not coming from a person in your position. A clear teaching on the horror in God’s eyes of killing these innocent and helpless children could save thousands of lives. Please respond soon or I will be unsubscribing very soon.

  9. rules for life? the first rule is life! your excelency, it is time for the shepherd to confron the wolves, headon! your worldly eminence is needed now more than ever to unequivocate on this. time to spend some of that secular and sacred equity you mave amassed before none of us are safe.

  15. One thing I will never ever agree with, Bishop Barron, on the grounds of the Decalogue's rule #7 in particular, of Thou Shall Not Steal; which overrides any universal destination of goods, even as basically a destitutely poor man, fiscally speaking, is the false idea of "if you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you, the other belongs to your neighbor" nonsense, is that I shall never ever have any right to my neighbor's property. I also fully endorse the idea of charging interest as a just practice, which it is. For what rights do I have to my neighbor's property or the fruits of his labor? None whatsoever, as it shall always be. Better to die than to sin, and stealing is always sinful; that absolutely includes stealing to survive: that too is intrinsically sinful, no matter the need. In short, need doesn't matter at all, nor shall I ever have any right whatsoever to my neighbor's property, his wages, or the fruits of his labor. Should he choose to give me money of the kindness of his heart, freely and unharrassed for it, then I will then and only then accept, but any coersion to give funds away at all negates the consent and makes it stealing. And possessing stolen property, even to survive, is being an accomplice to the sin, thus sinning with the other- and that is always sinful. Far better indeed to not steal and thus die of starvation than to rob to survive. At least that way you're following the Decalogue and the moral law, and it may well be your time to go to eternity if that be the case.

  16. All of you who received a "message" supposedly from Bishop. Ignore it, especially any message claiming a revelation and asking for money as a result. Those people are usually, most likely frauds. I agree. The message many of you received is NOT characteristic of Bishop Barron. Please, please ignore or.

  21. Salamat Po, Bishop Barron for soundingto us the message of God, our Father…and thanks for aiding us hearing and eye impaired, how practical it was, how considerate that both are spoken and written for us, elderly as well…message so clear to all ages…Amen, Paz!

  25. Bishop – THANK YOU for speaking about Pope Francis's encyclical – I have been hoping that you would maybe break down the letter into chunks and give talks on each portion to help us better understand the meanings and nuances of the Popes letter. Thank you as always for this sermon – I grow in my faith each time I hear you speak. God bless you today and always.

  26. Wonderful reminder of the teachings of our Catholic Church. ‘Out of empathy, focus on the weakest in our society’. Aliens ( undocumented immigrants), widows, orphans, those who need financial help. Treating those and each other with empathy instead of stoking divisiveness is the only path to healing. God Bless all the people who are marginalized.

  34. From the time of Justin Martyr (AD 100-165), the Church was always called the TRUE ISRAEL (VERUS ISRAEL) the "reality" vs the Old Testament "shadow", not the "NEW ISRAEL" which implies a replacement theology rather than a hermeneutic of continuity (Ratzinger).

  35. Father. You said there existed no social programs in the times of the law, but we have evidence therein that they did. See deuteronomy 26:12, where the people are commanded to put away a tenth for the priests and a tenth for orphans and widows and struggling foreigners that have settled among them. Jews being Jews, they made the priests take on the responsibility of these and gave the tenth to one place. That was meant as a joke, but I'm sure The Lord intended it to be this way, since the pasture lands he gave to the Levites was located predominantly in cities of refuge.

    You also said that God does not need anything, but he calls the sacrifices of the Israelites, "…which is the food of your God." But it isn't the sacrifice itself that is considered food, but the honor and obedience that he craves above all things, even above love, as we know from the prodigal son story and this verse: God desires mercy, not sacrifice something something I can't remember atm, but is the point I'm trying to make. 🙂 gotta get back to work, before in caught on the phone.

  37. Thank you so much for sharing where the moral laws come from so they can be cited at times when the subject comes up. Now more than ever it is necessary to educate people on moral law. Interesting fact for you. Native Americans practiced it. If they had two pots, one was given to someone who had none.

  38. Great homily. The philosophy of Nietzsche prevails today in America from the highest rank: good is evil, evil is good, mercy is slave morality, and the will to power is man's destiny. But God calls us to a life of love, sacrifice and mercy, to exercise forbearance of others for we are all sinners and sojourn in a strange land. Thank you to call us in a different direction.

  39. During the shutdown of our churches during the virus we watched the Bishop's Sunday masses on the internet…. and loved them. So much so that now that we have been back in Sunday mass for a while now, we still listen to this Sunday sermon, and I hope the Bishop never stops doing this homily. Two Sundays ago my son asked after watching the Bishop if I thought he, the Bishop, ould every be Pope…. I dont know son I said, I am not sure they think of Americans that way… I asked what he thought. He said, he sure hoped so! Well to be honest… i do too! Thank you Bishop… for connecting my son that way.

  42. Excellent:

    Title perhaps alluding to, and in some sense rebutting, Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for life. However; in my view these two standpoints should not be put in direct conflict with each other. Peterson really majors on us doing the very best we can and taking personal responsibility for ourselves and focuses on the issues through a psychoanalytical lens. This is not wrong, it is just not complete. It is the Nature part of the Nature/Grace debate. When God’s Grace fully appears through Jesus the Christ and is sealed in us (personally) by the indwelling of His Holy Spirit something else, something eternal has happened, as is then evidenced by the spiritual fruit that we produce above and beyond the natural ability of any of us to change ourselves; a new nature, a new life, rebirth, born again, or to use Catholic terminology regeneration. Praise God for this free gift and the hope eternal HE guarantees by it. Amen

  43. Bishop , May I ask you to pray for me . I find myself not I a position In life that’s not so good . The love of my life , who I lived with died from Cancer 2 years ago . My life is about to change ( and not for the better) I might add I’m terrified and scared right now , PLEASE PRAY FOR MY SAFETY !

  45. Thanks for, all the Sunday sermons. So grateful to hear that Jesus abrogated many of the ritual uncleaness. Leviticus 12 seems to me to have placed women as unclean and inferior to men and caused men to thank God for being men. A problem through the ages and lasting still today?

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