Robert Barron | – Inside the Life of a Priest: Clerically Speaking Podcast (Part 1)


Friends, in this video clip from the Clerically Speaking Podcast with Fr. Anthony Sciarappa and Fr. Harrison Ayre, we talk about the intellectual, spiritual, and community life of the priest. Our discussion covers the seminary system, the role of priestly fraternity, and methods for reaching out to the local parish and wider community.

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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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  1. I think the parish can do a lot to help a priest not feel lonely by inviting him to dinner or family celebrations. Treating him to coffee or lunch. For our priest, because of Covid, we had a big drive-by birthday party in the parking lot and showered him with gifts and cards to show how much we appreciate him and what he is doing for us during the pandemic. I know it's not quite the same as fraternity with other priests, but I think we need to make our parish priests feel loved and appreciated.

  2. Bishop Barron's familial manner puts these questions in perspective, the conversation style is congenial, concise and practical. His Excellency's informality in the discussion is so likable. It's as if one is present at a small gathering of Catholic priests watching this and listening to the podcast a few days before. At ease with almost any subject, his approach seems unguarded, a disarming presence, gives the impression of being invitingly approachable like being among friends.

  3. I'm grateful for Bishop Barron. I help to pray for priests and seminarians. The Seven Sisters also pray for husbands as priests of the domestic household, if they are married. Some of the women are married to Deacons and teachers of the Faith.

  4. I think Bishop Barron is wonderful. He really speaks in a manner Catholics can understand and relate to. I’ve been following him for 10 years and his videos have really enlightened me.

  5. Your program, Word on Fire, sounds very good, and really, most necessary. One of my arguments with the church is that it had forgotten how to go out to the world. In point, the church has discouraged lay involvement as a “professional” approach by priests, brothers and sisters could be the only ones trusted to carry our that calling of the church. The church has done a very minimal and piss poor job instructing its faithful in many aspects of the faith let alone to be evangelical. My problem with your program, or almost any church program, is that I can not economically afford it. I know it cost to set up and operate any program, Enough said. I am a sinner, god help me.

  6. Interesting how Bishop Barron goes on about his Catholic faith but forgets to discuss the "Fall of the American Empire." As the COVID-19 progresses in the USA it is obvious that Satan has a "stranglehold" on the USA. But the majority of Americans and Bishop Barron are so blind to NOT see the USA fall from Grace. GOD HELP THE SOULS OF ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS!

  7. The seminary life I have known: A greenhouse where souls and spirits were in some way fertilized to think in a pre-formatted way with a high level of suspicion for our bodies while, at the same time, an intellectual development opportunity to be envied by many universities. From age 13 on, meals in silence, monthly retreats, mandatory sports, study, prayer and, yes, a heart full support from noble and generous men of prayer of awesome intellect. A love-hate relationship for me, a precious heritage and, at the same time, a running commentary that if you did not become a priest, you risked eternal failure. To pursue your metaphor of « seeds being planted and cultivated », I felt more like a bonsai tree than a oak tree allowed to grow as the oak tree that it is.
    Levis Shalom

  8. If they didn’t get paid, there wouldn’t be a tenth of the priests there are in the world.

    (I only say this to convey that doesn’t matter if they were “called by God”. If there’s no money in the game, there’s no players.

  9. Bishops… Bishops…. Bishops…. Bishops ……there are no Cardinals!
    THE CHURCH WAS CREADED ONCE AND FOR ALL THE DAY OF PENTECOST WITH 85 HOLY APOSTOLIC CANONS (RULES) THAT INCLUDED THE WILL OF GOD FOR THE SALVATION OF MAN

    http://www.holytrinitymission.org/books/english/cannons_apostles_rudder.htm

    1st canon 1. A Bishop must be ordained by two or three other Bishops. The word Bishop primarily and properly is applied, in the divine and holy Scriptures, to God, who supervises and oversees all things in the universe

    2nd canon 2. A Presbyter must be ordained by a single Bishop, and so must a Deacon and other Clergymen.

    3rd Canon How to prepare Holy Communion .

    THE APOSTLES WERE RAISED TO HEAVENLY MYSTICS (PRIESTS) FOR THE SALVATION OF MAN

    https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/jameswiliamsblog.wordpress.com/1041

    God bless

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