Be monks. How true that is! Monks played a huge role in my conversion to the Catholic faith, simply because they were being faithful to their call. The ones that I encountered while discerning my journey towards the Church all of those years ago still is lovingly burned into my memory. Thank you so much for this, Bishop! Pax!

I am a Benedictine Oblate of St. Meinrad Archabbey. There are over 3000 Oblates of St. Meinrad. I have seen the evangelizing power of Oblates, done through the principles of the Benedictine Rule, the idea of community in our own parishes, especially now this ideà of community fosters love, consideration and caring.

St. Benedict, increase my humility please. Thank you. Godbless anyone who is reading this. Please pray for me.

I was received as a guest in the Trappist Mount St Bernard Abbey in England over 30 years ago. I spent a week in retreat there and it deeply affected me, I have returned many times since. I learned to pray the rosary there, the chaplet of divine mercy but more than that, I was introduced to the daily office which has stayed with me ever since. I think that the recitation of the psalms throughout the day and every day, even in an abbreviated form is the great hidden treasure of the praying church. If only more people could do this, what would that release in the life of the church?

The West's debt to Benedictine spirituality is simply immeasurable. Their vow of stability is also tremendously important and has a very profound meaning, because on it depends the value they attribute to a beautiful environment and why they value building beautiful monasteries so much. My favorite Benedict rule is the one that reads: "The reason why we have said all should be called for counsel is that the Lord often reveals what is better to the younger" (Chapter 3). This is a sometimes forgotten spiritual foundation of democratic reflection.

I enjoy listening to Bishop Barron. His demeanor is calm & he seems to me to be a Holy Priest. God bless you Bishop Barron!

The Rosary that I use is themed with St. Benedict, with the St. Benedict's exorcism medal on the cross. However I don't have much insight or knowledge about the life of St. Benedict, but that he was a monk and he founded monasteries, the famous one at Monte Cassino, destroyed by allied bombings during World War 2 and rebuilt. St. Benedict ora pro nobis.

*Monastics spend time in prayer so as to* discover why they are working, and would *spend time in work so that good order and harmony would prevail in the monastery.*

Thank you blessed Benedictines and thank you dear St. Benedict for all you are and all you do.

I've been blessed very often by Benedictine hospitality, too, especially through Liturgy. A word of advice, though: Especially if you're a woman, check prior to your arrival to learn whether or not a particular Benedictine community will let you stay overnight. I almost panicked once when monks in a very rural and sparsely populated area thousands of miles from my own community informed me that unless I was a relative of one of the monks, I could not stay even in the guest house, since I was a woman, even though I was there to carry out my community's mission. For some reason I don't recall now, I hadn't made arrangements beforehand, and since I had visited there before, I knew how welcoming they were otherwise. Providentially, a cloistered women's religious community nearby bent its own rules and put me up for one night in the rooms sectioned off for women who were discerning a religious vocation! God's sense of humor.

"Making of a Catholic Priest " was excellent.

So.much yo learn from Benedictine spirituality. I really like the idea of the monasteries open to young adults guests. Thank you for your work Bishop Barron's

What a wonderful story about washing the dishes! This was always my least favorite chore, because it seems like it's never finished. Once the sink is empty and clean, here comes another dirty dish! I was in a challenging place in life some years ago, and I was washing the dishes yet again. With no warning, I found myself in tears, washing a plate, first the face from the center to the rim, and then carefully turning it over to wash the back, from the rim to the center, making two spirals, front to back, and then rinsing the soap suds in a stream of warm water. With this simple movement, and the water on my hands, I found myself centered and released from anxiety and tension, and I literally just stood there in tears, *grateful for the gift of washing dishes.* It is imperative that we do something physical, with our hands, every day. As a species we were making and using tools long before we could speak, and I think our brain still longs for the simple, creative, physical activity that something even as mundane as washing dishes - turning an object from one state to another. Bless you, and thanks for this story!

I'm definitely with Bishop Barron on doing the dishes. Love this meditative moment of the day! God Bless!

Bishop Barron gave a wonderful, inspiring discussion of the Benedictines. I was particularly interested in the topic of Justice … but each aspect of this discussion was well done. Thank you Bishop Barron! ✝️♥️

God bless Bishop Barron and Word on Fire ministries. So excited for the next chapter in his ministry in Minnesota🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️✝️

For all Christians the glue has to be the gospels, stay true to the gospel and for church goers the liturgy, but then listen to the spirit with your own ears and eyes the spirit wants to teach You.

"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another." *- Thomas Merton*

Thank you Bishop Barron and Brandon for this interesting conversation. I always enjoy listening to both of you on Word on Fire show. Bishop Barron, i would love to come and do the dishes for you and to work in your home and serve you ☺ GOD bless you. Stay safe. ➕❤

The ancient biographies of Benedict (and Martin of Tours) are some of the most inspiring literature I've ever read.

As a Catholic, as a librarian, as a history buff, I know how much we owe to St. Benedict, but it‘s easy to take his work for granted. Thank you for reminding me how he is truly „sine qua non“! Next time I visit Einsiedeln (I live about an hour’s train ride away), I‘ll say a special prayer for your own work. 🇨🇭

As an engineer much of my work is theoretical/intellectual before implementation. In implementation I should leave it to artisans who are more competent than I. So I too find a form of comfort in "doing dishes". While I was researching for my Masters' thesis, I'd grab at an opportunity to do basic manual work. I ended hanging up the washing to dry. This type of work is therapeutic.

Finding a hobby or chore to allow the ‘calculating’ brain to rest. 🙏🏾 thank you

LOVE the radicalism of evangelism!! Spot on Bishop..inspire to see shadows of heaven

Another rhetoric student of Rome… (Augustine)….his story will be inspirational…. I will be listening ♥️✝️

Lovely and thanks so much! I remember about the dishes--I send some handmade dishcloths to you for use! They wear like iron!

Here is a dialogue grounded a in deeply inviting spirit: « BE monks » and then conjugate your DOING to who you are (« Guiding others on the path to God ») and leave what results from your DOING in the hands of God. This conversation nailed down the christian life equation: BE the unique gift God entrusted you to be for the world, then DO accordingly to that beingness and leave the HAVING i.e. the outcome, in God’s hands - just as those monks have no havings of their own. This is so compelling compared to the other two equations: I do in order to have in order to be what I do. Or I have in order to do stuff to be the stuff I have. Levis Shalom

Love to hear u Bishop Barron

Thank you his excellency for your reflection about Benedictines. It is very inspiring and encouraging words even for us Benedictines. Thank you

So excited! I love St. Benedict.

To this day my favorite job that I've ever had was just corralling shopping carts outside of a supermarket, for exactly the same reasons that Bishop Barron mentioned.

Was one of the Best weeks of My life

I live near a Benedictine Abbey. It’s such a privilege to attend their sing mass and prayers. God bless the benedictines!!!

God bless you

Divine Eternal Will

"Making of a Catholic Priest" was very good, I would love to see more films like that in the future. I hope lots of people get something out of it.

My late husband was a lawyer. His favourite things…. loading the dishwasher , cutting the grass, and washing the car . He loved washing the car! I’d sit on the porch and watch him . He was in another world . ❤️

Some kind person should volunteer to give Bp Barron a dishwasher!

I liked that lawnmower. It was nothing worth than a great learning experience for a push start. Though to maintain the speed forward was a lengthy maintenance issue involving where one would be stored. It was a forethought to the automatic transmissions today. The relation of ratios from the circling blades to the instances of two wheels driving the spin function. _Pencil Sharpener_

Loved this, wish it was longer and a bit deeper.

I wish Bishop Barron and Brandon Vogt realized and recognized that there are Benedictine nuns, not just men

I LOVED sing at Rosarys with they

I'm a former Catholic, who wanted to be a Benedictine. And although I am now Protestant I still read the Rule three times a year.

This is one of ur most inspiring sermons!!

Awesome!

We need Warriors for Christ who reject evil of abortion. Let us at this time of Supreme Court consideration of Roe v Wade depart from a society of abortion, a society of evil. Stand with Abp Cordileone. In Jesus’ name.

✨🎶✨ … Amen 🙏🏼

Yeah. The Benedictine are the BEST! Because whatever he has discovered absolutely obviously scares the shit out of Marxists and atheists! Otherwise they wouldn’t be trying so hard to discredit him. That said, I feel so blessed to be one of the chosen 1500 who get to see this video. I feel so special and LOVED.

Word.

I still have not watched the video, but I beg anyone to tell me what I should do with my Parents and my whole family being so worldly? I want them to be converted or rather be reverted to the faith. It seems like my advice to them do not get through. 😭

ESPEC LOVE benedictibe historucal spiritualism!! Soo true

Studying the ancient St. Bernard who was the silver tongue and Patron Saint of the KNIGHTS TEMPLAR The gifted knights so incredibly educated dedicated to the Grail Temple . They were founded January 13, 1128 and Dissolved by Pope Clement V in 1312. Why were so valuable,so precious Holy men murdered??

If yes, can you give me some tips how do it? Thank you!

Is there anything in the works about helping Catholic institutions return to the mission of evangelization?

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall inherit southern Minnesota. Or was it the cheesemakers? Monty python has me confused. (God doesn’t mind if you laugh) Plenty of cheesemakers in Minnesota so both seem fitting.

Shalom Bishop Baron! Is involvement in active evangelization imperative to any lay believer?

Bishop can you review "what is a woman" if you haven't done so already. Thank you

Priests have masteral degrees in dishwashing. It's part of life in the seminary 😅

ok turn a round Transcript 10:50 - 11:36

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That means that one knows, personally I do'n't know many things :)) That's what I'd tell any young person. Look at me. I don't know many things. Be better than me.

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The Holy Ghost pours out his Spirit and brings the increase in the name of Jesus. The latter rain proceeds the second coming and it is what waters the seed. Without the Spirit of God no one is saved. Believe in your idea of Jesus till the end of time, it does little good. You need to accept his ambassador and representative. So when the Holy Spirit shows himself and is rejected that is the unpardonable sin. To grieve the Spirit of God is to reject life. The supreme witness of Jesus Christ (King David) is reporting for duty. He was a man whose tongue held no lies, For he was the direct descendant of our father in the heavenly skies. Born to a body of fleshy sin, Though what laid beneath was unlike the rest of his kin. Jesus had the utmost grace, Never being wavered by evils face. He was wise beyond any years, Performing miracles that would bring crowds to tears. A beacon of light on top of a starless mountain, Where words of wisdom poured out of him as if there ran a cosmic fountain. His eyes pierced through you with a single glance, Leaving even the most hardened individuals in quite the trance. The Holy Spirit so ever majestically flowed inside this man, Naturally people caught notice and became a fan. Students began showing up from every mold, When they heard his words their hearts were sold. Wicked men put a price on Jesus's head, He was wanted alive or dead. Despite this he and his disciples continued their teachings, Where on occasion they endured terrible beatings. One of the twelve apostles turned to black, No longer having Jesus's back. Judas Iscariot had done Satan's bidding, And it is in hell where he now is sitting. Jesus died on the cross to pay for our shortcoming, However don't be saddened for if you believe in him you will see him at your homecoming. There he sits at the right hand of God's throne, Being the voice of truth and love that we all have known. Satan's tongue is coated in a layer of deceit, And he tramples over promises with his feet. He's a being who is bound by deceptions, Whose very essence oozes with misconceptions. He struggles to look you in your eyes, For his gaze holds nothing but lies. On occasion he will give you his hand, But don't be fooled by his stand. He seeks to corrupt your heart, You would be wise to avoid him from the start. Seeking quick pleasures and casting aside love, He traverses this land with push and shove. Now Lucifer was once not lost, But pride blinded him at a cost. Disobeying God he waged war, Becoming detestable to the core. Today he is the ruler of Earth, Though for all his power he has no real worth. However most of us have still been sold, Giving into sin and becoming cold. Nearly everyone is a puppet dancing on strings, Marching to delusion for their unjust kings. My people have given into lust, Becoming robots full of rust. However you my child are the exception, So when you meet me don't forget to mention. That you alone have been granted the key, And before your glory they shall all bend a knee. P.S.- Not too long ago I was very bitter and destructive. Literally I was covered in blood from head to toe and ripping off nails and things of that nature. In my mind Jesus was against me, he had a vendetta against me which I couldn't account for. Then slowly but surely I started having these revelations, and began delving into the word of God. It seemed like my agony was not in vain. The things which held me back eventually began to propel me forward. The darkness began fading away and an unspeakably bright light was surfacing. Jesus told me that he had to break me in order for me to rediscover who I really was. Sort of like a phoenix rising from the ashes. Today I am almost fully healed in every conceivable way, and things like being a virgin and being covered in scars I strangely enough take much pride in. I took up my cross and followed Christ and in doing so I discovered the greatest love of all.

Lol at the poster saying half the Catholics believe in Gay Marriage. Hate to burst your gay ole time, but you are NOT a Catholic if you believe that. You don’t change Gods word because you don’t like it. If you are fortunate enough to to live in the US, start your own church. See how that works? It’s freedom given to you by God.

I played volleyball with they full sweat

Why did that guy get 60k for his special diet? Was that from church donations?

Find a Traditional Latin Mass

HALF of US Catholics not only support gae mirage, but want the catholic church to acknowledge it as legitimate. Bishop Barron, can you please set them straight?

why trinity doesn`t wrote in bible

Provided the young person is not in kinder garden :)

Hey bishop. Go watch the new video. We are rainbow warriors. Not the rainbow pushovers. The truth is out

Can you make a commentary video on the new Top Gun? @BishopBarron