Understanding the Holy Spirit
What are the basics we should know about the Holy Spirit? Who is he? And why is the Holy Spirit even necessary? Why not just God the Father and God the Son? In today's episode, Bishop Barron reflects on the Holy Spirit and explains how to grow closer to him and receive all his gifts.
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Thank you Bishop Baron for your talk on the Holy Spirit. I talk to God, I talk to Jesus and pray to the Holy Spirit, but for the first time in my life I realized just now that God the Holy Spirit was always with me too. I love you. I pray for all our priest and religious.
Wow, Fr Barron is explaining everything I wish Id learnt growing up as a catholic. Coming back to faith after 20 years as an atheist feels like a homecoming. 🏠
Yay! So happy for you. 😇
@S L yes, now you mention it growing up, the faith was used as a rod of discipline in my home without explanation or emphasis on anything else. My journey was similar to yours (especially related to the mountain of philosophical reading and looking into the eastern traditions), the Catholic Church just seems like home.
My mother raised me Catholic and I am so grateful for it now 🙏 Welcome to the family
It is a homecoming!
I think I feel the presence of the Holy Spirit most apparent when I get the swell of emotion when I think of Jesus and God when I pray the Rosary. It is most powerful then, because I am actually weeping quite profusely. I've had people ask, what is going on, and I tell them it's quite simply the overwhelming feeling of love. When I pray the Rosary I am usually offering my sorrow to Jesus for all those people that do not believe or are committing horrible crimes against humans. I beg him to forgive them. Other times I may be walking along the streets, enjoying the sunshine and hearing the birds chirping, feeling a cool breeze, and I thank God what he made for my enjyment in that moment. I am grateful I was born a Catholic and my mother teaching me to have an intimate prayer relationship with Jesus, but for as long as I've known, even from childhood, I have always known that the Holy Spirit is always a breath away when I appreciate the nearness of God in his works.
Keep my family in your prayers. 🙏
Well said. I will be praying for you. Prayers for me and my family would be appreciated boss.
A very significant comment Jeff, agree with you.
I agree. I have this reaction during Holy Mass,especially during the Consecration. I think of The Last Supper and feel such love and hope for humanity. 😇
The HOLY SPIRIT is not taught correctly by churches which convey a human -wrought made up belief. The HOLY SPIRIT (as taught by actual Jesus) is the conduit or pipe that connects to your soul and delivers sought DIVINE LOVE from your soul parent God into your soul. This Divine Love, the actual divine essence of God will(if sought enuf) will start incrementally transforming your soul to an IMMORTAL DIVINE type with a divine spark and awareness which it did not have originally. This is the actual truth and there are written documents and celestial -guided persons superior to the Bible to prove it. 😇🙏
Mu humble testimony: When I got my Confirmation, I was 24 or 26 ( I can’t remember exactly, sorry). I walked down the aisle fully connected that it would be the highlight of my whole life. And it was! 😍 Those 2 seconds when the bishop made the sign of cross on my forehead, I EXPERIENCED the most intense love and fire ( a fire hard to describe, a fire that didn’t hurt) I have ever had. Praise to God!
I’ve pleaded with the Holy Spirit to keep future generations in my family in the Roman Catholic Faith , not lip service, but strong Faith-Filled practicing Roman Catholics. My Mission. 🙏🏻
I have the icon ( wooden on a stand ) of the “ Holy Trinity” ( given to my family from a Holy Priest ). I love and value this , so meaningful, so deep.
I pray that God -- the Holy Spirit -- may help you fulfill your mission. That is also my prayer.
That’s beautiful. You’ve inspired me to do the same 🙏 God bless you and yours
Michael Anderson The wisdom of a Catholic Grandmother. Thankfully, my children are practicing Catholics.
@@michaelanderson4849 you need to take a more patient and humble stand in this life. Look, put it simply, only after you breath you last you will then know who is right and who is wrong about God. Before that happens, you should try to restraint yourself from so aggressively criticising others just because they think different to you.
I remember a brilliant local priest at my city, here in the Philippines, explaining that the Trinity is not like pantheism where each god can do what the others can't. The Trinity does not work like that; they are each a complete substance as there is, after all, one God. In Catholic school, I was taught that the Holy Spirit is God operating within us through our conscience and through the gifts that we have received in baptism.
The Holy Spirit heals, sanctifies, gives comfort, brings tears of joy, and help us know the depth of the love of the Father, in order to give that love to others. The presence of the Holy Spirit transforms our life. Fills our void. Carries away our sorrow and afflictions. Helps us in hardships. I pray that everybody that reads this can receive the Holy Spirit, I pray you give your life to Jesus and surrender to Him, I pray God draws you into His loving embrace, it’s the best decision anyone can make ever.
A gust of wind is my reminder that the Holy Spirit lives within us…great peace!
I am so grateful for your ministry to all of us, worldwide. Thank you, Bishop Barron.
Love you
Hii mom
The Holy Spirit is responsible for my conversion many years ago. He still remains very active in my life for which I am most grateful.
The unmoved, the mover, and the way. If you view the 3rd Person within this framework, you will lay hold of how necessary and distinct each are, how united they act, sustain and renew all things.
One Eastern Orthodox priest told it very bluntly and simply to me: The Holy Spirit is your life. What he of course meant is that it’s the divine life given to us through Christ, but still. Very elegant, very simple, very deep. That’s it and that’s sufficient for understanding this hypostasis of the Trinity I think
Matěj Jureček In the Apostles’ Creed we say “ the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life”.
Awesome Quote Matej!!
From Lithuania With Love !!! One Love !!!
When I read about St. Maximilian Kolbe, I learned that he had prayed and studied many hours during his lifetime, asking to understand the Person of the Holy Spirit, and to understand the Holy Trinity. This lead him to contemplate and pray more deeply about the relationship, and meaning between the Spouse of the Holy Spirit, our Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God to the Holy Spirit. St. Maximilian asked our Blessed Mother, "Who are you, Mary?" In an Icon of the Holy Family, we see Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Joseph being the Icon of God the Father. In this image of family, we see the Son, the Father, and the Mother between them. We see God the Father, God the Son, and Mary, who is, in essence, the Love between the Father and the Son in flesh and blood. Mary held the newborn Jesus, Son of God in her arms in adoration, looking lovingly down into the face of God her Creator, with Jesus looking up into the beautiful face of Love created between the Father and Son, that is, the "sigh" between them, in persona Mary. In my struggle to grasp and to understand the Holy Trinity, I am drawn more and more into the image of the Holy Family, and as I have learned from St. Maximilian Kolbe; I am asking, "Who are you Mary?" And, "Who are you Holy Spirit?" When I ask these questions, something rests on my heart, it draws me to the person and oneness of the Holy Family. Yet I can not find words to actually explain this to others. It is truly a mystery. I believe that when it is fully revealed to us, and we grasp it better, we will be overcome with an unspeakable awe. I believe that the Archangel Gabriel was given extraordinary grace to even pronounce "Full of Grace". The awe he experienced upon greeting Mary, was unspeakably profound.
This stuff is simply beyond human logic. Thank you to the Good Bishop and so many more who try to teach us about this beautiful mystery of the Trinity
Thank you Brandon for asking the same questions that I wanted to ask/clarify with Bishop Barron.
Amazing teaching about Holly Spirit 🕊Thank You Bishop Barron. 🙏
Thank you Bishop Barron. Wonderful ! May God bless you always 💖
I've always thought about the Holy Spirit as the Person who's the dynamics of God calling himself within us. His own essence actively interacting inside of us, constructing us, guiding us, sharing himself on us, making us know of his presence. When I was a child I had an easy tendency to have a relationship with God, or at least being conscious of his presence, however when I grew up and went to college, obviously I started doubting the Church and just got away. But when I missed God and started feeling a void inside of me I returned to the Church and instinctively I somehow knew that I needed to call the Holy Spirit to reach Jesus and reach Jesus to return to the Father.
Hey Bishop Robert. I just wanted to say that you’ve been instrumental in the deconstructing of my faith, without losing it. Thanks brother.
I cannot wait for this video. Should be very informative and exciting.
Wow! I listened to this twice!!! So profound!! And inspiring!!!
The depth of pure theology is amazing and Bishop Barron is so clear in his explanations. I fail so often to understand it right. We always seem to rank these "persons"..as first second and third...as though that's an order of importance or power.. We seem to lose the first part of the statement as "God in three persons". Maybe the order only comes because this is the order that they have come to us? I firstly see Jesus as "God with us"....the carnal presence on earth who came to speak to us directly in human form. I see the Spirit as the presence of God within us....who was introduced to us by Jesus the Christ to help us remain in unity with each other and with God in the same way he had on earth. All represent God reaching out to us to bring us in unity to him and with each other. The theology of this in a form that's without fault escapes me.
Beautiful graphics! 😇😇😇 Thank You to God! Thank You Mommy Mary!
Absolutely super interview! The Holy Spirit is always fanning into flame Bishop Barron's gifts, particular that of teacher. Thank you!
Re: Devotional area. I have a friend who I share much of my spiritual activities, mostly by phone, because I think of her as a person of deep faith. One day, I went to her house for my first visit. she invited me to her room and there she opened her closet, which to my expectation is where clothes are kept. But to my surprise, the closet did not have hanging clothes nor folded ones. instead I saw an altar, a chair facing the altar and some icons and a crucifix. There are candles but not the real ones. She said that is where she commune with God everyday, and that includes her husband as well. What a private place it is.
God is so wonderful even the great Bishop stumbles when trying to explain Him!
Being comicated doesn't make something great
Beautifully articulated Bp. Barron!
So beautifully expressed, May my soul magnify the Lord. Amen
So happy I stumbled onto this video! Thanks for a terrific explanation of who the Holy Spirit is Bishop!
God was knocking on my front door...and I never heard him. At 78 years of age, the Holy Spirit walked into me through the back door...and suddenly I was at peace! The feeling was overwhelming...Everything was OK! God became real in the sense that my life was in his hands. I felt love for those around me. I have become joyous...I have forgiveness in my heart. I went through the "formality" of being baptized 21 years ago...after I lost my son David Jr to cancer...But finally...finally, because of the Holy Spirit I have found God! It was ALPHA...the day we discussed the Holy Spirit...that made everything REAL!!!
Thank you so much Bishop Barron
Better words have never been spoken ❤
It has been great pleasure watching the subscription to Bishop Robert Barron Channel grow. *229K at Christmas 2019 and 303 today (5th May 2020) indeed is an achievement, thanks of course to all the new subscribers.* May Jesus bless the entire subscribers to the Channel with all grace and growth in the Holy Spirit.
Bishop Barron all of your rich deep yet simple explanations of our catholic faith are so clear as you teach us Do not think that you do not have those who tune in because your presentations are truly helpful and listened to by millions.keep it up the FIRE IS GETTING HOTTER EVERY DAY.YOUR IN OUR PRAYERS.
that is beautiful about the Spirit facilitating a conversation between the Father and the Son about you. It relates my feelings of when people are talking about God like He isn't Present as silimar to gossiping about somebody thats in the same room.
I resonated deeply with this. Helps me to see the path I'm on is heading towards Jesus.
The message of this video was very powerful. Thank you Bishop Barron for explaining the Holy Spirit so beautifully.
Great podcast on an important and challenging topic- thank you, Bishop Barron and Word on Fire! Happy Easter!
And Happy Pentecost 2021!
Amazingly bright guy. I'm grateful for the depth of his understanding and for his sharing.
My human finite mind can only grasp so much of this ….thanks. Brandon, you’re a beautiful soul.
God bless you Bishop...
Amazing sermon, so many rich messages to sustain us on our journey to heaven! Thank you Bishop for opening the eyes of our hearts. May we taste the new wine of Jesus daily, by following the advice of our Blessed Mother, Amen!
Thank you Bishop for the Beautiful explanation of God the Holy Spirit and what does it mean when you do this Sign of the Cross. I always learn something new, whenever I listen to this Video!! I really appreciate 🙏 thank you very much for bringing us closer to God!!
Wonderful discussion about the Holy Spirit. Thank the questioner and you both regarding devotional space. Very helpful.
Bishop Robert Barron, please continue the good reflections and homily. Before listening to the Sunday mass, I listen to your gospel homily first for I want to fully undestand the deeper meaning of the gospel. I appreciate it so much. I always listen to you and the Marian Fathers of Divine Mercy. Amen
So grateful for your help for us
Thank you Bishop Barron for explaining to me the differences of the three Persons and the One only God. It's very beautiful. I can feel every one of them. Again thank you very much for all the beautiful and blessing teachings.
Really helpful videos for my religion class, and very interesting information. Thank you!
Thank you Bishop Barron & thank you Lord for these Christian men 👍🏼
thank you dear bishop Barron ❤️
O Jesus, Mary and Joseph teach us: Faith, Hope and Love. Ps 87:1, Jn 10:29 "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: "He catches the wise in their craftiness." 1 Cor 3:19 😇 St. Isidora please pray for us!
THANK YOU‼️All I say is, ABSOLUTELY FASINATING‼️
Blessed Pentecost day Bishop Barron, may the Holy Spirit by in your country USA and my mine (Venezuela), amen
Beautiful!!❤️❤️❤️
Bishop Barron you are the Bishop Fulton Sheen of the modern-day and I love every word that you teach us amen God bless you
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God bless B Barron
It is my prayer that the Holy Spirit will inhabit this work so as to bring edification and inspiration to God’s people. May God bless all of the inspired people of the Word on Fire ministry.
I pray for the spirit to help me appreciate the love of the FATHER and SON and how to keep Him in my heart always!!!
Bishop's words are a beautiful exposition of the Comforter, and God bless Him. Dr. Barnabas Mathew, Kerala. India
Thanks very much, so inspiring!!!. God bless!!!.
I have been used by God to pray for a friend who was subsequently healed. Last week i was really realky poorly from covid and was prayed form. Woke up totalky well next morning!.
I try my best to Pray to God the Holy Spirit everyday because as Brandon said we tend to forget God the Holy Spirit in our Daily Life!
The Holy Spirit is in work in me.., the moment I detest my worldly attachement money, lust and power. I understand it now....and it's the best thing that happen to me. Being touched by the Power of the Holy Spirit!😍
Great teaching. ❤️
I found a book entitled The Paraclete is very informative on the Holy Spirit and gave a copy to my pastor. He permitted me to do a Novena to the Holy Spirit for the past three years. We hope to continue the presentation and remind the parish that Easter Season is not over until Pentecost Sunday. Thank you for the information today on the Holy Spirit. I love the Holy Spirit my comforter and constant companion Blessings Lee
Thank you. Alleluia!
Fr. Henri Nouwen in his book Clowning In Rome, gave the etymology of the word person. Personare from the Latin - To sound through. When I learned this it changed my perception of how I act or interact with others. As you are discussing the person of the Holy Spirit, it helps me to think of the Triune God as a sounding through of one to the other. For me it gives a more intimate understanding of the Godhead.
The Holy Spirit is shared with others in communion when we open our hearts in connecting with God thru the Spirit of Christ in all of us while remembering Jesus in his presence on Holy Ground.
Thanks much for this video.
Blessings . 💗💗💗
Praise be 😌
You cannot make do without the Holy Spirit. If we are made in God’s image, then we love God by loving our neighbour, and we must also, like God, be the lover, the beloved, as well as the love and loving that connects one to the other. And God is no more split into three separate parts than a person is when being the lover, the beloved, and being loving. It is merely love experienced as I, You, and We.
Thank you . This book will be a blessing to me and many other people. ☺️
I CAN NOT WAIT...
I knew The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are one thank you for the message 🧚♀️✝️🕊🧚♀️✝️🕊🧚♀️✝️🕊
Its difficult to apply our physical analogy and understand to such matters of the spirit. Thank you for this although I'll have to watch this multiple times to grasp most of it.
Thank God I am not alone God is my saviour and best friend Amen
Good talk... "The Divine Reality may be likened to the sun and the Holy Spirit to the rays of the sun. As the rays of the sun bring the light and warmth of the sun to the earth, giving life to all created beings, so do the “Manifestations” (Messengers) bring the power of the Holy Spirit from the Divine Sun of Reality to give light and life to the souls of men." ~ 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahai Faith
Who can fathom the ways of god They are past finding out
Father and Son, stir up your Spirit in me!
Incredible!
The bishop is a good wordsmith.
The Holy Spirit is God's presence in my life. The Knowing, the feeling that God is present in my life --- He is the tether - the fiery link who connects me to Jesus and to God the Father. The Holy Spirit is God's DESIRE for me to have a loving relationship with Him.
Wow so powerful
We will never be able to describe God in His fullness, such as His Holy Trinity, with our human mind and language; it will be like trying to make a horse understand how grasses grow or something. However, we do know the Son of God, Jesus Christ, and because Jesus is fully God and fully Man, we are able to understand to a certain extent, how much God loves us and how God sees us; and so we can have a complete faith in God even though we cannot understand Him fully.
Oh holy spirit i love you and I need you be my love
Amen
I have a Little Alter in my Living Room with Holy Bible, a picture frame of Sacred Heart of Jesus, Blessed Mother, St. Joseph and St. Theresa. With Candles in the front. When we say our daily Nigh Pray we light the candles 🕯
I am not Catholic but an Episcopalian and i just love this guy he is awesome.
From the Philippines where’s a devotion to the Holy Spirit Thanks for the idea of subsistent relationships of the 3 persons
When trying to understand the relation between the Holy Trinity, I was reminded of Gestalt theory where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
The Holy Spirit is not just a person but also a divine because God is there even though God is the Father, and He is the Son and He is the Holy Spirit. Like in The Gospel we are told that God's son(Jesus Christ) Promised the Disciples that the Holy Spirit will come to them The Divine person who we are told about is (God), May God Bless you Bishop Robert Barron🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤✝✝✝👍👍👍
I love the converted closet idea!
Bishop Barron, Thank you very much for all the Spirit-filled teachings you do. I have a question. We say, we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. If so, why do we pray, :Come Holy Spirit, when He is already dwelling in us. Is it because, human as we are, we are still sinners and are not consciously aware and recognize His Presence in us? And when we mindfully recognize that God is dwelling in us, His grace flows freely in us. Whatever angst, conflict, frustration, illness, problem, issues and concerns, both personal or otherwise we are facing now is GOD'S permissive will to WATER and PRUNE our TREE of LIFE that we may bear the FRUITS of the HOLY SPIRIT. As you said, do we become more loving, more joyful, more peaceful, gentle, kind, faithful, generous, self-controlled, patient when we are test by trials and tribulations of life? Susan Vidal, Philippines. - Author, The Gospel According to my Kitchen Sink
The Holy Spirit anointed The Apostles with Fire to announce The Resurrection Of Jesus. Imagine Him As Sunlight. Personal warmth for all the Faithful Yet also objectively separate.
KEN DAVIS. WATCHING AGAIN BEFOE BED. I AWAKE EACH MORNING AT 5AM.WATCHING EWTN UNTIL ROSAY AT END OF MASS.
You can even put a digital images of icons on your phone or computer screen
Father one time in the Philippines i sow the holy spirit inform a dove is alive moving but is light
I pray to The Holy Spirit to understand the things that I don’t understand,good decisions in life that I will not be living in sins,but most of all my love for my neighbours .
“Veni Sancti Spiritus” 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
You should do an interview between Barron, Hahn, and Chan. Chan wrote a book called Unity. And Hahn wrote a book called Rome Sweet Home. I would love to hear more about unity amongst Christians and what that would look like.
Bishop Barron, First off I love all of the great work you do. You have given me a lot of insight about God and the dignity of the human person. I have a question. I know that Thomas aquinas said that God loves everyone unequally, like he doesn’t love a dog like he does a human, and he doesn’t love a priest as much as our blessed mother. That is because he gave them each certain goods and to some he gave them more good. So my question is does God hate the disabled? Based off of aquinas’ argument, God didn’t give the disabled as much as good as regular people. If a disabled person feels worthless, how can you say that God loves them as much as anybody else?