Showing posts with label Fr Barron. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fr Barron. Show all posts

Friday, May 13, 2011

Who is your interpreter?


Do yourself a favor and click on the above heading and read about Philip.  Or go to this link and read the Road to Emmaus story.

In Mass yesterday it struck me just how important it is to know who your interpreter is.  We all have one but most of the times we have many acting in this role of interpreter for us.  Who is your interpreter right now? 

One interpreter who I hold up is Father Barron.  Give a listen to his interpretation of "All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dillon.  He understands that since the cross how we interpret things has been altered.

As Jesus tells the scribes and Pharisees in Matthew 12:38-42: There is something more here.  I have had to admit that in looking at what life hands me there is something more here than what I am first inclined to see.  And this way of going "deeper" is what Jesus is challenging us to experience.  He is asking us to make the connection between the interpreter(s) of our life and of course, the Author.  Who is helping you read "the something more" of your life story?

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Barron - How the Pope Reads Scripture

In reading Jesus of Nazareth (volume 2), Father Robert Barron comments on Pope Benedict XVI's "theological hermeneutic," which, while not eschewing the historical critical method of studying Scripture, looks at the Bible more deeply, revealing God's intent in and for human history. Here.

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

ZENIT - Fr. Barron

For the record: ZENIT interview Father Robert Barron, whose Word on Fire videos we often feature here at the 4M's here.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Barron - Why the World

Father Robert Barron on why God created the universe:

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Fr Barron - No Sense Unless ...

An apropos reality check that the 4Ms first heard from Gil Bailie: “You should live your life in such a way that it would make no sense unless God exists.” - Cardinal Souhard

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The Church 2 step


The Great Evangelization by Fr. Robert Barron
The Church 2-step
Step 1 Hunker down - perservation
Step 2 Let loose the Light - let the light out

Thursday, December 24, 2009

To understand This Love born unto us - which goes beyond our knowledge - we must comtemplate our violence

"...we have to think of Christianity as essentially historical, ... Solomon's judgment explains everything on this score: there is the sacrifice of the other, and self-sacrifice; archaic sacrifice and Christian sacrifice. However, it is all sacrifice. We are immersed in mimetism and have to find a way around the pitfalls of our desire, which is always desire for what the other possesses. I repeat, absolute knowledge is not possible. We are forced to remain at the heart of history and to act at the heart of violence because we are always gaining a better understanding of its mechanisms." pg 35, Battling to the End by René Girad

Listen and watch below and then reread René - at the heart of Father Barron's message is the explanation of the expulsion of the Other - violence.



To begin to grasp The Love that is freely given we must tear down our defenses, our violence which is always expelling the other. Violence, our violence is what This Love comes to heal.

Read René!

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Year One

World is going to hell in a hand basket or rather ending as we know it so let us start all over without all this God stuff...

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Fr. Barron comments on the Vampire craze


Some interesting themes touched on by Fr Barron.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

St Thomas - America Needs You

Father Robert Barron:
Just last week I was in Toulouse France, filming for my ten part documentary on Catholicism. I will admit that I was in Toulouse for fairly personal reasons. In the Dominican church of the Jacobins, in a golden casket situated under a side altar, are the remains of my hero, St. Thomas Aquinas. I spent a good amount of time in silent prayer in front of Thomas’s coffin, thanking him for giving direction to my life ..
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Thursday, July 30, 2009

What if...

... that image hovered over the skyline of our own souls.

3 questions you face during a Cursillo weekend:
Where do you spend your time?
Where do you spend your money?
And what do you think most about?

Friday, July 03, 2009

Fr Baron refers to Girard and the unveiling of scapegoating violence



We must keep reminding folks who come visiting that we have a "must read" Girardian side bar. Please scroll over and check out these books and further down are some links to great articles that explain and go into detail about scapegoating violence and mimetic theory.

Here are 2 Girard books and 1 from our friend and mentor Gil Bailie:

I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

The Girard Reader

Violence Unveiled

This is serious stuff but if you are serious about the bible you must be serious about the violence it unveils. The bible reveals Love in as much as it unveils our violence.

2 Cheers for Independence Day

Friday, May 15, 2009

Fr Barron reviews Angels and Demons

Go see “Angels and Demons” if you like a thriller or you enjoy computer-generated images of the Vatican; but please don’t be taken in by its underlying philosophy.

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Answering the Skeptics Part 2

Part 2 of Father Barron answering theological questions many skeptics of Catholicism may have, with special guest Mike Leonard asking the questions.


Interesting material to ponder: "at its best the Church..." Well, "at its best..." would be an interesting prefix to see how any or all major institutions would stack up.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Fr Barron answers questions of skeptics part 1


Fr. Barron and Mike Leonard discuss common perceptions of mass. Fr. Barron speaks on the importance of receiving the Eucharist and the true discipline of practicing your faith.