You Are the Salt of the Earth - Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon
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- čas přidán 3. 02. 2023
- Friends, we are reading from the marvelous Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew. This week, we hear Jesus compare his disciples to three things: the salt of the earth, the light of the world, and a city set on a mountain. What do all three of these things have in common? They do not exist for themselves; rather, they exist for something else. How is your Christianity impacting the world around you-making it better and getting in the way of evil and wickedness?
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I stay in a profession that is dominated by WOKE ideology because I feel it's my "calling" to shed light in the darkness. It's a part-time endeavour. I dont get much financial reward for it, which drives my husband insane. 🤷🏼♀️
I teach children to "treat others how they wish to be treated," to take responsibility for their own actions, to show kindness to others, not disdain. I try to shine my light where the devil is preying on our youth. You would be amazed how just teaching little ones those basic skills helps them get through the day a tad bit easier. 😉
First century fellow Christians set the bar for all who followed them by professing and suffering for their faith. God grant us the grace to stand up for what we too believe and fight the good fight.
WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR.
Without God a person’s soul is like darkness. God is calling us to not only keep our own light lit but also to bring light into darkness and shine light for others.
Great man of God thank you for the teaching 🙏🏻
"What will happen if we lose our savor as Christians? The world around us will go bad." - Bishop Barron. Thank you for this core message Bishop.
Thank you. Very convicting.
Jesus Christ light of the world,,,praise God.
This is a powerful Truth. All of us need to focus on Jesus, not distractions. Thank you so much Bishop. God bless WOF.
And bless you too 🙏🕊️❤️
"What will happen if we lose our savor as Christians? The world around us will go bad." *- Bishop Barron*
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The world’s gone very bad indeed
We will be living without purpose and direction..
Beware of a fake bishop out here.
@@marypinakat8594 what?
Thank you, Bishop Barron.
Very timely sermon, God keep you safe! I pray you continue God’s Word. You’re feeding so many of us that are not Catholic with the real salt and light.
Dear Bishop Barron
Your homily is challenging and motivating. Salt must identify with the world without losing its own identity. Salt must lose and dissolve itself to bring flavour. This is painful but productive.
Please pray for this 80 year old priest from Bombay working in Wales.
Let’s all pray and pray for the Bishop. He is a true Shepherd and must be protected from the Evil One. Fr Clive ( UK)
Most of us are just Christian by name and no fruits unfortunately.
Hopefully we can all act on these Jesus Christ 's words
Dear Bishop Barron, thank you for passing us the salt without us even asking for it. Please pass the pepper too-keeps things lively!
Makes me think of an analogy: We’re at God’s table and you’re one of the best servers I’ve ever come across. Thank you for inspiring us and enhancing our faith, as you do. 🙏
Thought provoking sermon.
Thank you for saying so. The reason for evil to dominate this culture, is that good people do not speak out.God bless
One of your most challenging sermons. I may have lost some of my savor. I need to reclaim what I can. Too often I keep quiet: no longer. Thank you, Bishop Barron, thank you.
Recently, I noticed.. how much other people look the other way. Blows my mind and saddens my heart.
This is the best homily I’ve heard from you, and you are a good preacher. Thank you for telling the truth!
I grew up in Michigan and I lived in Chicago for a while and it’s nice to hear Chicago come out of Bishop Barron when he says “yeah yeah yeah”
Well, I feel a bit ashamed of myself, after listening to these inspired words. Hopefully, I'll find the courage, "to change the things I can," starting with me. We don't hear homiles like this very often, maybe once in a hundred years.
Bereft of words. Never in over 7 decades has any priest explained this passage, nor have I read anything like this. 🙏✨✝️
Ditto - Tony and Jean from Cleveland
"Never in over 7 decades has any priest explained this passage" -- how sad!
This is so both powerful and true but also so very sad that WE continue to close our eyes turn our backs and let it all happen over and over again. WE most certainly have lost our Saltness.
I love to listen to your preachings and teachings Bishop.. and I am black from Africa.. however Christianity and Catholic faith has spread beyond America and Europe.. it will be more reaching to incorporate us in your preaching.. 20th Century was horrible for Europe and America but some of us had more horrendous history of great loss of lives in centuries before the 20th century.
Thank you for providing subtitles. As you said in the video, I see Christianity stained with all sorts of secular things. In an era where proper gospel messages are dry, we hear good words thanks to Bishop Baron. I hope more people will hear these words and may peace be with them all. Thank you.
-A young man in Korea
We need more preaching like this from the pulpit. Thank you Bishop Barron for this exhortation.
Amazing sermon. Very, very few can articulate the Gospel message this well.
Agree. Wonder what impact would’ve had on the 60 million babies aborted if prelates from
The 70’s forward had taken an overt stand like this sermon.
Finally some individually and most recently the USCCB as a group have. A few lay sheep with a backbone have gone on the front lines to fight back all these years. Most, struggled uphill with limited support.Unfortunately there’s a recently appointed cardinal from the US who seems to think that the climate is a priority. Even though Pope Francis has caused confusion with many statements since his pontificate, he certainly seems to be clear about abortion “it’s like hiring a hitman” at least that’s clear but can’t help but refer back to the statement that a house divided cannot stand.
Tears role down my eyes. The Bishop is the LIGHT that exposes gremlins in the deep dark corners of my HEART. THANK YOU!
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@@lovetosew382Thank you Dear His Excellency. I am trying to listen you always for you are a great teacher l love you and respect you for you are delivering great and noble words of Or Lord
Wonderful sermon Bishop Barron . Reminds me too of the statement. “ the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
💘Thank you for this wonderful sermon, Bishop Barron, encouraging us to be the salt🧂 and the light🕯️of the world!
💚Praying for you 🙏
💚Praying for everyone in this channel 🙏
💚Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, please have mercy on me a sinner!
⚜️Non nisi te Domine⚜️
( Nothing but you Lord )
💘Viva Cristo Rey!💘
What I love most about Bishop Barron’s homily is the MISSIONARY dimension his reflection always takes. It is so beautiful and truly nurtures my own missionary vocation. It moves us deeper and away from the self- absorbing spirituality which is so prevalent today. Thank you Bishop.
Amen’thank you Bishop Barron for the Proclamation of God’s Divine Word and Enlightening Homilia‘Bless Us Lord Jesus to Live our Faith spreading Love by our little Kindness and Deeds 🙏🙏🙏
"A Reality Check"
Bishop Barron, listened with tears in my eyes. Happy tears. Silence in many instances to speak out and to take action is because of “FEAR”. Please pray for the courage for all of us to ACT! I am, too.
Challenging and scary! I pray for courage and the pouring of the Holy Spirit to supply me with the right words when the opportunity arise for me to be the salt and light in my daily life encounters. Help me Jesus, that I may do it with charity so that your truth will draw people to You. Amen.
Thank you Bishop Barron for your wonderful and illuminating sermon. I look forward to it every weekend. I pray for you and your Word on Fire ministry! God bless! ❤
Tku so much dear B B
God bless you
Now, Bishop, you have empowered me to challenge my Bishop's obscene position on the Concordat in Trinidad and Tobago.
One of the most important messages of this series.
Excellent sermon Bishop. Thank you and God bless you.
My husband is sharing this message with his multi-church life group today. Inspiring message, thank you!
I got answers from this sermon. This was Special thank you Bishop you gave us light
Thank you, Bishop Barron. I know it is difficult to preach truths like these in these days.
Why isn't the Catholic Church taking a pro active stance on abortion? Why are there no " prayers of the people"
said for the innocent victims, those aborted babies? Priests are avoiding
this topic to the dismay of many long
time Catholics! Are they instructed not to do by higher church authority not to do so. If so, why. You used 61 million
abortions. I posit that exponentially,
It's over 100 million! Those aborted 40 years ago would have had families, then we would need no illegals in the USA to enter and supported by us
Tax prayers who are under the thumbs of the Socialists in power. " Social justice and the common good."..I'm sick of hearing that! Do we wonder why church attendance is dwindling??
Bishop, This was one of the best sermons I have ever heard. I have been a Christian for over 50 year, been to seminary and am a regular at church. There is one thing about saltiness that no one ever talks about... it destroys as well as preserves. We have lost our witness in America. The idea that we are to be a plumbline, a guidance system for our world is long gone. The Tag "Stand in the way of Evil" in this context really gives us a monumental challenge. Thank you for your insights.
This is one of the best sermons that I've heard you deliver. It's packed with challenging truth and continues to reverberate long after it is heard.
Wow! What a fantastic sermon. Great message. Important message. Well delivered as always. Thank you, Bishop.
This hits right at the heart of both myself and surely most American christians. Where have we been re: our actions not just 50 years ago but yesterday, last week. It is past time that we start showing our love of neighbor bthrough our actions. Our votes, our vocal stances and our church attendance. Remember love is an action not just a verb.
Well said 🙂
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Somehow and sadly some will say, people (Christians) will be saved by Scripture Alone or Faith Alone or Grace Alone.. not by ACTION..and we all knew and witnessed the unfortunate consequences to our generation.
Raphael, yes! After being Methodist for 20 years where what is taught is “I’ve thy neighbor” which can be translated “be nice” also has led people to be so compassionate for the sinful that they do not speak the Truth in Love but go along with the Sin so as to not be seen as uncourteous.
We are called to Love the LORD with all our heart, mind, soul and strength which also means we are to be obedient to our Creator!
Our social media presence too…
Best homily I’ve heard in ages. Thank hank you, Bishop Barron!
Thanks Bishop Barron , my children and grandchildren astray gone no more , they are baptized, i did my duty
Thankfully you have not lost your salt, light or ability to get in the way of the evils of the 21st century Bishop Barron. We have a modern day beacon on the hill to listen to and follow. Bless you.
Bishop Baron for President 😊❤️
He'd be stepping down. He works for the One True God.
Oh my goodness this one hits me right between the eyes. Thank you so much Bishop Barron for telling us the truth and challenging us in our faith. God bless you always.
Tremendous homily and inspiring indepth wisdom Bishop Robert Barron
My late mother would have loved Bishop Barron and specifically this sermon.
Get in the way of wicked with the light of Christ.
Love and mercy.
We have job to do.
Bishop Barron just broke it down 👇 👏
Thank. You Bishop Barron god bless you always 🙏✝️🕊️
if the good were better, the bad weren't so evil . so we owe it for some part to ourselves.
Einstaklega skýr og rökfastur kenni- og ræðumaður. Kærar þakkir, herra biskup.
Seriously one of the best homilies I have ever heard you do, Bishop Barron. SO impactful!
Thank you!
@prescroy3727 you need to stop. Get off of here and stop trying to take advantage of people.
One of the best of your Sunday sermons I've seen yet, Bishop Barron. God love you.
I've never heard it explained this way, in 47 years. God bless you, Your Grace.
“and also for me, that speech may be given me to open my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel”
Ephesians 6:19
Bishop Barron, thank you for challenging us to get outside our comfort zones. You are a blessing to us all, which helps motivate us to spread the gospel and act for justice and morality.
Oh my goodness, Bishop. Your homily today has convicted many of us. Thank you!
dear freind i can see that this motivates you well i want to say something it bothers me when you used oh my with g word because it bothers me as chatolic because we are called to respect Lord name can you please refrain from using that word and think of something else please?
I need to hear this. God bless Bishop Barron and Word of Fire ministries ❤️🙏🏻✝️
@@marypinakat8594 you cannot be talking about Bishop Barron can you?
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I think I have to find a way to avoid this.
I have been posting these remarks when I would observe some *'BishopBarron1'* using also Word On Fire Bishop Barron's photo for a profile picture as well. The comment is deleted now.
Happens to be a two months old video. I'm thankful that you brought it to my observation.
*Deleting it*
God bless you father Robert for being salt, light and a city on a hill. I pray that our Lord continues to use you in profound ways to preserve His church.
Thank you Bishop Barron, thank you. I will pray for strength, love, and wisdom in all that I do. Then I shall act.
Challenging yet awesome and so true, Thank You,
Wow, thank you Bishop Barron. You have spoken the truth and I will have to examine myself.
When Jesus returns, what kind of world will it be? He asked that question too. Will He have even one nation that is the Light of the World?
Wow! Outstanding! Simply outstanding!
Thank you Bishop Barron. It's so true. God bless!
We, I, needed to hear this.
One of the most powerful homilies you have shared with us. Ok so what is salt made off that has such a negative/positive impact? What is our Christian salt made off? What makes salt it’s flavor/power? What makes us to lose our way/power? We are talking about the symptoms in here. What is the root of these of these issues? We all of us need to do a deep self search. Not trying to fig what others need to do, no rather ea of us have to do a deep and profound examination in prayer ask The Lord to shine lovingly guides us through out the dark halls of our ways and lives
We spend too much energy pointing fingers, that causes divisions, Churches need to encourage a whole community of a loving communal self search. We know His Loving Hand will walk us back to Him, when and if we ask
Too much energy on others doesn’t allow energy to open our hearts to Our Lord No shaming, only taking ownership that we have lost oOur Compass , His way
WOW, POWERFUL and so TRUE! Thank you for this wake up call as Catholic Christians!
That one got me! I just realized how so much I have been gifted by others’ salt, how they held a light on truths I did not want to see, how they stood tall to my own « littleness »: Are you playing big enough as a catholic? Recently, much of that salt and light has come from you, bishop Barron. I was just wondering: who are the salts, the lights and the ones who stand tall in your life, bishop?
Levis Shalom
Powerful!! Powerful!! Such powerful messages!! I pray we all take this to heart!!
God bless you richly, Bishop Barron, for your no-holds barred homilies. I pray that many of the priests will also be moved and inspired by the Spirit to deliver powerful homilies that will add the much needed salt to the parishioners’ lives.
and God bless you too, Bishop.
Thanks for the insights Bishop. You are definitely the salt of the earth !
As a student, I once heard a priest explain this same text. He’d asked a chemist whether salt could actually lose its taste, and the answer was “no way”. The taste of salt is inherent to its very nature.
I find this encouraging for all those who are plagued by self-doubt and wondering whether they are ever good enough.
absolutely brilliant. Bishop Barron is always great but this Homily is just fantastic from start to finish
Let's get in the way!
Thank you Bishop Barron. You ask some hard questions and I keep coming back to the same reality.
Culture is always downstream from the church.
Thank you Bishop Barron, explained brilliantly! Blessings
I've listened to your homilies and so many other teachings through the years, Bishop. But from a practical "this is what I as a Christian should be doing every day" perspective, this is one of your best ever. THANK YOU! ❤️
Beautiful sermon Bishop Barron ! We need to spread the Word on Fire to the young, the old and everyone in this "Christian Country" of the USA
This touched my heart in a unique way.Christians are not meant to be neutral, Christian's should speak the truth.
Thank you Bishop Barron. This is something I will definitely return to. Plenty to think over
Thank you, Bishop Barron! We all need to step up and be lights in this very dark world.
One of the best sermons to date.
Awesome, Bishop Barron! Thank you! God bless you!
Beautiful! Thank-you, father. We can all do better, much better. A common mantra these days is that one doesn't need organized religion, and faith is a very personal thing between God and individual. Yes faith is a personal thing, but Jesus never expected us to whole up in our bedroom and keep it there. You so eloquently point this out. Thank-You! God Bless!
You truly are a city set apon a hill Bishop Barron. Constantly guiding me back to Christ 🙏🏼 Thank you!
Great guidance. Thank you.
Just before watching this I watched a pastor who taught on the same subject. God must've REALLY wanted me to hear this. Now I'm gonna read The Sermon On the Mount. God bless everyone!
Thank you Bishop Barron 🙏 It's a hard pill for many Christians to swallow, but it's the Truth! Our lives as Christians need to dramatically emulate Christ and his message! Those who don't even try even a little bit will be called least into the Kingdom.
Thank you for speaking the truth of the Word of God!
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Saya tidak Heppy di dunia, tetapi saya happy di surga, di dunia saya bersyukur dan berterima kasih atas nikmat dan berkat pemberianTuhan Amen.