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 …
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March 10, 2026
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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 …
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I won't forgive rapists…
03:54 he asks the question on my mind, wow..
I just watched a Billy Graham on the Holy Spirit. These guys speak the truth. The Holy Spirit gives us power over our enemies. Love power and a sound mind.
That’s mooooodalism PATRICK
Thank you for this. I pray to Jesus and God the Father but have not been to the Holy Spirit. I will search for this better now. God bless.
My question is why is it all purely on the intellectual level? No one would know about the Holy Spirit without being taught. No one would have any theological understanding about life without being taught. You wouldn't come to any of these conclusions on your own just from observing reality and experiencing life. We can come to some conclusions about what is right or wrong and we all know naturally that to do harm to others is wrong. I'm not saying there is not a truth to be discovered but theology doesn't fall into that category because as mentioned it is something we have to learn about. A person just observing life and experiencing their own existence would never come to the knowledge of a Trinity or any of that. It is created concepts and mental gymnastics and has no actual beating in life. If it is true then it should be able to be experienced by everyone.
thank you Bishop Barron, great explication, very deep. I have got a different vision of celestial person, not like man
I became Catholic at age 61. Nothing before. Married a cradel Catholic and for 35 years stayed on the sidelines. I signed up for the classes and my Wife sponsored me and attend the classes. What a great experience ! Our priest at the time was awesome as well as the teachers, it truly was a community experience. During this time I was very interested/Fascinated in the Holy Spirit.
The morning i was to be confirmed and Baptized I had breakfast and once finished i drove next door to a hardware store. Upon existing my truck and walked to the entrance only a few steps, out of the corner of my eye i noticed a movement and turned towards it and I spotted a Dove landing on the right corner of my tailgate. I wailked back to my truck rested my elbow on the left corner of the tailgate and the Dove and I looked each other in the eye for a couple seconds, i then said " Ok , i got the message" and the Dove/Holy Spirt
Flew off. I thought BAMM, im part of the team. 😇
Let us meditate on 2 Corinthians 3:17
The only evidence that the HS is a 'person' is based on a quirk of Greek grammer in John's gospel! Fact! ELEVEN TIMES in the NT the Spirit is linked with power! Rom 15:9 "With the power of the Holy Spirit". Acts 1:8 "You shall recieve power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you". Also the HS is linked by contrast to 'Water' ( "I baptize you with water, that one will baptize you with the HS" (John 1:33) It is mostly referred to as "God's Holy Spirit" thus not a seperate 'person'! Also Luke 11:20 "I heal by the finger of God" again part of God Himself acting, projecting His power to accomplish His will "If you send forth YOUR Spirit, they are created" Psalm 104:30
In Deut 9:10 it states that the 'ten commandments' were written by "God's finger" . Jesus stated that he healed people "By God's finger" too! see Luke 11:20. So surely this illustration reveals that just as a person's 'finger' is PART OF them, an extension of the power they have in their body! So the bible mostly speaks of the HS as "God's Spirit. It is His! It is not then a seperate 'person' that is 'God the Holy Spirit' a so called 'third part of a trinity'. This is completely FALSE and was Not taught till the Council of Constantinople in 381 CE.
This Word on Fire interview is EXCELLENT, imho…Although it was done 4 yrs ago, I haven't seen it before. What a find! Thank you both, Mr. Brandon & Bishop Barron.
With your mentioning WonF new releases of books, I would like to mention one from your organization that means SO much to me: The HOLY HOUR: Meditations for Eucharistic Adoration, edited by Matthew Becklo, c 2022. It is this one that I would like to buy additional copies for gifts. This book includes Scripture, reflections by Bishop Barron & notable others, prayers & poetry by saints including St. Catherine of Siena + several of my favorites: Edith Stein, St. John Henry Newman, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, & more, as well as recent Popes, & the Catechism. As if that were not enough, it is a soft leather like material w/BEAUTIFUL photography & graphics pages throughtout the book. If there were a place, I'd offer this as a book review…maybe Amazon! THANK YOU for this JEWEL of a publication! 🤗
The Catholic Church must preach more about the Holy spirit, although I believe that the Father, the First Person of the Holy Trinity is hardly known by Catholics. He's hardly ever preached about by the Catholic hierarchy. The Heavenly Father is attacked theologically by Satan through the woke movement.
Better words have never been spoken ❤
In the Byzantine Catholic Church, they do all the sacraments all at once when they're a baby. 👍🏻
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.
I knew The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are one thank you for the message 🧚♀️✝️🕊🧚♀️✝️🕊🧚♀️✝️🕊
Im pretty confused
Bishop Barron how do you explain a none believer when there is so much evidence of evidence I thank the lord that I believe
So Holy Spirit’s existance depends on creation. Before creation, Holy Spirit was redundant.. interesting explanation..
So what I gather from this discussion is that God is the eternal embodiment of all perfect creation in the universe. Then, God sent his love for us through the Holy Spirit so Mary could give birth to His incarnate self. God's incarnate self, His son Jesus Christ, was the mortal connection through which His love for us could be shown in our plain of existence through His teachings and ultimate sacrifice via crucifixion. This in turn saved our mortal souls and provided an eternal connection to Him via the Holy Spirit directly. So the Holy Spirit is that divine love that eternally connects us to God, and therefore connects and binds the Holy Trinity. Am I getting that right?
A gust of wind is my reminder that the Holy Spirit lives within us…great peace!
I would like to hear your explanation of baptism of the Holy spirit that the charismatic renewal always emphasize.
The Holy Spirit, He is a Person.
The Holy Spirit is the living dynamic of the Beatific Vision.
In that they " draw" from one another?
Provoke=re-voke
Re-vocative
Inevitability??
Milty the guilty
Beware misappropriation power.
Quite possible.Best-case.
Rage against the spirit : here.
Praise be 😌
What I'm getting from this is that the English language is too discriptive
Bishop Barron, you completely left out e Incarnation (Mary Immaculate + Holy Spirit) when you separate Mary Immaculate from e Holy Spirit as if e birth of Christ is not e union within e Incarnation.
Amazingly bright guy. I'm grateful for the depth of his understanding and for his sharing.
Cu Do i de L
The bishop loves to sound erudite.