60 Quotes by Robert Barron

The liturgical person discovers who he is in the context of a community that listens to and explains the Bible and acts in accord with it. In this, he stands opposed to those whose identity is shaped by the heroes, ideals, and norms of the environing secular culture and to those whose sense of self is formed by the texts and practices of other religions.

But above all, fight by your very holiness of life; fight by becoming the saint that God wants you to be; fight by encouraging a decent young man to become a priest; fight by doing a Holy Hour every day for the sanctification of the Church; fight by coming to Mass regularly; fight by evangelizing; fight by doing the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

The only thing particularly new about the “new atheism” is its nastiness.

Only when you’ve had that experience of falling in love with something, Barron believes, will learning the rules that support it make sense. Otherwise, “rule-talk” is always going to seem like someone trying to control another, like an exercise in power rather than liberation to play the game well.

Holy people are those who realize that they participate in something and Someone infinitely greater than themselves, that they are but fragments of Reality,” he says. “Far from crushing them, this awareness makes them great, capacious, whole.

When at the consecration the priest moves into the mode of first-person quotation, he is not speaking in his own person but in the person of Jesus – and that’s why those words change the elements.