Love the Ones You’re Given — Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermon

Bishop Barron, Sharing your personal life journey I think is so effective for us lay person to hear. We are all on this together, sinners but if we allow the love of Christ in us it will channel that to others, unconditionally.
Thank you and Peace in Christ!

I think it’s worth noting that sometimes we can love these family members from a distance, when those individuals have caused and do cause harm to us and our family. We love them, we pray for them, we forgive them.

I love this story 🤍🤍

I don’t see anybody given to me!!

Beautiful message. Spoke as if from God’s own heart.

Beautiful msg fr...God bless you yes we are called to love that difficult person in our family...

If one can manage to get killed by a rabbi getting to worship in a synagogue while on one's way oneself to daily mass, why this very one must have been a very special guy indeed. This kind'a baffling, arresting, tough and beautiful all the same. it's bad and yet there's no evil involved and yet a man did something fatal to another man, the one being a jew the other a catholic and there was no persecution just a paradoxal meeting and missing out of one another each on one's very holy way...

God bless my Aunt Katie. ❣️

I think Uncle Tommy is in heaven now that you are an Archbishop :-). Thanks for sharing about him. It was inspiring

It is sometimes difficult, perhaps seemingly impossible, to love some of those we have been given to love.

God bless you 🙏

I ❤ uncle Tommy. Rest in Peace Tommy.

Thank you Dear Bishop for your wise words...... Thank you Dear Bishop for your wise words......

Oh what a priest you became!

I remember what family links were in my childhood and I see what they are now. They dissolve. As people move out geographically, they seem to have less and less in common with one another.

Epic words of Bishop Barron ~ "What do families teach us? .... One lesson I think is, we don't always get to choose the people we love, but we're given people that we're then called upon to love." .... "God, through our families ~ is giving us the people He wants us to love. And part of what makes our families holy is that we cultivate this capacity of love, not just the people we like, that we have chosen to be with, but the people whom God has given us to love. .... Thank you, Bishop Barron for your inspiring words of spiritual wisdom! 🙏✝🙏

Thank you for your light and wisdom sermons. I always love to hear your messages.

Uncle Tommy just made a difference, posthumously, in thousands of people's lives. God bless him, and you, Bishop Barron.

God bless uncle Tommy

Well you may not have made monsignor in the next two weeks, but you've done okay. Uncle Tommy is certainly praying.
Thank you for sharing such a sweet story.

Bishop thank you. Listening to you made me all teary 🥺. We all have an Uncle Tommy. I am blessed with mine . Praying for you ❤🙏

Just another loon in preacher’s cloths

I love this. Thank you Bishop Barron.

What a great way to improve your fortitude. Help out your Uncle Tommy.

Hey y’all I’m uncle Tommy

All glory be to God for this wonderful homily May God bless you our dear Bishop, Father and Shepherd of our souls.

I was born and raised as a Catholic in a third world country and a non practicing Catholic family! Recently i read the teachings of Buddha and Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius he wrote The Book the Meditation his personal diary not meant to be published. He said Amor Fati! Love your fate! Memento Mori! Remember Death! K

And also with you, Bishop. In Jesus' name, I pray. Come Holy Spirit, come. Amen.

Thank you for this inspiring story. Not only love whom we like. Love those, God has given upon us.

Amen. God sets the lonely in families. Even the Uncle Tomm8.

God Bless you, Bishop Barron.

I could live with Uncle Tommy, but what about when your family is on drugs and steals from you?

Amen

Thank you dear Bishop Barron. Your sermons are food to my soul. God bless you abundantly always. ❤

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Again a blessed message of love. Thank you Bishop for sharing uncle Tommy ❤️❤️❤️🙏

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Love this, and the implication that God gives us people to love on the macro level, as well. Refugees and immigrants, convicts and the unhoused, the disabled and the sick… as a practical matter, the acting of loving these people can be more strenuous, but no less worthwhile, and often not by any particular fault of their own.

We’re all sinners. We all need living, loving mercy. This is ultimately granted by God, but it’s a gift we can give to others, also.

This is so beautiful and an eye opening story. God bless Uncle Tommy.

Thank you Bishop Barron 🙏 🙌 it's a challenge to love the hard ones....

Dear Mr.Bishop Baron in every families ocure relatives whom wee pretend to love but only god knows and love them in the correct way and wee misse them only after their death hoping in finding the spirit and resurection..for excample Lui and Thomas....

What a beautiful sermon! Thank you.

Beautiful lesson Bishop Barron. Very important for us to remember that we must learn to embrace all members of our family without any discrimination nor any misgivings and build our relationships with each one no matter how difficult or maybe not as honoured as others maybe.

Thank you for this lovely and loving story. Yes, there are challenges loving the ones God has given us to love, without becoming co-dependently over extended trying to "fix" them. Observing others who are living in such a way that they are clearly suffering, and complain of their suffering, but who do not change their behavior, is painful for everyone. However, detaching with love is the key. Thank you and God bless you.

Truly grateful for this sermon, Bishop Barron 1 God bless you and your Uncle Tommy!

Excellent as always

I was happy to meet your Uncle Tommy as you shared! Yes, I have grown with some quirky family members and to this day am continuing to love the family members that God has given me to love. Thank you for your honesty!!

Bishop Barron God Bless you and may uncle Tommy RIP.What a beautiful story.,

What a wonderful story about your uncle, Bishop Barron. I too grew up in Chicagoland. It cracks me up that Tommy called you “just a priest.” We are called upon to love some quirky relatives. Families test not only our ability to love but to forgive 70 times seven!