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Kevin Lonergan (UK)

Thank you Fr Barron for your ministry. I think your work is just watch the church needs, our own diocese promotes your work & having watched a number of you short concise, prayerful and easy to listen to commentaries, find them so helpful. I thank the Lord for your gift to us.

11/23/2010 3:33:42 PM

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Kell Brigan

This is brilliant, and the surfing demo as well. Some Catholics are less "wired" than others, and this is a great tool for showing how three-dimensional research and exposure works.

"St. Paul with a cell phone!" shall now be my new exclamatory phrase.

11/23/2010 6:57:06 PM

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Susan

As a new Catholic, I found WoF and your clips on my journey to the Church online and now check in frequently to see what else you have! Your explanations give me a springboard for my own researches on the faith and point in various directions for reading and learning that I wouldn't have found otherwise. Your ministry helped in my intial conversion, and is helping me as I deepen my faith and knowledge of Christ and his Church. God Bless you, and long may you continue your valuable work. ps can't wait for the release of the Catholicism Project. I am going to buy a copy and screen it for my unbelieving relatives. You have such an engaging way of presenting the faith, not at all off-putting for those who have yet to receive the gift of faith.

11/23/2010 10:44:10 PM

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Dan S

The generations that have come of age since the internet are more likely to search for answers via Google than through established institutions. Until Word on Fire, the church has been noticeably absent in this dialogue that goes on around the world 24/7. As Fr. Barron says, the Catholic story is being told in this global network by the wrong people, and the church has got to engage in active dialogue with these people or else write them off as lost. Please keep up the good work - your responses to those that challenge our beliefs are brilliant, and most certainly are guiding people home.

11/24/2010 6:53:10 AM

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Cecilia

Thanks Fr Barron for your ministry. The Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us. Yet as time goes by, there are many who began to neglect the Word and simply focus on the flesh. Thanks for firing up the heart of flesh with the Word again! The church definitely needs to become more accessible and stop veiling up the centre of it's treasures, the world has thirsted long enough for this. Great job, Fr. Barron! May the Holy Spirit continues to inspire your ministry.

11/24/2010 8:02:10 AM

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Chad

Bravo!

11/24/2010 7:38:42 PM

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Gene R-N

Would one see things/people the why one thinks?
If so, then reading and listening to Word on Fire would help one learn to think of God to see God.

11/24/2010 10:35:33 PM

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bertasg

Thank you Fr.Barron for all your work, I´m a fan of you blog, videos and sermons. And you have really helped me learn how to be a real Catholic, and planted the motivation to learn more, before I never saw my mission as for all of us, to be Saint.
Keep you work, you´ll definetly help save a lot of souls.

11/25/2010 2:04:40 PM

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Roberta Young

I wouldn't have regained my faith if not for the internet. As a fallen-away agnostic Catholic, I watched the movie "The Passion of the Christ" and wondered why Jesus put himself through that. I ended up on a fan website where Catholics and Protestants discussed the film and after months, moved on to discussing what Catholics believed and why. The Catholics on the forum quoted from Catholic Answers websites and other apologetics websites, and I began to realize that there were rationale grounds for belief. Without the internet I wouldn't have been exposed to any of that. Later I subscribed to EWTN, but before that all I had was the internet. I later found this website and it's wonderful.

11/25/2010 7:39:45 PM

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Kell Brigan

Like Roberta, I probably would not have returned to Catholicism (or, not returned nearly as happily or quickly) without the Net, including WOF. My reversion process was, like most people's, I'm sure, deeply intimate, and I'm not sure I could have handled working with individuals for most of it. And not having the Net for research would have made finding books and homilies, and sorting out myths and truths immeasurably more difficult.

It was, and is, sometimes difficult dealing with so many voices claiming their version (Commonweal, latinmass.com, pewsitter.com, Dignity v. Courage, etc. etc.) is the Real One (thank God, again, for the Catechism), but that problem would exist without the Net, too.

11/26/2010 1:08:20 PM

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michael jaffray king

Sadly this video of Father B, which I am sure as always is excellent, is not available in Europe because of a block by UMG
Universal Music...
Can anything be done about this to help World wide viewers????

11/26/2010 11:45:56 PM

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John Jang

Father Barron, you give me inspiration to evangelize to those i do not know. i'm telling everyone about WOF. I hope the vatican endorses this great work!

11/27/2010 5:35:34 AM

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Nancy

Absolutely brilliant! We must use all the tools at our disposal. There are so many hungry people out there looking for the Truth and this is one of the most current ways to do it. Many people, who might never set foot in a church, are given the opportunity to hear the Word through this medium. I don't believe that those seeking "accidentally" stumble upon these teachings! Keep up the terrific evangelization Father Barron! I will continue to pray for you. †

11/27/2010 12:08:20 PM

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Matthew

regarding the concerns people expressed in the meeting at the Vatican, I can only say: well done and thank you, Fr Barron. I think ONE of the reasons why some even very educated Catholics hesitate RE the internet is simply because they really do not understand this technology. The "concern" that the flesh is becoming word, when you think about it, makes little sense. Would we say the same about the texts of the New Testament? The very spreading of the word so widely actually permits and enables people to incarnate it in their lives. Indeed it is a prerequisite. And the word naturally leads to incarnation, or at least the strong desire to search for and build incarnation. And when you understand how something works - how the internet works in terms of the physical universe of which it is a manipulation - it removes this "concern", this "hesitation". As Fr. B says, and as JPII commented in his last apostolic letter, our contemporary means of communication are among the "wonders of God", given to us to build up the Church. So let's get on with it ;)

11/27/2010 6:43:13 PM

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Kell Brigan

A recommended read, here, would be Jaron He-would-make-such-a-great-Catholic-if-he-just-geve-it-half-a-chance Lanier's "You Are Not a Gadget." (Or, Google his "One Half a Manifesto" at edge dot org.) He talks about the need for "digital humanism" and acknowledges the problems the Internet promotes, while looking forward to its potential. Personally, I file the Net in the same section of the tool box, right next to broadcast TV and heavy uranium -- 90% [deleted], sometimes dangerous, rarely worth keeping around, but, when it is worthwhile, it's irreplaceable.

11/27/2010 11:41:23 PM

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Christine

I have worked in support for 12 years now. Customer Service is very important if you want your 'customers' to come back. Over the years support went from meaning: snail mail, faxes, phone calls, to Web sites to now Web 2.0 (which is what you are doing) Web 2.0 just means facebook, twitter, blogs, etc. Our company's motto is "Fish were the fish are!" and I think that is exactly what this ministry is doing. Great job!

12/14/2010 9:06:03 AM

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Dan Clark

The objections that were presented to you remind me of what St. Thomas encountered when he used Aristotle as a philosophical basis for illustrating the Catholic faith.

12/21/2010 3:30:23 PM

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