# Listening to the Voice of the Holy Spirit - Bishop Barron's Daily Sermons

An episode of [Daily Sermons With Bishop Robert Barron](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6783446284), 7 Jul 2026, 5:31.

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## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Think of lame again. Who's a great student of aquinas
[0:03] Speaker 1: Be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable and then be responsible,
[0:08] Speaker 1: the four steps in any responsible engagement of the world.
[0:39] Speaker 1: Pope let us in Mass this morning and there was
[0:41] Speaker 1: extraordinary out there on the piazza. His sermon. You know,
[0:45] Speaker 1: he really stays on message, emphasizing how the Senate is
[0:49] Speaker 1: not a parliament, it's not a democratic debating society. And
[0:53] Speaker 1: the language he always uses is the protagonist. The chief
[0:57] Speaker 1: actor of the Senate is not any of us. It's
[1:00] Speaker 1: not him, it's the Holy Spirit. And the idea is
[1:03] Speaker 1: to listen in each other's voices, but for the voice
[1:06] Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit the Senate on Cynadaddy, this isn't
[1:27] Speaker 1: your first Senate, how many of you been? Not my
[1:28] Speaker 1: first rodeo? I did the Synod on young People, which
[1:31] Speaker 1: is five years ago, twenty eighteen, so it's my second Senate.
[1:35] Speaker 1: How does this compare. Peter and Paul came to this
[1:50] Speaker 1: town a long time ago and they weren't here, you know,
[1:53] Speaker 1: just to listen to Roman culture. Fine, they here were
[1:56] Speaker 1: the message who won? Gelly on these good news and
[2:00] Speaker 1: it's good news that will change the world. And in
[2:01] Speaker 1: fact that it worked. The fact that over there where
[2:04] Speaker 1: Peter lies buried to this day, but dominating this once
[2:09] Speaker 1: imperial capital is the cross of Jesus. You know. That
[2:13] Speaker 1: didn't come welling up from Roman culture. That came from
[2:16] Speaker 1: a message that these people brought. We should do our
[2:19] Speaker 1: work with the same energy and the same canash in
[2:22] Speaker 1: the same conflict. I stand in the Great Vatican two
[2:44] Speaker 1: tradition as interpreted by the great post Conciliar popes, from
[2:47] Speaker 1: politics to Francis the Catechism of ninety two. I mean,
[2:52] Speaker 1: that's where I stand, and I come out of that perspective.
[2:54] Speaker 1: When you're appealing to some objective truth, you're finding something
[2:59] Speaker 1: that will link you to another person. So it's not
[3:02] Speaker 1: like just my private set of convictions are against yours.
[3:05] Speaker 1: So I'm going to attack you because you don't like me.
[3:09] Speaker 1: Can we presind from that and say no? You know, together,
[3:12] Speaker 1: through argumentation, we're seeking the truth and if we find it,
[3:17] Speaker 1: it'll link us together. Together. We're looking to a transcendent
[3:35] Speaker 1: third in this case, the truth, the good, the beautiful,
[3:40] Speaker 1: and in that measure we get closer to each other.
[4:13] Speaker 1: You know, it's not just Christ next to the culture,
[4:17] Speaker 1: not just Christ absorbed by the culture. It's Christ who
[4:19] Speaker 1: positions the culture as bad a Contusas you know, we
[4:22] Speaker 1: read the signs of the times in light of the Gospel.
[4:25] Speaker 1: It's in light of Christ that we interpret the world
[4:43] Speaker 1: and the church. Look. I look out at the city
[4:45] Speaker 1: from Rome area, and we've been around for a long time,
[4:48] Speaker 1: and we've been through a lot worse than we're going
[4:51] Speaker 1: through right now. So we will endure. So Christ gives
[4:55] Speaker 1: me hope, and the Holy Spirit gives me hope. The
[4:57] Speaker 1: fact that we've been given this great message, trusted with it,
[5:01] Speaker 1: but we're under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

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