The Patrick Coffin Show podcast features weekly interviews with A-list influencers and outliers in the effort to recover the Judeo-Christian roots of the culture. Patrick is the Canadian-born former host of Catholic Answers Live, and he has raving fans around the world. He injects these fascinating interviews with his own distinctive blend of depth and levity. If you’re tired of politically correct media speak, you want to see God back in the public square, and you’re not allergic to having a laugh, this is the place to be.
Father Mark Goring
You might not know it, but Pembroke-born Father Mark Goring has been churning out YouTube commentaries for many years now—almost daily—and with increasingly creative green screen backgrounds! He knows the risks of “permanentizing” your words for all the world to see and comment on.
Goring also knows the rewards.
A member of the Ottawa-based Companions of the Cross priests, Mark Goring has built up a large following on YouTube by following a simple formula: tell the truth about Jesus and the demands of the gospel. Along the way, call out scandal and corruption.
Last summer, he got a “cease and desist” notice from what Goring described as “legitimate authority” because of his name-names approach to the Uncle Ted summer of shame and how we got there as a Church. So what did he do?
He obeyed, and was called back to his Canadian roots (he had been the director of the Catholic Charismatic Center in Houston) and is now back in action from his old haunts in Ottawa. If it’s happening in the Church and affects ordinary Catholics, you can bet Father Mark is going to chime in with his direct, unambiguous, but unremittingly gentle communication style.
In this episode, you will learn
- Why social media platforms like YouTube multiply your audience size by a thousandfold, and more if you do it right
- Why Goring became a priest in the first place
- How the fractured and divided Church of today can be united (hint: something to do with the deposit of faith)
- How to avoid the pitfalls of paying too much attention to negative feedback
- The importance of speaking out against Church corruption in a way that is neither angry tub-thumping nor rationalizing away the real root causes
- How Father Bob Bedard, the founder of the CCs inspired Goring to “go for it”
- Why more priests should get on YouTube and start teaching the Faith
Resources mentioned in this episode
- In His Zone: 7 Principles for Thriving in Solitude by Father Mark Goring
- Father Goring’s YouTube channel
- Companions of the Cross community website
3 thoughts on “The Lord’s Vineyard—Father Mark Goring, CC”
Dear fr Mark,
I am so grateful for your you tube ,statements they are refreshing And very positive because they speak the truth that our priests do not want to speak for what ever reason. I have followed Mother Angelica and EWTN for this very same purpose,please don’t stop 🛑 speaking We all need to hear 👂 the truth with 💖 love
With much encouragement keep up the faith in full
Godbless Sharon Peterson
Our parishes are dying for lack of courage and truth
I was privileged to have watched Sep. 18, 2020 programme. As a result I would like to share what I have learnt through the years of studying metaphysics and Spirituality. It was mentioned that Jesus had spent 30 years as a carpenter. I have learnt that at the age of 13 in the Jewish tradition a young boy was betrothed. Because in this case that was not possible, Jesus was sent via Persia, now Iraq, on the silk trade route to India where he was known as St. Isis. At the age of 28/29 he returned via the same route to Egypt where he stood on the dais at Heliopolis before the Heliophant and transformed himself into Spirit and back again – it took three days. The understanding of the Universe and Our Beloved Father has been known for thousands of years. Which is why much of the Master’s teachings are similar to Buddhism. You may also find it interesting that Mr. Einstein gave us the equation E=Mc2 – everything in the universe is made of atoms and sub-atomic particles, etc. The electron, proton, neutron float in a substance I call Spirit, infinite intelligence. The Father and I are one spoken of by the Mater is not only true of him but all of us. This is why he said, “Know ye not who ye are, ye are gods.” “Love one another as I have loved you”, because each person we meet is another part of ourselves. It is because your sermons are more related to Spirituality than religion that I am sharing this with you. This is important at this time as the earth herself, a living entity, is ascending into a higher dimension and your sermons are raising the cellular level (My fathers house has many mansions) of everyone who listens to them.
I am totally surprised that no one has responded to these well-intentioned yet erroneous ideas rooted in Gnosticism and beyond heresy. The true historical writings about Jesus are found in the Four Gospels and the canonical Sacred Scriptures of the New Yestament. Period! Who He is and what He did “for us and our salvation” are in the Apostles, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds—not in Theosophy and other New Age literature from centuries later found in the Nag Gnostic Hammarabi Codices. The Writings of the Church Fathers and the Church Councils record how the Faith was defined and systemized.
Lovingly shared in Christ,
,
Fr. Harold L. Trott, SSC, Pastor
Church of Our Lord (Anglican Church in North America )
Albuquerque, New Mexico