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A weekly homily podcast from Bishop Robert Barron, produced by Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.
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Sunday Sep 21, 2003
Sunday Sep 21, 2003
Children are like plants, rocks, and flowers in this sense: they don't know how to be something that they are not. They haven't yet learned to lie, dissemble, pretend, or to seek to be someone they are not meant to be. We are all, right now, being created by God for God's purposes. Childlike joy returns to us the moment we put aside all our games of self-promotion and self-deception and live in accord with God's deepest desire for us.
Sunday Sep 14, 2003
Sunday Sep 14, 2003
Today's feast, the Triumph of the Cross, is one of those remarkable Christian paradoxes. To describe an unspeakably brutal execution as a "triumph" seems either a bad joke or plain madness. But we Christians delight in this odd juxtaposition of agony and ecstacy, because we know the deepest truth of the cross is God's swallowing up of even the greatest sin. And so like Paul we glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. How have you perhaps sensed the triumph of the cross in your own life?
Sunday Sep 07, 2003
Sunday Sep 07, 2003
Our Gospel story today concerns a man who is deaf and dumb. He is symbolically evocative of an Israel that had grown deaf to God's word and, accordingly, unable to speak God's truth clearly. We are meant to identify with him, for we too often allow God's voice to be drowned out by other sounds, and we too are frequently incapable of articulating our faith in a compelling way. The solution is to be plugged into Jesus, to listen to him and to allow him to speak through us.
Sunday Aug 31, 2003
Sunday Aug 31, 2003
Another homily from Fr. Robert Barron and Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.
Sunday Aug 24, 2003
Sunday Aug 24, 2003
Another homily from Fr. Robert Barron and Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.
Sunday Aug 10, 2003
Sunday Aug 10, 2003
Another homily from Fr. Robert Barron and Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.
Sunday Aug 03, 2003
Sunday Aug 03, 2003
Another homily from Fr. Robert Barron and Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.
Sunday Jul 27, 2003
Sunday Jul 27, 2003
Another homily from Fr. Robert Barron and Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.
Sunday Jul 20, 2003
Sunday Jul 20, 2003
Another homily from Fr. Robert Barron and Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.
Sunday Jul 13, 2003
Sunday Jul 13, 2003
Another homily from Fr. Robert Barron and Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.