A Portrait of the Church

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2004

⏱️ 15 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Our Gospel reading for this Sunday is the account of Jesus' sending of the seventy-two disciples. In the instructions he gives them, we can discern an outline of the life and work of the Church down through the ages. At our best, we are missionary church, empowered by prayer, marked by simplicity of life, bearing health and salvation, and proclaiming the reign of God.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic cemeteries, serving the Chicago area since 1837,
0:06.5	and FSP dedicated to food service excellence.
0:10.6	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:14.8	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:21.4	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:25.7	Word of Love for each of us.
0:28.0	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with
0:33.0	love about the One who is love.
0:36.3	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish in Winnetka now presents
0:41.3	the Word on Fire.
0:44.0	Peace be with you.
0:45.5	Friends, our Gospel today is from the 10th chapter of Luke's Gospel.
0:49.6	One of the great sections in the Gospel of Luke, in fact, for the next three weeks, we'll
0:53.7	be reading from it.
0:56.1	What we have here is that story of the sending of the 72.
1:01.2	So Jesus gathered to Himself 12 to be His most intimate disciples.
1:06.8	But now we hear He sends another 72 out to do His work.
1:12.4	What we have here, I think, is a portrait of the church.
1:18.0	It's a portrait of what the church should look like.
1:21.4	And so up and down the centuries, whenever Christians are engaged in the work of the Lord,
1:25.8	to some degree they ought to reflect the dynamics of this passage.
1:31.1	So what I want to do today is to look just briefly at several sections of it and the
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bishop Robert Barron, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Bishop Robert Barron and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.