A Royal Priesthood

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 24 April 2005

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

St. Peter tells us in our second reading that all of us--all the baptized--constitute a royal priesthood. This means that we perform sacrifices, acts which reconcile divinity and humanity. The entire life of a disciple should be a sustained act of bringing people to God and God to people. We are bridge-builders, reconcilers, royal priests.

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0:00.0	Word on fire is brought to you by Catholic cemeteries, serving the Chicago area since 1837.
0:06.8	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:11.0	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on fire.
0:17.6	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on fire, which is God's
0:21.9	Word of Love for each of us.
0:24.2	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, clearly might speak with
0:29.2	love about the one who is love.
0:32.5	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish in Winnetka now presents
0:37.4	the Word on fire.
0:39.5	Peace be with you.
0:41.2	Friends during this Easter season, we've been privileged to read from the first letter
0:45.0	of Peter.
0:46.0	I recommend to you that sometime during this Easter season you sit down and just read
0:52.4	through the first letter of Peter.
0:54.2	It's very short.
0:55.2	You can read it easily in one sitting.
0:57.6	It's a very rich letter.
1:00.2	One of the major themes of it, we saw last week, redemptive suffering.
1:05.4	He's writing undoubtedly to a community that's going through persecution and suffering.
1:09.7	That's a major motif.
1:11.4	But a second one emerges this week, which is really powerful and worth a lot of reflection.
1:17.5	Let me read you now from this passage.
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