And His Guts Were Moved

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 16 June 2002

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In describing the pity that Jesus felt for the crowds, Matthew uses a distinctive Greek term that means, literally, "his guts were moved." God's compassion for the world is a gut-wrenching, visceral desire to address human suffering. The instrument that Jesus chooses to express this compassion are the twelve apostles, prototypes of the Church.

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0:00.0	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:04.6	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:11.0	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:15.5	Word of Love for each of us.
0:17.8	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, so that we might speak with
0:22.8	love about the one who is love.
0:26.1	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parishing Winnetka now presents
0:31.1	the Word on Fire.
0:33.6	Peace be with you.
0:35.6	Friends, I want to focus today on a very strange word that we find in our gospel.
0:41.9	Let me first read to you the English version.
0:46.3	At the sight of the crowds, Jesus' heart was moved with pity for them because they
0:52.0	were troubled and abandoned like sheep without a shepherd.
0:57.8	The word I want to focus on is the Greek word that lies behind this phrase, his heart
1:03.4	was moved with pity.
1:05.8	The word is this one, esploggedness day.
1:10.7	The word means literally, his guts were moved.
1:16.1	It's a very earthy sort of word, and it sounds earthy, doesn't it, esploggedness day.
1:20.6	It doesn't sound very elegant, and it's not elegant.
1:24.5	It means literally, his innards, his guts were moved with pity.
1:31.1	I think it's wonderful in both Hebrew and Greek.
1:35.2	The words for compassion have this visceral, physical sense.
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