Becoming a Friend, Healer, and Teacher

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Friends, in our Gospel passage today, Jesus proclaims that he is the vine and we are the branches. There is give and take in this divine relationship. Not only are we rooted in Christ’s mystical body, but he endeavors to cultivate his love and mercy within our bodies. In this analogy, we find a powerful image of spiritual growth.

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0:00.0	Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an
0:05.7	apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization using media both old and
0:11.8	new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with
0:17.0	Christ and His Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring
0:22.2	the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today we invite
0:28.3	you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the
0:32.8	warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.
0:38.9	Peace be with you. Friends, we come now to the fifth Sunday of Easter. So we're
0:44.0	entering the sort of end of the Easter season, these Sundays 5, 6 and 7. And if
0:49.6	the first Sundays of Easter gave us a chance to meditate upon the
0:54.2	strangest and radicality of the resurrection, these last Sundays allow us to
0:59.3	meditate more deeply on the implications of the resurrection. What does it
1:04.1	mean to live in the space opened up by the risen Christ? We'll be reading now
1:09.9	these next weeks from the marvelous farewell discourse of Jesus. So if you
1:15.2	look in chapters 14, 15, 16, and 17, four entire chapters of John's gospel,
1:21.2	you find by far the longest speech of Jesus in any of the gospels. The setting
1:27.0	is the last supper and we don't find in John the institution narrative. You
1:31.9	know, Jesus taking the bread and taking the wine. This is my body, my blood. You
1:35.5	don't find that in John. You find the footwashing unique to him and then you find
1:40.4	this lengthy discourse of the Lord. Can I recommend everybody? Now is the
1:46.4	Easter season coming to a close? Spend some time with those four chapters of
1:51.2	John. Read them thoroughly. Read them in a meditative, prayerful way because in
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