Becoming Fit for Worship

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 15 February 2009

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In our Gospel for today, a leper comes to Jesus and asks to be healed. He is suffering, not only from a physical malady, but from ritual uncleanness, rendering him incapable of worship. Jesus the Messiah has come to gather the scattered tribes of Israel to the worship of the true God and so he reaches out to the leper. That same Christ seeks to gather so many of us who have wandered away from the worship of the true God.

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0:00.0	This Word on Fire Minute is brought to you by Advantage Futures. As Catholics, we must take advantage of new technology to spread the faith.
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1:24.8	Father Barron challenges us to open our hearts to the Wordonfire, which is God's Word of Love for each of us.
1:31.4	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us so that we might speak with love about the one who is love.
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1:48.3	Peace be with you.
1:50.0	Friends, our Gospel for today has to do with Jesus' healing of a leper.
1:55.7	And the Gospel is coupled with a passage from the book of Leviticus, dealing with the whole issue of leprosy.
2:03.0	Now, from the time I was a kid, passages like this one have been interpreted really along these lines.
2:11.2	There aren't many lepers around today, but there are a lot of people that we treat as lepers,
2:16.9	people who are social outcasts and pariahs.
2:21.2	Jesus is welcoming and inclusive toward the leper, and so we should be welcoming and inclusive toward the lepers,
2:27.9	symbolically speaking, in our society.
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