Being in Christ

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 9 May 2004

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Last week we looked at the life and times of Paul, the person who, after Jesus himself, is the most influential figure in the formation of the Christian church. In this week's sermon, I look briefly at Paul's central teaching, which I identify as "being in Christ." The phrase "en Christo," in Christ, appears 83 times in the letters of Paul, indicating how central it is to the Apostle's teaching and preaching. Christ Jesus is a new energy field, a new power, a new way of being, and the idea, as far as Paul is concerned, is to get into it--so that ultimately you can say, with him, "it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me."

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0:00.0	Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic Cemetery's, serving the Chicago area since 1837, and
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0:10.9	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:15.1	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:21.7	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:26.0	Word of Love for each of us.
0:28.3	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with
0:33.3	love about the one who is love.
0:36.6	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish in Winnicka now presents
0:41.5	the Word on Fire.
0:44.0	Peace be with you.
0:45.9	Friends last week, I spoke about Paul the Apostle, because during these weeks of the Easter
0:51.6	season, we hear a lot about Paul as we're reading from the Acts of the Apostles.
0:57.4	I mentioned last week he's the star of that book, he's the main player in it, and after
1:03.3	Jesus himself, Paul is the most influential figure in the development of the Christian
1:09.7	Church.
1:10.7	You know, Alfred North Whitehead, the contemporary philosopher, said, all of philosophy is a
1:16.8	footnote to Plato, what he meant was, Plato raised the questions that every philosopher
1:23.8	has been wrestling with ever since.
1:27.0	You might say all of theology is a footnote to Paul, meaning Paul in his letters to these
1:36.1	little Christian communities in places like Corinth and Philippine, Thessalonica and Rome,
1:42.7	these are the questions that we're still wrestling with 2,000 years later.
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