Blessed Detachment

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 15 February 2004

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Detachment is a key theme in the spiritual masters. It means that we must detach ourselves from all of those created goods--sex, money, power, pleasure--that are not our ultimate good. When we do this, we experience a spiritual freedom that actually enables us to enjoy those things more. Luke's version of the Beatitudes is, I submit, all about this detachment.

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0:00.0	Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic cemeteries, serving the Chicago area since 1837,
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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 love
0:33.7	about the One who is love.
0:36.6	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish and Winnetka now presents
0:41.6	the Word on Fire.
0:44.1	Peace be with you.
0:45.7	Friends, the Gospel for today is taken from the sixth chapter of Luke's Gospel.
0:50.8	In Luke, it's Jesus' sermon on the plane.
0:54.3	If you go back to Matthew's Gospel, fifth chapter, you find the sermon on the mount.
0:59.5	In Matthew, it's Jesus the new Moses, the law giver, so he speaks from the mountain as
1:04.7	Moses did.
1:06.3	Now in Luke, it's a somewhat different emphasis, much in the same speech, but in Luke's understanding
1:11.7	it's on the plane.
1:13.3	The idea here I think is Jesus coming down to our level now to share with us his great
1:19.0	teaching.
1:21.2	The passage for today is Luke's version of the Beatitudes.
1:27.1	In many ways, Luke's version, I think, is clearer, punchier, more spiritually direct
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