Burying the Talents

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 13 November 2005

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

All of us believers have been entrusted with a treasure: our faith. What do we do with this treasure while we await the return of the Lord? We must make it grow, precisely by giving it away. We must evangelize. The very worst thing that we can do is to bury it away in the secrecy of our hearts, endeavoring to "keep it safe." Privatizing the faith is the key to losing it. A challenging message for all of us this week!

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0:00.0	Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic Cemetery's, serving the Chicago area since 1837.
0:06.7	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:10.9	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:17.4	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:21.8	Word of Love for each of us.
0:24.0	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with
0:29.0	God's Love about the One who is Love.
0:32.4	The Archdiocese of Chicago, through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish in Winnicka, now presents
0:37.4	the Word on Fire.
0:39.9	Peace be with you.
0:41.6	Friends, I've been saying that at the end of Matthew's Gospel, red now at the end of
0:46.4	a liturgical year, we look at a number of parables that have to do with the in-between
0:52.2	times.
0:54.0	They all have to do in different ways with this scenario.
0:57.2	The master or the owner leaves, and he leaves behind servants or slaves, and then the
1:04.0	parables about what do these people do while they wait?
1:08.3	What do they do in the meantime?
1:10.4	So last week we heard about those bridesmaids, those virgins wise and foolish who wait for
1:16.1	the bridegroom to come.
1:18.4	Well this week we have a different spin on the same theme of waiting.
1:24.5	This one is the parable of the talents.
1:27.6	You know it well.
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