By the Waters of Meribah

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Bishop Robert Barron

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🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Our first reading for today is the famous quarreling of Israel by the waters of Meribah in the book of Exodus. We find the chosen people in the midst of the desert—which is to say, in the process of conversion, on the way from the slavery of sin to the freedom of God. But all conversion takes time; those on the way always tend to look back. And so we hear: “Why did you ever make us leave Egypt?” Here in the very middle of Lent—our own season of conversion—are we finding it hard, annoying, frustrating? Would we rather go back? Probably. But this is the decisive moment: Do we head back to Egypt, to slavery? Or do we trust that the Lord is guiding us?

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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
0:16.9	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.
0:39.7	Peace be with you. Friends, I'm continuing this study of the Old Testament
0:45.8	reading during this Lenten season. So for the first Sunday of Lent we look at the
0:51.2	account in the book of Genesis dealing with the original blessing and the
0:55.6	original sin. We saw that human beings fell out of communion with God when they
1:02.0	followed their own voice and not that of the Lord. Then last Sunday we heard of
1:08.2	the call of Abram. Israel's salvation commences with one simple man who
1:15.1	listened, who abided by the Lord's command. Now on this third Sunday of the
1:23.4	Holy Season we turned to the book of Exodus. We're much further long in the
1:30.3	history of Israel now. Abraham's great grandson Joseph had made his way to
1:38.3	Egypt becoming in time the busier of the nation. Read that marvelous story from
1:43.7	the end of the book of Genesis. His family followed him and soon the Israelites
1:48.7	were a force to be reckoned with in Egypt.
1:52.7	Jealous of their success the Pharaoh enslaved them and for 400 years they
1:58.9	toiled in misery. Then of course under the leadership of Moses they made their
2:06.6	way out of captivity and began a journey toward the promised land. Now
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