Dealing With the Mess

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 5 April 2009

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Life is grim. It is marked by conflict, division, inextricably difficult situations. And brooding over all of it is the fact of death. How do we deal with this mess? We can't, but God can. In Christ, he takes on the dysfunction and sin of the world and takes it away through the divine mercy. Walk through the Passion narrative with this idea in mind.

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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
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1:00.4	This is Cardinal Francis George. I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to reflect
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1:21.2	new media to spread the faith and every continent. Father Barron challenges us to open our hearts
1:27.1	to the Wordonfire, which is God's word of love for each of us. If our hearts are open, the Lord
1:33.1	can change and transform us so that we might speak with love about the one who is love.
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1:45.0	Wordonfire. Peace be with you. Ah, how dark are the readings for Palm Sunday. As we come now
1:54.9	toward the end of Lent, this great feast of Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday, the readings are
2:01.7	pretty grim. As is our custom, we read through one of the Passion narratives. In this case, the
2:10.1	Passion narrative of St. Mark's Gospel, but we leave out on Palm Sunday anyway the good news of
2:16.0	the resurrection. And the first two readings for this day also focus rather darkly on suffering.
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