Fate of the Prophet

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Our readings for today develop a theme that is uncomfortable. Authentically religious people, authentically spiritual people, will almost always be opposed. The logic behind this is simple and unanswerable: we live in a world gone wrong, a world turned upside down; therefore, when someone comes speaking the truth to us, we will think that they are crazy and dangerous. Jesus’ word is meant to burn things up, to reduce things to cinders, to clear things out. A get-along attitude is never what Jesus is calling for. I know that we are uneasy with this idea, but the Bible isn’t. To love is to will the good of the other. Therefore, to love necessarily involves passionate opposition to what works evil in the other. Love destroys the false forms of order and community in order for the true community to emerge.

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0:01.0	Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.
0:05.0	Word on Fire is an apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization, using media both old and
0:11.0	new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with Christ and His Church.
0:17.0	The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed.
0:24.6	Today we invite you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the warmth and light of Christ with each of us.
0:33.6	Peace be with you. Friends, our readers for today develop a theme that, quite frankly, is
0:40.3	uncomfortable. Here it is. Authentically religious people, authentically spiritual people,
0:48.7	will always be opposed. So not sometimes, not most the time, always. The logic behind it is
0:59.4	simple and really unanswerable. Namely, we live in a world gone wrong. We live in a world
1:06.7	that's turned upside down. Therefore, when someone comes speaking the truth to us, they'll think
1:14.9	that we're the ones who are crazy and dangerous. Does that make sense? So in a world that's
1:20.4	backwards, upside down, when we come with the right perspective, with God's perspective,
1:26.0	they'll think we're crazy and indeed dangerous. Now, the right perspective, with God's perspective, they'll think we're crazy and indeed
1:28.8	dangerous. Now, the first reading speaks. It's a really clear example of this of the prophet
1:34.3	Jeremiah. Can I encourage everybody, take out your Bibles and read the book of the prophet
1:39.7	Jeremiah. Now, it's a little difficult. You can't read that in one sitting. It's a little obscure,
1:46.1	like a lot of the prophetic books, but what an experience to sit there and read through this book.
1:52.2	I'd say this. The moment you're tempted to consider the prophetic life as somehow glamorous or
1:59.3	rewarding, I'd invite you to read any two pages of the prophet Jeremiah.
2:04.6	What will you find?
2:06.6	You'll find the typical fate of the prophets is rejection, suffering, exile, and in extreme cases, execution.
2:19.6	And we're not absolutely sure about this, but very likely Jeremiah was killed in Egypt.
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