Four Reasons to Love Your Enemies

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2004

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

One of the most challenging and disconcerting of Jesus' commands is to love our enemies. In this sermon, I will explore four reasons why this moral demand makes sense. First, it helps us to test the quality of our love; second, it tells us a great deal about ourselves; third, it makes us see that sometimes our enemies might be right; and fourth, it allows us sometimes to win our enemy back.

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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 Winetka now presents
0:41.6	the Word on Fire.
0:44.9	Peace be with you.
0:46.4	Friends, our Gospel for today is meant to bother us.
0:51.5	I think the more we move into it, the more upset we get.
0:56.2	It's one of the most difficult, annoying, and intriguing texts in the whole New Testament.
1:02.3	It's taken from Jesus' sermon on the plane in Luke's Gospel, and mentioned last week
1:07.4	that in Matthew, the sermon's on the mountain in Luke, it's on a plane, but much of the
1:11.9	same content in both sermons.
1:14.5	Listen now to this passage.
1:17.5	To you who hear me, I say, this is, of course, the Lord speaking, love your enemies.
1:24.4	Do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who meld
1:30.7	treat you.
1:31.7	That's a hard text that is an annoying and difficult text.
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