Fraternal Correction

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 7 September 2008

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The command to love compels us to engage in the difficult task of fraternal correction, but it enjoins us to do so carefully, always aware that it can slide easily enough into a game of ego-inflation. The Gospel gives us some very practical advice in this regard.

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0:00.0	Word on fire is brought to you by Catholic cemeteries, 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.
0:24.1	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with
0:29.0	love about the one who is love.
0:32.4	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish and Winnicka now presents
0:37.4	the Word on fire.
0:42.1	Peace be with you.
0:43.7	Friends, I want to begin today with that wonderfully pithy and lucid passage from St.
0:49.6	Paul's letter to the Roman, that's part of our second reading.
0:53.3	Paul says, Love does no evil to the neighbor, hence love is the fulfillment of the law.
1:03.9	Love does no evil, hence love is the fulfillment of the law.
1:09.4	Paul, as we know, studied at the feet of Gamaliel, the leading rabbi of his time.
1:15.4	He would have studied the Torah, the law.
1:18.2	He knew an awful lot about it.
1:19.9	In fact, his whole life was ordered to it.
1:23.2	In light of his experience of Jesus risen from the dead, Paul didn't abandon the law.
1:28.1	Rather, he re-situated it.
1:31.0	He re-contextualized it, and here we can hear it at the end of the letter to the Romans.
1:37.2	Christ coming, he saw, did not negate the law, it fulfilled it.
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