Getting Back to Basics In the Spiritual Life

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 13 February 2005

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

On this first Sunday of Lent, the Church asks us to get back to the spiritual basics. We are compelled to consider once again the story of the Fall. God wants us to be fully alive, but fullness of life comes ultimately only as a gift of grace and not an accomplishment of the will. When Adam and Eve grasped at godliness, they violated the law of the gift: your being increases in the measure that you give it away. This sin is reversed in the Gospel story of the temptation. Jesus consistently resists the devil's suggestions and makes the Father's will the center of his concerns. In Jesus' resistance, the momentum of Eden is reversed.

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0:00.0	Word on fire is brought to you by Catholic cemeteries, serving the Chicago area since 1837.
0:07.0	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:11.2	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on fire.
0:17.7	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on fire, which is God's
0:22.0	Word of Love for each of us.
0:24.3	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with
0:29.3	love about the one who is love.
0:32.6	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish and Winnetka now presents
0:37.6	the Word on fire.
0:39.6	Peace be with you.
0:41.6	Friends, in the beginning of a sport season, beginning of a football or baseball season,
0:46.5	a coach will bring his players back to the basics.
0:51.2	When I was playing football, the coach would always begin the season with three-point stance
0:56.4	with the mechanics of a hand-off, the basic moves of the game, same as baseball.
1:03.0	Coats in the early spring would take us through stance when you're batting, throwing
1:08.2	the ball, sliding the elemental moves.
1:11.5	You can't do something spectacular in a sport until the basics are in place.
1:19.6	Something is true in the spiritual life.
1:22.4	We've now come to this first Sunday of Lent.
1:26.5	Lent is a time spiritually of returning to the elemental moves of the spiritual life,
1:33.3	getting back to basics.
1:35.3	There's something very simple and elemental in the readings for Lent, because we're
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