Getting Straightened Out

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 8 June 2008

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Paul's letter to the Romans explores the great theme of justification, the process by which we become rectified or straightened out in regard to God. Key to this process, says Paul, is faith, that is to say, trust in the Lord. What has thrown us off-kilter is precisely a tendency to rely on our own powers. But when we, like Abraham our father in faith, learn to trust, then the divine life can flow into us and through us to the world.

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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.
0:24.0	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 Winetka, now presents
0:37.4	the Word on fire.
0:39.8	Peace be with you.
0:41.4	Friends, for the next several months, we're going to be reading at Mass from Paul's great
0:46.9	letter to the Romans.
0:49.2	I might wonder why the Church is asking us to spend so much time with this particular
0:54.3	letter.
0:55.3	Well, Paul never wrote a more thorough and searching account of the Christian thing than
1:03.7	this communicates the little Christian community in Rome, sometime maybe in the 50s or early
1:10.3	60s of the first century.
1:12.2	If you've been to Rome, you might have wandered through the picturesque little neighborhood
1:17.5	called Trastavere.
1:20.0	It's a region right across the Tiber from the Roman Forum, and during ancient times,
1:25.8	this was a Jewish quarter.
1:28.8	It's likely that this is where the first Christians coming out of this Jewish matrix would
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