Go in Haste, Be Astonished, Treasure!

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Friends, on this Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, we hear three significant words in the Gospel from Luke: haste, astonished, and treasured. If God has broken into your life in some decisive way, if you’ve been given your mission, then don’t about what the world says: move, act, go. When God manifests himself, the right response is astonishment. And then savor, treasure, reflect upon these astonishing things in your heart. In all these ways, we honor Mary, the Mother of God.

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0:00.0	Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an
0:05.4	apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization using media both old and
0:11.4	new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with
0:16.6	Christ and His Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring
0:21.8	the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today we invite
0:27.9	you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the
0:32.5	warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.
0:40.1	Peace be with you. Happy New Year's Day in the secular sense but also the
0:44.0	feast of Mary the Mother of God on this January 1st. You know there are three
0:49.2	words from our gospel. It's from Luke. I've always loved these three words I
0:53.7	want to reflect on. The first one is haste. The second one is astonished. The
0:58.9	third one is treasured. Haste astonished and treasured. Luke tells us the
1:06.2	shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem and found Mary and Joseph and the
1:12.4	baby lying in the manger. Haste. The angels told them something. This message came
1:21.5	from another world from on high and they were given a task. They were sent on
1:29.1	mission and by God they went. They moved. Remember of course in the same gospel
1:38.4	we hear that Mary after the annunciation went in haste same word to visit her
1:44.1	cousin Elizabeth. She'd been given a message from a higher world. She'd been given
1:49.1	a sense of mission and then she moved. Think of the three wise men in
1:55.8	that's in Matthew's gospel. They see the star and then despite all the
2:00.8	difficulties, despite all the obstacles, they moved. The Bible is a book of
2:07.8	missions. Nobody in the Bible. There's no exception. Nobody in the Bible is ever
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