God Became a Baby

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Merry Christmas friends! As you gather today with family and friends, it is likely that someone, at some point, will bring in a newborn. And everybody will want to see the baby. The whole room will stop whatever they are doing to see this child. There is something irresistibly charming about babies; they bring out the best in us and call forth love from us. Well, at the center of our Christmas celebration is a strange, astonishing fact: God became a baby. The all-powerful Creator of the universe, the reason why there is something rather than nothing, became a baby too weak even to raise his own head. This was a stroke of divine genius. Again and again the Hound of Heaven sought us out, and again and again we ran away. But who can finally resist the baby who is 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.
0:40.0	Peace be with you and a very blessed and Merry Christmas to everybody. What is
0:46.3	it about babies? That's just so irresistibly charming. Now I realize some
0:53.0	parents might be thinking what a typical celibate perspective on things but you
0:57.3	know what I mean. There's something about a baby when the baby comes into the room
1:01.5	everybody wants to see the baby. I imagine out today at your family gathering
1:08.2	someone probably will bring in a newborn at some point. Everybody will come
1:12.9	over and make funny faces and make little funny noises and want to see the
1:16.7	baby. The whole room will stop whatever they're doing to see this child. I
1:21.8	imagine even the most crusty, difficult, curmudgeonly person-to-the-party will
1:27.4	eventually make his or her way over and start, you know, cooing at the baby.
1:31.3	There's just something about a little child that brings out the best in us.
1:37.3	Calls forth love from us. Now imagine if a baby came into the room and you knew
1:45.7	somehow that that baby was in serious danger. That baby was sick or there was
1:51.6	someone threatening that child. Well, even more so your sense of love and
1:57.3	protection would be awakened, right? That baby would get your attention. Well, at
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