Grace

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 3 August 2014

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Our readings for this weekend are filled with grace, the free gift that God is. Our relationship with God gets off on the wrong foot the moment we see it in an "economic" or calculating way. God, who needs nothing from us, simply wants to share his life with us. And this is why he says, through the prophet Isaiah, "All you who are thirsty, come to the water!"

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0:00.0	Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic Cemetery's, 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 will 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
0:37.3	the Word on Fire.
0:41.6	Peace be with you.
0:43.2	Friends, our readings for this week are incredibly filled with grace.
0:49.2	Grace, Grazia, means free gift.
0:53.1	That's what God is.
0:55.8	I said to you many times before that one of the great spiritual truths is that God does
1:01.8	not need us.
1:03.6	It's true.
1:05.8	God is God, utterly perfect.
1:08.7	Creation itself adds nothing to what God already has.
1:12.8	Our moral excellence doesn't add to God.
1:15.1	Our moral turpitude doesn't take away from God.
1:18.7	And see, this is incomparably good news.
1:23.7	Word means that God can fully love us, lavish us with a totally unself-interested grace.
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