Haste, Astonishment, and Treasuring

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 1 January 2006

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

There are three words that jump out at me from our Gospel reading for today's feast: "haste," "astonished" and "treasured." Each one says something important about the spiritual life. When we know what God wants for us, we should act without hesitation; we should "go in haste." When God breaks into our natural world, we should be astonished. And then, like Mary, we should learn to treasure God's revelation in our minds and hearts.

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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	God's Love about the One who is Love.
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0:39.7	Peace be with you.
0:41.0	Friends, today is New Year's Day, but on the Church's calendar, it's the solemnity
0:45.0	of Mary, the Mother of God, and we have today a terrific passage from the Gospel of Luke.
0:51.4	I want to highlight just three words from this Gospel.
0:55.4	Each one says something essential about a spiritual life.
0:58.8	The three words are haste, astonished, and treasured, haste, astonished, and treasured.
1:11.6	We hear first, the shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem and found Mary and Joseph and
1:18.4	the baby lying in the manger.
1:20.6	They heard a message from the angels, and they went quickly to do what the angels told
1:25.0	them to do.
1:26.5	This of course echoes something a little bit earlier in Luke's Gospel.
1:30.3	Mary receives the annunciation from the angel, and then it says, she went in haste to the
1:35.9	hill country.
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