He So loved the World

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 14 September 2003

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Today's feast, the Triumph of the Cross, is one of those remarkable Christian paradoxes. To describe an unspeakably brutal execution as a "triumph" seems either a bad joke or plain madness. But we Christians delight in this odd juxtaposition of agony and ecstacy, because we know the deepest truth of the cross is God's swallowing up of even the greatest sin. And so like Paul we glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. How have you perhaps sensed the triumph of the cross in your own life?

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0:11.0	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:15.2	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:21.7	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:26.1	Word of Love for each of us.
0:28.4	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with
0:33.4	love about the one who is love.
0:36.7	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish and Winnicka
0:40.6	now presents the Word on Fire.
0:44.5	Peace be with you.
0:46.2	Friends, it was G.K. Chesterton who said, Christianity is the great religion of paradox,
0:53.8	the coming together of clashing opposites.
0:58.6	So we Christian say that God became a creature.
1:03.4	The infinite became finite.
1:05.2	The eternal became temporal.
1:08.9	We also say things like, death is the path to life.
1:14.7	That fulfillment is equivalent to the loss of self.
1:19.4	So throughout the Gospels, this paradoxical language is typical.
1:25.2	Our feast day today, the feast of the triumph of the cross is a beautiful example of this
1:32.2	Christian paradox, the strangeness, almost the joking quality of Christian speech.
1:40.4	But you know, here's the problem.
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