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Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 4 November 2012

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Our first reading for Mass this week contains the defining prayer of the Jewish tradition: the “Sh’ma.” In the Gospel, when asked which commandment is the greatest, Jesus, a pious Jew, recites this prayer from the book of Deuteronomy. We Christians too claim—or better, are claimed by—this great prayer. But what does it mean?

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0:00.0	This is Cardinal Francis George.
0:06.3	I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:13.2	Word on Fire Catholic Ministries is a non-profit ministry at the forefront of Catholic evangelization,
0:18.6	using new media to spread the faith on every continent.
0:21.8	Father Barron challenges us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:26.1	Word of Love for each of us.
0:28.1	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us so that we might speak with love
0:33.4	about the one who is love.
0:35.7	The global benefactors of Word on Fire,
0:37.9	with the support of the Archdiocese of Chicago,
0:40.3	now present Word on Fire.
0:44.4	Peace be with you.
0:46.1	Friends, in the gospel for today, someone asked Jesus,
0:49.5	which commandment is the greatest?
0:52.6	And he replied readily, without hesitation hesitation in the manner of a pious
0:57.3	jew by reciting the shema the shema is a prayer derived from a passage in the sixth chapter of the book
1:07.5	of deuteronomy the church hopefully couples that passage with our gospel for
1:12.6	today. Here is
1:14.8	the Shema. I'll say it in Hebrew.
1:18.4	I'll say it probably the way Jesus would have said it.
1:21.3	Shema Israel.
1:23.2	Adonai Elohae No.
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