How Are You Caring for the Poor?

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Friends, Pope Benedict XVI memorably said that the Church does three essential things: it evangelizes, it worships God, and it cares for the poor. This week, the words of Amos the prophet and Jesus’ parable of Lazarus and the rich man are meant to put us on the hook when it comes to the third task. How much do we care for those who are poor? Are we living lives of self-preoccupation and self-indulgence while our own brothers and sisters are suffering and starving at our gate?

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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
0:11.5	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
0:28.0	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.
0:42.5	Peace be with you. Friends Pope Benedict memorably said,
0:46.4	The Church does three essential things. This is just state in my mind ever since
0:50.7	I read it because it's so clarifying. The three essential things Church does, it
0:54.5	evangelizes it worships God and it cares for the poor. Those three things. Think of
1:01.4	all the institutions, all the expressions of ecclesial life. They fall under
1:05.4	one of those three rubrics and in fact an entire ecclesiology I think can be
1:10.0	constructed from that insight. Notice first how they're all related to each
1:14.1	other. Each one leads to the other and that's talked for another day. I think
1:19.3	interesting the last three popes. I think hit one of these three especially. Look
1:25.3	at John Paul II. Evangelization was so key to him. Now the other two as well.
1:31.2	I mean no one doubts that but if there was a focus of John Paul II it was on
1:34.6	the evangelization. Pope Benedict I would say it was on the worship of God. He was
1:39.5	very concerned about the integrity of the liturgy. The other two as well of
1:44.6	course for him. And then with Pope Francis I think pretty clearly it's care for
1:49.9	the poor. You know for the beginning of his papacy it's been a hallmark of his
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