Humility and the Healing Power of God

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 13 October 2013

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

This week's reading from 2 Kings 5 contains some wonderful lessons on humility and obedience. We all suffer from some pestilence, whether it be physical, spiritual, or emotional, and we all seek healing. We need to find the humility to accept God's cure for our spiritual ailments, just like the general Naaman does when Elisha orders him to wash in the river Jordan to cure his leprosy.

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0:00.0	This is Cardinal Francis George. I invite you to join me for the next two minutes to reflect
0:09.0	with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire. Word on Fire Catholic
0:14.2	Ministries is a non-profit ministry at the forefront of Catholic evangelization, using
0:18.9	new media to spread the faith and every continent. Father Barron challenges us to open our hearts
0:23.9	to the Word on Fire, which is God's Word of Love for each of us. If our hearts are open,
0:29.5	the Lord can change and transform us so that we might speak with love about the one who
0:34.6	is love. The global benefactors of Word on Fire with the support of the Archdiocese of
0:39.4	Chicago now present Word on Fire. Peace be with you. Friends, our first reading for this
0:47.6	weekend was taken from the second book of Kings. It's one of my favorite readings in the
0:54.4	Old Testament. We have just a tiny passage from it, verses 14 through 17 of chapter 5, but read
1:01.7	all of chapter 5 of second Kings. It's the story of name and the leper and his famous cure. It's
1:10.9	really worth a careful reading. What I want to do is walk through this with you and draw out some
1:16.8	really perennial spiritual lessons. Here's how chapter 5 of second Kings opens.
1:23.7	Naman, the army commander of the king of Aram, was highly esteemed and respected by his master,
1:30.4	for through him the Lord had brought victory to Aram. So, Naman is a big dealer. He's a very
1:37.9	prominent figure. He's a military commander, and I don't know why that's the case, but from the
1:43.0	ancient world till today we have great respect for military commanders. We respect their
1:48.4	courage, their intelligence, their bravery, etc. So here's Naman, he's a big dealer, very successful
1:57.0	military commander, highly esteemed and respected. Now listen, but Valiant as he was, the man was a
2:06.7	leper. Now, that's a biblical theme of some importance, isn't it? Leprecy. You see it in the old
2:12.6	testament and the new. What they meant by that term is a little bit vague, but he had some
2:18.0	serious skin disease, some seriously compromising illness. Even the greatest people
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