Isaiah and God’s Holy Mountain

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Bishop Robert Barron

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🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Throughout the book of the prophet Isaiah, there are references to God’s holy mountain. In the twenty-fifth chapter of Isaiah, we have still another reference to the holy mountain, and this is our first reading for the weekend. The mountain in question is, of course, Mt. Zion—which is to say, the mountain where the temple of the Lord is situated. The temple is the place where Israel comes together in right praise of God. Now, Isaiah is indeed talking about the Mt. Zion and the Temple that existed in his time, but it’s eminently clear from the language of his prophecy that he is also talking about the mystical Mt. Zion, the definitive temple, the place where the right praise of God has come to full expression.

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0:39.7	Peace be with you. Friends, what is it about mountains? It's just so compelling to
0:45.8	us. Now maybe it's because I'm from Chicago where everything is flat but whenever
0:49.9	I've seen mountains I'm just drawn to them. Remember the very first time I went to
0:55.0	Seattle and I saw Mount Reneer which is not out as they say all the time. It's
1:00.4	often covered in clouds but it was brilliantly visible that day. I don't know. I
1:05.4	was just sort of in an ecstasy looking at this mountain. Whenever I'm in a plane
1:10.4	going over mountain I'm always drawn even from that great height to look at
1:14.7	them. Here in Santa Barbara where I'm privileged to live we have the sea on one side
1:19.4	and mountains on the other and so whenever I can't I look at them and I'm sort
1:24.6	of drawn into a mystical state. Well of course it's a great image throughout the
1:31.3	Bible isn't it? The mountain where we go up and where God comes down to meet us
1:37.4	is sort of a a tristing place if you want between divinity and humanity. Well in
1:42.4	the prophet Isaiah and again we're reading from Isaiah in our first reading the
1:46.9	image of God's holy mountain comes up a lot. One of my favorite passages in the
1:52.2	whole Bible is Isaiah chapter 2. I'd urge you by the way get your
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