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Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 13 June 2004

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Paul tells us that whenever we eat the body and drink the blood of the Lord, we proclaim his death until he comes. This means that the Eucharist involves a wonderful compression of time, past and future meeting dynamically in the present. When we gather around the Lord's table now, we call to mind the breakthrough moment of the Paschal Mystery and we anticipate the culminating moment of the end of time. In doing this, we charge the present with meaning and purpose.

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0:00.0	Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic Cemetery's, serving the Chicago area since 1837, and
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0:10.6	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:14.8	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:21.4	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:25.7	Word of Love for each of us.
0:28.0	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with
0:32.9	love about the One who is love.
0:36.3	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish in Winnetka now presents
0:41.2	the Word on Fire.
0:43.8	Peace be with you.
0:45.2	Friends today with the Church all around the world, we celebrate this great feast of
0:49.4	Corpus Christi, the feast of the body and the blood of the Lord.
0:54.5	The Eucharist, the Pope just told us that the Church comes from the Eucharist.
0:59.9	That's what we're asked to meditate upon today.
1:02.7	What I want to focus on is the second reading from Mass, which is one of the most precious
1:08.2	texts we have from the biblical tradition, because it's the earliest description of the
1:14.7	Eucharist.
1:16.1	It comes from Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, written all around the year 51 or 2 of the
1:22.6	first century.
1:23.6	Listen what Paul says.
1:26.5	I received from the Lord what I handed on to you, namely, that the Lord Jesus on the
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