Living the Flesh, Living the Spirit

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 27 May 2012

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

St. Paul illuminates what it means to live in the Holy Spirit, acting and living out of love, and what it means to live outside of it, acting and living out of selfishness, hatred, immorality and impurity. Every step we take to deny the forces outside of the Spirit affirms our home inside of it. And the more we live inside the Spirit, the closer we are to the Kingdom of God.

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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, a very happy pentacost
0:48.7	Sunday to you, this great feast of the Holy Spirit. What I want to do is something I don't
0:54.3	usually do, and that's a two-parter homily. We have two great feasts really of the Holy Spirit
1:00.5	back to back. First, pentacost, of course. But then next week we have Trinity Sunday. Who's
1:08.2	the Holy Spirit, but the love that connects the Father and the Son? Therefore, in a special
1:13.0	way, I think of Trinity Sunday as a feast of the Spirit. So what I want to do this week
1:20.5	and next week is talk about the Holy Spirit by focusing upon what I think is one of the
1:26.4	really great texts in the whole New Testament, namely the fifth chapter of Paul to the Galatians.
1:34.0	It's our second reading for pentacost, and it's one of the most thorough and I think practical
1:39.6	instructions in the spiritual life. Again, I don't mean that vaguely. Some people use that
1:46.1	term vaguely. I mean, very specifically. I mean, the life lived in the Holy Spirit. What's
1:54.5	it look like? And more to the point, what doesn't it look like? Paul lays out both sides of that
2:01.6	equation by looking at the works of the flesh and then the fruits of the Holy Spirit. So what I'll
2:09.4	do is this week for pentacost. I'll talk about some of those works of the flesh and then maybe
2:16.8	give you a little hint this week and then more next week about the fruits of the Holy Spirit.
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