Love the Ones You’re Given

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Friends, families teach us that we don't always get to choose the people we love, but we're given people that we're then called upon to love. On this Feast of the Holy Family, let's meditate upon the importance of this calling.

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0:00.0	Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an
0:05.7	apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization using media both old and
0:11.8	new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with
0:17.0	Christ and His Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring
0:22.2	the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today we invite
0:28.3	you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the
0:32.8	warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.
0:39.5	Peace be with you. Friends on this feast of the Holy Family. So it's the very day
0:45.2	after Christmas. I'm aware that we've all probably been with our families very
0:50.3	recently. Our media families, our extended families. And I want to tell you
0:54.2	about a member of my extended family. It was always caused me to to reflect on
1:00.1	things more spiritually and theologically. Talking about my Uncle Tommy. Uncle
1:04.7	Tommy was my father's older brother, though he outlived my father by many years.
1:09.3	And Uncle Tommy was in the Second World War as he must have been in his early
1:15.8	20s in those days. And he was sent over to England and then over to Europe in
1:20.8	1944 and that winter of 1944. He fought in the battle of the bulge. Anyway, he
1:27.2	comes home from the war and you know probably today we would say he was
1:31.0	suffering from post-traumatic stress or we'd have some way to diagnose what it
1:36.3	was. But whatever happened to him over there affected him very negatively. And
1:40.9	Uncle Tommy just had a difficult time when he got home. Couldn't hold the job. He
1:45.8	got several different jobs and never had them for very long. Fell into conflict
1:50.0	or he was afraid to go to work or whatever. He never married so he couldn't
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