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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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🗓️ 11 January 2004

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Last week, I spoke of the many "family resemblances" between Christianity and the other great religious traditions. This week, I look at the other side, all the points of disagreement. How do we balance all of this? Both the Epiphany and the Baptism of the Lord provide clues.

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0:00.0	Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic cemeteries, serving the Chicago area since 1837,
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0:10.9	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:15.1	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:21.7	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:26.0	Word of Love for each of us.
0:28.3	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us who we might speak with love
0:33.7	about the One who is love.
0:36.6	The Archdiocese of Chicago, through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish and Winetka, now presents
0:41.6	the Word on Fire.
0:44.1	Peace be with you.
0:45.9	Friends, today is the feast of the baptism of the Lord, and I want to bring this feast
0:50.4	together with last week's feast of the Epiphany.
0:54.9	Both of them speak in powerful ways to this issue of the relationship between Christianity
1:01.2	and the other great religions of the world.
1:03.7	If you heard me last week, you recall, I said with regard to this question, there are two
1:08.4	great extremes to be avoided.
1:11.2	On the one hand, a sort of exclusiveism or maximalism that simply says, we're right and
1:17.3	they're wrong.
1:18.8	We're the fullness of revelation.
1:20.5	They're at best pseudo-religions.
1:22.9	My argument lets we, for all kinds of reasons, that that simply is untenable.
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