Not One Stone Upon Another

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 14 November 2004

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Our Gospel for this Sunday opens with Jesus' disciples admiring the splendor of the Temple, the most beautiful, important, and impressive building they had ever seen. And Jesus, as is his wont, pulls the rug out from under them: "Not one stone of this temple will be left upon another, but it will all be torn down!" The Gospel emphasizes over and again that nothing in this world lasts, nothing here below is ultimate. Therefore we shouldn't spend our time and energy gawking at the glories of this world; rather we should see and act in the light of a glory to come.

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0:00.0	Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic cemeteries, serving the Chicago area since 1837.
0:07.0	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:11.2	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:17.6	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:22.0	Word of Love for each of us.
0:24.3	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with
0:29.3	love about the One who is love.
0:32.6	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish in Winetka now presents
0:37.6	the Word on Fire.
0:40.2	Peace be with you.
0:42.0	Friends, the days are growing shorter, it's getting darker and gloomier, we're coming
0:46.5	to the end of the calendar year.
0:49.0	We're also coming to the very end of the liturgical year.
0:52.9	This Sunday is the second to last Sunday of ordinary time, and a couple of weeks will
0:57.3	be in the season of Advent preparing for Christmas.
1:00.6	The church's readings become darker this time of year.
1:05.9	They're also about ultimate things, the end times, about the Eskitan.
1:11.7	Our reading for today, the gospel is taken from the 21st chapter of Luke's gospel.
1:17.7	It's in the 22nd chapter that Luke begins his account of the passion and death of Jesus.
1:23.4	So we're at the very end of his public ministry.
1:27.6	Remember, it begins up in Galilee as a kind of Galilee and springtime they talk about.
1:34.1	When Jesus was popular, the crowds were around him, he was performing miracles preaching.
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