O How We Need a Savior

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 27 November 2005

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Lent is, of course, a penitential season, but Advent is as well. We get in touch with our sinfulness during Advent precisely because we want to prepare ourselves for the coming of a Savior. If there is nothing to be saved from, then there is no point in rejoicing at the arrival of Jesus the Lord. The prophet Isaiah offers us a number of powerful images for sin in our first reading for this Sunday. It behooves us, as an Advent spiritual exercise, to meditate on them.

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0:00.0	Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic Cemetery's, serving the Chicago area since 1837.
0:06.7	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:10.9	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:17.4	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:21.8	Word of Love for each of us.
0:24.0	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with
0:29.0	God's Love about the One who is Love.
0:32.4	The Archdiocese of Chicago, through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish and Winetka, now presents
0:37.4	the Word on Fire.
0:40.1	Peace be with you.
0:41.6	Friends, we all know that Lent is a penitential season, a time when Christians get in touch
0:46.3	with their sinfulness, but Advent 2 has a penitential dimension, and of course this weekend
0:52.7	we commence the season of Advent, the season of preparation for Christmas.
0:58.6	The penitential dimension has to do with this.
1:01.9	Christmas is the time when the Savior comes.
1:07.0	To welcome the Savior properly, we must be in touch with the fact that we have something
1:12.6	that we need to be saved from.
1:15.6	If we think deep down everything is fine with us, we have a few superficial problems we
1:21.2	can deal with on our own, then we don't need a Savior.
1:25.7	O come, O come, Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel as the Advent song has it.
1:33.1	Ransom captive Israel, Advent to some degree is a time when we get deeply in touch with
1:39.1	the fact of our own captivity.
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