Redemptive Suffering

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 17 April 2005

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

We hear this week from the Apostle Peter, speaking to the Christian community about redemptive suffering. This is the suffering that comes from doing what is right, even in the face of opposition. What it accomplishes is redemption, that is to say, "buying back" for God the one who perpetrates the injustice. No one in our own American tradition understood this principle--and put it into practice--more thoroughly than Martin Luther King.

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0:00.0	Word on fire is brought to you by Catholic cemeteries, serving the Chicago area since 1837.
0:06.8	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:11.0	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
0:21.9	Word of Love for each of us.
0:24.2	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, clearly might speak with
0:29.2	love about the One who is love.
0:32.5	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish in Winnicka now presents
0:37.4	the Word on fire.
0:39.3	Peace be with you.
0:41.1	Friends, I imagine that a number of people might find our readings for this week a bit offensive.
0:47.4	That's because we put such a premium on inclusivity.
0:52.3	We don't like it when, especially in the area of religion, a stress is placed on exclusivity.
0:59.2	Listen out to what I mean.
1:02.2	Our first reading is an account of Peter's sermon on Pentecost.
1:09.0	He's told the people of Jesus, he's stirred up their great interest, and they say to him,
1:14.4	What are we to do, brothers?
1:16.9	Peter answered, you must reform and be baptized, each one of you in the name of Jesus Christ,
1:25.1	and your sins will be forgiven.
1:27.6	Baptism in Jesus Christ, that's what Peter tells them to do.
1:31.7	He doesn't say, stay the way you are.
1:34.2	He doesn't say, don't worry, everything's fine.
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