Seated at the Right Hand of the Father

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Friends, getting the Ascension of the Lord right is very important for understanding many aspects of the Church’s life. So I want to dwell on that a little bit with you today, and I want to do so under two headings: the first I’m going to call more political, and the second more liturgical. They are both hinted at in the great statement in the Creed that we recite week after week: “He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.”

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0:00.0	Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.
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0:27.2	Today, we invite you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the
0:33.0	warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.
0:39.3	Peace be with you.
0:40.3	Friends, we come to this wonderful feast of the ascension of the Lord.
0:44.3	We have this feast right at the end of the Easter season as a prelude to Pentecost,
0:48.3	the celebration of the coming of the Holy Spirit.
0:51.3	And getting the Ascension of the Lord right is very important for understanding many aspects of the
0:57.7	church's life.
0:58.6	And so I want to dwell on that a little bit with you today.
1:02.4	I want to do so under two headings.
1:04.5	The first I'm going to call more political, the second I'm going to call more liturgical.
1:09.9	They are both hinted at in the great statement in the creed that we recite week after week,
1:15.4	he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
1:22.3	So every week we say that as part of the Nicene Creed,
1:25.2	he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the
1:29.5	father. What does that mean? Well, first of all, and I've made this point with you before,
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