Seventy Times Seven Times

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 11 September 2005

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Our capacity to forgive others is tightly linked to our realization that we have been forgiven by God. When we try to justify an ethic of radical forgiveness on purely humanistic grounds, we will fail. But when we know in our bones that our sins have been eradicated through the cross of Christ, then we are able to forgive one another even seventy times seven times.

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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 in Winetka now presents
0:37.4	the Word on Fire.
0:38.7	Peace be with you.
0:41.4	Friends, our readings for this week are very powerful, and they're about a theme that
0:45.3	is difficult to talk about.
0:48.5	It's a topic in the spiritual life that most of us would like to avoid.
0:52.8	I'm talking about forgiveness.
0:55.6	Now we all love to be forgiven.
0:59.0	But forgiving others, that's another story.
1:02.5	Listen now how the author of the book of Syract describes this.
1:08.3	Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight.
1:13.9	Isn't it true, by the way?
1:16.0	Stay with that image.
1:18.2	Wrath and anger, they're hateful things, but we sinners, all of us, we hold them tight.
1:23.7	We like our wrath in some ways.
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