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Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Spiritual Food

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

4.84.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2015

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In our first reading today, Elijah is dejected and requests that the Lord take his life. But an angel touches him and orders him to get up and eat. Strengthened by food, he journeys to the mountain of God, Horeb. We're all acquainted with the need for physical food, like Elijah, but we also need spiritual food. If we don't feed our souls, we will become spiritually lethargic and unhealthy. Where do we find that nourishment? The answer comes in John 6, our Gospel reading for today.

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0:00.0

This is Archbishop Blaise Supich, Archbishop of Chicago.

0:06.2

Today, I invite you to reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.

0:14.5

Word on Fire Catholic Ministries is a non-for-profit apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization that utilizes media

0:23.4

both old and new to share the faith on every continent and facilitate an encounter with Christ

0:30.8

in its church. The efforts of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries engage the culture and bring the transformative power of God's Word

0:40.0

where it is most needed.

0:42.7

This is an invitation to open our hearts

0:45.2

to the Word on Fire,

0:46.8

which is God's Word of Love for each of us.

0:50.5

When our hearts are open,

0:52.4

the Lord changes and transforms us so that we in turn begin to share the warmth and light of Jesus Christ, who is the Word on Fire.

1:04.0

The global benefactors of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, with the support of the Archdiocese of Chicago now present Word on Fire.

1:16.7

Peace be with you. Friends, our first reading for this weekend is taken from the always fascinating

1:22.4

first book of kings in the Old Testament. Could I urge you, please, when you have a chance this week,

1:28.2

take out your Bibles and read the first book of Kings.

1:31.3

You can read it in, you know, one sitting, a couple sittings maybe.

1:34.7

It's adventurous, fascinating, full of rich theology.

1:38.9

So read First Kings.

1:41.1

But we're dealing at our liturgy with the story of Elijah and his battle with the priests of Ba'al.

1:48.3

So these are the priests who represent the false gods.

1:51.6

And Elijah famously called them out, and he defeated them on Mount Carmel, you know, the famous scene where they call upon their gods,

1:59.7

and he calls upon the true God, and the true God answers with fire, and then Elijah kills all the priests of Baal.

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