Spiritual Shock Therapy

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 5 September 2004

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The world of grasping, competition, violence, and egotism is the "real" world, right? And if I were to suggest that we can live in radical non-violence, love, compassion, and forgiveness, you would probably suggest that I am a utopian dreamer. But what Jesus shows is precisely the illusory, phony quality of the supposedly "real" world that we inhabit, and what he calls for is an immersion in the new universe that he calls "the Kingdom of God." His strategy: spiritual shock therapy. "Hate your mother and father, your children, your wife, your very self," he says to the uncomprehending crowds--and to us. His purpose is to shake us out of our complacency and into a whole new way of thinking, acting, and being.

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0:00.0	Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic Cemetery's, serving the Chicago area since 1837.
0:06.9	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:11.1	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:17.7	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:22.0	Word of Love for each of us.
0:24.3	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with
0:29.3	love about the one who is love.
0:32.6	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish in Winnetka now presents
0:37.6	the Word on Fire.
0:40.1	Peace be with you.
0:41.8	Friends, our Gospel for today is taken from the 14th chapter of Luke's Gospel.
0:46.8	The 14th chapter of Luke is really worth pondering because it's filled with all kinds of
0:51.3	prescriptions about the life of discipleship.
0:55.8	How do we follow the Lord Jesus?
1:00.2	What we see here today is something very surprising, even shocking.
1:07.0	He's been leading his disciples along, leading the crowds along, and now today he drops
1:12.4	a kind of spiritual bomb on them.
1:16.4	If you really want to know what it means to follow me, here's what you have to do.
1:21.3	Now listen to him.
1:24.0	If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, his wife and his children,
1:32.3	his brothers and sisters, indeed his very self, he cannot be my follower.
1:39.8	Now imagine someone hearing this, they've been intrigued by this figure, they've heard
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