Stand Strong in the Spirit

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Friends, this week, our second reading is from Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy. From prison, Paul writes to Timothy—the master to the disciple, the mentor to the mentee, the old soldier to the young soldier—and tells him to have courage, but to attach his courage to the weapons of wisdom and love. When one stands courageously, with wisdom, with love, with all the gifts of the Holy Spirit, then one is able to face down the powers of the world. When we try to fight them on their own terms, we try to conquer evil with evil, we make no progress toward the kingdom of God.

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0:00.0	Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an
0:05.4	apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization using media both old and
0:11.5	new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with
0:16.6	Christ and His Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring
0:21.8	the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today we invite
0:28.0	you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the
0:32.5	warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.
0:41.2	Peace be with you. Friends, for this week I'm going to preach on our second reading.
0:46.0	I don't do that all that often but very powerful today. It's from Paul's second
0:50.8	letter to Timothy. Scholars are divided about whether Paul himself actually wrote
0:57.1	this letter. It was kind of customary in the ancient world sometimes to write
1:00.5	something and then claim a famous person as the author. And there's evidence on
1:06.1	both sides of this. I've always been persuaded that Paul did indeed write it. At
1:10.5	any rate it's filled with Paul's spirit. It's written from prison. Paul spent a
1:17.6	lot of time in prison. As I've said before, when you declared the Lord's
1:21.4	ship of Jesus the ancient world, you were not just trading in bland spiritual
1:25.6	speech. You were making a subversive claim because Caesar was Lord. You're
1:30.8	claiming no, not Caesar but Jesus is Lord. You're upsetting all the social
1:36.7	political conventions of the time. Therefore it's not surprising that Paul spent a
1:40.1	lot of time in prison. From prison he writes to Timothy and there's
1:44.2	something very charming because Timothy is a much younger man and there's
1:47.2	something of a mentor, mentee, a master, disciple relationship between Paul
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