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Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

The Adventure of Salvation

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

4.84.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Friends, on this Second Sunday of Lent, our first reading about Abraham and Matthew’s account of the Transfiguration orient us to a basic biblical principle. God has made us to go out from ourselves, to experience the splendor of reality. The more we let go of ourselves and our prerogatives—and the less we try to grasp and hang on to things—the more alive we become. Salvation, therefore, has a lot to do with adventure.

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Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.

0:04.0

Word on Fire is an apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization,

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using media both old and new to share the faith on every continent

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and to facilitate an encounter with Christ and His Church.

0:19.0

The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring the

0:22.6

transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today, we invite you to join Bishop Robert

0:29.9

Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.

0:40.4

Peace be with you. We come to this second Sunday of Lent, and the readings are always rich during

0:45.8

Lent because we're getting back to spiritual basics. The church wants us to really reflect on

0:50.3

some of these elemental truths in the spiritual life. And this is a good example.

0:55.0

I want to start with the first reading, which is from the book of Genesis,

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and it's talking about Abraham.

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And everybody, whatever the Bible talks about Abraham,

1:03.0

our ears should perk up.

1:05.0

Our eyes should get more focus because he's our father in faith.

1:09.0

He's the one through whom the rescue operation commences.

1:17.8

Whatever we have of faith in a way is just imitating what Abraham had. So we pay special

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attention. Well, listen now to what the Lord said.

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The Lord said to Abram, that's what they call him here before the name was changed.

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Go forth from the land of your kinsfolk and from your father's house to a land that I will

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show you.

1:40.8

And then I'll make you a great nation, right?

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