The Awful Gospel of the Cross

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 8 September 2013

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

This week's Gospel contains one of the greatest challenges Jesus ever offered to his disciples: "If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple." Here Christ is emphasizing the great spiritual principle of detachment. In order to live healthy spiritual lives we must love Christ most of all, with everything else finding its meaning in relation to God.

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0:00.0	This is Cardinal Francis George.
0:06.2	I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:13.2	Word on Fire Catholic Ministries is a non-profit ministry at the forefront of Catholic evangelization,
0:18.6	using new media to spread the faith on every continent.
0:21.8	Father Barron challenges us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:26.1	Word of Love for each of us.
0:28.1	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us so that we might speak with love
0:33.4	about the one who is love.
0:35.7	The global benefactors of Word on Fire
0:37.7	with the support of the Archdiocese of Chicago
0:39.8	now present Word on Fire.
0:44.9	Peace be with you.
0:47.4	Friends, our gospel for today opens with this observation.
0:51.8	Great crowds were traveling with Jesus. Well, you say that's great, huh? Jesus is making a big
0:59.6	splash and he's a lot of people following him and he's very successful. The numbers are up.
1:05.3	Now that I'm a seminary rector, where he's concerned about the numbers of students and when there are a lot of
1:09.9	them coming, we're happy. When you sponsor a talk or something, and how many came were there a lot of
1:15.1	people there? So that's natural. We like it when they're big crowds. But I want you to think about
1:20.8	something. How many were following Jesus at the very end? When he was hanging on the cross, how many were following him?
1:29.9	Well, there were a handful of people.
1:32.1	His mother, St. John, a couple other women.
1:36.4	Keep that contrast in mind.
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