The Earthquake and the Light

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 31 March 2002

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In Matthew's version of the Easter story, symbols of novelty and transformation abound: it is the first day of the week, light is dawning, a stone has been rolled back, the very earth shakes, and an angel, a bearer of light, comes and speaks a word of hope. Easter is the day when everything changed, when God's mercy turned the world as we know it upside-down. We Christians are the proclaimers of this reversal.

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0:00.0	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:04.6	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:11.0	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:15.5	Word of Love for each of us.
0:17.8	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, so that we might speak with
0:22.8	love about the one who is love.
0:26.1	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parishing Winnetka now presents
0:31.1	the Word on Fire.
0:33.6	Peace be with you, and a happy Easter.
0:37.2	This is the glorious day.
0:39.2	This is the great day.
0:41.4	The day when everything changes, because Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.
0:49.8	Everything we Christians proclaim comes down to this proclamation.
0:54.2	Everything that we speak to the world comes down to this great Word, that Jesus Christ
1:00.2	is risen from the dead.
1:02.6	St. Paul says, if Christ has not been raised, you are still in your sins.
1:07.9	We are now still in our sins, because Jesus has been raised from the dead.
1:11.7	And this is the gospel.
1:13.8	This is the good news that the church proclaims to the whole world.
1:18.4	We proclaim it from the rooftops.
1:20.5	We proclaim it from the mountain tops.
1:22.5	We proclaim it in everything that we do and say, this is the great day, the day of resurrection.
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