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Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

The Empty Grave

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

4.84.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2015

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Many people enjoy visiting the graves of famous people, from Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, IL to St. Peter in the Vatican. We feel a sense of peace and finality around graves. But the one thing we would never expect in a cemetery is action. Yet that's precisely what we find at the center of Christianity, as St. John recounts in today's Easter Gospel.

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This is Archbishop Blaise Supich, Archbishop of Chicago.

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Today, I invite you to reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.

0:14.5

Word on Fire Catholic Ministries is a non-for-profit apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization that utilizes media

0:23.4

both old and new to share the faith on every continent and facilitate an encounter with Christ

0:30.8

in its church. The efforts of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries engage the culture and bring the transformative power of God's Word

0:40.0

where it is most needed.

0:42.7

This is an invitation to open our hearts

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to the Word on Fire,

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which is God's Word of Love for each of us.

0:50.5

When our hearts are open,

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the Lord changes and transforms us so that we in turn begin to share the warmth and light of Jesus Christ, who is the Word on Fire.

1:04.0

The global benefactors of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, with the support of the Archdiocese of Chicago now present word on fire peace be

1:15.5

with you and a happy blessed Easter to everybody friends you know it's a weird thing in my own life

1:24.2

but i always like to visit the graves of famous people.

1:29.7

I don't know why precisely.

1:31.4

Maybe it's a sense of history, a sense of connection across the ages.

1:35.9

Maybe it's a form of paying tribute honoring their memory.

1:41.3

Whatever it is, something has always drawn me to these places, to the graves and tombs of

1:47.3

famous people. I've done a lot of traveling around the world in my life. And whenever I come

1:54.2

into a new place or new city, my first question is usually, well, who's buried here? Whose grave can I visit?

2:02.2

And then I make a beeline to those places.

2:05.7

When I was a student in Washington, D.C., many years ago, I used to love to visit that little

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