The End of the World

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 16 November 2003

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In our rather apocalypic Gospel for today, Jesus is not so much predicting the end of the space-time continuum as he is showing that a new world arrives through his death and resurrection. Apocalypse means literally "unveiling," and what is unveiled, revealed in the Paschal Mystery is none other than the end of an old way of being and the beginning of a new one.

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0:00.0	Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic cemeteries, serving the Chicago area since 1837,
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0:10.9	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:15.1	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:21.7	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:26.0	Word of Love for each of us.
0:28.3	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with love
0:33.7	about the One who is love.
0:36.6	The Archdiocese of Chicago, through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish and Winetka, now presents
0:41.6	the Word on Fire.
0:43.9	Peace be with you.
0:45.9	Friends, as is fitting for this end of the liturgical year, and this month of November,
0:51.9	as the days are getting shorter, the air is getting crisper, the leaves are falling,
0:58.1	a certain darkness comes over us both externally and internally.
1:02.7	It's good for us this time of year to meditate upon the apocalypse, end times, and that's
1:10.9	what our gospel today is about.
1:14.1	The setting for the gospel is very interesting.
1:17.5	Jesus has come with His disciples to the holy city.
1:21.9	Now for someone of Jesus' time, especially for a kind of a country person from Nazareth,
1:27.9	coming to the capital city of Jerusalem and seeing the temple would have been an overwhelming
1:34.2	experience.
1:35.6	The temple was undoubtedly the most beautiful thing, the most impressive thing any of Jesus'
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