The God of the Nations

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 30 March 2003

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Though the Enlightenment taught us to privatize and interiorize our religion, the Bible has a robustly "political" sense of God's activity. God's will is revealed in the movements and struggles of the nations. National sin (like personal sin) results in divine judgment. This deeply Biblical intuition is revealed in Lincoln's reading of the Civil War and in Karl Barth's interpretation of the First World War.

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0:10.5	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:14.8	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:21.2	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:25.6	Word of Love for each of us.
0:27.9	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with love
0:33.3	about the one who is love.
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0:41.3	the Word on Fire.
0:43.3	Peace be with you.
0:45.3	Friends, our first reading for this fourth Sunday of Lent is taken from the second book
0:50.3	of Chronicles from the Old Testament.
0:52.8	We don't comment enough on this book, and I think the passage for today makes for
0:57.8	racing Lent and reading.
1:02.1	It's a sort of historical survey.
1:06.5	The author is looking at the sweep of Israelite history and making some very strong statements
1:12.3	about it.
1:13.3	Let me read to you just a little bit from it.
1:18.1	All the princes of Judah, the priests and the people added infidelity to infidelity, practicing
1:24.3	all the abominations of the nations and polluting the Lord's temple, which he had consecrated
1:29.7	in Jerusalem.
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