The God Who Is Love

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 19 June 2011

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

God is Trinity. He is fundamentally a relationship: a lover, a beloved and the love between them. In other words, God is a complete openness and receptivity to the other. He is love. Now, we believe we are made in the image of God. Thus, we become fully alive to the degree that we imitate God.

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0:00.0	This is Cardinal Francis George. I invite you to join me for the next two minutes to reflect
0:09.0	with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire. Word on Fire Catholic
0:14.2	Ministries is a non-profit ministry at the forefront of Catholic evangelization, using
0:18.9	new media to spread the faith and every continent. Father Barron challenges us to open our hearts
0:23.9	to the Word on Fire, which is God's Word of Love for each of us. If our hearts are open,
0:29.5	the Lord can change and transform us so that we might speak with love about the one who
0:34.6	is love. The global benefactors of Word on Fire with the support of the Archdiocese of
0:39.4	Chicago now present Word on Fire. Peace be with you. Friends, I love abstractions. I'm a professor
0:50.2	of theology after all. I spend a lot of time reading abstract books and teaching abstract
0:56.3	ideas. There's a course I've been teaching for many years now at the seminary. It's called
1:01.3	Doctrine of God. At the heart of it is a consideration of the mystery of the Trinity. We've come
1:09.3	now to Trinity Sunday, what's been called the preacher's nightmare. I don't think it should
1:14.8	be the preacher's nightmare, because really every Sunday is Trinity Sunday. Every Sunday
1:19.4	we reflect on who God is, and the Catholic view is that the deepest reality, God is Trinity.
1:27.4	Now, I can give you all kinds of technical terms to describe this trinitarian belief. I can
1:34.4	talk about persons and the Godhead and processions and relations and pericurasis and circummancessio.
1:41.4	Those are all technical theological terms that are attempting to name this mystery with greater
1:48.4	precision. If you're of a philosophical turn of mind, you probably find all this kind of fascinating
1:55.4	as I do. I hope some of my students anyway might find it fascinating. Or I could say with
2:02.4	G.K. Chesterton, that the Trinity is just a somewhat fancier way of saying that God is
2:09.4	love. If God is love, then there must be within his own deepest nature, a play of
2:21.4	lover, beloved, and love. So again, if God has love, I wouldn't have to say that. If love is
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