The Good Samaritan

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 11 July 2004

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The story of the Good Samaritan is not merely a morality tale, an account of the kind of life we should lead. It is that, but, at the deepest level, it is also a telling of the basic story of sin, fall, and redemption. All of us sinners are the man beaten up and left half-dead by the side of the road. We cannot be saved by law or religion or our own works, but only by Jesus Christ and his grace. This best-known of Jesus' parables is finally a narrative of salvation.

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0:10.6	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.
0:21.4	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:25.7	Word of Love for each of us.
0:28.0	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with
0:33.0	love about the One who is love.
0:36.3	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish in Winnetka now presents
0:41.3	the Word on Fire.
0:42.9	Peace be with you.
0:45.8	Friends, our Gospel for today is one of the best known of Jesus' parables.
0:49.7	This great story of the good Samaritan, taken from that magnificent 10th chapter of Luke
0:55.2	that we've been reading from for the last couple of weeks, you know, something Carl
0:59.2	Bart taught me, he was a great Protestant theologian of the last century, was that everything
1:04.0	in the Gospel, all the stories, the doctrines, the exhortations, the parables, everything,
1:10.8	it's finally about Jesus Christ.
1:14.1	Everything is an image, a portrait of Jesus Christ, like a diamond with many facets.
1:18.8	What we see now in the Gospels are the various facets, now illumined one after the other.
1:25.1	It's very much true here.
1:27.1	The story of the good Samaritan is a moral tale, it's teaching us about the moral life,
1:31.7	quite right, and we're probably very familiar with that reading of it.
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