The Great Reversal

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 28 December 2003

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Jesus turns upside-down a world turned upside-down by sin--and thereby sets it right. This subversive quality of the Lord is disclosed in the Luke's magnificent Christmas story. It is not to Caesar Augustus--in his pride, power, comfort, and freedom--that we should look, but rather to the humble, poor, and non-violent King, born in a stable in Bethlehem. The question that Christmas poses to us is this: which King do we follow, Caesar or Christ.

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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
0:33.3	love 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.
0:44.6	Peace be with you, and Merry Christmas.
0:46.8	Today, Christians, we read this great story from the Gospel of Luke, the well-known
0:53.0	story of Christmas.
0:56.2	As a problem, you know, with approaching this narrative, that it becomes bland through
1:02.0	over-familiarity.
1:04.0	We hear the first few lines of it and we say, oh, yeah, that's the Christmas story.
1:07.3	I know how that goes.
1:09.4	Or it's even worse, it becomes banal through sentimentalizing.
1:13.5	Oh, that's that charming story that we tell our kids.
1:17.3	Can I say this?
1:19.5	The Christmas story is anything but bland, banal, sentimental.
1:25.8	In fact, I'm with C.S. Lewis in saying the Christmas story is subversive.
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