The Great Wedding

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 18 January 2004

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The prophet Isaiah expresses the conviction of ancient Israel that God wants to marry his people, which is to say, to share his life fully with them. This espousing God becomes flesh in Jesus and hence it is altogether appropriate that the Lord's first public sign in John's Gospel takes place at a wedding. He has come that we might have life and have it to the full. The ""good wine"" of the wedding feast at Cana is now the ""good wine"" of the Eucharist by which all of us become partakers of God's inner life

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0:00.0	Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic cemeteries, serving the Chicago area since 1837,
0:06.5	and FSP dedicated to food service excellence.
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 Winnetka now presents
0:41.6	the Word on Fire.
0:43.9	Peace be with you.
0:45.7	Brent, there are times, I think, we get it precisely backward.
0:51.2	What I mean is we think of the spiritual life in exactly the wrong way.
0:56.4	We think we have to impress God with our moral achievement.
1:04.3	We have to impress God with our goodness to get God to love us.
1:10.3	Deep down we believe that God is a distance and demanding taskmaster.
1:16.3	Our job is to do enough to impress Him.
1:21.7	Thomas Merton called that the Promethean problem, by the way.
1:24.9	Remember Prometheus stealing fire from the gods as though the gods are trying to protect
1:31.3	something.
1:32.6	They don't want us to have it.
1:34.8	Merton says, we're haunted by this attitude.
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