The Greatest Commandment

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 23 October 2005

⏱️ 15 minutes

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"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind--and your neighbor as yourself." This is the way that Jesus summed up the law and the prophets. Finally, it is a matter of love, and the love of God and neighbor are tightly intertwined. I try to illustrate this principle by telling the life of Rose Hawthorne, a woman who loved God precisely by loving some of the most ostracized people of her time.

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0:00.0	Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic Cemetery's, serving the Chicago area since 1837.
0:06.7	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:10.9	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:17.4	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:21.8	Word of Love for each of us.
0:24.0	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with
0:29.0	God's Love about the One who is Love.
0:32.4	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish in Winetka now presents
0:37.4	the Word on Fire.
0:39.9	Peace be with you.
0:41.6	Friends, our Gospel for today puts us on very holy ground, because we have the Word
0:47.1	Himself telling us what stands at the very heart of the law.
0:52.5	This is very sacred business, what we're hearing today.
0:56.5	The Pharisees are posing a kind of game to Jesus, maybe a bit of a trap.
1:03.0	They pose this question, which commandment is the greatest?
1:07.3	Well, as you know, in the Judaism of Jesus' time, there were hundreds and hundreds of
1:12.9	commandments, laws, rules, regulations, governing almost every aspect of life.
1:18.7	So, it was the kind of favorite exercise of the rabbis to ask one another.
1:25.6	That's the greatest.
1:27.4	What's the central commandment?
1:29.3	What's the organizing principle of the law?
1:32.1	So, that's the question being posed to Jesus Himself.
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