The Narrow Gate

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2010

⏱️ 15 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

To gain eternal life is to participate to the fullest degree possible in the very life of God. It is to walk the path of love, surrendering to grace and allowing this grace to flow through you to the wider world. Is this an easy task? No. The Gospel of Luke tells reminds us that the gate is narrow precisely because it is in the very shape of Jesus Himself, and entrance through the gate involves conformity to his state of being. The path of love is traveled by taking up one's cross every day.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is Cardinal Francis George.
0:06.3	I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:13.2	Word on Fire Catholic Ministries is a non-profit ministry at the forefront of Catholic evangelization,
0:18.6	using new media to spread the faith on every continent.
0:21.9	Father Barron challenges us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:26.1	Word of Love for each of us.
0:28.1	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us so that we might speak with love
0:33.4	about the one who is love.
0:35.7	The global benefactors of Word on Fire
0:37.7	with the support of the Archdiocese of Chicago
0:39.8	now present, Word on Fire.
0:44.4	Peace be with you.
0:46.3	Friends, the gospel for today commences with a man
0:48.7	who I think speaks for all of us.
0:51.7	He approaches Jesus and says,
0:53.1	Lord, will only a few people be saved? Well, he's talking
0:58.4	about heaven, about eternal life, about the fulfillment of all things. And he puts it in terms
1:04.6	that are straightforward enough. How many? I once sat around a dinner table at which the following question was posed by the host for the evening.
1:14.6	He asked each one of us around the table to speculate on what percentage of the human race will make it to heaven.
1:21.3	How about that for a little dinner conversation?
1:24.6	That question, I would say, probably preoccupied the previous generation, certainly of Catholics, in a way it doesn't preoccupy the present generation.
1:34.3	If you talk to older Catholics, you'll discover that for great many of them, the details of the afterlife and the means of getting to heaven and avoiding hell were of paramount
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bishop Robert Barron, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Bishop Robert Barron and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.