The Natural Law

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 15 July 2007

⏱️ 15 minutes

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What the church calls "the natural law" is, as Moses suggests in our first reading, close to us, in fact, written on our hearts. Thomas Aquinas said that this natural, moral law is a reflection of the eternal law of God and is, in turn, the ground for all of our positive laws. When the relationship between God's law, the moral law, and political law is lost, our society suffers.

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0:21.9	Word of Love for each of us.
0:24.2	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, to that we might speak with
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0:37.4	the Word on fire.
0:42.4	Peace be with you.
0:44.3	Friends, the first reading for this week gives me an opportunity to talk about a very important
0:48.9	feature of our Catholic intellectual life.
0:53.5	The Natural Moral Law
0:57.1	Listen to what Moses tells the people in the first reading.
1:01.5	For this command I enjoy on you is not too mysterious and remote for you.
1:08.0	No, it is something very near to you, already in your mouths and in your hearts.
1:16.0	What's this command that Moses is speaking of?
1:18.3	Well, it's the moral law contained in the Ten Commandments that basic ethical instruction
1:25.2	given to the children of Israel.
1:27.4	Now, what's Moses' point?
1:30.2	Interestingly, he asks, where is this law?
1:33.8	And his answer is, it's not far away, that it's to say, it's not something alien to you.
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