The One Who Journeys Into the Far Country

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 24 March 2002

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

On Palm Sunday, we are privileged to listen to one of the great passion narratives. In Matthew's account, we see Jesus as a still-point in the maelstrom, as God's fidelity amidst a cocaphony of sin. In the course of the passion, Jesus confronts betrayal, laziness, violence, untruth, abuse of power, self-destruction, and wanton cruelty--the whole panoply of human dysfunction. And he takes away this sin precisely by his obedience and his mercy.

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0:00.0	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:04.6	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:11.0	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:15.5	Word of Love for each of us.
0:17.8	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, so that we might speak with
0:22.8	love about the one who is love.
0:26.1	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parishing Winnetka now presents
0:31.1	the Word on Fire.
0:33.6	Peace be with you.
0:35.4	Friends, we've come to the end of the Lenten season.
0:39.5	And on this Palm Sunday, it's our privilege to hear from one of the Passion readings.
0:46.5	This year, of course, from the Gospel of Matthew.
0:50.3	Martin Kailer was a Protestant theologian from the early 20th century.
0:53.6	He famously said, the Gospels are really Passion narratives with long introductions.
1:01.6	What he meant, of course, was the Gospels really are all about the Passion, Death, and Resurrection
1:08.4	of Jesus.
1:09.5	The whole message is summed up in these great narratives.
1:14.0	Everything else, Jesus teaching His miracles, all His actions, His public life, in many
1:19.2	ways, are simply introductions to what occurs in the Passion.
1:26.2	And so on this Palm Sunday, we meditate on this sober and somber reading, Jesus' journey
1:35.7	toward death.
1:38.6	I think what you see especially clearly in Matthew is that Jesus is the one who journeys
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