The Strangeness of the Resurrection and Why It Matters

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Friends, Christ acts as an advocate for our souls through the cosmos-reorienting events of his death and Resurrection, the forging of a connection between heaven and earth. Our brother who walked the same ground and breathed the same air is now seated at the right hand of the Father. Now, in his heavenly advocacy, we find extraordinary hope.

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0:00.0	Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an
0:05.7	apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization using media both old and
0:11.8	new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with
0:17.0	Christ and His Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring
0:22.2	the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today we invite
0:28.3	you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the
0:32.8	warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.
0:39.9	Peace be with you. Friends, for this third Sunday of Easter I'm gonna harp on
0:45.2	something. I'm gonna harp on it because A, the Bible harps on it a lot and B,
0:50.3	because our culture I think often misses it. What I'm gonna harp on is the
0:55.5	very strangeness of the resurrection. This is about, I don't know, maybe it's 10
1:01.4	years ago or longer. It's when David Cameron was Prime Minister of Great Britain.
1:05.5	He was giving a little speech on Easter and he was trying to articulate the
1:10.7	significance of Easter. Here's what he said. The message of Easter is kindness,
1:16.2	compassion, hard work, and responsibility. Now I know he was trying to appeal
1:21.9	very broadly there to anyone that be listening and don't get me wrong. I'm for
1:27.5	kindness, compassion, hard work, and responsibility too. But my guess is that
1:32.7	any decent person would be. Believer or non-believer, Hindu, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist,
1:40.0	anybody would be in favor of these values. Therefore that can't be the meaning
1:45.0	of Easter. That can't be the meaning of the resurrection. It's a typical
1:50.1	attempt though in our contemporary setting to kind of domesticate the
1:54.7	resurrection. What does the resurrection mean? It means that Jesus of Nazareth, who
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