The Terrible Aqedah

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 8 March 2009

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The story of the Aqedah, the Binding of Isaac, haunted the Israelite religious imagination. In it is contained one of the most important spiritual lessons in the Bible: everything we are and everything we have belongs, finally, to God. Knowing this is our liberation.

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1:48.1	Peace be with you. Friends, our first reading for this weekend is one of the greatest and most devastating in the entire Bible.
1:59.2	It has haunted the imagination of the world for 3,000 years.
2:04.9	It stood even more than the Exodus story at the heart of the Israelite religious consciousness.
2:14.0	It's called among the Jews the Achaedah that's Hebrew for the binding refers to the binding of Isaac, Abraham preparing his own son for sacrifice.
2:29.3	The great religious philosopher, Soren Kirchegar, said this was the sublimest expression in all the literature of the world of the meaning of faith.
2:41.2	Re-Kirchegar's great book called Fear and Trembling. That's where he talks about this scene.
2:47.6	We know the outlines of the story pretty well. Abraham is asked by God for no apparent reason,
2:55.5	whenever given the reason for it, to sacrifice his son to him, his son, Isaac, the child of his old age and more than that,
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