The Trouble With Honor

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 29 August 2004

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Some people organize their lives around the love of money; others do so around the love of pleasure or power. Still others make honor--the esteem of others--the central value. Throughout the Gospels, Jesus criticizes all of these false gods, and in today's passage, he focuses on this last problem. The key, he suggests, is to order one's life so that winning the esteem of God is all that finally matters. Why play to the fickle, unreliable crowd? In all of your thoughts, words and actions, play to the divine audience--and you will find liberation and joy.

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0:00.0	Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic Cemetery's, serving the Chicago area since 1837.
0:06.9	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:11.1	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:17.6	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:22.0	Word of Love for each of us.
0:24.3	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with
0:29.3	love about the one who is love.
0:32.6	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish in Winnetka now presents
0:37.6	the Word on Fire.
0:39.2	Peace be with you.
0:42.0	Friends, some people are in love with money.
0:46.9	To acquire wealth, they'll do almost anything.
0:51.2	Break any law, hurt any person.
0:54.0	They've made wealth or money their God.
0:57.3	It's the center of their lives.
1:01.2	Other people love power.
1:05.3	To attain it and to retain it.
1:08.3	They'll do almost anything.
1:10.4	Break any law, hurt any person.
1:14.0	They've made power their God, the center of their concern.
1:20.6	Some people love pleasure, the pleasures of the body.
1:26.5	To get it in its various forms, they'll do almost anything.
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