The Witty Response

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 18 August 2002

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The Syro-Phoenicean woman stands for all those who are marginalized, ostracized, ignored, set aside. Through her persistance and cleverness, she obtains what she wants from Jesus. The Church must be that body of people who listen to the persistant cries of the poor and the forgotten.

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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.
0:11.2	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, who we might speak with love
0:23.2	about the one who is love.
0:26.2	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish in Winetka now presents
0:31.1	the Word on Fire.
0:33.1	Peace be with you.
0:35.0	Friends, our gospel for today is that wonderful story taken from the 15th chapter of Matthew,
0:40.7	Jesus encounter with the Cyril Phoenician woman.
0:45.0	Over the centuries, Christians have found this story wonderful because of the lively,
0:50.0	verbal play that goes on, but also because it's one of the rare times when Jesus seems to
0:55.1	be gotten the better of.
0:57.6	In this conversation, the woman seems to produce something that Jesus wasn't willing to produce.
1:03.9	She seems to convince him to act against his will.
1:07.5	So for all those reasons, commentators and homilists and so on have tried to understand
1:13.0	this story, have been fascinated by it.
1:14.7	Let me read to you just a little bit from the beginning of it.
1:18.8	At that time, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon and behold, a Canaanite woman
1:24.4	of that district came and called out, have pity on me, Lord, son of David.
1:30.7	My daughter is tormented by a demon, but Jesus did not say a word in answer to her.
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