They Shall Look on Him Whom They Have Pierced

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 20 June 2004

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The book of the prophet Zechariah provides a sort of interpretive key for the life and ministry of Jesus. It tells us what the Messiah would do and what kind of figure he would be. The passage that we read from Zechariah for Mass this week emphasizes that the Messiah, curiously enough, would be "pierced." In our Gospel, Peter correctly identifies Jesus as the Messiah, but then he (and we) are given a lesson in what that means: the Son of Man must be rejected, persecuted and put to death. Jesus the Messiah saves the world precisely by being killed. To understand that is to understand everything about Christian faith.

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0:10.6	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:14.8	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:21.4	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:25.7	Word of Love for each of us.
0:28.0	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with
0:33.0	love about the One who is love.
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0:41.3	the Word on Fire.
0:43.9	Please be with you, friends, how important the Old Testament is to understanding the new.
0:52.3	Now I'll speak here a little bit for my fellow Catholics.
0:55.1	We tend not to be that strong when it comes to the Bible, and I say it to our shame.
1:00.0	Often I'll talk to my Protestant brothers and sisters, and I'll realize how much better
1:03.6	they are knowing the Bible than most Catholics are.
1:08.6	Keep in mind that the Old Testament, what we call the Old Testament, was the world that
1:14.0	Jesus moved in.
1:17.2	Who's the air he breathed?
1:21.2	The books of the law, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
1:27.6	The great historical books, the toll of the story of the Israelite people, Joshua and
1:32.2	Judges, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles.
1:36.8	The wisdom literature, the Psalms, how often they were on the lips of Jesus, the book of
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