Venerating the Cross

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2014

⏱️ 14 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

When we live in convenient darkness, unaware of our sins, we will never make spiritual progress. We need the light, however painful it is. Once that light reveals to us our sin and dysfunction, then we can rise. That's what we discover on the cross of Jesus. We meet our own sin, and we also meet the merciful savior, who has taken that sin upon himself in order to swallow it up.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is Cardinal Francis George. I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:08.9	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire. Word on
0:13.7	Fire Catholic Ministries is a non-profit ministry at the forefront of Catholic evangelization
0:18.8	using new media to spread the faith and every continent. Father Barron challenges us to
0:23.5	open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's Word of Love for each of us. If our
0:28.5	hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us so that we might speak with love about
0:34.1	the one who is love. The global benefactors of Word on Fire with the support of the Archdiocese
0:39.0	of Chicago now present Word on Fire.
0:42.7	Peace be with you. Friends, we are exceptionally good at seeing the fault in others, but we're
0:54.8	exceptionally adept at ignoring it in ourselves. It's a basic spiritual and psychological principle.
1:01.8	There was a very popular book. I came out when I was a teenager and it was called, I'm okay and
1:09.2	you're okay. It was the best representation I think of what I call the culture of ex-cultivation.
1:16.3	You know, we just ex-cultivate ourselves from guilt. I'm fine and so are you. This feel good
1:23.5	about yourself culture. Not many years ago, Christina Aguilera sang a song that included the line,
1:32.1	I am beautiful in every single way and your words can't get me down. That's a descendant if
1:40.9	you want. I'm okay and you're okay. Look at so many of the debates today. The attitude that's
1:48.6	winning is one of self invention and self assertion. Who are you to tell me what to believe or how
1:56.7	to behave? I mean, over and over again now in these cultural debates, it tends to come down to that
2:01.5	point. I have nothing wrong with me. Who are you to tell me what to do or how to be? In all this,
2:10.7	we are fundamentally looking away from our guilt, our fault, our darkness. We're effectively, if I
2:20.6	can put it this way, drugging ourselves, dulling the pain of real self consciousness. In the process,
2:30.1	what are we doing? This is old biblical language. We're turning ourselves into God, pretending to be
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bishop Robert Barron, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Bishop Robert Barron and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.