Walking By Faith and Not By Sight

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 14 June 2015

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes God does things we can't understand. This is where our need to walk by faith and not by sight comes in play. We trust in God's purpose, and his purpose often manifests itself in the least likely of sources-the mustard seed, for example. A young man on a cross, dying alone and mocked, was the mustard seed out of which a global religion, one billion strong, grew. This is the story of so many other influential Christians, such as Francis of Assisi, Charles Lwanga and Mother Teresa. They could have been easily overlooked, forgotten, ignored, but instead they sprouted into among the most revered in our history. This is a lesson of not giving up. It's a lesson of walking by faith, and not by sight.

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0:00.0	This is Archbishop Blasupich, Archbishop of Chicago.
0:06.2	Today I invite you to reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the
0:12.4	Word on Fire.
0:15.0	Word on Fire, Catholic Ministries, is a non-for-profit apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization
0:22.1	that utilizes media both old and new to share the faith on every continent and facilitate
0:29.2	and encounter with Christ in His church.
0:32.9	The efforts of Word on Fire, Catholic Ministries, engage the culture and bring the transformative
0:38.7	power of God's Word where it is most needed.
0:43.2	This is an invitation to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's Word of
0:48.3	love for each of us.
0:50.7	When our hearts are open, the Lord changes and transforms us so that we enter and begin
0:57.4	to share the warmth and light of Jesus Christ, who is the Word on Fire.
1:04.3	The global benefactors of Word on Fire, Catholic Ministries, with the support of the Archdiocese
1:09.6	of Chicago, now present Word on Fire.
1:15.1	Peace be with you.
1:17.4	Friends today we resume ordinary time in the life of the church after the long period
1:22.1	of land and then the great celebration of Easter.
1:25.8	We are celebrating in Pentecost and in the Feast of the Trinity and then the Body and Blood
1:29.2	of the Lord.
1:30.2	So now we come back and I always say with a certain sense of satisfaction to ordinary time.
1:37.2	And the readings given to us are really magnificent for today.
1:40.9	And our second reading, Paul tells us, we walk by faith and not by sight.
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