Walking the Path of Faith

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 8 August 2004

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Our second reading this week is from the 11th chapter of the letter to the Hebrews, and it concerns that central virtue of the Christian life: faith. To believe is not to be naive, superstitious, or uncritical. It is not opposed to reason. Rather, it is a reasonable leap into the darkness of that which transcends what we can know and control. As such, it is analogous to the "leaps" made by a man about to marry, by a scientist embarking on an experiment the result of which he does not precisely know, by an adventurer about to embark on his journey of exploration.

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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.
0:40.1	Peace be with you.
0:41.9	Friends, Paul Tillich, the theologian, said that faith is the most misunderstood word in
0:49.2	the Christian vocabulary.
0:51.4	He might be right about that, and if it's true, it's a tragedy, because faith stands
0:57.2	at the very heart of the project.
1:00.4	Thomas Aquinas said, without faith, you can't be pleasing to God.
1:05.9	See, because faith is like the door that opens to the whole of religious experience.
1:11.6	Without faith, our prayer makes no sense.
1:14.4	Without faith, why bother with the liturgy?
1:17.6	Without faith, why listen to a sermon like this?
1:20.2	Without faith, why practice the sacraments?
1:23.7	Faith is what we have to enter through in order to make sense of the religious life at
1:29.7	all.
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