What Is Faith?

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Friends, on this Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, our second reading from the Letter to the Hebrews offers us a great biblical description of faith. I stand with Paul Tillich, the Protestant theologian, who said that faith is the most misunderstood word in the religious vocabulary. Critics of religious say that faith is accepting things on the basis of no evidence; it’s believing any old nonsense; it’s naïveté; it’s superstition. But this has nothing to do with what the Bible means by faith.

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0:00.0	Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.
0:04.0	Word on Fire is an apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization,
0:09.0	using media both old and new to share the faith on every continent
0:14.0	and to facilitate an encounter with Christ and His Church.
0:18.0	The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture
0:21.4	and bring the transformative power
0:24.0	of God's Word
0:25.0	where it is most needed.
0:27.2	Today, we invite you to join
0:29.0	Bishop Robert Barron
0:30.4	as he preaches the gospel
0:31.8	and shares the warmth
0:33.4	and light of Christ
0:34.7	with each one of us.
0:40.3	Peace be with you. Friends, for this 19th Sunday of ordinary time,
0:42.3	I want to focus right in on a reading number two,
0:45.3	which is from the letter to the Hebrews.
0:47.3	And it's one of my favorite passages in the New Testament
0:50.3	because it's a great biblical description of faith.
0:55.0	And I stand with Paul Tillick, the Protestant theologian, who said,
0:59.1	faith is the most misunderstood word in the religious vocabulary.
1:03.8	I think especially true today.
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