What is the Matter With Us?

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 9 March 2014

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The first reading for this week is the section of Genesis which describes the creation of humans and their fall from grace. The readings in the first week of Lent remind us to revisit the spiritual fundamentals. The story of the Fall reminds us to let what belongs to God remain with God and not to set ourselves up in opposition to God.

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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 the one
0:34.4	who is love. The global benefactors of word on fire with the support of the Archdiocese of
0:39.1	Chicago now present word on fire. Peace be with you. Friends, we enter this weekend into the holy
0:50.9	season of Lent, these 40 days of preparation for Easter. And the first reading for Mass on this
0:59.6	first Sunday of Lent is the section of the third chapter of the book of Genesis, which deals with
1:06.9	the creation of human beings, and their subsequent fall from friendship with God. Here's the thing.
1:13.5	Like a baseball coach who compels even his veterans to relearn the basics of the game every spring,
1:20.1	the church invites us during this kind of spring training of land to revisit the spiritual
1:28.5	fundamentals. That's why the readings for Lent are so wonderful. They're kind of archetypal,
1:34.6	basic. It's a revisiting of the fundamentals. You know, the greatest golfer that relived Jack
1:41.2	Nicholas, even when he was at the top of his game, would begin every season by visiting his old
1:47.9	teacher, fellow named Jack Grout. And together they would go over the basic fundamentals of the
1:55.4	game, grip and stance and alignment and the fundamentals of the swing, even the great
2:01.3	Jet Nicholas, the height of his powers went back to the basics. Well, the same is going on here.
2:08.5	We go back to the spiritual basics every Lent. And there's no clearer display than in this
2:14.9	wonderful story from the book of Genesis. Here's the first thing we hear. The Lord God
2:21.9	formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life.
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