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Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

What it Means to Live by Faith

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2016

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

This Sunday's readings compel us to meditate on the meaning of faith. Paul Tillich, the 20th century theologian, said, "Faith is the most misunderstood word in the religious vocabulary". Faith is an attitude of trust in the presence of God, which is simple enough to say, yet to live by faith means to surrender your entire life over to God, abandoning your own desires and becoming a servant under the realization that everything you have (including your very existence) is a grace, a gift. As we see in the lives of the saints, amazing things happen when we make this transformation; indeed, that which begins with a mustard seed of faith can grow, by the grace of God, to bless the whole world.

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Friends, welcome to Word on Fire, Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an apostolate dedicated

0:07.6

to the mission of evangelization, using media both old and new to share the faith on every

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continent and to facilitate and encounter with Christ and His Church. The efforts of

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Word on Fire engage the culture and bring the transformative power of God's Word where

0:24.0

it is most needed. Today we invite you to join Bishop Robert Baron as he preaches

0:29.8

the gospel and shares the warmth and light of Christ with each of us.

0:36.4

Peace be with you. Friends, how often the Bible compels us to meditate on the meaning

0:43.7

of faith? We might say that the Scriptures rest upon faith. They remain inspired at every

0:52.4

turn by the spirit of faith. They're meant to lead us into deeper faith. Okay, but as

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Paul Tillich, the 20th century theologian said, faith is the most misunderstood word in

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the religious vocabulary. I always felt he's right about that, but that's our problem.

1:11.7

If the Bible is all about faith and yet people don't understand faith, we got a problem.

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Especially in our present cultural context, lots of critics of religion say that faith

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is just anti-intellectualism. It's settling for easy answers. It's accepting things on

1:31.8

the basis of no real evidence, et cetera, et cetera. If you want the details of this,

1:36.1

watch any program by Bill Marr read any book by Christopher Hitchens. You'll find this

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dismissal of faith over and over again. But as I've argued a thousand times, none of this has a

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thing to do with real faith as the Bible presents it. Real faith is never below reason. It's always

1:56.8

above reason and inclusive of it. Does that make sense? What's below reason? That is superstition,

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that is credulity, that's being childish in your intellectual life, et cetera. And the church

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in the Bible stand completely against that. Authentic faith, though, is above reason, beyond it.

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Well, what is it? What is it? Let's say this. Faith is an attitude of trust in the presence of

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