What Should We Do?

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 17 December 2006

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Our Gospel for today centers around a question that is bracing in its directness and simplicity. A group of people come to the Baptist and ask "what should we do?" The spiritual life is about a set of behaviors and practices, focused, as John the Baptist specifies, around the work of justice.

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0:00.0	Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic cemeteries, serving the Chicago area since 1837.
0:06.8	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes
0:10.9	to 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
0:21.9	Word of Love for each of us.
0:24.2	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, so that we might speak with
0:29.2	God's Love about the One who is Love.
0:32.5	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parishing Winnicka now presents
0:37.4	the Word on Fire.
0:42.1	Peace be with you.
0:43.9	Friends are gospel for today.
0:45.3	This third Sunday of Advent is taken from the third chapter of St. Luke.
0:50.7	It's a very dramatic scene.
0:54.8	Inspired by the asceticism and powerful preaching of John the Baptist, people are coming
1:00.9	out to the desert seeking repentance.
1:05.2	People from all walks of life, all social status, tax collectors, soldiers, ordinary people.
1:11.7	You know, it strikes me, first of all, up and down the ages.
1:17.6	Whenever a clear and unambiguous call for repentance is heard, people respond.
1:25.7	Back in the 70s, Time Magazine had a series where they asked famous people around the
1:31.5	time of the bicentennial.
1:33.7	They asked famous people to say something to America, kind of a one-liner, what they want
1:39.5	Americans to know or to feel or to hear.
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