Whatsoever You Do...

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 24 November 2002

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Our Gospel for today is one of the most devastating texts in the New Testament. Jesus tells us that whenever we neglected to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the imprisoned, welcome the lonely, we failed to care for him. Dorothy Day said that everything a baptized Christian does every day should be related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

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0:00.0	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:04.6	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:11.2	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:15.5	Word of Love for each of us.
0:17.8	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, so that we might speak with
0:22.8	love about the one who is love.
0:26.2	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish and Winnetka now presents
0:31.1	the Word on Fire.
0:33.1	Peace be with you.
0:35.2	Friends, when someone speaks of Matthew 25, they usually mean the parable that brings
0:41.8	to a close this 25th chapter of Matthew's Gospel.
0:46.4	The last several weeks now, as the liturgical year comes to a close, we've been reading from
0:50.5	this magnificent chapter that's full of parables and stories.
0:55.4	This final one is one of the most startling, frightening, imaginative, arresting, powerful
1:03.1	parables in the Gospels.
1:05.8	It has to do, and how appropriate on this last day, this last Sunday of the church year,
1:11.4	it has to do with the last judgment offered by the King of Creation.
1:15.7	Let me read to you a little bit of this passage.
1:21.3	Jesus said to his disciples, when the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels
1:26.8	with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne, and all the nations will be assembled before
1:32.9	him, and he will separate them one from another.
1:37.6	As a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, he will place the sheep on his right
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