Where Do You Put Your Faith

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 11 February 2007

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The readings for this weekend pose a blunt question: whom, finally, do you trust? "Trust" is meant here in an absolute sense. Where do you base your life? In God or in the things of this world? How you answer that question determines pretty much everything else.

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0:00.0	Word on fire is brought to you by Catholic cemeteries, serving the Chicago area since 1837.
0:06.7	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:10.9	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on fire.
0:17.4	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on fire, which is God's
0:21.8	Word of Love for each of us.
0:24.0	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with
0:29.0	love about the one who is love.
0:32.4	The Archdiocese of Chicago, through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish and Winnicka, now presents
0:37.4	the Word on fire.
0:42.2	Peace be with you, friends, where do you put your faith?
0:48.6	That's the question.
0:50.6	That's the spiritual question.
0:53.6	Whom do you trust?
0:56.1	Where do you place your trust?
0:59.6	Listen now to the prophet Jeremiah from our first reading.
1:04.0	Curse be the one who trusts in human beings, who seeks his strength and flesh, whose heart
1:12.2	turns away from the Lord.
1:15.7	And conversely, blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose hope is in the Lord.
1:26.0	What changes now on the meaning of that little word, trust?
1:31.9	To trust, to have hope, to turn one's heart to God, yet that means to root the whole
1:40.2	of your life, to ground and center your concerns in God.
1:50.6	To trust and to turn one's heart to human beings means to root the whole of one's life.
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