Wisdom's Meal

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 16 August 2015

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Today's first reading personifies Wisdom as a woman who invites people to a feast, lavishly offering food and wine. In today's Psalm, we echo that invitation: "Taste and see the goodness of the Lord." But to join the banquet of the Lord, we need to turn away from other food. We spend our whole lives eating from troughs that never satisfy our hunger - wealth, power, pleasure, honor. But in John 6, which is today's Gospel, Jesus invites us to feed on himself, Wisdom incarnate, the only food that will ultimately fulfill our hunger. Mass Readings Reading 1 - Proverbs 9:1-6 Psalm - Psalm 34:2-7 Reading 2 - Ephesians 5:15-20 Gospel - John 6:51-58

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0:00.0	This is Archbishop Blaise Supich, Archbishop of Chicago.
0:06.2	Today, I invite you to reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:14.5	Word on Fire Catholic Ministries is a non-for-profit apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization that utilizes media
0:23.4	both old and new to share the faith on every continent and facilitate an encounter with Christ
0:30.8	in its church. The efforts of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries engage the culture and bring the transformative power of God's Word
0:40.0	where it is most needed.
0:42.7	This is an invitation to open our hearts
0:45.2	to the Word on Fire,
0:46.8	which is God's Word of Love for each of us.
0:50.5	When our hearts are open,
0:52.4	the Lord changes and transforms us so that we in turn begin to share the warmth and light of Jesus Christ, who is the Word on Fire.
1:04.0	The global benefactors of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, with the support of the Archdiocese of Chicago, now present, Word on Fire.
1:15.4	Peace be with you.
1:17.7	Friends, our extended reading of the sixth chapter of John's Gospel comes to a climax today with
1:23.8	verses 51 through 58.
1:27.2	And just again, I'd urge everyone listening to me is take out your Bible and read through the sixth chapter of John,
1:34.1	which is a masterpiece within the masterpiece.
1:37.2	And I'll come back to these pivotal verses in the course of the homily,
1:40.8	but I want to begin with a glance at the magnificent first reading for today,
1:46.3	taken from the book of Proverbs. The author of Proverbs imagines the wisdom of God as a woman preparing
1:55.8	a banquet. She lays out the finest food and drink, and then I love this, lavishly invites everyone.
2:06.7	Listen, she has sent out her maidens.
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