Zechariah's Strange Prophecy

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 3 July 2005

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

We hear in our first reading from the prophet Zechariah. This post-exilic figure is trying to reassure the people that their Messiah will come and will restore their fortunes. But then he specifies the nature and quality of this hero: he will enter Jerusalem, not on an Arabian charger, but on the foal of a donkey--and he will effectively disarm the nation, destroying horse and chariot! What could this possibly mean? No one really knew until a young rabbi, some five hundred years later, rode into Jerusalem on the foal of a donkey and mounted the victorious throne of a Roman cross.

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0:00.0	Word on fire is brought to you by Catholic cemeteries, serving the Chicago area since 1837.
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0:11.0	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, clearly might speak with
0:29.2	love about the One who is love.
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0:37.4	the Word on fire.
0:38.8	Peace be with you.
0:41.9	How out of God to choose the Jews?
0:44.2	Do you know that little couplet?
0:46.4	It's been described to a lot of different people.
0:48.8	I've heard it's described to Hilary Belach, the great Catholic writer, also the Dorothy
0:52.6	Sayer.
0:53.6	But I went on the Internet, I went on Google, I put in that famous couplet, and it said
0:58.2	that William Norman Ewer, who was a British journalist, died in 1976, is the one who first
1:04.4	said, how out of God to choose the Jews.
1:08.5	I mention it because I think it's very important for biblical people to meditate upon.
1:14.7	There is something in the heart of biblical religion, the scholars call it the scandal
1:18.6	of particularity, that God chose this particular people, and that from this particular people
1:26.1	came the particular Jesus, who founded this particular church.
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