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Bishop Barron
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Bishop Barron
Homily Quotes
“What is the heart of the law? ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God is God alone.'” –Bishop Robert Barron
“The Cross has saved us, but our participation in that salvation can waver. So, what does the Lord give us? Bread for the journey. ” – Bishop Robert Barron
“From all eternity, God already had you in mind, had laid out a destiny and a plan for you.” -Bishop Robert Barron
“God sees death as a ‘dormition’ in anticipation of the greater life to come…” -Bishop Barron
“Nail to the cross all that is not of love in you…” – Bishop Robert Barron
“Never, ever, think that you can’t be forgiven and sent on mission. Look what Jesus did with Saul!” – Bishop Robert Barron
“The fullness of what God wants his people to have is on offer in christianity alone, but…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“Nothing in the world would exist if it were not, at every moment, loved into being by God…” -Bishop Barron
Good Friday
“When we take him into our body, into our souls, the law is written on our hearts.” – Bishop Robert Barron
“Getting our relationship with God right is the key to getting everything else…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“The transcendent, the supernatural, the mystical is a contact with a person…” -Bishop Barron
“We need to organize our lives around evangelization…” -Bishop Barron
“The real message of christianity is a revolution…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“A new king has arrived. Old powers of the world have been eclipsed…” -Bishop Barron
“Your being increases in the measure that you give it away.” -Bishop Robert Barron
“You can’t hate. Otherwise, you are undermining the very message you are trying to propagate.” -Bishop Barron
“Mission has a way of concentrating the mind, of focusing our attention on what matters.” -Bishop Robert Barron
“It’s not your life, and it’s not your death, and it’s not your choice. ‘Whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.'” -Bishop Barron
“The whole law is summed up in the command to love. But love is willing the good of the other.” – Bishop Barron
“Grace is love freely given, love offered without the expectation of return or recompense.” -Bishop Barron
“Do you want life? Do you want meaning, purpose, the satisfaction of your deepest longing? Then be close to Jesus…” -Bishop Barron
“If you preach like Peter, they will know that they’ve been cut to the heart.” -Bishop Barron
“Conditioned by him, drawn into his mystical body, we get things. We see.” -Bishop Robert Barron
“Jesus does not begin with condemnation. He begins with an alluring invitation to life…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“We are all the sons and daughters of Abraham, all people of faith, people who ask, not what do we want, but what does God want.” -Bishop Robert Barron
“Jesus is not primarily a social reformer, or a wonder-worker, or a political operator…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“What you must be about, first and last, is God. Then the rest of your life will fall into place.” -Bishop Robert Barron
“To have this divine life in us, to be holy, is to love with the love of indifference…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“Each day, every moment, choose the path of love, and you will…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“Christians are not meant to rest in their own holiness. Rather…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“You’re unhappy? The Beatitudes will show you the way to happiness. Walk this path, and you will have joy.” -Bishop Robert Barron
“Science offers the very best it has, precisely to the Author of all things.” -Bishop Robert Barron
“Know your mission: It is incarnating God’s love in the world.” -Bishop Robert Barron
“This feast is called “Christmas,” because it signals Christ’s Mass.” -Bishop Robert Barron
“He is the long-awaited Messiah, who draws all of history and time together in himself.” -Bishop Robert Barron
“God wants us to have more abundant life…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“The Messiah that John sees will baptize the world in the Divine Life.” -Bishop Robert Barron
“If the love of God is your “highest mountain,” then you will know…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“Real power lies in God’s self-forgetting and self-emptying love.” -Bishop Robert Barron
“See your daily labor, however humble, as part of God’s plan to bring you to joy.” – Bishop Robert Barron
“Find your role in the theodrama…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“The Gospel is not primarily about social justice or being a good person…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“Your life is not about you…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“Again and again, all the great prophets warn us…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“Have you begun to lose your soul…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“God is God and we are not…” – Bishop Robert Barron
“Pray, Hope, and strive to enter by the narrow gate.” – Bishop Robert Barron
Feast of Saints Zelie and Louis Martin
“Hear the Word of the Lord. Is is closer to you than you are to yourself.” – Bishop Robert Barron
“As we walk the path of love, we will walk against the grain.” -Bishop Robert Barron
“Things start going bad when we ‘stay home’ rather than engage in the mission.” – Bishop Robert Barron
“Corpus Christi recapitulates the sacrifice of Jesus…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“…begotten not made, consubstantial with the Father. Through him all things were made.”
“The Holy Spirit never comes without gifts.” – Bishop Robert Barron
“The Ascension is not Jesus going away; it is Jesus assuming his position as leader of the Church’s life.” -Bishop Robert Barron
“The Catholic Church is a living thing…” – Bishop Robert Barron
“God does not want simply to be “wondered at” or “worshipped from afar.”…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“Why do we listen to Jesus and endeavor with all our souls…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“God is up to something greater than we imagined or thought possible.” -Bishop Robert Barron
“The master has need of it.” -Bishop Robert Barron
“The temple was always meant to be a place of mercy…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“To have the divine life means to give away what you receive.” – Bishop Barron
“Go into the desert…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“Don’t accept spiritual mediocrity. Go to the heights!” -Bishop Robert Barron
“Do whatever God tells you, and you will find life.” -Bishop Barron
“Love is what God is. That is why love never passes away.” – Bishop Barron
“The Church is not an organization, it is an organism.” -Bl. John Henry Newman
“Baptism is the sacramental sign of…” -Bishop Robert Barron
“The theo-drama shows how we are all part of something greater than any one of us.” -Bishop Barron
“There is one coming who is mightier than I…”
“God has come…and everything is different.” -Bishop Barron
“Even now He is coming…” -Bishop Barron
“Will the Kingdom of God always be opposed…” –Bishop Robert Barron
“Abundance comes from the willing gift.” –Bishop Robert Barron
“The ordinary goal of the Christian life is to be a saint.” -Bishop Barron
