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Prayer and Pride
FromBishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
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Prayer and Pride
FromBishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
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Length:
14 minutes
Released:
Oct 19, 2016
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Podcast episode
Description
The entire point of religion is to make us humble before God and to open us to the path of love. Everything else is more or less a footnote. Liturgy, prayer, the precepts of the Church, the commandments, sacraments, sacramental—all of it—are finally meant to conform us to the way of love. When they instead turn us away from that path by devolving into a source of pride and pomposity, they have been undermined. Jesus' famous parable about the prayers of the pharisee and the tax collector from this Sunday's readings illustrates precisely this danger of coopting religion for the purposes of our ego.
Released:
Oct 19, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Jesus in the Desert: Just after his baptism, Jesus retires to the wilderness and there he faces the tempter. We enter into this experience with him, facing the same struggle. Like the Lord himself, we wrestle with the temptations to make sensual pleasure, the ego, and power ... by Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies