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Getting Back to Basics In the Spiritual Life
FromBishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Getting Back to Basics In the Spiritual Life
FromBishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
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Length:
15 minutes
Released:
Feb 13, 2005
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Podcast episode
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On this first Sunday of Lent, the Church asks us to get back to the spiritual basics. We are compelled to consider once again the story of the Fall. God wants us to be fully alive, but fullness of life comes ultimately only as a gift of grace and not an accomplishment of the will. When Adam and Eve grasped at godliness, they violated the law of the gift: your being increases in the measure that you give it away. This sin is reversed in the Gospel story of the temptation. Jesus consistently resists the devil's suggestions and makes the Father's will the center of his concerns. In Jesus' resistance, the momentum of Eden is reversed.
Released:
Feb 13, 2005
Format:
Podcast episode
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