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    Sermon 452 : The Deafness of Secular Man : 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

    9/6/2009
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    The healing of the deaf mute indicates not only a display of Christ's divine power to heal, but provides an image of how ideological secularism dulls our spiritual senses and inhibits our capacity to receive God's life and presence. Faith in Christ empowers us to become sensitive to the life and presence of God as he makes himself known in our lives and in the world.
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Basilio
Dear Rev.Father,
your reflections are so creative and original, thank you very much for your effort to communicate the Goodnews in the internet. I appreciate that, and pray that God bless to have you many more years
with pryaers n love Basilio
9/2/2009 6:43:37 PM
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Basilio
Dear father
I congratulate you for your creative and original reflections. May god bless the church many more years with your proclamation of His Gospel with love n prayers basilio
9/2/2009 6:45:28 PM
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msvg
Another great omily as usual. Thank you.
I have a question: Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks says that God called himself "I will be who I will be" and not "I am who I am" to Moses at the burning bush. He says there is an error in the translation. Does this make any difference? If true, how would that affect the fact that Jesus says "I am" so many times in John´s Gospel and it´s interpretation?
9/4/2009 5:36:17 AM
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Deacon Edwin C. Santiago
As a prison chaplain your words on this particular gospel reading is spiritually uplifting in visualizing the purpose of prison ministry. In our presence to the inmates we are helping the inmates have eyes that can see and ears that can hear by ourselves being a conduit for both the humanity and divinity of Jesus Christ.
9/4/2009 10:40:54 AM
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Fr. Greg Menegay
Fr. Barron,

A sincere thank you for all of your great work. May God continue to bless your efforts.
9/4/2009 9:43:19 PM
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rgeorge
excellent on secular men and women. may the grace of god open all our hearts.
9/5/2009 10:17:04 AM
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Patrick Browne
Another great reminder. "Be open"
Why does the field of science have to be contrasted so often with religion? There are some questions which can be answered through science, but at the end of the day our deepest longings are not addressed by science. Anyone past the age of 12 knows we have deep questions which can't be answered except through faith. Helping others realize these "unanswerables" are part of the human condition establishes a need which cannot be filled by science and thus forces us to be "open".
9/5/2009 1:00:06 PM
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Nana
I was taught that since the Hebrew texts contained no vowels, both translations are possible. I never thought about the gospel of John, which is not Hebrew but Greek...but the idea of present and future tense existing simultaneously in a very stimulating idea and would seem to support the flavor of that gospel. Thanks for the comment!
9/5/2009 6:51:09 PM
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Ray
Thank you Father! Very good as always. I really appreciate the work you do and always am inspired by your homilies.
Ray
9/6/2009 2:02:30 AM
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Giovanni Secchi
Father Barron,
Thank you for the very profound explanation in your homily. Isn't it tragic, that secularists artificially limit their intellectual horizon in such questions? Platonic thinking made use of the human drive for causality and pointed to the fact that the chain of causes must have an absolute beginning, that is not caused by another cause: a cause, whose nature is to be not caused. It was thought that the ladder of causes (c. of. c. of c. ...) could not exist, actually, without the "prima causa". We experience by the reality of the surrounding creation, how stable that causalistic "ladder" is. The mind must be open to see, what surpasses the narrow human mind. Then, God grants the means of spiritual graces that enable us to recognise the spiritual reality of God. The Creator can be intellectually approached as the cause of all that is not caused and therefore of infinite nature, surpassing human reason logically ;-) Heureka!
9/6/2009 10:36:18 PM
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Jake
first off, great job father! you have some very refreshing and new ideas. although 2 things are bugging me a bit. the first being, if god is this core of things, then it seems to me that god becomes an idea, much less a divine figure...unless thats what your trying to say of course. and secondly, i noticed how in your examples you only mentioned good things...but it would make sense to me that all the "bad things" would be god as well. although...what is good is often bad and what is bad is often good. i would appreciate any feed back you have! btw- if anyone else might have some answers feel free to post :)
9/7/2009 2:30:36 PM
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Basilio
Thank you very much for the Spirit filled reflections, you give us such a blessed and thought provoking sermons, May god bless you
9/8/2009 1:30:36 PM
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Grace
The beauty of the Truth in its entirety! Thanks so much for your ministry, Father!
10/14/2009 10:32:51 PM
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