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Training in the Divine School
FromBishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
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Training in the Divine School
FromBishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
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15 minutes
Released:
Aug 22, 2004
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Podcast episode
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In the years following the Second Vatican Council, we became very hesitant ever to invoke the category of the divine punishment. Yet, this motif can be found throughout the Bible, both Old Testament and New. How do we properly understand it? Our second reading from Mass, taken from the letter to the Hebrews, gives us some important guidance. It places God's punishment in the context of love and discipline. God punishes us, not capriciously and arbitrarily, but out of a desire to bring us to deeper life, much as a parent will, from time to time, punish a child. I'm eager to hear your reaction to these reflections on a tricky but important theme in Biblical theology.
Released:
Aug 22, 2004
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
The Wheat and the Tares: One of the most mysterious and yet practically applicable of Jesus' parables is at the heart of today's Gospel. The wheat and the weeds are allowed to grow together until the harvest, just as, strangely, good and evil are allowed to exist side-by-side in... by Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies