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Bishop Barron – 3rd Sunday of Lent (C)
Archive of year B sermons from Bishop Robert Barron, and other featured podcasts
3rd Sunday of Lent (C)
BISHOP BARRONDAILY REFLECTIONS
2022
Who is God?
BISHOP ROBERT BARRON – Friends, on this Third Sunday of Lent, we have the privilege of reading one of the most important texts in the Bible: God addressing Moses from the burning bush. In this passage, the true God manifests his own identity: he is closer to you than you are to yourself, yet higher than anything you can possibly imagine. And he gives himself a name: “I Am Who I Am”—not a being among beings, but Being itself.
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2019
Why the Burning Bush is Good News
Our first reading for this Sunday presents us with one of the most famous and commented upon texts in the entire Bible, in which God appears in a burning bush, a bush on fire but not consumed. God is present to it in the most powerful way, but nothing of the bush has to give in order for God to work with it and through it. When the true God comes close, things are not destroyed; in fact, they become radiant and beautiful.
Sunday Gospel Commentary / HOMILIES
2010
A Tale of Two Trees
Today’s scriptures present stories of two trees: the burning bush, that represents the reality of a soul that is receptive to God’s presence, and the fig tree, which represents God’s presence resisted and refused.
Sunday Gospel Commentary / HOMILIES
2007
The Burning Bush
Moses sees a bush that burns but is not consumed. This is a lovely symbolic expression of the way God relates to the world. The closer God gets, the more we become radiant with his presence. God’s proximity does not mean our destruction or the compromising of our integrity; rather it is the means by which we become fully ourselves.
