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Feb 2025
14m 52s

Give Expecting Nothing Back

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON
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Friends, our Gospel for today is from the Sermon on the Plain, which is Luke's version of Matthew's Sermon on the Mount, and it’s not only saying something about the moral life; it’s also saying something very profound about God. It has to do with what a number of philosophers in the twentieth century called the aporia—the difficulty or even impossibility—of ... Show More
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