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Mar 2025
15m 51s

When the Eternal Breaks Through

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON
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Friends our Gospel for the Second Sunday of Lent this year is Luke’s account of the Transfiguration. And it opens up something that is marvelous and confounding; there is sort of an aching and a longing associated with this text. It speaks to us of these moments when reality becomes incandescent or transparent to something more—something that lies beyond our ... Show More
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