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Today we invite you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.

These be with you. Friends on this third Sunday of Lent, but church asked us to look at one of the

really great texts in the Old Testament namely the 10 Commandments from the book

of Exodus. I've said before that Lentz a time of getting back to basic spiritually and this is a good way to do it

Just as an athlete will go back to the fundamental moves of his sport

So in the moral and spiritual order we go back to fundamentals, go back to basics.

Can I suggest you go back to this text in Exodus, if you don't have the Ten Commandments clearly in mind, commit them to memory.

They're a wonderful way to examine your conscience

as you prepare for confession, even at the end of the day to go through the 10 Commandments

say, well, how did I do in regard to these

basics of the spiritual life so I want to say in this brief homily something very

simple about each one we know that the the 10 commandments are divided into two tables or

tablets, right? The first three dealing with our relation to God and then the

last seven dealing with our relations with each other.

The first table is by leaps and bounds the most important.

It's a basic biblical intuition.

Having our relationship with God right is the condition for the possibility of anything

else being right in our lives. If the relation to God is off kilter, everything else will

become off kilter. And so we pay special attention to the first

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