Drinking the Blood of Christ

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Friends, on this Fifth Sunday of Lent, we hear one of the most pivotal passages in the Old Testament: Jeremiah 31:31. Jeremiah knew the long Israelite history of covenant and blood sacrifice, but he prophesies, “The days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.” This passage will find its fulfillment about six centuries later at a Passover supper, where a young rabbi—the covenant in person—offers his own lifeblood for his people to drink.

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0:00.0	Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization, using media both old and new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an
0:16.1	encounter with Christ and his church.
0:19.1	The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring the transformative power of God's word where it is most needed.
0:27.0	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.
0:39.0	Peace be with you, friends now on this fifth Sunday of Lent, things are intensifying as these marvelous
0:46.2	of spiritually packed readings come to a kind of climax.
0:50.8	We're preparing for Holy Week, and so we're dealing with some of the most sacred
0:54.7	texts in the great tradition. Reading one, and I want to spend some time with this, is from
1:00.0	the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, and the passage here is one of the most pivotal
1:04.3	in the Old Testament easy to remember by the way it's Jeremiah 31 31 and then
1:10.6	following but remember that.
1:12.5	Get your Bibles out.
1:14.5	Jeremiah 31.
1:16.5	Here's the text.
1:18.5	The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel and the House
1:26.7	of Judah.
1:29.3	Covenant language.
1:31.1	It was St. Irenaeus long ago who said the best way to read the Old Testament is in terms of the
1:36.3	covenants that God makes with his people. Go back to a kind of covenant with Adam, a covenant
1:41.5	with Noah, a covenant with Abraham, a covenant with Adam, a covenant with Noah,
1:42.5	covenant with Abraham, a covenant with Moses,
1:44.8	a covenant with David.
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