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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.

Peace be with you. Friends, people of faith just see things differently.

People of faith see things differently.

I don't mean that they're living in an illusory world. They see the world that's in front of them.

They see what the secularist, the non-believer, sees.

So a person of faith, of course, reads history and watches the news and opens his eyes and sees what's going on in the world.

But the person of faith sees more than that.

Because the person of faith is seeing God's purpose, what God is ultimately up to, and that gives

the person of faith this ample vision and in light of what I said last Sunday of

this ample vision and in light of what I said last Sunday a kind of peculiar take on the world.

It's why spiritual people can often seem a little crazy.

Well, all three of our readings I think are touching on this theme today.

I want to start with this passage from the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel. I think I've told

this before, but he's just one of my favorites.

And the ancient Israelites felt you shouldn't even begin to interpret Ezekiel till you were 50

because he was so richly complex and since I'm past 50 I feel I can try to

interpret him. Listen to this now. Thus says the Lord I too will take from the crest of the cedar, from its topmost branches, tear off a tender shoot, and plant it on a high and lofty mountain.

On the mountain heights of Israel I will plant it. It shall put forth branches and

bear fruit and become a majestic cedar and birds of every kind will dwell

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