What Happens After We Die?

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Friends, this week, on the Third Sunday of Easter, we have a passage from that magnificent twenty-fourth chapter of Luke—one of the appearances of the risen Christ to the Apostles. When we’re talking about the Resurrection, we’re talking about the central point of Christian faith, the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns. So to understand what we’re dealing with here is exceptionally important. What I want to do is reflect on the different views about what happens to us when we die that were floating around the eastern Mediterranean in the first century—and how none of them is on offer here.

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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
0:35.1	each one of us.
0:39.1	Peace being with you.
0:40.1	Friends, last week we looked at the 20th chapter of St. John's Gospel, one of the great resurrection
0:44.6	appearances.
0:45.6	And this week on the third Sunday of Easter, we have a passage from that magnificent
0:50.5	24th chapter of Luke. That includes the Road to Amaya story.
0:55.0	It's been called the sort of masterpiece
0:56.8	within the masterpiece.
0:58.4	Chapter 24 is just incomparably rich.
1:01.4	And the story for today opens up with the two disciples having encountered the
1:05.8	Lord and come to know him in the breaking of the bread. They've now made their way
1:09.5	back to Jerusalem and they found the 11 and they tell him the great news.
1:14.0	And then listen, while they were still speaking about this, he, Jesus, stood in their midst and said to them,
1:22.0	peace be with you.
1:25.0	So we saw this last week, didn't we?
1:28.0	The risen Christ appears always on his own terms,
1:32.0	in his own way. We have to avoid the Thomas temptation, unless I see, unless I verify,
1:38.4	unless things happen on my terms, well that's not the right attitude of faith, that's
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