Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Substitutionary Sacrifice

10.17.2018 - By Bishop Robert BarronPlay

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Friends, all three readings for this weekend center around a theme that was very familiar to the ancient audiences who first took them in but that is rather alien to us. I’m talking about the theme of substitutionary sacrifice. A very basic problem that we have when we seek to understand this idea is that we are marked, through and through, by a strong individualism: everyone acts and speaks for himself and takes responsibility for his own actions. But ancient people lived within a far more collective or corporate consciousness.

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