It’s Time to Come Home — Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermon
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Friends, in the first reading today, we hear of a people exiled from their homeland of Jerusalem, in need of a highway to bring them home safely across the rough terrain. In the Gospels, we find a people still in need of that highway home, but this time because of a spiritual rather than physical exile. John the Baptist shows us that, to this day, Jesus is our highway home to God when we find ourselves apart from him.
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