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Podcast: Bishop Barronâs Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Episode: When Your Faith Is Put to the Test
Description: Friends, we come now to the Second Sunday of Lent, and weâre on both dangerous and very holy ground with the first reading from the twenty-second chapter of Genesis. The ancient Israelites referred to it as the âAkedah,â which means the âbindingâ: Abraham binds and is ready to sacrifice Isaac at Godâs command. Itâs hard to imagine another text in the Old Testament that has stirred up more puzzlement and opposition. I am with Søren Kierkegaard: if you donât experience âfear and tremblingâ having read this text, you have not been paying attention. And itâs naming something...