# Declare the Resurrection - Bishop Barron's Daily Sermons

An episode of [Daily Sermons With Bishop Robert Barron](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6783446284), 11 Jul 2026, 11 min.

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## Transcript

[0:02] Speaker 1: What a marvel this liturgy is, What a privilege to
[0:05] Speaker 1: be here on this climactic night of the Church of
[0:10] Speaker 1: liturgical year. We have the privilege of hearing this tour
[0:14] Speaker 1: of salvation history. And think of all these readings. Everybody
[0:17] Speaker 1: as like the medallions in a rose window, all circling
[0:21] Speaker 1: around the central fact of the resurrection, of the resurrection.
[0:28] Speaker 1: They're all speaking pointing to illuminating the resurrection. We read
[0:35] Speaker 1: from the Creation account. Why because the resurrection of Jesus
[0:40] Speaker 1: is the healing of all creation and the elevation and
[0:45] Speaker 1: perfection of all creation. It's not just a one off event,
[0:50] Speaker 1: but it has to do with the renewal of the
[0:52] Speaker 1: whole world. Why do we read the story of Abraham
[0:58] Speaker 1: and Isaac because that's the rescue operation that God commenced
[1:05] Speaker 1: by calling Abraham and making a covenant with him, that
[1:09] Speaker 1: God would share his life with his people, his people
[1:12] Speaker 1: would share their lives with him. What's the test? How
[1:17] Speaker 1: fully is Abraham willing to give himself to the will
[1:21] Speaker 1: and purpose of God? What do we see in Christ,
[1:26] Speaker 1: especially in his dying and his rising, but the fulfillment
[1:30] Speaker 1: of this covenant Jesus in his humanity surrendering utterly to
[1:36] Speaker 1: the will of the Father, the Father sacrificing his own son,
[1:43] Speaker 1: carrying through what Abraham was only called upon the doo.
[1:48] Speaker 1: The resurrection is the fulfillment of the Covenant. Why do
[1:53] Speaker 1: we read from the book of Exodus in the story
[1:55] Speaker 1: of Moses, Because Jesus, in his dying and his rising,
[2:00] Speaker 1: leads us through the waters of sin and death to
[2:05] Speaker 1: newness of life, and in the process conquers the powers
[2:11] Speaker 1: of the world. Just as the Israelites are victorious over Egypt,
[2:16] Speaker 1: so the risen Christ is victorious over all the powers
[2:21] Speaker 1: of the world that are predicated upon cruelty and violence
[2:24] Speaker 1: and hatred. God's love is greater than anything that's in
[2:28] Speaker 1: the world. That's why we read from the story of Moses.
[2:34] Speaker 1: Why do we read from the book of the prophet
[2:36] Speaker 1: Isaiah twice? If you noticed from Isaiah the first time
[2:41] Speaker 1: we hear from him, he says this, the one who
[2:44] Speaker 1: has become your husband is your maker. Can I suggest
[2:49] Speaker 1: everybody that's one of the most extraordinary lines in all
[2:52] Speaker 1: the religious literature of the world. That we should honor
[2:56] Speaker 1: the Creator, that we should obey the Creator, that we
[2:59] Speaker 1: should be afraid of the Creator, and that's in all
[3:02] Speaker 1: the great religions and philosophies. But the one who is
[3:07] Speaker 1: your maker has become your husband. Now that's Israelite religion.
[3:14] Speaker 1: That's the wonderful peculiarity of biblical religion, that the maker
[3:18] Speaker 1: of the whole universe wants to be bridegroom to us,
[3:25] Speaker 1: meaning he wants utterly to share his life with us.
[3:31] Speaker 1: Where is this relationship consummated, if you will. Where is
[3:35] Speaker 1: it brought to its fulfillment? But in the dying and
[3:38] Speaker 1: rising of Jesus. Jesus in his humanity, surrendering utterly to God,
[3:44] Speaker 1: God in the resurrection, giving himself utterly to the human race.
[3:50] Speaker 1: What Isaiah saw at a distance is fulfilled in the resurrection.
[3:58] Speaker 1: Why do we hear a second time from Isaiah? Just
[4:02] Speaker 1: as from the heavens the rain and snow come down
[4:04] Speaker 1: and do not return there till they water the earth,
[4:07] Speaker 1: making it fertile and fruitful. So shall my word be
[4:12] Speaker 1: that goes forth from my mouth? My word shall not
[4:16] Speaker 1: return to me void, but shall do my will achieving
[4:19] Speaker 1: the end for which I sent it. What's the word
[4:22] Speaker 1: or better, who is the word that goes forth? Yes,
[4:27] Speaker 1: the word of creation? Yes, the word that comes to
[4:29] Speaker 1: the prophets. But the word in the full sense is
[4:33] Speaker 1: the word made flesh. The Father speaks his word. Yes,
[4:39] Speaker 1: into the world, but yes also into our sinful condition. Yes,
[4:44] Speaker 1: even to the limits of god forsakenness. Yes, even into
[4:48] Speaker 1: death itself. The Father speaks his word, Why that it
[4:52] Speaker 1: might bear God's mercy, might bear his selvithic purpose. Yes,
[4:58] Speaker 1: even to the darkest and the furthest places from him,
[5:02] Speaker 1: And his word does not go forth in vain. And
[5:05] Speaker 1: we see the truth of this in the resurrection of
[5:08] Speaker 1: Jesus from the dead. God went all the way to
[5:12] Speaker 1: god forsakenness to find even the lowliest of us sinners.
[5:19] Speaker 1: His word does not go forth from him in vain.
[5:24] Speaker 1: Why do we hear from the prophet Baruk because he
[5:27] Speaker 1: celebrates this wisdom of God, the wisdom of God that
[5:31] Speaker 1: hung the stars and the planets, the wisdom of God
[5:34] Speaker 1: that's available in all of creation. But that wisdom of
[5:37] Speaker 1: God fully revealed in the folly of the Cross. That
[5:43] Speaker 1: means God's wisdom to save the world through the power
[5:49] Speaker 1: of his word. That's why we hear from Baruk. Why
[5:53] Speaker 1: do we hear from the prophet Ezekiel my favor of
[5:56] Speaker 1: the prophets Ezekiel, listen, I will take you away from
[6:06] Speaker 1: among the nations, gather you from all the foreign lands,
[6:09] Speaker 1: and bring you back to your own land. I will
[6:12] Speaker 1: sprinkle clean water upon you and cleanse you from all
[6:16] Speaker 1: your impurities. The Dark Power is a scattering power. That's
[6:23] Speaker 1: what his name means in Greek called diabolows. We get
[6:27] Speaker 1: devil from that diabolic de Abalain means to scatter, break apart.
[6:34] Speaker 1: That's always the sign of the dark Power divides us,
[6:38] Speaker 1: scatters things apart, God's word. God's power is a gathering power,
[6:44] Speaker 1: which is why the Lord Jesus says when the Son
[6:46] Speaker 1: of Man is lifted up, and that means lifted up
[6:49] Speaker 1: on the cross, but finally lift it up through the resurrection.
[6:54] Speaker 1: When he's lifted up, he will draw all people to
[6:58] Speaker 1: himself Mount Zion, true pole of the earth. There, all
[7:03] Speaker 1: the tribes of the Lord go up. What happened on
[7:07] Speaker 1: the top of Mount Zion the prayer of the temple, yes,
[7:10] Speaker 1: but ultimately the sacrifice of the Cross and the resurrection,
[7:14] Speaker 1: the Son of Man, risen from the dead, now becomes
[7:18] Speaker 1: the Lord who gathers all the world to himself. That's
[7:23] Speaker 1: why we read from Ezekiel, And why this gorgeous passage
[7:28] Speaker 1: from Paul to the Romans. Paul, by the way, Rabbi Shahoul,
[7:32] Speaker 1: before his conversion, knew all these texts I've been referring to,
[7:36] Speaker 1: knew them beautifully, knew them well. And Paul said, Jesus
[7:41] Speaker 1: risen from the dead is the yes to all the
[7:45] Speaker 1: promises made to Israel. Yes to creation, yes to the Covenant,
[7:50] Speaker 1: Yes to what Isaiah prophesied, yes to what Ezekiel prophesied.
[7:55] Speaker 1: And what's Paul saying? Are you unaware that we who
[8:00] Speaker 1: were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death.
[8:06] Speaker 1: What does a cross mean? Well, many things, But in
[8:10] Speaker 1: Paul's imagination, the cross is the place where our sins
[8:15] Speaker 1: are put to death. Being baptized into Christ Jesus means
[8:21] Speaker 1: that the old Self has died, our sins have been
[8:25] Speaker 1: nailed to the crons, that we might rise with him
[8:30] Speaker 1: to newness of life. And then, finally, everybody, from the
[8:36] Speaker 1: Gospel this year we read from Mark. Remember a few
[8:40] Speaker 1: days ago when we read the Passion narrative from Mark,
[8:44] Speaker 1: we heard about this mysterious figure, a young man wearing
[8:47] Speaker 1: only a white garment and as they come to get
[8:51] Speaker 1: Jesus in the garden of Getsemity, and everybody scatters. This
[8:54] Speaker 1: young kid runs away and they grab in his cloak
[8:58] Speaker 1: and they get it, and he runs off naked in
[9:00] Speaker 1: the night. And you wonder, well, who's this peculiar figure?
[9:05] Speaker 1: One reading is the church fathers thought this way, he
[9:08] Speaker 1: stands for all of us, clothed in the white garment
[9:12] Speaker 1: of our baptism. But at the moment of truth, fellow sinners,
[9:17] Speaker 1: what do we often do? We run into the night,
[9:21] Speaker 1: we run away from him, we deny him, and we
[9:24] Speaker 1: leave in the hands of our enemies, our baptismal identity.
[9:31] Speaker 1: We see the gospels never end with bad news. They're
[9:34] Speaker 1: always good news. Does that young man make a comeback?
[9:39] Speaker 1: The church father said, yes, he does, and you see
[9:42] Speaker 1: it right here. On entering the tomb, they saw it.
[9:46] Speaker 1: Doesn't say angel. They saw a young man sitting on
[9:51] Speaker 1: the right side, clothed in a white robe. And he
[9:57] Speaker 1: said to them, do not be amazed. You seek Jesus
[10:00] Speaker 1: of nazamreth the cruci fight. He's been raised. He's not
[10:04] Speaker 1: here now. Is he an angel? Sure? But he's also
[10:08] Speaker 1: symbolically all of us sinners who tend to run away
[10:14] Speaker 1: from the Lord. But once we recover our baptismal identity,
[10:19] Speaker 1: once we know again who we are, we proudly wear
[10:23] Speaker 1: the white garment of our baptism, and then we're ready
[10:26] Speaker 1: to announce the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. He's
[10:31] Speaker 1: not here. He's been raised, backed up by Genesis and
[10:37] Speaker 1: Exodus and Isaiah and Baruke and Ezekiel and Paul, backed
[10:42] Speaker 1: up by all these great figures. We need to have
[10:45] Speaker 1: that saane confidence everyone in this room, all of us,
[10:48] Speaker 1: that same confidence of this young man in our white
[10:52] Speaker 1: baptismal robes, declaring to all the world the resurrection, the Resurrection,
[11:00] Speaker 1: the Resurrection. That's our Christian faith, that's our Christian vocation.

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