Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies The Earthquake of the Resurrection
Mar 30, 2026
A reflection on the resurrection as the decisive, joy-giving hinge of Christian faith. An earthquake metaphor shows how the risen Christ upends expectations and unsettles assumptions. Personal quake stories illustrate sudden disruption. Discussion highlights tangible, historical encounters with the risen body and symbolic details like the burial cloth and heavenly light.
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Resurrection As an Epistemic Earthquake
- The resurrection functions like an earthquake that overturns our basic assumptions about reality.
- Bishop Robert Barron compares his first California quake that shook his house and consciousness to how Easter unsettles our frame of reference.
A Bishop's First Earthquake Moment
- A personal California earthquake taught Barron how shocks can upend one's sense of reality.
- He recounts hearing a boom that made him think a truck hit the house and how the house—and his frame of reference—shook.
Nephew's Reaction To A Rolling Quake
- Barron shares a second earthquake memory with his nephew reacting to a rolling quake.
- His nephew asked, What was that? I don't like that, highlighting how unsettling quakes feel to the unaccustomed.