A-ROD & AUGUSTINE Fr. Robert Barron - Word on Fire

By 2001,

A-Rod had been

awarded the

biggest

contract in the

history of

professional

sports.

When we hook

our infinite desire

for God onto

something less

than God, we fall

into a perverted

and ultimately

self-destructive

pattern.

Bonds and A-Rod

were not

addicted to

steroids per se;

they were

addicted to

success.

Bonds and

Rodriguez

still felt, at

the height

of their

success, a

nagging

sense of

incompleteness.

That was not

an invitation

to take

desperate

measures; it

was the

invasion

of grace.

“Lord, you have

made us for

yourself,

our hearts

are restless until

they rest in thee”

St. Augustine