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Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
A weekly homily podcast from Bishop Robert Barron, produced by Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.
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- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Do You Want to Be a Saint?
Friends, All Saints Day falls on a Sunday this year, so the Church can give special attention to this important solemnity. Léon Bloy famously said that there…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
With All Your Heart, Soul, and Mind
Friends, our Gospel this Sunday is from the twenty-second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. Jesus has been doing battle with the scribes and Pharisees, and…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Coin Belongs to Caesar, But Caeser Belongs to God
Friends, on this Twenty-ninth Sunday of the year, our Gospel features the question from the Pharisees about paying taxes. In response to the trap, Jesus offers…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Invitation Has Been Offered
Friends, our Gospel today is the parable of the wedding banquet, and like all the parables, it’s kind of unsettling. What we’re meant to see is that this…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Peace of Christ
Friends, in our second reading this Sunday, Paul tells the church of Philippi, “Have no anxiety at all.” It’s hard to imagine that Paul—who was shipwrecked…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Hubris of Man, the Humility of God
Friends, our second reading, a passage from the second chapter of Paul to the Philippians, is one of the master texts in the New Testament. It’s not only…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Love God—Not His Benefits
Friends for this Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, we hear a story from Jesus that tends to bother everybody: the parable of the laborers in the vineyard…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
You Belong to the Lord
Friends, our Gospel for this Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time is the familiar story of Peter asking the Lord how many times he should forgive his brother…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Will the Good of the Other
Friends, for the wokeist philosophy that dominates today, empathy—feeling the feelings of the other and not harming those feelings—is treated as a supreme…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
A Living Sacrifice
Friends, for this Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, I want to begin with our very brief second reading from Paul to the Romans. It opens, “I urge you…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Church Prevails
Friends, for this Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Church brings us once again, with Jesus and the disciples, to Caesarea Philippi, and to a famous…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
How Not to Read the Story of the Syrophoenician Woman
Friends, for this Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, we hear the story of the Syrophoenician woman. Jesus famously puts off this woman—first by ignoring her…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
A Tiny Whispering Voice
Friends, in my evangelical work online, I often encounter people who are skeptical of religion and dismissive of its claims. I usually ask them: How do we…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Heart of Christianity
Friends, on this Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, I want to focus on the Second Reading from Saint Paul’s Letter to the Romans. The eighth chapter of Romans…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
What Life Is All About
Friends, we come to the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, and we’re going to finish our reading of the thirteenth chapter of Matthew's Gospel, which deals…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
All Things Work Together for Good
Friends, we continue this weekend reading from the thirteenth chapter of Matthew's Gospel, which is dedicated to the parables of Jesus. Today I want to focus…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Let the Word of God Take Root in You
Friends, on this Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, we continue our reading of the Gospel of Matthew. In chapter 13, Jesus gives a series of seven very…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Your King Shall Come to You
Friends, on this Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, our first reading is from the prophet Zechariah, who is a very important figure for the Lord Jesus. The…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Be Attached to God Alone
Friends, we’re reading this week again from the tenth chapter of Matthew’s Gospel, and Christ’s teaching here is—as always—astonishing: “Whoever loves father…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Fear No One
Friends, Jesus cannot be reduced to just one ethical teacher among many. But this doesn’t mean that his teaching isn’t important or astonishing—because it is!…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Jesus Sees Something in You
Friends, on this Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Gospel is about Jesus sending the Twelve on a mission. Whenever we hear about the Twelve, it’s the…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
From the Exodus to the Eucharist
Friends, we’ve come to the great Solemnity of Corpus Christi—a celebration of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist. Our first reading mentions the…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
Friends, we’ve come to Trinity Sunday, one of my favorite Sundays of the year. The Trinity is not just a little puzzle for theologians; it’s the heart of the…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Tongues of Fire
Friends, we’ve come to the great Solemnity of Pentecost, which is, along with Christmas and Easter, one of the most important feasts of the Christian year. It…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
What Is the Spirit Calling You to Do?
Friends, today is the great Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, which is situated between Easter and Pentecost. The Ascension is when Jesus definitively…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Five Signs of the Holy Spirit
Friends, we come to the Sixth Sunday of Easter, which means we’re coming to the end of the Easter season—and coming toward the Solemnity of Pentecost. After…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Dwelling Place of God
Friends, on this Fifth Sunday of Easter, there’s a somewhat hidden theme that runs like a golden thread through the readings, and that theme is the temple. To…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Cut to the Heart
Friends, all during the Easter season, we read from the Acts of the Apostles, and this Sunday, we hear part of Peter’s oration on Pentecost morning. His bold…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Pattern and Presence of Jesus
Friends, for this Third Sunday of Easter, we read once again the story of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus—a literary masterpiece, yes, but above all, a…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Both His Wounds and His Peace
Friends, peace be with you—an echo of the words of the risen Jesus in our Gospel for the Second Sunday of Easter, also called Mercy Sunday. Christ gives his…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Earthquake of the Resurrection
Friends, Happy Easter! We’ve come to the high point of the Church’s liturgical year, the reason why we’re Christians at all. If Jesus didn’t rise from the…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
God Enters Into Our Darkness
Friends, we come now to Palm Sunday, also called “Passion Sunday” because we read, in its entirety, one of the Passion narratives from the Synoptic Gospels…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Jesus Wept
Friends, this Lent, we’ve been journeying through some marvelous stories in John: the woman at the well two weeks ago, the man born blind last week, and now…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Light of the World
Friends, on this Fourth Sunday of Lent, we hear the incomparably rich story of the man born blind, which has beguiled Christians up and down the centuries. We…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Thirsting for God
Friends, on this Third Sunday of Lent, we hear the story from John’s Gospel of the woman at the well—a kind of master class in evangelization. What is…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Adventure of Salvation
Friends, on this Second Sunday of Lent, our first reading about Abraham and Matthew’s account of the Transfiguration orient us to a basic biblical principle…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Serpent’s Slogans
Friends, we commence the holy and wonderful season of Lent, the time of preparation for Easter. I always think of Lent as something like spring training for…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Which Path Will You Choose?
Friends, this Sunday, right before the commencement of Lent, the Church is giving us something of great moment to reflect on—namely, the centrality of freedom…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Become Someone for Others
Friends, a great professor of mine at Mundelein Seminary, Dr. Richard Issel, once said, “If you want to be happy, stop worrying about being happy and get on…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Do You Want to Be Happy?
Friends, for the next several weeks, we’re going to be reading in our Gospel from the primal teaching of Jesus: the Sermon on the Mount. And we begin today…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Unity in Christ
Friends for this Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, our first reading from the prophet Isaiah and our Gospel from Matthew both have a section that’s a little…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Lamb Who Takes Away the Sin of the World
Friends, we return now to Ordinary Time, and the Church asks us again to think about the baptism of the Lord, this time in light of Saint John’s distinctive…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Side by Side with Sinners
Friends, we come to this wonderful feast of the baptism of the Lord. And the first thing to know is that this was a profoundly embarrassing event for the first…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Answer to Your Deepest Longing
Friends, why has the story of the Epiphany—the three wise man paying homage to the Christ child—so captivated us over the centuries? I think, in some ways, it…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Protect the Life of Christ in You
Friends, the great feast of the Holy Family follows immediately upon Christmas—a very interesting juxtaposition with a deep theological significance. The…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Are You Willing to Surrender to God?
Friends, our readings for the fourth and final Sunday of Advent are all about maybe the central motif of the spiritual life. Our culture today is so…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Waiting in Action
Friends, our readings for this Third Sunday of Advent help us understand what to do while we wait for the Lord. An Advent spirituality of waiting is part of…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Friends, our first reading for this Second Sunday of Advent, taken from Isaiah 11, describes the Messiah’s arrival: He “shall sprout from the stump of Jesse,”…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Season of Sacred Waiting
Friends, we come to the New Year celebration of the liturgical year: the First Sunday of Advent. This is the season of sacred waiting—four weeks of looking…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Marks of Spiritual Leadership
Friends, we come to the final weekend of the liturgical year and the celebration of the Solemnity of Christ the King. Now, our country was formed in rebellion…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Old World Has Been Shaken
Friends, we come to the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, which means that next Sunday is the final Sunday of the liturgical year. During this time, the…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Place of Right Praise
Friends, this Sunday we’re celebrating, with the whole Church, the dedication of the great cathedral of Rome: the Lateran Basilica. You could argue very…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Why We Pray for All Souls
Friends, All Souls Day, November 2, falls on a Sunday this year, so we can really spend some time reflecting on this wonderful feast, which means so much to…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Are You Revolving Around God—Or God Around You?
Friends, for this Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time, we are treated to the wonderful and deeply challenging parable of the Pharisee and the publican from Luke…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Power of Prayer
Friends, when something tragic happens and people offer their prayers, you’ll often hear now, “I've had it with thoughts and prayers. We have to act.” In some…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Gospel Is Jesus Christ
Friends, in our second reading this Sunday, Paul writes to Timothy, “Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David: such is my gospel.”…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Trust in God’s Plan
Friends, this Sunday, I want to talk to you once again about faith. As I’ve said before, faith is the most misunderstood word in the religious vocabulary. And…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Love for the Poor
Friends, Pope Benedict XVI memorably told us that the Church does three essential things: It worships God, it evangelizes, and it serves the poor. This week…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Use—and Abuse—of Power
Friends, for this Twenty-fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time, I want to focus on the first and second readings. When read together, they give us a very good sense of…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Christ, and Him Crucified
Friends, this year, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross falls on a Sunday, so we have the great privilege of reflecting a bit more deeply on this…