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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
Are You Ready for Serious Discipleship?
Friends, for this Twenty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time, we’re reading from the fourteenth chapter of Luke—and it is very serious spiritual business. A lot of…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Don’t Play the Pride Game
Friends, for this Twenty-second Sunday of Ordinary Time, I want to talk to you about a very important theme—namely, pride and its antidote. I don’t know a…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Does God Punish Us?
Friends, I want to focus this week on the second reading, which is from the marvelous Letter to the Hebrews. It addresses a very important and very…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Christ Came to Cast Fire Upon the Earth
Friends, the title of my ministry, Word on Fire, came from our Gospel for today. Jesus says to his disciples, “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
What Is Faith?
Friends, on this Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, our second reading from the Letter to the Hebrews offers us a great biblical description of faith. I stand…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
All Things Must Pass
Friends, George Harrison once sang, “All things must pass; all things must pass away.” Almost every major religious figure and philosopher the world over has…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Lord, Teach Us to Pray
Friends, we have the great privilege this week of reading, in our Gospel, Luke’s account of the Lord’s Prayer. This is a very sacred moment: Jesus himself—not…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Are You Anxious and Worried About Many Things?
Friends, on this Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, our Gospel is the Martha and Mary story, and in my years of preaching, I’ve found that it tends to bother…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Natural Law
Friends, in our first reading from the book of Deuteronomy this week, Moses says to the people, “For this command that I enjoin on you today is not too…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Church’s Marching Orders
Friends, as we resume Ordinary Time, it’s appropriate that we’re looking at a portrait of the Church, because we’re coming back, if you want, to the ordinary…
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The Church Is Built on the Rock
Friends, this year, the feast of Saints Peter and Paul falls on a Sunday, and I want to spend some time reflecting especially on Saint Peter. Around the year…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Join Your Life to Christ’s Sacrifice
Friends, every year we have Trinity Sunday followed by today’s wonderful Solemnity of Corpus Christi—two of the highest theological mysteries of our faith, the…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Theology of the Trinity
Friends, today is Trinity Sunday—one of my favorite feast days of the year because I can put my old theologian’s cap on. Looking first at one of the greatest…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Fruit of the Spirit
Friends, this is the great feast of Pentecost, the feast of the Holy Spirit. In the First Reading, the Spirit manifests himself as a strong driving wind, and…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Seated at the Right Hand of the Father
Friends, getting the Ascension of the Lord right is very important for understanding many aspects of the Church’s life. So I want to dwell on that a little bit…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Holy Spirit Will Teach You Everything
Friends, we come to the Sixth Sunday of Easter, and as the Church readies us for Pentecost, the readings begin to talk about the Holy Spirit. In today’s…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Love That Jesus Commands
Friends on this Fifth Sunday of Easter, we have an extraordinary Gospel that is at the heart of the Christian thing. Jesus, at the beginning of a lengthy and…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Voice in the Depths of Your Soul
Friends, on this Fourth Sunday of Easter, we have this marvelous, short but very punchy reading from the Gospel of John: Jesus referring to himself as the good…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Becoming a Disciple of Jesus
Friends, on this Third Sunday of Easter, we have the magnificent Gospel from the very end of the Gospel of John, chapter twenty-one, which is so rich…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Everything Has Changed
Friends, we enter now into the Easter season, and here is the thing I want you to know: We misunderstand Easter dramatically when we think primarily of spring…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Something Happened on Easter!
Friends, happy Easter! Many of you probably know that I’ve spent much of my life reading philosophers and spiritual writers—Plato, Aristotle, Confucius…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Forgiveness of Sinners
Friends, we come to Palm Sunday, which is also called Passion Sunday because we always read at Mass the Passion narrative from one of the synoptic Gospels…
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The Conversion of Saint Paul
Friends, we come to the Fifth Sunday of Lent, and I want to reflect today on our second reading from the Letter of Paul to the Philippians. It is a passage of…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Heavenly Banquet
Friends, this Fourth Sunday of Lent gives us marvelous readings: the First Reading from the book of Joshua, the Second Reading from Paul’s Second Letter to the…
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You Can’t Grasp—or Hide From—God
Friends, we come to the Third Sunday of Lent, and we have the extraordinary privilege during Cycle C of reading this account, in the third chapter of the book…
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When the Eternal Breaks Through
Friends our Gospel for the Second Sunday of Lent this year is Luke’s account of the Transfiguration. And it opens up something that is marvelous and…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Three Questions to Ask Yourself During Lent
Friends, we come to the holy season of Lent. Pascal said that most of us go through life diverting and distracting ourselves so that we don’t come to terms…
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The Revolution of the Resurrection
Friends, for this Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Church gives us the opportunity, in our second reading from 1 Corinthians 15, to reflect on the…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Give Expecting Nothing Back
Friends, our Gospel for today is from the Sermon on the Plain, which is Luke's version of Matthew's Sermon on the Mount, and it’s not only saying something…
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Place Your Heart in God
Friends, on this Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, we have the first reading from the prophet Jeremiah in tandem with the Gospel from Luke’s Sermon on the Plain…
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Graced Sinners on Mission
Friends, for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Church gives us a wonderful pairing of readings: the first reading from the sixth chapter of Isaiah and the…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
God Returns to His Temple
Friends, it’s easy enough to sentimentalize the Feast of the Presentation. But we oughtn’t to, because this story is getting at, if I can put it this way, a…
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You Can’t Give What You Don’t Have
Friends, on this Third Sunday of Ordinary Time, I want to talk to you about walls and bridges. There is a tendency today to be simplistic and one-sided about…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Marriage of Divinity and Humanity
Friends, we return now to Ordinary Time, and this Sunday, we hear the marvelous story of the wedding feast at Cana from the Gospel of John. It's as though, as…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Why Was Jesus Baptized?
Friends, the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord is exceptionally important. All four Gospels talk about it, and John the Baptist is a kind of door we have to go…
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Science Points to God
Friends, we’re all familiar with the story of the three wise men, which has been depicted in thousands of Christmas cards. And there is something romantic and…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Freeing Your Family for God
Friends, I always love preaching on the Feast of the Holy Family because I think the biblical message here is very surprising. We say the Bible is associated…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Why Mary Matters
Friends, on this Fourth Sunday of Advent, we come to the Advent figure par excellence: the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God. What I want to do in this…
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The Peace that the World Can’t Give
Friends, on this Third Sunday of Advent, called Gaudete Sunday, I want to draw attention to our second reading, which is from St. Paul to the Philippians…
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Have You Wandered Away from God?
Friends, in our readings for the Second Sunday of Advent, there is a lot of talk about building highways. In the Bible, both Old Testament and New, we find the…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Three Dimensions of Advent
Friends, we come to the First Sunday of Advent, which is the commencement of the new liturgical year. “Adventus” in Latin means arrival or coming, and one way…
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Which Kingdom Are You In?
Friends, we come to the end of the liturgical year with the Feast of Christ the King, where we meditate upon the kingly reign or rule of Christ. Now, we in the…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
A New World Unveiled
Friends, we're coming toward the end of the liturgical year, and as is typical, the Church gives us readings of an apocalyptic nature dealing with the end…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Trusting God in Dire Straits
Friends, our first reading is that wonderful story of Elijah and the widow of Zarephath, which is a kind of hidden gem in the Old Testament. Like so many of…
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The Highest Good Is God Alone
Friends, the readings for this Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time take us to very holy ground. In the first reading, taken from the sixth chapter of…
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Answering God’s Call
Friends, all three readings for this Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time have a golden thread running through them, which is the idea of the call—of the primacy…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
What Real Power Looks Like
Friends, our Gospel this Sunday is taken from the tenth chapter of Mark, and it is high-octane spiritual business. Something pivotal is being laid out for us…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
What Do You Ask God For?
Friends, for this Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time, our first reading from the marvelous book of Wisdom presents an old biblical trope: If you were to ask…
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The Biblical Vision of the Family
Friends, the first reading from Genesis and the Gospel from Mark this week are of great importance. They have to do with what we call Christian…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Whoever Is Not Against Us Is For Us
Friends, the first reading and Gospel this Sunday have to do with the Church at war with itself. The devil is the scatterer, the divider, and one of his…
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The Ladder Doesn’t Matter
Friends, why was the story of Jesus with the little children, versions of which appear in the three synoptic Gospels, so vividly remembered by the first…
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Faith Without Works Is Dead
Friends, “fools rush in where angels fear to tread”—and this week, I am going to go once more into the issue of faith and works, which has been dividing…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Be Opened!
Friends, our Gospel for today is the evocative scene of Jesus healing a man who cannot hear and cannot speak. This man is beautifully symbolic of many in our…
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The Goodness—and Dangers—of the Law
Friends, as Americans, we have a very ambiguous relationship to law. On the one hand, we are a nation of independently minded people; we don’t like the law…
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Do You Accept This Teaching?
Friends, we come now to the close of this great discourse of Jesus in the sixth chapter of John, where we see the aftereffects of his teaching on the Real…
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Really, Truly, and Substantially Present
Friends, we continue reading from the sixth chapter of John, this pivotal section of the New Testament where John lays out his Eucharistic theology. And we…
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Strength for the Journey
Friends, we’re continuing our reading of the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John, which is all about the Eucharist. And here’s my take on our reading for…
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Everything in This World Passes Away
Friends, in the midst of our country’s great Eucharistic Revival, we continue our reading of the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John. And this week, I want to…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Where Heaven and Earth Meet
Friends, this Sunday we begin five weeks of Gospel readings from the sixth chapter of John, which is all about the Eucharist. Jesus will get into a lengthy…
- Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
The Shepherd Has Arrived
Friends the readings for this Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time are interwoven with each other in a very interesting way. I want to start with the first…