Sermons - Word on Fire

Bishop Robert Barron Friends, on this Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, we continue our reading of the Gospel of Matthew.

Bishop Robert Barron 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.

Bishop Robert Barron Friends, we’re reading this week again from the tenth chapter of Matthew’s Gospel, and Christ’s teaching here is—as always—astonishing:

Bishop Robert Barron 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 Robert Barron Friends, on this Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Gospel is about Jesus sending the Twelve on a mission.

Bishop Robert Barron Friends, we’ve come to the great Solemnity of Corpus Christi—a celebration of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist.

Bishop Robert Barron Friends, we’ve come to Trinity Sunday, one of my favorite Sundays of the year.

Bishop Robert Barron 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.

Bishop Robert Barron Friends, today is the great Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, which is situated between Easter and Pentecost.

Bishop Robert Barron 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.

Bishop Robert Barron 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.

Bishop Robert Barron 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.

Bishop Robert Barron 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 spiritual masterpiece.

Bishop Robert Barron 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.

Bishop Robert Barron Friends, Happy Easter! We’ve come to the high point of the Church’s liturgical year, the reason why we’re Christians at all.

Bishop Robert Barron 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 Robert Barron 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 the climactic story of the raising of Lazarus.

Bishop Robert Barron As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

Bishop Robert Barron 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.

Bishop Robert Barron 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 Robert Barron Friends, today’s Gospel tells of the Lord’s temptation in the desert.

Bishop Robert Barron 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 and choice for the good at the center of the spiritual life.

Bishop Robert Barron 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 with becoming fulfilled.”

Bishop Robert Barron 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.

Bishop Robert Barron 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 weird.