Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon

Friends, our first reading is from the First Book of Kings, and it’s one of my favorite passages in the entire Old Testament. If you’re going on a retreat, spending a Holy Hour, or just wanting to get in touch with the Lord at the end of the day, it’s a wonderful little passage to focus on. The setting is the early days of the reign of King Solomon, and the question it raises is this: If you could ask God for anything, what would you ask for?

Mass Readings

• Reading 1 – 1 Kgs 3:5, 7-12
• Psalm – Ps 119:57, 72, 76-77, 127-128, 129-130
• Reading 2 – Rom 8:28-30
• Gospel – Mt 13:44-52

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Lady of Littlemore

Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon

Friends, we are reading during these weeks of summer from the thirteenth chapter of Matthew’s Gospel, which contains many of the great parables of Jesus. But I want to focus just on one today because it’s so rich both theologically and spiritually: the parable of the wheat and the weeds. Jesus’ story shows us how evil, by its very nature, is a corruption of the good. It is a parasite—and we need requisite care and patience in dealing with it.

Mass Readings

• Reading 1 – Wis 12:13, 16-19
• Psalm – Ps 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16
• Reading 2 – Rom 8:26-27
• Gospel – Mt 13:24-43

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Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon

Friends, our first reading and our Gospel today are about the word of God, both from God’s side as he speaks, and then from our side as we receive. God has spoken through creation, the prophets, the Scriptures—and, in the fullness of time, the very Word of God. If you open your mind and heart to the power of God’s word, it will change you.

Mass Readings

• Reading 1 – Is 55:10-11
• Psalm – Ps 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14
• Reading 2 – Rom 8:18-23
• Gospel – Mt 13:1-23

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Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon

Friends, the Gospel for this weekend from the eleventh chapter of Matthew contains a passage that has been called “Matthew’s most precious pearl.” “No one knows the Son except the Father,” Jesus exclaims, “and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.” We are on very holy ground here because we are being invited into the very inner life of God.

Mass Readings

• Reading 1 – Zec 9:9-10
• Psalm – Ps 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11,13-14
• Reading 2 – Rom 8:9, 11-13
• Gospel – Mt 11:25-30

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Who For Me?

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O what shall I, so guilty plead? 

And who for me shall intercede?

Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon

Friends, there is no religious figure anywhere in the religions or philosophies of the world who is stranger, more demanding, more relentless, and more unnerving than Jesus. And therefore the religion attached to Jesus is the strangest of them all. Exhibit A is our Gospel from Matthew 10. What Jesus says to his Apostles about himself, no other spiritual teacher would say. And you can’t be neutral about it: you have make a decision about Jesus.

Mass Readings

• Reading 1 – 2 Kgs 4:8-11, 14-16a
• Psalm – Ps 89:2-3, 16-17, 18-19
• Reading 2 – Rom 6:3-4, 8-11
• Gospel – Mt 10:37-42

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