Sermons - Word on Fire

Bishop Robert Barron Friends, Pope Benedict XVI memorably told us that the Church does three essential things: It worships God, it evangelizes, and it serves the poor.

Bishop Robert Barron Friends, for this Twenty-fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time, I want to focus on the first and second readings.

Bishop Robert Barron 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 marvelous and, frankly, disconcerting and odd feast.

Bishop Robert Barron 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.

Bishop Robert Barron 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.

Bishop Robert Barron Friends, I want to focus this week on the second reading, which is from the marvelous Letter to the Hebrews.

Bishop Robert Barron 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 wish it were already blazing!”

Bishop Robert Barron 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.

Bishop Robert Barron Friends, George Harrison once sang, “All things must pass; all things must pass away.”

Bishop Robert Barron Friends, we have the great privilege this week of reading, in our Gospel, Luke’s account of the Lord’s Prayer.

Bishop Robert Barron 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 people a lot.

Bishop Robert Barron 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 mysterious and remote for you. . .

Bishop Robert Barron 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 work of the Church up and down the ages to the present day.

Bishop Robert Barron 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.

Bishop Robert Barron 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 Trinity and the Eucharist, back to back.

Bishop Robert Barron Friends, today is Trinity Sunday—one of my favorite feast days of the year because I can put my old theologian’s cap on.

Bishop Robert Barron Friends, this is the great feast of Pentecost, the feast of the Holy Spirit.

Bishop Robert Barron Friends, getting the Ascension of the Lord right is very important for understanding many aspects of the Church’s life.

Bishop Robert Barron 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.

Bishop Robert Barron Friends on this Fifth Sunday of Easter, we have an extraordinary Gospel that is at the heart of the Christian thing.

Bishop Robert Barron 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 shepherd.