Bishop Barron teaches that biblical faith is not naive superstition or blind belief without evidence, but a courageous adventure of trusting God’s call to venture into the unknown, as exemplified by Abraham leaving his home at 75 and by the risky [...]

Father Barron explains that true biblical faith is not blind superstition or believing without evidence, but a humble trust in God's broader vision and plan, even amid suffering and confusion, as seen in Habakkuk's complaint and [...]

On the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, readings from Amos and 1 Timothy together illuminate Catholic social teaching on power: far from demonizing it as merely oppressive, the Church sees legitimate authority as participating in God’s governance to [...]

On Trinity Sunday, drawing from Bonaventure's imagery of the Ark and Augustine's psychological analogy, the preacher explains how the God revealed as sheer Being in the Old Testament is, in the New, disclosed as Love—a dynamic communion [...]

Drawing from Deuteronomy, Moses reveals that God’s command is not distant or mysterious but already in our mouths and hearts; this undergirds the Catholic natural law tradition, where objective basic goods like life, knowledge, play, sociability, [...]

In this sermon on 2 Timothy, Paul distills the essence of the Gospel to Timothy: it is Jesus Christ himself—raised from the dead and descendant of David—who fulfills the royal promises to Israel, gathers the scattered nations, and reigns as true [...]

In this sermon on Luke 10, Jesus sends out the 72 disciples in pairs as a template for the Church's missionary life, emphasizing that the Church is essentially sent on mission, supported by prayer, reliant on divine providence, sustained by [...]

On the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, reflecting on Rome’s ancient imperial ruins contrasted with the enduring Church built over Peter’s grave, the preacher proclaims the triumph of Christ’s kingdom—founded on Peter’s confession of faith—over the [...]

Drawing on Pope Benedict’s view of the Church’s three essentials—worship, evangelization, and service to the poor—the preacher highlights Pope Francis’s emphasis on the poor, rooted in biblical tradition from Amos’s denunciation of complacency to [...]

On the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, reflecting on Luke’s account of Jesus teaching the Our Father, the preacher walks through the prayer line by line, highlighting its Trinitarian depth, the call to hallow God’s name and seek His kingdom, the [...]

On the feast of Corpus Christi, the preacher delves into the profound mystery of the Eucharist as the Body and Blood of Christ, drawing from Paul’s early account in 1 Corinthians to connect it to Jewish temple sacrifice, the cross as the ultimate [...]

In this sermon for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, the preacher explores pride as the root of all sin—the deadly capital sin born from fear—and its antidote, humility, drawing on the parable of the wedding banquet where Jesus advises taking the [...]

In this sermon drawing from Hebrews, the preacher defends the biblical theme of divine punishment—not as capricious cruelty, but as a loving father’s discipline: God, like a parent using timeouts, restrictions, or tough love, allows or imposes [...]

On the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the preacher reflects on the shocking paradox of glorifying the brutal Roman instrument of execution: through Christ’s death and resurrection, God enters human dysfunction, violence, and sin at its [...]

Drawing from Jesus' words in the Gospel about coming to cast fire on the earth and bringing not peace but division—even within families—the preacher explains this fire as the challenging, purifying light of Christ that illuminates sin, [...]

In this challenging sermon on Luke 14 for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jesus demands radical discipleship: to follow Him, one must «hate» even father, mother, spouse, children, siblings, and one’s own life—meaning place God alone as the [...]

In this sermon on the story of Abraham's three visitors and the Gospel of Martha and Mary, the preacher emphasizes that God, who reveals Himself as a Trinity in the Old Testament appearance, demands an immediate, worshipful, and radically [...]

Drawing from Ecclesiastes, Colossians, and Jesus’ parable of the rich fool, the preacher reminds us that everything in this world passes away and cannot be our final source of happiness. The conclusion is clear: only what is rooted in God—faith, [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, this is the great feast of Pentecost, the greatest, alongside of Christmas and Easter, greatest of the Liturgical Year, the Feast of the Holy Spirit, and we celebrate the first coming of the Spirit upon the Apostles that [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to this wonderful feast of the Ascension of the Lord. We have this feast right at the end of the Easter season as a prelude to Pentecost, the celebration of the coming of the Holy Spirit. And getting the Ascension [...]

Peace be with you, friends. We come to the sixth Sunday of Easter, so we are nearing the end of the Easter season. This means the readings start speaking about the Holy Spirit. The Church is preparing us for the great feast of Pentecost, the coming [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, on this fifth Sunday of Easter, we have an extraordinary Gospel. Again, like last week, it’s very short and punchy, but it is at the heart of the Christian message. It marks the beginning of Jesus' Last Supper [...]

Peace be with you, friends. On this fourth Sunday of Easter, we have this marvelous, short yet very punchy reading from the Gospel of John, with Jesus referring to Himself as the Good Shepherd. Now listen: «My sheep hear My voice; I know them, and [...]

Peace be with you, friends. On this third Sunday of Easter, we have this magnificent gospel from the very end of the Gospel of John, chapter 21. It’s so rich theologically, and the tradition has just loved this passage, drawing out all sorts of [...]

Peace be with you, friends. We now enter the Easter season and come to the second Sunday of Easter. Here’s what I want you all to know: we misunderstand Easter dramatically when we think primarily of it as a spring festival—when the weather gets [...]

Peace be with you and Happy Easter to everybody. We come to this high point of liturgical year of the celebration of the resurrection of the Lord. Probably a lot of you know that I’ve spent a lot of my life reading texts from philosophers and [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we’re coming to the end of our Lenten journey. We come to Palm Sunday, also called Passion Sunday because, on Palm Sunday, we always read at Mass the Passion narrative from one of the synoptic Gospels: Matthew, Mark, or [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to this fifth Sunday of Lent, and I want to continue maybe a little bit of an offbeat style here. Not looking at the Gospel for today, the wonderful story of the woman caught in adultery, but rather our second [...]

Peace be with you, friends. This fourth Sunday of Lent gives us marvelous readings. The gospel presents the magnificent parable of the prodigal son, and I will get to it, but today I want to focus on all three readings. The Church always provides us [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to the Third Sunday of Lent, and we have an extraordinary privilege during the C cycle to read this account in the third chapter of the book of Exodus, of Moses' encounter with the burning bush. It’s one of [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, our Gospel for the Second Sunday of Lent this year is Luke’s account of the Transfiguration. And whenever we come to this text, I don’t know, it just opens up something that’s this marvelous, this confounding… There’s a [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to the holy season of Lent. I don’t know if you’re like me, but gosh, how many Lents have I lived through? And when I come to the end of most Lents, I say, «Gosh, I probably could have done that better. That [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, for this Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time, we’re right on the cusp now of Lent, so next Sunday is the First Sunday of Lent, and it gives me the opportunity to talk about something I always love to talk about, which is the [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, our Gospel for today is from the Sermon on the Plain, that’s Luke’s version of Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount. So we’re getting the essential teaching of Jesus, which means our ears have to perk up. It means we’ve got to [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, on this sixth Sunday of ordinary time, we have something similar to what we found last week. Remember last week, we had Isaiah juxtaposed with the Gospel of Luke, and each author bringing out essential features of the [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to the fifth Sunday Ordinary Time, and the church gives us a wonderful pairing of readings. The first reading from the sixth chapter of the prophet Isaiah and the Gospel from the fifth chapter of the Gospel of [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we have the good fortune this year that the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord falls on a Sunday, so we can reflect on it perhaps a bit more deeply. It’s easy enough to sentimentalize this feast. It’s lovely. The [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, on this third Sunday of Ordinary Time, I want to talk to you about walls and bridges. Those old enough to remember, I’m referencing a John Lennon album from the mid-1970s, Walls and Bridges. There’s I think, a tendency [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, I don’t know if you’re like me, but I always have a sense of relief when we come back to ordinary time. We’ve been through the season of Advent and Christmas and now the Church returns us to ordinary time and it gives us [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to this great feast of the Epiphany. It’s just one of my favorites. I love, every Christmas season, having the opportunity to reflect on the meaning of this feast because it just keeps generating meaning, I find. [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to the fourth Sunday of Advent. We're now coming to the culmination of our preparation for Christmas, and the church has introduced us to a number of Advent figures: Isaiah, John the Baptist, et cetera. But [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, many mythologies and philosophies in the ancient world hold that time is cyclical. What I mean is it just goes round and around, never really getting anywhere, but just the constant repetition. A bit like the change of [...]

Peace be with you, and a very blessed and Merry Christmas to everybody. What is it about babies that’s just so irresistibly charming? Now, I realize some parents might be thinking, «What a typical celibate’s perspective on things»? but you know what [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to the third Sunday of Advent. And I want to draw attention to our second reading. It's from Paul to the Philippians. Now again, can I urge you, take out your Bibles, read Paul to the Philippians. You can do [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to the second Sunday of Advent and there's a lot of talk about building highways. Now, what is going on there and why is that being used as a spiritual symbol? Well, first of all, remember the importance in [...]

Peace be with you. We come to the first Sunday of Advent, New Year's Day. The new liturgical year commences. And so once again everybody, we get back to basics. We start preparing ourselves for the coming of Christ. Adventus in Latin means just [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to the end of the liturgical year, this feast of Christ the King. Think of this now as this great stately procession we've been following all during the year. At the very end of it comes the King. So we close [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to the 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, so just one more week in the liturgical year. We're coming toward the end of the year, and as is typical, the church gives us readings of an apocalyptic nature, so [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, our first reading is that wonderful, wonderful story of Elijah and the widow of Zarephath. It's one of my favorites. It's a kind of hidden gem, I think, in the Old Testament. Like so many of the stories in the [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, I know I say this a lot, but the readings today take us to very holy ground for this 31st Sunday of the year. Reading one is taken from the sixth chapter of the Book of Deuteronomy. I'm going to encourage you, get [...]