Peace be with you. Friends we continue our exploration of these wonderful Old Testament readings for Mass. The one for this weekend taken from the fifty-fifth chapter of the book of the prophet Isaiah. Isaiah, arguably the greatest of the Israelite [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, this week, I want to look at our first reading, which is from the first book of Kings, and it has to do with Solomon, the son of David and Bathsheba, the great Israelite King who built the temple, who eventually became a [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, this weekend, we have the privilege of hearing from the wonderful book of Wisdom. Now, scholars say the book of Wisdom was maybe the last book written in the Old Testament. So a lot of the Old Testament texts are from, [...]

Peace be with you Friends, the church proposes for us this week a marvelous little passage from the 55th chapter of the prophet Isaiah. Here's one of the greatest of Israel's prophets. And the theme of this little passage is the Word of [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, I want to preach you today about a kind of obscure passage from the Old Testament from the second Book of Kings. Can I just say, by the way, as I start, for those just beginning with the Bible, 1 and 2 Kings is not a bad [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, today we return to Ordinary Time. So after the long Lenten and Eastern season, then we had Trinity Sunday, then we had Corpus Christi. Now we come back to Ordinary Time. And it's my joy today to focus on the first [...]

Well, let me say a word about the Council because you brought it up first. Another great grace of my life was a relationship with Cardinal George of Chicago and the privilege of living with him at least part time for about five years and of course [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, It's a delight to greet you on this wonderful feast day of Corpus Christi, The celebration of the Body and Blood of Christ. Now, here's what is on my mind today. This is the first celebration of Corpus Christi [...]

Well, thank you very much for that and good morning to everybody. Always a joy to be here in the arena. I first started coming to this congress back in 1997. I'm becoming a very old man. And it's always a joy to come back. It's one of [...]

The House will be in order. The prayer this morning will be offered by the guest chaplain Bishop Robert Barron, Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, California. Let us pray: Oh God, source of all justice, you've summoned everyone who [...]

I just saw quentin tarantino's latest movie called once upon a time in Hollywood and I'm actually a big fan of his movies now don't write me letters I know they're over the top and there's certainly uneven in quality of a [...]

Well, I'm recording these words on holy Thursday, so we come to the beginning of the tritium the most sacred time of year for Christians and I must say my mind's been drifting a lot during this time to the issue of pain it might seem a [...]

I am in Liverpool, England. I'm on the banks of the Mersey River on a kind of chilly evening. Just arrived here. I'm speaking tomorrow at the Eucharistic Congress and giving two talks one of which will be on the mass I figured a [...]

The first great moment of encounter is the Liturgy of the Word. God speaks of course through all things and in all places, but He communicates with particular clarity through Israel, and salvation history. The Mass presents this Word to us, and then [...]

You know sometimes I go to see a movie with these reviews in mind I think oh that movie probably left some cool religious themes, but I'll confess I went to John krasinskI's a quiet place without any expectation of doing a religious [...]

Hi everybody, this is Bishop Barron I want to send a very special greeting out to our whole Word on Fire family: all those people who follow Word on Fire, all of our friends and supporters I just want to wish you a very blessed, a very happy Easter. [...]

Well, like many others I've been watching the Jordan Peterson phenomenon with a certain fascination if you don't know what I'm talking about you don't spend a lot of time on social media because Jordan Peterson who is a kind of [...]

I think 1 and 2 Samuel constitute one of the really great literary works that's come down to us from the ancient world period. So much of the good news has to do with how Christ is a new King David, a new King who will lead all of His people. [...]

Well, I saw today about one of the most important things in the spiritual life namely prayer. Here's the first observation about prayer studies have shown that everybody prays Even atheist say that they pray you could almost say that the human [...]

One spring day, about five years ago, when I was rector on Mundelein Seminary, Cardinal Francis George, who was my spiritual mentor, came out to speak to all the students. And he gave a talk I've never forgotten. He said: "I applaud you [...]

Well, I want to talk to you about the Ten Commandments. I mean willing to bet that if you go back generations most biblical people most believing church-going people could have recited the ten commandments by memory. My guess now is that even [...]