Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Another homily from Fr. Robert Barron and Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.

Another homily from Fr. Robert Barron and Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.

Another homily from Fr. Robert Barron and Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.

The risen Christ makes two basic moves: he shows his wounds and speaks a word of peace. In so doing, he reminds us of our sins and he assures us of his forgiveness. In this a new world opens up, for we know that nothing can finally separate us from the love of God--even the act of killing God!

The risen Jesus breaks through the locked doors of our fears and brings us the Shalom (the full flourishing) that God wants for his people. Then he breathes into us the power and joy of the Holy Spirit and he sends us out to spread the good news.

Another homily from Fr. Robert Barron and Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.

Another homily from Fr. Robert Barron and Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.

As we approach the Passion, the celebration of Jesus' death, we're called to a new life, a new glory, and a new way of being. We allow our lives to break open so they become a new source of life for others.

Though the Enlightenment taught us to privatize and interiorize our religion, the Bible has a robustly "political" sense of God's activity. God's will is revealed in the movements and struggles of the nations. National sin (like personal sin) results in divine judgment. This deeply Biblical intuition is revealed in Lincoln's reading of the Civil War and in Karl Barth's interpretation of the First World War.

In cleansing the temple and announcing its destruction, Jesus shows that he himself is the new temple, the authentic dwelling place of God on earth. In the measure that we are grafted onto him, we too become temples of the Holy Spirit.