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Episodes
![Wheat, Seed, and Leaven](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog1224144/BishopBarronsSermons.png)
Wednesday Jul 19, 2017
Wheat, Seed, and Leaven
Wednesday Jul 19, 2017
Wednesday Jul 19, 2017
The Gospel for this Sunday is taken from the 13th Chapter of the Gospel of Matthew and it features three marvelous parables of Jesus. How rich are these parables! How inexhaustible in meaning! Take some time to read and contemplate these parables in light of your own suffering and faith as we seek together the Kingdom of God.
![The Fecundity of Your Heart](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog1224144/BishopBarronsSermons.png)
Sunday Jul 16, 2017
The Fecundity of Your Heart
Sunday Jul 16, 2017
Sunday Jul 16, 2017
God sows his Word into each of our hearts liberally. He does not solely give his grace to those he knows will bear fruit. He sows the Word in everyone, but it doesn't flourish for each person due to circumstances (secularism, anxiety, the allurement of the world), but strive to counter that by letting the Word open you to the implications of his Lordship. God is always giving himself to you, listen and act.
![The Yoke Upon Your Shoulders](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog1224144/BishopBarronsSermons.png)
Wednesday Jul 05, 2017
The Yoke Upon Your Shoulders
Wednesday Jul 05, 2017
Wednesday Jul 05, 2017
What is it like to have Christ for a king? All three of this Sunday's readings examine this very question in some way. The answer is to submit to his kingship and accept his yoke upon your shoulders to make your life an offering to his plan.
![No Fear of Death](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog1224144/BishopBarronsSermons.png)
Wednesday Jun 28, 2017
No Fear of Death
Wednesday Jun 28, 2017
Wednesday Jun 28, 2017
In our second reading for this week, St. Paul reminds the Christian community in Rome that baptism means an immersion into the dying of the Lord. In his first letter to the Corinthians, he had similarly told his followers that every eucharist is a participation in the dying of Christ. Why this preoccupation with death? Because it is only through this journey into Christ's death and resurrection that we can effectively conquer the fear of death, which tends to cramp us spiritually. Once we have died witih Jesus, we can walk "in newness of life."
![Prioritizing Our Fears](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog1224144/BishopBarronsSermons.png)
Monday Jun 19, 2017
Prioritizing Our Fears
Monday Jun 19, 2017
Monday Jun 19, 2017
As we return to the regular cycle of readings in Ordinary Time, we meet with a bracing spiritual teaching from the Lord Jesus. No matter who is threatening you, who is thundering denunciation, who is coming at you with furious intensity: don’t be afraid! Why? Because in Jesus Christ, you are connected to the very power of God, to that which is here and now creating the universe.
![Every Word from the Mouth of God](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog1224144/BishopBarronsSermons.png)
Wednesday Jun 14, 2017
Every Word from the Mouth of God
Wednesday Jun 14, 2017
Wednesday Jun 14, 2017
This Sunday the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, Corpus Christi in Latin. This feast displays the distinctiveness of Christian religion amongst all the other religions, philosophies, and world views. No other group of people is called upon to eat the flesh and drink the blood of the person they admire. Christianity is the strangest way precisely because we are given this distinct access into the Divine Life.
![The Communication of Love](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog1224144/BishopBarronsSermons.png)
Wednesday Jun 07, 2017
The Communication of Love
Wednesday Jun 07, 2017
Wednesday Jun 07, 2017
On Trinity Sunday we contemplate the mystery of God as a play of persons. The Father gives rise to the Son while the Father and Son give rise to the Holy Spirit. God's unity is never compromised because the three are consubstantial, one in being. To begin to consider this mystery we must consider that love is what God is.
![The Breath of Life](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog1224144/BishopBarronsSermons.png)
Wednesday May 31, 2017
The Breath of Life
Wednesday May 31, 2017
Wednesday May 31, 2017
If you want the Holy Spirit, you have to declare the Lordship of Jesus. Love is precisely what the Holy Spirit is. Do you want life? Do you want meaning, purpose, the satisfaction of your deepest longing? Then be close to Jesus as he breathes out love. You will have what your heart is searching for.
![At the Right Hand of the Father](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog1224144/BishopBarronsSermons.png)
Wednesday May 24, 2017
At the Right Hand of the Father
Wednesday May 24, 2017
Wednesday May 24, 2017
This Sunday we celebrate the Ascension of the Lord, perhaps one of the most misunderstood elements within the Christian narrative. The Ascension does not mean Jesus goes "up, up, and away" as if his presence leaves earth, but rather that he assumes the throne of heaven so as to direct matters here on earth.
![The Spirit on the March](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog1224144/BishopBarronsSermons.png)
Wednesday May 17, 2017
The Spirit on the March
Wednesday May 17, 2017
Wednesday May 17, 2017
This Easter season, the Church has asked us to meditate on the Acts of the Apostles. Today Jesus tells us to wait for the coming of the Spirit, which will descend upon them and empower them in their work. It is up to Christians today to continue the work of the apostles and spread the mission of Christ.