Classic Sunday Sermon: You Must Rethink Your Spiritual Life
Bishop Barron will return with all new sermons (and a new set!) in time for December 3, the First Sunday of Advent.
Friends, there’s a great temptation for us to turn the Lord into a distant spiritual entity or a difficult moral taskmaster. We incorrectly believe that we have to crawl our way to the divine by our own heroism, merit, and effort. But this is not the case. In actuality, God, in his wisdom, hastens to make himself known. He reveals himself to us, even before we’ve begun to see. In fact, our seeking is predicated upon the fact that we’ve already been found. To understand this is to understand the Bible as the story of God’s quest for us.
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To anybody who's reading this, I pray that whatever is hurting you or whatever you are constantly stressing about gets better. May the dark thoughts, the overthinking, and the doubt exit your mind right now. May clarity replace confusion. May peace and calmness fill your life. Amen.💕
@lisaparker1607
7 ай бұрын
I receive this as the gift that it is! Thank you!
@mlpires1815
7 ай бұрын
Thank you, there are days that I overthink and worry about all that is going on in the church, the world. It can get depressing. It's all in God's hands.
@JoyceAntos-lo7nv
7 ай бұрын
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@jayduran9374
7 ай бұрын
Ever read the biblical versus where Jesus said to go into a room and pray and not share it publicly? Clearly you didn't read an elementary text in the bible or chose to neglect and ignore it.. Your conduct is shameful and clearly you are promoting your prayer in order to glorify yourself and feel good.
@GrenaReed
3 ай бұрын
Thankyou for this prayer. Amen❤️
I feel so blessed today by this sermon! A part of it reminds me of my letter to a colleague who told me she wished she could cry, she had a terminal cancer. So i prayed fervently for the right words to say. She died 3 days after reading my letter. On the day of her funeral she appeared in my dream happy and rejuvenated. I hoped she found her peace.
@lawrencegatti8283
7 ай бұрын
Yes. I am newly diagnosed with cancer. I say to myself, God is trying to get your attention, he is shaking you up because you have been closed to all his other efforts. Now as Bishop Barron says, I am trying to clear the ground for Him.
@heleneasley9530
7 ай бұрын
In living with cancer like we do, sometimes you don’t have the time or energy “to clear the ground” We ask Jesus to land the plane and journey with us in the ups and downs and He gives us the strength and hope for the days ahead. We ask his mercy for the rest of it.
Bishop Barron is SO inspiring. I am so glad that I was born a Catholic! Thank you Lord! ❤
@janemazzola4454
7 ай бұрын
@@bang8419 You have an important point sir/mam! But I don't call Christianity "crap"! HOWEVER, I often do think how difficult it might be for one born into one religion & then, move to another one, for the individual & also, often the family. Blessings to you, jzm
@janemazzola4454
7 ай бұрын
@bang8419 Thank YOU & may you have a GOOD day, in the LORD"S GRACE also! jzm
I’ve been giving myself weekend retreats listening to Bishop Barron’s sermons. It’s been great!
This man truly possesses the Wisdom of God. He explains things I could never understand. I believe he will help to bring many souls to Heaven. How our Lord has blessed him.
I’m not Catholic. And I love this sermon.
@Quick_Growth_Shorts
7 ай бұрын
Same am an Protestant
Father hear my prayers. I’m losing hope. My husband is with you I still miss him even after all these years. These pass three years have been difficult. At times I feel so alone especially as a single mom. Since suffering a heart attack two years ago and my on going battle with lupus I’m overwhelmed. Both of my sons are autistic. I’m now homeschooling them so my hours to work are limited. BUT I TRUST YOU LORD! I keep faith even as I constantly struggle to provide for my kids and I constantly struggle to buy groceries. I receive hate for sharing my testimony. My testimony is one of faith. No matter what we are facing God will give us strength to over come. Thankfully I have you Lord! I know I’m not alone. Faith over fear!
@maryannchaisson6742
7 ай бұрын
I pray for you today.. God Bless you & family..✝️✝️🇨🇦🇨🇦❤️🤗🇨🇦
@thomasmm1977
7 ай бұрын
Praying for you🙏
@bonnyfrench2361
7 ай бұрын
Keep your amazing faith! He will provide.
@dmemigh
7 ай бұрын
Praying for you. 🙏🙏🙏
@jacobgnanapragasam929
7 ай бұрын
May Jesus answer your prayer.
The picture of Jesus knocking at the door, most don't notice there's no handle on the OUTSIDE OF THE DOOR. WE HAVE TO OPEN IT FROM THE INSIDE TO LET HIM IN. PRAISE TO YOU LORD JESUS CHRIST 🙏
Thank you Bishop Barron. Another beautiful and uplifting sermon. A wonderful image of God that we often forget.
BRB is the BEST of God's instruments speaking to our sleeping world today!
Yes indeed. Cultivate gratitude Thank you Bishop Barron God bless you
what a freeing message! I don't have to do all the heavy lifting - Godi s already just outside the door of my heart, waiting for me to open it. Thanks.
Thank you lord for everything !
Thank you, Monseigneur, as we say in French. This is a very humbling homely! Praying for you and all those who are still "searching" for the Lord not knowing he is already there, knocking at their door. The Lord be with you.
Prayers for Bishop Strickland 😢 🙏🙏🙏
@bdloubier
7 ай бұрын
Amen 🙏 ❤
I confess that this homily is one, if not, the most inspiring light in my quest for a relationship with God. Thank you God for the gift of this your servant
@sandyv2195
7 ай бұрын
No quest needed: GOD is seeking YOU. Open the door and let him in. God bless you. ❤
Thank you Bishop Barron for this homily. It is a beautiful reminder that God through Our Lord is ministering to us by the Holy Spirit, eternally alive and acting, reaching out to brothers and sisters and me. Son of God Have Mercy on Me. 🙏🏻
Great message. There is a line from the movie Father Stu where Mel Gibson talks about his son telling him the reason he was having so much trouble finding God was because God wasn't the one who was lost. He's always there, waiting for us with patience and love beyond our understanding.
@georgeparowski1420
7 ай бұрын
Bishop Barron is a positive force in the sin cursed world we live in now
Yes, waiting in hope, faith and love for the Lord to find our lost children! Raised in the faith but who then “felt” nothing from God at Mass or in community of church, so are drifting in a secular culture and gave up seeking God. When, O Lord, will you come to their aid? Our hope is in you.
May I have right relationship with God and then everyone else.
Thank you father for marvellous sermon! Greetings from Ukraine! Please remember us in your prayers for peace 🙏
@AquaticMarybeth
7 ай бұрын
🙏🙏🙏
One if the best homilies I've ever heard from Bishop Barron. You are God's gift to us. God bless you dear Bishop. 🙏
“Allow yourself to be found.” Thank you, Bishop, I needed to hear that today.
@anneturner2759
7 ай бұрын
I want to be found , every time I go to communion , the devil is coming straight for me ! Always .
@marylevin9262
7 ай бұрын
@@anneturner2759omg no kidding 😮
Stop and let yourself be found. God will not be abandoned. The hound of heaven.
Wow, bishop must have held a conference call with my spiritual director about helping me. This message of letting God in is echoing in most everything I've read or heard ... that's a loud knock ❤
God found me long long ago. Revealed himself to me in many ways which I didn't realise until recently some church elder told me that God has already embraced me. Bishop Barron whom I have bumped into accidently, has been so inspiring to me and I am grateful that he led me to believe that God has chosen me. Bishop's knocking during this sermon is like what are you waiting for. So, I will now have to make my way to baptism to become a catholic. Thanks, Bishop.
@wenshan9101
7 ай бұрын
The truth is only as complicated as the mind might resist. At the same time, it is as simple as receiving a gift. May you be transformed by His Real Presence, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity, in the Most Holy Blessed Sacrament of the Church.
@zhuangjingmei1168
7 ай бұрын
@@Angie-tt4qb thank you!
@sandyv2195
7 ай бұрын
Yes, God is seeking you - welcome home! ❤
@zhuangjingmei1168
7 ай бұрын
@@sandyv2195 thanks!
@normaroche58
7 ай бұрын
Welcome🙏
Knowing God is a hound hunting for me with feminine wisdom is rather comforting. Release the hounds (of wisdom)!
These is an old German poem, saying: Kein Ding ist hier noch dort, das schöner ist als ich, weil Gott, die Schönheit selbst, sich hat verliebt in mich. In English, approximately: No thing is here nor there, that is more beautiful than me, because God, beauty itself has fallen in love with me.
@jacobgnanapragasam929
7 ай бұрын
Beautiful
@AnnalemarieVerrecchia
7 ай бұрын
❤
@ulpianoladino-gutierrez9646
7 ай бұрын
Magníficat
The primacy of Grace. Every prayer I make, it is already God praying in me. For as 1 John 4:19 tells us, “we love because he first loved us.” " the Alpha and Omega." "The author and finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:2)."
Amen… the wisdom of God❤️
HE is seeking ME / EACH OF US. So beautiful. ❤️
The Eucharist changes us so much that each tomorrow must be very different from yesterday.
@ElaineEC
7 ай бұрын
I pray for that with each Communion, that God takes over my ship. I’m rudderless without Him.
Had to lose it all to find this. Detachment is the key to connection. God Bless, Bishop 🙏
Thank you bishop Barron for this message.I believe in our Lord Jesus Christ 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼😂😂❤️❤️❤️
Bishop Barron’s sermons are always full of wisdom. ❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️
Thank you, thank you, Bishop Barron, for yet another amazing sermon - so inspiring, I want to listen to it and to you again! From you, I hear such profound pieces of wisdom that are truths from today's readings and gospel, that are the Good News that Jesus came to teach us... in his teaching, in his parables, in his way of life, in all that He has done and given to us, The Holy Spirit speaks through you with such eloquence, wisdom and truth, We are truly blessed. Thank you .... I hope I inspire my 8year old pupils as you inspire me.
What a teacher!! What a great gift God has given you, Bishop, and thank you for sharing with us!!
Thank you Jesus for chosen me and I am grateful for everything that you have given me in my life that sometimes I take for granted.
"The central principle of the whole Bible is the primacy of Grace." *- Bishop Robert Barron*
Thx
Thank you so much and God bless you Bishop Barron!
God continues to bless you Bishop.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
The love of my life broke up with me because of an addiction that took hold of me after returning home from a deployment. This has brought me back to my faith. I’m lost and looking for guidance through God, Bishop Barron, and Father Schmitz. Please pray for me
God bless you Father
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus, and reside in my restless heart. 💙🙏
Thank you Bishop! God's invitation....our response. Your message so beautifully communicated.
Thankyou Jesus for Bishop Barron
Always delightful and nourishing our spiritual life. Thank you for bringing us closer to Him. Love & gratitude from Liz 🙏
Bishop, you “hit it out of the park” this week👍🥰🙏❣️
Thank you, as always, Bishop Barron.
Thank you Bishop. From Botswana
God loves us, is searching for us. Stop, let God in. Let’s God speak to you, heal you. Don’t worry about this world and all it’s problems. Take a break from all that. Give God time and space in your life here and now. This will be our eternity.
Blessed be God forever.
Thank you dear Bishop Barron.
I try to imagine the Mighty Creator of the universe. The Master of all coming after me??What love😊It’s mind blowing really.Great Sermon
Lord , Christ, Seek Us and Turn Around We was were seeking Them, so that is the ends of these worldly .. live's life's AMEN's
Oh this sermon touched my heart -- so very, very encouraging and inspiring. Yes, gratitude for everything! Thank you Bishop Barron!
Father God, Jesus Redeemer, Holy Spirit...I open my door to you...
Yes, everything really is God. I am nothing. Thank you Bishop Barron, listening to you, I understand to act what He wants in me called thy will be done. Yes, to empty myself. Thank you, I got it. Amazing!!!!! Practice!!!!!! Praying. 👍💕🙏
Peace be with you.
I like bishop Barron more each day he's very wise. No one talk about God any more. It's always my terms war etc God has blessed Bishop Barron. Thank you. When I talk peace truth Catholic faith etc my family friends don't like it .thanks I'll not care about it 💕. I suppose that's my mission as a widow hopefully I'll find an apartment some day stay w 2 sick Ukrainian priests.
I have been pondering this new idea of Christ knocking at our doors. Then today I heard a spiritual song by the Barlow Girls. They reminded me ,” I cryed out with no reply” this reminded me of raising our children. When they learned how to crawl out of their crib, knock on our bedroom door to sleep with us. We would be silent, even in their tears to teach it was ok to sleep alone in their beds. Christ is not knocking. The door swings both ways.
I love this reading
Terima kasih
Thank you! This sermon was perfect. I really related to the metaphors. So amazing, so sweet.
You are right! Thank you for Gods words of love, truth, and forgiveness. This was a positive way to start my day for setting the mindset. I pray that our savio Jesus Christ's loving wisdom which always hastens to make known, even before one is seeking guides everyone watching this today ❤ Amen ⛪✝️
Amen
thank you Bishop for reminding us all the time of the truth ❤ that God is first..the only thing we have is our will
Thank you Bishop Barron ✝️🕊️🙏🇺🇲
Finding God on His terms...The Father yearns for you
Thanks & God Bless Father 🙏
The helicopter & cluttered room analogy. Wow! Thank you Bishop Barron for your gift of communicating God’s word to us. I needed to hear that today. Timely! God bless you more!
Thank you Bishop, always the right sermon at the right time needed 🙏🙏🙏
this teaching is priceless 😮
This is indeed classic. Thanks to this spiritual food bishop Barron.
Thanks Bishop Barron. Amen.
God Bless You, Bishop Barron for your wisdom and wit in sharing God's message and His love for us! Thank you, Jane
Thought that provoked me when you said let yourself be found was when I oppserved my sister playing hide and seek with by nephew her son, she let herself be found by him. In that God once us to find him. ❤
I love this. I love how BB doesn't put up barriers (burdens) to God's grace the way some others do... he truly cares about all souls.
Padre Barron. Es usted el mensajero de Cristo en KZread. Gracias.
Thanks. Awesome.
Thank you as always .
Je te benisse pere
Marvelous, thank you so much Bishop Robert Barron, I have heard it twice already… it is something we have to remind us every single moment 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Bishop Barron please stand with Bishop Strickland your brother.
As I am listening to your sermon I am also aware of the majestic Himalayan range that that I see from the rooftop of my house in Kathmandu. And as I continue to listen to your amazing sermon the mountains seem to come closer and closer to my heart and enter inside it. Thank you so. much for awakening my lukewarm heart., bishop. Come Lord Jesus take your place in my heart, my prayer for me, my family and all the peoples of this ailing world.
One of his best…if not the very best…glory be to God!
Gracias Padre !!! Always so precise.. your words directly to my conscience. Una regalo de Dios... pray for you.. ❤
Amen and Amen..Thank you ...God bless .🙏❤
This says it all! Drop the mic! Nothing else left to say. Let Him in ❤
Dearest Bishop Barron, Heal me, LORD, and I'll be healed. Save me and I'll be saved, for you are my heart's desire(Jeremiah 17:14). Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me, be near me in my time of weakness and pain; sustain me by your grace, that my strength and courage may not fail, heal me according to your will; and help me whatever attack I face every day. Bishop, thank you for the Sunday sermon today. I pray for Bishop Joseph Strickland to continue shepherding a child's heart and soul. Please, pray for the Dreger family. God bless you all. Our Lady of Pillar, pray for us. Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us. St. Micheal, pray for us. Faithfully yours, Cecilia Dreger and family ( 🙏 be kind to others🕯️) Wilbur Sacred Heart parishioners ( Bishop Thomas Daly and Father Raj).
God Bless You Bishop!
What he says it true. This is the narrow path. For me, I had to let God clean out the clutter first. I’m not sure what he’s doing now but it feels and looks right. I feel free but not inflated, light but not elated, confident but leaving room for doubt. It’s complex and too deep for words, but what Bishop Barron explained is what my experience has been. I hope some day the Lord gives me better words to describe this journey/path, that I can help my own Catholic and Christian brothers and sister, and even others, get here. It’s the place to be. There truly is no fear in love; perfect love really does cast out fear.
Here I am Lord - I come to do Your Will! 🇨🇦🙏🙏🙏✝️✝️🇨🇦
Bóg zapłać🌹- Maria
Amen God bless you 🙏🙏🙏
Adonde no hay amor, ponga amor y sacarà amor. That's Jesus knocking on your door to offer love.
Thank you Bishop Barron❣️. Yes, being grateful! One time a Dr. asked me out of the blue what are you grateful for? Kinda caught me off guard!!
Bishop Barron.. How could you have forgotten your final phrase .. “and God bless you “ Beautiful sermon 🙏