Are You Anxious and Worried About Many Things?

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Friends, on this Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, our Gospel is the Martha and Mary story, and in my years of preaching, I’ve found that it tends to bother people a lot. With the first reading about Abraham in mind, we can better understand what this passage means—and doesn’t mean. Rather than playing one sister off the other, we should read Martha and Mary together: When we focus on the “unum necessarium,” the one thing necessary, all the many things that preoccupy us find their proper place.

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0:00.0	Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.
0:04.0	Word on Fire is an apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization,
0:09.0	using media both old and new to share the faith on every continent
0:14.0	and to facilitate an encounter with Christ and His Church.
0:18.0	The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture
0:21.4	and bring the transformative power
0:24.0	of God's Word
0:25.0	where it is most needed.
0:27.2	Today, we invite you to join
0:29.0	Bishop Robert Barron
0:30.3	as he preaches the gospel
0:31.8	and shares the warmth
0:33.4	and light of Christ
0:34.7	with each one of us.
0:38.3	Peace be with you, friends, on this 16th Sunday of ordinary time, our gospel is the ever-popular
0:43.6	Martha Mary gospel.
0:45.5	I say ever-popular with a tongue-in-cheek a bit, because in my years of preaching, it's
0:49.7	one that tends to bother people a lot.
0:52.4	I've heard more and more criticisms.
0:54.6	I don't know what's going on there, Father, explain that to me.
0:57.5	So we'll get to Martha Mary, but I want to focus first on reading number one,
1:02.1	which is really extraordinary from the book of Genesis.
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