The Answer to Your Deepest Longing

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Friends, why has the story of the Epiphany—the three wise man paying homage to the Christ child—so captivated us over the centuries? I think, in some ways, it tells the whole spiritual life: our infinite longing that will never be satisfied here below; the following of beautiful but ambiguous signs in our quest for God; and the revelation that the one we seek has all along been seeking us—and, in the fullness of time, has come in person to meet us.

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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
0:15.0	and to facilitate an encounter with Christ and His Church.
0:19.0	The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture
0:21.4	and bring the transformative power of God's Word
0:25.0	where it is most needed.
0:27.2	Today, we invite you to join Bishop Robert Barron
0:30.4	as he preaches the gospel
0:31.8	and shares the warmth and light of Christ
0:34.7	with each one of us.
0:40.5	Peace be with you.
0:41.8	Friends, we're come today to one of my favorite feasts,
0:44.9	this feast of the Epiphany.
0:47.1	What is it about this story of the kings, the magi, the wise men
0:51.1	that is so captivated us.
0:53.2	I mean, for the past 20 centuries, poets and
0:56.3	painters and sculptors and mystics have been fascinated by this story. The whole Cologne Cathedral
1:03.3	in Germany, you know, it's sort of predicated upon the three wise men. They claim the relics of them
1:08.1	are there. What is it? What is it? Why is this story so entrancing?
1:13.7	Well, I think in some ways, it's telling the whole spiritual life that you could read the dynamics
1:19.5	of the spiritual life off of the story very well.
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