The Rich Young Man

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 12 October 2003

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The Gospel story of the conversation between Jesus and the rich young man is one of John Paul II's favorites and is featured in many of his writings. The Pope sees three great moral themes in this narrative: the objectivity of the good, the indispensiblity of the commandments, and finally, the call to radical self-gift. The rich young man accepts the first two but balks at the third--and this is his tragedy. How radically are we willing to live the moral life? Will we follow Jesus, or walk away sad?

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0:46.3	Friends, our Gospel for today is the wonderful story of the conversation between Jesus and
0:51.7	the rich young man.
0:54.3	This story features prominently in the writings of our current Pope, both as Pope and
1:00.0	as a professor of moral philosophy.
1:03.1	Over and again, the Pope returns to this story because he sees it as an exemplification
1:09.0	of the Christian moral life.
1:12.4	In fact, if you look in the Pope's great encyclical, very talkative splendor, the lengthy opening
1:19.6	section of that letter is an analysis of this story.
1:25.9	There are, I think, three things the Pope wants us to see as relevant to the Christian
1:31.8	moral life in this story, and I'll make these three things the focus of my homily today.
1:38.2	Listen to how the story begins.
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