Pope Francis Encyclical, DILEXIT NOS (Oct 24, 2024)
ENCYCLICAL LETTERDILEXIT NOSOF THE HOLY FATHERFRANCISON THE HUMAN AND DIVINE LOVEOF THE HEART OF JESUS CHRISTLink: DILEXIT NOS“HE LOVED US”, Saint Paul says of Christ (cf. Rom 8:37), in order to make us realize that nothing can ever “separate us” from that love (Rom 8:39). Paul could say this with certainty because Jesus himself had told his disciples, […]
Podcast: Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons
- The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit December 2, 2025Friends, our first reading for this Second Sunday of Advent, taken from Isaiah 11, describes the Messiah’s arrival: He “shall sprout from the stump of Jesse,” and “the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him.” The Messiah, we hear, will come bearing seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, gifts that come to full expression […]Bishop Robert Barron
- The Season of Sacred Waiting November 25, 2025Friends, we come to the New Year celebration of the liturgical year: the First Sunday of Advent. This is the season of sacred waiting—four weeks of looking, hoping, and watching, with a kind of joyful anticipation, for the adventus (coming) of the Savior. If you’re like me, you rather hate to wait. Yet waiting is all over the […]Bishop Robert Barron
- The Marks of Spiritual Leadership November 19, 2025Friends, we come to the final weekend of the liturgical year and the celebration of the Solemnity of Christ the King. Now, our country was formed in rebellion against a king, and kingship as a political reality is far removed from us. But what does kingship mean for us spiritually? In a word, everything. If […]Bishop Robert Barron