The Ladder Doesn’t Matter - Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon
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- Friends, why was the story of Jesus with the little children, versions of which appear in the three synoptic Gospels, so vividly remembered by the first Christians? I think they intuited that it got very close to the heart of Jesus’ teaching. The way Mark sets up his account of this story in our Gospel for this weekend is frankly funny, and it’s an example of the disciples completely missing the point of everything.
Mass Readings
Reading 1 - Wis 2:12, 17-20
Psalm - Ps 54:3-4, 5, 6 and 8
Reading 2 - Jas 3:16-4:3
Gospel - Mk 9:30-37
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I grew up when the world was fun still a kid in the 70s playing pick up baseball games riding bikes exploring nature. My son grew up in the age of travel soccer and pressure to be a professional athlete at the middle school level lol. He stopped playing because it wasn’t fun. He later while in the military started playing pick up soccer games and found a network of guys who loved to play for the sake of the game. He has never had more enjoyment out of sports in his life and he’s become an amazing athlete for the right reasons. Sports are a great example of how parents go nuts with their kids and steal their joy
Spoken like a true Disciple of that time & also so fully in the moment! Blessings Brethren!😇
Hah! We used to just play in the woods. Mount "scientific expeditions." Then we'd ride our bikes up and down massive hills for hours, be sad we had to come in when the street lights came on, and sleep very, very well. No one was fat. That's for sure.
Parents steal their JOY!! Isn't that a sad truth?
Wait but it was your son... so whyd you pressure him?
Prudent. Same here.
I love Bishop Barron's sermons! He makes them so relatable and engaging!
Simplicity paves the path for usefulness. The Lord wants us to be available for the fulfillment of His Holy plans.
Simplicity has become my "mantra". Life and closeness to God is so much better that way.
Thank you Bishop Barron for being the voice of God at this age and time. I pray for your health and safety, because we need you! God bless you.
*"Let us ask the Lord for this grace: that our hearts become free and filled with light, so that we can rejoice as children of God."* - POPE FRANCIS
Amen.
As a Protestant, I can't agree more! Well done, bishop! God bless you!
God want's us to be non-judgemental, healthy in mind, body and soul. Bishop Barron is God's voice.
May God bless Bishop Barron 🙏🏻😊We need his voice more than ever !❤!
I am a substitute teacher. It is beneficial for my daughters that I am able to work periodically and focus on their needs, more than working full-time and being preoccupied with others' needs.
On a daily basis, it feels that I have to continuously state my credentials for people. What school I went to, why I am only subbing and not teaching full-time. Basically, in their eyes, why are you settling for less. It's exhausting!
I had my children to raise them, not to throw them in daycare and virtue signal that I'm a superwoman because I can work full-time and have kids, too. I've acknowledged that I can not do it all and have accepted that. ❤ I don't want the honor. I want to raise healthy, well-rounded, psychology sound children who can face this materialistic world with grace, integrity, and intellect.
Same here. couldn’t say better!!
I stayed home for 17 years to raise my family. Then went into profession I loved. Became very successful at that. There is a time and season to everything under heaven.
@@cathyshometeam You just proved my point!
I could listen to Bishop Barron all day 😅
He’s better than Jesus ?
@davidsingh6944 yeah, that's exactly what I meant 🙄
@@ben0298 I agree, Jesus and the holy sprit seem kinda weak and need all our help.
@@ben0298lolz...👌
I hear you! I could also listen to him all day!
Wealth, pleasure, power & honor… mundane indeed. Thank you, Bishop!
Merton in one of his writings states: So many people spend so much time trying to climb the ladder only to realise at the end that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall!" How powerfully true!
With every sense of humility my lord Bishop Barron, I see you as the 21st century Thomas Aquinas. You are a very good teacher. God bless you real good! You are a gifted teacher and preacher. To God be all the glory and honor.
Thank you so much for this profound message, reminding me of how much Jesus loves us and tells us to forget the ladders and be with Jesus, keeping Him first.
I consider Bishop Barron to be the successor to Bishop Fulton Sheen. The good Bishop makes the teachings of Jesus very accessilble to those who are seeking Him. Bishop Barron is a great communicator!
Fulton rips, love his daily reader
My husband and I are in our 80s. It is not easy to accept the reality of our lack of abilities to do. Thank you for showing us how to accept that reality as God's Plan for us. God's Will not mine. God bless.
Thank you, Bishop Barron! How insecure we are wasting time talking about the insignificant things when we can just enjoy the presence of Jesus in our daily lives.
God, help me be the person that YOU want me to be. Amen
Amen
a child is the definition of innocence. Bless them .
Good 👌 👍 morning 👌 👍 🌄 bishop barren and your family too amen 🙏 🙌 👏 and may the holy lord and almighty savior Jesus christ bless 🙌 🙏 you and your family too amen 🙏 and everyone else who ever believes 🙏 bless 🙌 them too amen 🙏 and bishop barren please 🙏 keep sending your awesome sermons because like 👍 I always say I really do use it in my life so thank you again and you bishop barren and your family and everyone else have a really blessive and safe Saturday and a holy Sunday too amen 🙏 😊😊😊😊😊😊
Excellent message. Thank you Bishop Barron
Every sermon of yours opens a new window to reveal something fabulous, a deeper insight into the words which makes me think, ponder, absorb and marvel.
God bless you dear bishop
This homily is among your best and this is so true .we need to pray for a spirit. Of
Humility.
Get RID OF THE LADDERS IN LIFE.
THANK YOU FOR THIS
WISDOM....TO HAVE A BETTER WORLD
I pray for our leaders who’ve been placed far up the “ladder”. May they maintain humility and a childlike joy for simplicity so that the harsh reality of power doesn’t corrupt them completely. Great leaders such as Lincoln and Churchill and King David fulfilled roles that God needed for his people. While they stumbled they did not fail.
Thanks Bishop Barron, I want to climb the ladder that takes me to Jesus. I don't know how far I can climb but one step at a time, I will reach as far as I can then Jesus will pull me up.
I thank God for you Bishop Barron 🙏 May the Holy Spirit continue to strengthen and encourage you to speak the truth of the Gospels ❤🙌
How many times in my life have I heard that bible passage at mass??? Today, I understood it. Thank you!
I finally understand this verse. Thank God for bringing you to my life Bishop Barron. I've learned many things from you. May God always bless and keep you. 🙏
Can you imagine being that child, simply unaware yet being entirely what God made him or her to be, being embraced by the physical Lord? We can comprehend this now looking back, but imagine the disciples in their bewilderment at this, not grasping the reality of it all. Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ!!
I just love your sermons thank you so much for sharing them with us God bless you
Bishop Baron said everything there. Little children are pure in heart. We shall be like them. 🙏
God bless you always bishop Barron .. you are a true shepherd , in you there’s no confusion. The Holy Spirit shine’s bright in you. Glory be to God 🕊️🙏🏾😊
Simplicity and humility of childlike character is a great way to be mindful of God's given grace to not be overtly immersed in egoistic world of materialism and indifference..
Great wonderful homilies. We need you BISHOP BARRON!!!!
What an insightful sermon! The wisdom of God on display, both in the message and the Bishop who delivered it! We bless God for the gift of Bishop Barron to His Church!
Absolutely wonderful teaching! I thank, praise and worship Almighty God!!! Amen
The most important passage in the gospel to me, that the way to the Kingdom of God is through remaining child-like, rejecting pride and honors.
Amen Amen Amen!!! Thank you Bishop Baron. God Bless 🙏🙏📿📿✝✝
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Amen
. Praise God
✨Thank you Jesus !
That was really good!
💕Love it 💕
♥️ Bishop Barron ♥️
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Our Father in Heaven
Thank you
For all you have done ,
All you are doing,
And all you are going to do!
In Jesus Mighty Name
♥️AMEN ♥️
I love the wisdom of Bishop Barron clarifying parables to yourself and young people who are atheists
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God Bless you Bishop Barron
I love to hear you Grace Bishop Barron awesome reflections
Beautiful Sermon! I wish I could bottle this sermon up in a bottle and spread it across the world! Blessed Sunday!
God bless you, Bishop Barron ❤
Thank you, Lord, for Bishop Barron. 🙏
Thank you Bishop Barron for another wonderful talk!!
Thank Bishop Barron for explaining this, as always do, in a way that I can make it my own. God bless you. Amen
My intention of getting promoted in my job is sheer egotistical, self centred and lack of self esteem. Oh vanity of vanities. Lord have mercy on my foolishness. Confessed yet I still return to these foolish thoughts.
Beautiful! Truthful! Playful! Wonderful! Love it!
I feel a peace when i listen to you. God bless ❤
The gift of this sermon is incalculable. Jacob's Ladder vs. World's
Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and enjoy Him forever.
Just love. Be the light of christ 🤍🕊️📿❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏 amen. Be kind 🇨🇦🌹❤️
Thank you Bishop Barron, you explain things so we all can understand!
Wow. What an insight Bishop Barron presents. Completely changes my understanding of this biblical story and in some important ways is life changing for my understanding of God’s desire for how I should interact with others.
Bishop Barron's sermons. Light for the day
Absolutely!
Bravo- now we
Need to align our Church leadership to these principles.
God bless you, Bishop Barron!!!
Thank you, Bishop, God bless 🙏
Enjoy this Bishop so much ❤ Love his sermons
Thank you bishop Baron for such beautiful explanations of the scripture. It touched my heart. + Mouneer
Thank you Your Grace! 🙏
Thank you ,Bishop Barron
I never fail to learn something amazing from one of his homilies. Thank you again for challenging me to look at the Scriptures from a different perspective.
This was incredible! We are wasting time focusing on wealth, pleasure, power and honor. None of them in the grand scheme of things matter.
Thank you Bishop Barron .it's so true x stand back and mind one own corner. Safer on solid ground 👌
Very well and good!! Thanks Bishop for this enlightenment!
Such an appropriate message for our society. A real eye opener. Psalm 139, we are wonderfully and fearfully made for his purpose. Just to be.
This was deeper than intended ❤ thanks, Bishop! God bless you
Happy, joyous and free
Una de las cosas que admiro, de las explicaciones del Padre Barron, es su habilidad para aterrizar conceptos teológicos con ejemplos sencillos de nuestro diario existir. Ahora le toco a la escalera.
True, profound and moving
Another great teaching 🙏🏼 thank you
A perfect summary of the workplace.
Thank you Bishop! Loved the ladder story; to be childlike and not childish - huge difference 😉 I’m understanding this better now that I’m nearly 64 😂 peace be with you ✌️❤️
Brilliant and illuminating. Thank you, Father.
Yet another touching, life reflecting homily. Thanks!
Amen.
Thank you Bishop Barron for your inspirational reflection.
A blessed dushi Sunday 🙏🏾🇦🇼
Thank you my Lord ❤❤❤❤
I went to Sunday Mass today and so I almost didn't click on Bishop Barron's homily. I am SO GLAD I did. Wow! Beautifully said and what an impact it made on me. God bless you Bishop Barron!
So beautifully delivered. As always, and every week, thank you. God bless you too, Bishop. Much ❤ from far away in Asia.
Become the person God wants you to be
Thank you Bishop Baron. This is very helpful for me.
Greetings from St Leonards on Sea in England. Just listening to this before I get ready for Mass.
Thank u I Love listening to u
I agree. When they start saying "You have to grow up" beware because they have come for your soul.
Thank u for everything u say I’m being helped so much by u
Thank you , and God bless you too 🙏✝️
Thank you for the word and meditation. I found your channel while my TH-cam algo was on a Gnosticism bender, and this came to me at the right time.
2 Timothy 3:16 “…every word is profitable… “
Thank you Bishop ,this was a great homily.
thank you bishop!
bless you biship barron and thanks the point of the L A D D E R
What a wonderful message, remembering just watching the clouds as kids, who does that anymore?!?
I do that and haven't been a child in decades...God Bless!
One thing I've noticed about children in general: they don't find it difficult to believe in God, in the concept that someone created the world. Then when we become adults, we become atheists or agnostics. Bishop Barron draws out a great lesson from this scriptural passage.
Thank you for that excellent summation of that Gospel. I'm afraid though that children have no difficulty putting themselves first in line without it being taught. I taught my children what I was taught: show respect; be helpful; hold the door for your mother (and by extension, everyone). They did all that and still proved very dogged and inventive about getting what they wanted (they also learned great loyalty and kindness, thank God) Status, Jordan Petersen pointed out, is a baked-in concept from Lobsters on up. No wonder it took God to show us the better way.
Thank you, Bishop Barron, for putting life in such an incredible perspective. "Let the children come to me." As a mother, grandmother and Early Childhood educator those words have resounded over and over to me throughout my life. I am so saddened today that our culture does not value children and pray that this mindset will change.
Thank you Bishop Barron🙏🏽🕊️!?
The waste of time spiritually... It's so sad, but it's so true.
and a child shall lead the way
Truth v Honor
Truth (citizen of the kingdom of God) V Honor. (to the self or tribe, accepts lying as a course of action..to that ladder). I’ll take Truth ❤✝️. Thank you for that inspiring sermon.
However, the honour in 1 can inspire and feed to aspire...`your goals and actions from day 2 day.