What Do You Ask God For? - Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon

Friends, for this Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time, our first reading from the marvelous book of Wisdom presents an old biblical trope: If you were to ask God for something, or if God were to come to you and say he will give you whatever you want—what would you ask for? This is a really clarifying question. And while many things might come to mind, the answer of the paradigmatic wisdom figure is instructive.

Mass Readings
Reading 1 — Wis 7:7-11
Psalm — Ps 90:12-13, 14-15, 16-17
Reading 2 — Heb 4:12-13
Gospel — Mk 10:17-30 or 10:17-27

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[jamieflener]

You NEVER get tired of listening to Bishop Barron!

[johnmadur]

Beautiful Homily, Bishop Barron. I will share this with a group of 300 young people who are making their spiritual retreat today.

[solidhalon]

Mighty Father, please grant me strength to carry my cross.
Lord Jesus, please grant me patience to not give up.
Holy Spirit, please grant me wisdom to make the right decisions.
Guardian Angel, please guide me in the right direction.
Amen.

[RobSantoliquito]

Round of applause for Bishop Barron! 👏. Synthesizing the world's greatest literature into bite size nuggets of wisdom for us mere mortals. God bless you Bishop Barron. 🙏

[patriciagriffin]

Thank you, Bishop Barron for your homily. As I reflected on praying for Wisdom and Prudence, I thought of the Serenity Prayer: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the WISDOM to know the difference.”

[NUKE.]

Prudence = 'moral common sense'. May God bless our anointed Bishop!

[philiplewis]

Wow, immense teaching here! I thank, praise and worship Almighty God!!! Amen.

[AliceGmelin]

Life changing and pure truth! God Bless Bishop Barron and every listener.

[ClaireBuckLudwig]

What a wonderful homily !!! Thank you, Bishop Barron. God bless you 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[lucieanes]

Bishop Barron, you are given God's Grace and WISDOM...blessings

[ForestAOrmes]

Thank you, Bishop Barron. Be well, blessings.

[patballmorrison]

Again Bishop Barron melds the O;d Tetament reading with the Gospel message. Tremendous. I was lector last evening for mass reading the wisdom passage. I prefer reading the Old Tetament passages. Earlier in the week, I was feeling ambivalent about this passage. So I researched the passage in Food for the Soul, by Peter Kreeft. It illuminated the meaning for me. Nnow Bisjop Barron made that light brighter. I always look forward to our Bishop's Sunday sermons here. Bless him.

[laurenlee]

To go to Heaven when I die. I try staying in a state of grace by going to confession every two to three weeks. I fast and pray and offer up EVERYTHING to God for the souls in Purgatory and for Sins against our Lady’s immaculate heart and Jesus’ sacred heart. I try to be prudent without being scrupulous. I always visit the blessed Sacrement on Fridays at adoration and always stay for Friday Afternoon Mass right after. I always go to confession while adoration is ongoing. I just submit to God and ask him to help me in all virtues especially when I commit the opposite sin to a virtue.

[bwhqpxn]

Thank you, Holy Trinity, for the gift of Bishop Barron, his Homily's is a Blessing to all of us. Bless him in a very special way so that he can continue to inspire us to follow your teachings. God Bless the Universe.

[izakonopka]

I just ask God to be with me no matter what I have or what I haven't got; no matter how wise or stupid I am, especially when in my stupidity I walk away from Him, I pray He keeps on calling me...

[jmclay]

Always a great homily. I needed to hear so many points to remind me of what is really important. “All gold compared to wisdom is sand”. “Don’t ask for health . Don’t ask for beauty . Don’t ask for wealth. Don’t ask for power. Ask for to understand your life from the standpoint of God.” “ Ask for wisdom. Ask for prudence”. 🙏😇
Thank you Bishop Barron for another awesome sermon.🧡

[MaryMartinez-dbhm]

I ask God to heal my daughter 🙏 and set my grandson on the right road. ❤

[javierf]

Bishop Barron asks for wisdom daily for himself, it's quite obvious. I always enjoy receiving it. Greetings from Colombia 🇨🇴

[sonu]

For the first time ever, I come across not just a clean comment section, (though god alone knws how rare a sight even that is) but a wholesome one in the internet.

[markikn]

Excellent sermon this week, Bishop. On top form.