Envy Will Destroy Us — Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermon

Friends, when envy takes over our spiritual lives, we sow disorder and disintegration. The life of Jesus is about self-emptying love; it is in this gift of self that we are called to live.

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[scottschaffer]

Bishop Barron is a National Treasure!🙏🏼

[marcihf]

I once heard a Catholic priest say to stop being jealous and envious. Some of the reasons he gave were:

1. People will often tell you/show you what they want you to see. It is rare they will show you the entire picture. For example, you might be jealous of your friend's wife and wish you had a woman like that in your life do you know she's an alcoholic and a gambler.

2. You waste all your time being jealous of what someone else has, that you forget to enjoy your life. You don't notice the little things.

3. The most important one. You waste all your energy being jealous instead of being grateful to God for what you do have.

After hearing this priest, I completely changed my attitude and my life changed for the better.

[okprjlq]

I loved my life. I didn't envy people. Then people hunted me out of it.

[nanagaga]

I know I have a problem with envy, wishing I had what others have, or maybe it's jealousy. The consequence in me is not anger but forgetting to thank God for what the blessings I do have in my life.

[davidbjornstad]

"Fellow sinners" -- made me smile, because, yep! That's what I am.

[stbernettec]

🛐Lord let this bitter cup resentment forgiveness jealousy pass me by not my will but God's will be done 🕊️🌿✝️

[catalinarodriguez]

Bishop BARRON is a spiritual Treasure !!!! His Christocentric Sermons are a great blessing to me !! Thank you Bishop Barron ! God bless you !!! 😇😍🤩💖❣🤗💕💟💝

[alexrebello]

One way to fight envy is to count my own blessings and thank God for them.

[marypinakat]

"You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars." - GARY ALLAN

[jasonh.]

Lies are much more dangerous than envy. Envy is just a feeling of inferiority in those that have less; lies are the work of a wicked mind.

[marypinakat]

"What gives us Joy?
*The capacity to give ourselves utterly to the present moment ...*
what's love demanding of me right now. That's all that matters." - BISHOP BARRON

[philosofish]

This is such a powerful message. Thank you Bishop Barron. Viva Cristo Rey!

[nml]

Society teaches and praises all that is opposite of humility. It becomes ingrained and is so hard to undo; but by grace. Our Lady Untier of knots 🙏

[cromnickranaaninon]

The driving force of envy is materialism. A system that is domenant within the dysfunction of the human mind. To see that we are all connected beings by God and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves we can begin to live beyond our dysfunction and knowing that there is the spirit of God within us to guide us beyond our human senses.

[eleanorpolchinski]

Wow that’s timely
I am a sinner . I will repent and remember Jesus with his blessed arms around a little child . Go’s bless you too Father Barron ✨💕💐

[marysmith-hansen]

Lord Jesus Christ, grant us Your grace to forget the envy and ambition we so readily embrace, and fill us with Your self-forgetting love for the least and lowly among us. Amen.

[danielpoot]

"Live in the present"
That is something all institutions can agree with.

[annefalola]

I indeed am grateful to you Bishop Bishop for this beautiful down to earth homily.
‘Fellow sinners’, I have been greatly helped by meditating on the personality of the ‘Josephs’ -
In the Old Testament, Jospeh was the victim of the envy of his brothers, he suffered the humiliation of slavery and later imprisonment…. But God transformed all into the instrument of salvation of a nation and even of those who sold him out. Such a consoling meditation.
Then our great St. Joseph, fostered father of Our Lord and the chaste Spouse of Our Blessed Mother happily carried out his mission in ‘periphery’ of the life of Jesus. He humbled performed his hidden role in silence and obscurity. May he intercede for us when we seek protagonism at all costs! In this year dedicated to St. Joseph may we learn from him how to live great virtues in silence. Thank you dear Bishop Barron and and other ‘fellow sinners’.

[josephstevens]

"An irrational anger over the success of others"

[rosythomas]

I don't feel angry about the success of my friends but feel the pain of not having the same thing for myself. Its part of envy too right.