He is also the host of CATHOLICISM, a groundbreaking, award-winning documentary about the Catholic Faith, which aired on PBS.īishop Barron is a #1 Amazon bestselling author and has published numerous books, essays, and articles on theology and the spiritual life. He is a religion correspondent for NBC and has also appeared on FOX News, CNN, and EWTN.īishop Barron’s website,, reaches millions of people each year, and he is one of the most-followed Catholics on social media. His regular YouTube videos have been viewed over 150 million times.īishop Barron’s pioneering work in evangelizing through the new media led Francis Cardinal George to describe him as “one of the Church’s best messengers.” He has keynoted many conferences and events all over the world, including the 2016 World Youth Day in Kraków, Poland, as well as the 2015 World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, which marked Pope Francis’ historic visit to the United States.Kurt Cobain Photo: Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images Chesterton insisted that only when he realized that the things of this world would not make him ultimately happy did he find real joy in them.īishop Robert Barron is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota.

They will no longer be objects for your manipulation or possession, but beautiful realities in themselves. They will appear as they are, as God intended them. Once you let go of the world in a spirit of detachment, once you remove the things of this world from your grasp and see them without distortion, you will really have them. This means that the game of filling up the empty ego with the goods of this world is not the way forward rather, giving one’s life away is the way forward. If the spiritual life is essentially about love, and love is the gift of self, then possessions are a problem. Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus praises the widow who gave all her resources to the treasury: “I tell you truly, this poor widow put in more than all the rest for those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has offered her whole livelihood.” She is a model of detachment for us.

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