# The Heart of Christianity

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Podcast: [Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies](https://stenobird.com/podcast/bishop-barron-s-sunday-sermons-catholic-preaching-and-homilies-446880)
Published: 2026-07-29T19:04:03+00:00
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## Resource

Friends, on this Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, I want to focus on the Second Reading from Saint Paul’s Letter to the Romans. The eighth chapter of Romans represents the culmination of an argument Paul’s been making, and the reading for today is the rhetorical high point of that conclusion. This is the first great theologian of the Church naming what is essential to Christianity—so we have to pay attention!

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