{"podcast":{"title":"Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies","slug":"bishop-barron-s-sunday-sermons-catholic-preaching-and-homilies-446880","podcast_index_feed_id":446880,"rss_url":"https://wordonfire.podbean.com/feed.xml","website_url":"http://www.wordonfire.org/resources/homily/","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/1224144/Bishop_Barrons_Sunday_Sermon_Podcast_2022_bssyd8.jpg","author":"Bishop Robert Barron","episode_count":999,"summary":"Weekly homilies from Bishop Robert Barron, produced by Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-03T06:21:56.940570+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bishop-barron-s-sunday-sermons-catholic-preaching-and-homilies-446880"},"episode":{"title":"A Living Sacrifice","slug":"a-living-sacrifice","published_at":"2026-08-26T15:15:46+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bishop-barron-s-sunday-sermons-catholic-preaching-and-homilies-446880/a-living-sacrifice","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bishop-barron-s-sunday-sermons-catholic-preaching-and-homilies-446880","url":"https://wordonfire.podbean.com/e/a-living-sacrifice/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/cwasp66ngusgzwfu/20260807_22nd_Sunday_in_OT_August_30_-_v1b_-_Mixed_English_Audio_Master8ppzn.mp3","summary":"Friends, for this Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, I want to begin with our very brief second reading from Paul to the Romans. It opens, “I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice.” Here we see Christ’s cross and resurrection—the supreme sacrifice fulfilling all the offerings of the temple—extended to all the baptized. The Church is now the place where divinity and humanity are reconciled.","meta_description":"Friends, for this Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, I want to begin with our very brief second reading from Paul to the Romans. It opens, “I urge you…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":898,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/bishop-barron-s-sunday-sermons-catholic-preaching-and-homilies-446880/episodes/a-living-sacrifice/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bishop-barron-s-sunday-sermons-catholic-preaching-and-homilies-446880/a-living-sacrifice.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}