{"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":"The Heart of Christianity","slug":"the-heart-of-christianity","published_at":"2026-07-29T19:04:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bishop-barron-s-sunday-sermons-catholic-preaching-and-homilies-446880/the-heart-of-christianity","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bishop-barron-s-sunday-sermons-catholic-preaching-and-homilies-446880","url":"https://wordonfire.podbean.com/e/the-heart-of-christianity/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ius6qkgyqukrwsyb/20260717_18th_Sunday_in_OT_August_2_-_v2_-_Mixed_English_Audio_Master_1_7467p.mp3","summary":"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!","meta_description":"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 R…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":927,"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/the-heart-of-christianity/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/the-heart-of-christianity.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}