{"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":"What Life Is All About","slug":"what-life-is-all-about","published_at":"2026-07-23T08:12:54+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bishop-barron-s-sunday-sermons-catholic-preaching-and-homilies-446880/what-life-is-all-about","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bishop-barron-s-sunday-sermons-catholic-preaching-and-homilies-446880","url":"https://wordonfire.podbean.com/e/what-life-is-all-about/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/4zy9gabz588bx97t/20260617_17th_Sun_in_OT_July_26_-_v2_-_Mixed_English_Audio_Master8q4eb.mp3","summary":"Friends, we come to the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, and we’re going to finish our reading of the thirteenth chapter of Matthew's Gospel, which deals with the parables. Jesus’s parables cut to the heart of the matter and convey the truth of the kingdom, and the two we hear today—the parable of the hidden treasure and the parable of the pearl—are really good examples. Both are about the summum bonum, the highest good, and therefore about what’s most fundamental in the spiritual life. Indeed, this is life itself; this is what it’s all about!","meta_description":"Friends, we come to the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, and we’re going to finish our reading of the thirteenth chapter of Matthew's Gospel, which de…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":900,"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/what-life-is-all-about/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/what-life-is-all-about.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}