Classic Sunday Sermon: God’s Rules for Life

Classic Sunday Sermon: God’s Rules for Life

Classic Sunday Sermon: God’s Rules for Life 

Bishop Robert Barron 

October 29, 2023 

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time 

Gospel: Mt 22:34-40

When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law tested him by asking, "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" He said to him, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments." 

*United States Conference of Catholic 

Bishop Barron is currently in Rome participating in the Synod on Synodality. For the next three weeks, we will be airing a Classic Sermon. Bishop Barron will return with all new sermons (and a new set!) in time for November 19, the Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. 

Friends, the Books of Moses teach that the three types of Israelite law—liturgical law, ritual law, and moral law—shape and direct God’s people toward holiness and purity. While the liturgical laws have been carried over and the ritual laws largely set aside, the moral laws remain unchanged, for they represent those great abiding intuitions by which our lives should be structured.