About this episode

Bishop Barron discusses the significance of Jesus's parables in understanding the highest good in spiritual life.

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!

People in this episode

Host: Bishop Robert Barron

Topics covered

• parables
• spiritual life
• kingdom of God
• highest good
• faith

Keywords

• parables
• Matthew's Gospel
• hidden treasure
• pearl
• spiritual life
• kingdom of God
• faith

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Books & works: Matthew's Gospel, the parable of the hidden treasure, the parable of the pearl

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