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Podcast: Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Episode: The Chief of the Nations
Description: Our first reading for Mass this week contains the most sacred prayer in the Jewish tradition, the "Sh'ma." In the Gospel, when asked which commandment is the greatest, Jesus, a pious Jew, recites this prayer from the book of Deuteronomy. Listen as I explicate this central and decisive statement of Biblical faith.