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Podcast: Bishop Barronâs Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Episode: Are You Anxious and Worried About Many Things?
Description: Friends, on this Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, our Gospel is the Martha and Mary story, and in my years of preaching, Iâve found that it tends to bother people a lot. With the first reading about Abraham in mind, we can better understand what this passage meansâand doesnât mean. Rather than playing one sister off the other, we should read Martha and Mary together: When we focus on the âunum necessarium,â the one thing necessary, all the many things that preoccupy us find their proper place.Â