<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b><font size="6">'Are You Ready for a Serious Discipleship?'  </font></b></div><div><h2 class="elSubheadline"><span><span class="gmail-ne gmail-id-6Z-eYjjdV-148"><b class="gmail-id-6Z-eYjjdV-152">BISHOP BARRON’S SUNDAY SERMON</b></span></span></h2><b><font size="4" style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">video (14'05): </font></b><font size="2"><a href="https://video.wordonfire.org/sunday-sermon?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=%22Don%20t%20Play%20the%20Pride%20Game%22%20-%20Bishop%20Barron%20s%20Sunday%20Sermon&utm_campaign=AM%3ASunday%20Sermon%20%288%2F24%2F25%29%20%20%28Copy%29">https://video.wordonfire.org/sunday-sermon?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=%22Don%20t%20Play%20the%20Pride%20Game%22%20-%20Bishop%20Barron%20s%20Sunday%20Sermon&utm_campaign=AM%3ASunday%20Sermon%20%288%2F24%2F25%29%20%20%28Copy%29</a></font></div><div><span><span class="gmail-ne gmail-id-6Z-eYjjdV-161"><br></span></span></div><div><span><span class="gmail-ne gmail-id-6Z-eYjjdV-161">"Friends,
 for this Twenty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time, we’re reading from the 
fourteenth chapter of Luke—and it is very serious spiritual business. A 
lot of us sinners are satisfied with a low-level spirituality of 
following the commandments. But in this extraordinary Gospel, Jesus 
challenges us to move into the upper levels of the spiritual life: “If 
anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and 
children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my 
disciple.” This is meant to be a kind of shock therapy—a deeply 
challenging message about what serious discipleship entails.</span></span>"</div></div>