How Not to Read the Story of the Syrophoenician Woman

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies by Bishop Robert Barron

Friends, for this Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, we hear the story of the Syrophoenician woman. Jesus famously puts off this woman—first by ignoring her, then by dismissing her, and finally by insulting her—and she o...View more