Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an

apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization using media both old and

new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with

Christ and His Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring

the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today we invite

you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the

warmth and light of Christ with each one of us. Peace be with you. Friends,

whenever I have the chance I love to preach on the Prophet Jeremiah and our

first reading for this weekend is from the 20th chapter of Jeremiah. There's

obviously in Jeremiah so much of spiritual wisdom and all of that but more than

any of the other prophets we come to know Him. His personality comes through.

There's more about the life of the Prophet Jeremiah and in some ways that's

the point. In some ways it's the very unfolding of his life that bears the

message he has. The thing about Jeremiah is he's by turns majestic and you know

deeply wise and afraid and angry and frustrated. You see the whole range of

emotion. See don't think of Jeremiah the Prophet as just this guy that from

the beginning had it totally together and just was you know sending out

oracles of truth in every direction. He was this person I mean like us

conflicted and confused sometimes and in the presence of God but not knowing what

that means and and afraid of its implications and all of it. Think of that

wonderful passage of the call of Jeremiah. He's a very young man. I mean the

scholars guess he might have been just 15 or 16 when he was called. You'll find

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