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, our first reading for this weekend has taken from

the marvelous book of Proverbs. You can find that in your Bibles right after the

book of Psalms. It's part of the so-called Wisdom Literature. So these texts that

are more poetic in nature. Proverbs is associated with King Solomon who's the

paradigmatically wise figure in the Old Testament. It's made up of a series of

aphorisms or brief statements mostly about the moral life. Although you can find

some pretty high theologizing too. Go to Proverbs chapter 8 and you'll see

reflections on Lady Wisdom who is with God at the beginning when he created all

things and that had a good amount of influence on the later sort of logo

speculation of the church. So the book of Proverbs marvelous. It's a great book to

kind of peruse. You don't have to read it cover to cover but you can find

Wisdom in these aphorisms. Well the reading for today is taken from the very end

of Proverbs from chapter 31, the final chapter. Very interesting how a book

dedicated to Wisdom ends with a kind of hymn of praise to a wise, industrious,

resourceful wife. It ends with singing the praise of this marvelous woman. We

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