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 and 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, a

very happy and blessed Easter season to you. What I want to do during these seven

weeks now of the Easter season leading up to Pentecost is to follow the church as

she lays out for us passages from the extraordinary last book of the Bible, the

Book of Revelation. It might be easy, no, as you go to mass every Sunday after

Easter to kind of lose track of this. Like, oh, that's that yeah, the second

reading from Revelation. So I thought we would just kind of walk through them

because this book is extremely important. It's fascinating. If you doubt me, just

go on the internet sometime and look at the, I mean like millions of

references to the book of Revelation. What does this mysterious book mean? But I

want to take advantage of the fact that the church has given us this book so we

can kind of look at it not in infinite detail because you spend the rest of your

life looking at every detail of it, but at least they get a good, you know, approach

to it. Now there are a lot of ways to look at this great text, but can I suggest

one that I think is certainly not correct? And that is to read it simply as a

literal description of what will happen at the end of the physical universe.

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