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, we come now to the third Sunday of Lent. We continue

this journey through the Holy Season of Lent. I often said that Lent is a bit

like basic training for the military or it's like two a day workouts before the

football season begins. It's a getting back to fundamentals. I think here of the

greatest golfer of all time, Jack Nicholas. When Jack Nicholas was at the

height of his powers, he was the best player in the world. He would go during the

offseason to his teacher, the man that taught him when he was just a kid, a guy

named Jack Grout, and he would say, Jack, treat me as though I'm a beginner.

He was the greatest golfer in the world, but he wanted his teacher to treat him

like a beginner so that he go back again to the fundamentals. Well, I think of all

this because our first reading for today is the Ten Commandments. We all know,

roughly, all the Ten Commandments, how many of us could recite them? How

thoroughly have we internalized the Ten Commandments? I think they function in a

way as the fundamentals of the moral and spiritual life. Before I go on some

mystical flight of fancy, I better be grounded in the fundamentals and the

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