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 and a very blessed and happy Easter to everybody. Friends, I

don't know why this is true but I've always been attracted to the graves of

famous people. So I've had a chance in my life to travel around the world and

study in different places and for example when I was in Washington many years

ago as a philosophy student I used to love to go to Arlington

cemetery and especially to that beautiful little hillside in front of the

Custis Lee mansion where the Kennedy brothers are buried. I'd go there and I

would just sit for a long period of time and contemplate. When I was a

doctoral student in Paris one of my favorite places to go was sort of the mother

of all cemeteries it's called Paralleshia cemetery. Jim Morrison the rock and

roller is buried there but so is Chopin so is Oscar Wilde so are Abel

Arden Eloise. I mean all kinds of famous people and I would go there and spend

hours just kind of musing at these graves. One of the most interesting ones is a

grave in far southern Indiana. I used to go on retreat at St.

Minerad monastery which is way down there and usually I would take a morning

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