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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 is taken from the marvelous book of Proverbs.

You can find that in your Bible's 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 was with God at the beginning, when

he created all things, and that had a good amount of influence on the later sort of

low-go speculation of the

sort of logo speculation of the church. So the book of Proverbs, 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,

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