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, this

year November the 1st All Saints Day falls on Sunday, so it gives us the

opportunity to reflect on this wonderful feast day and more particularly on what

it means to be a saint. You know, one of the advantages of All Saints Day is that

it emphasizes the universality of the call to sanctity. You know, if you

isolate a given saint, you know, Saint Francis of Assisi or Thomas Aquinas,

they can seem so egregious. Like, there's no way I could ever be like that. But

All Saints Day emphasizes yes, the canonized, officially recognized saints, but

also all the ordinary people that we have forgotten about in history, whom God

is remembered as saintly. So it reminds us that being a saint is the ordinary

goal of the Christian life. Let me say that again, being a saint, it's not

exceptionally egregious, it's the ordinary goal of the Christian life. Everything in

the church, I mean preaching, I mean the scripture, I mean the sacraments, I mean the

Eucharist, I mean everything in the church is meant to conduce to the place where

we become saints, we become holy. I've quoted before, it's one of my favorite

quotes from Leuon Bluat, the French spiritual writer. There's only one real sadness in life,

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