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. For as we come now to this marvelous feast, happens every

June, this feast of corpus Christi of the body of Christ, the body and blood of

the Lord. You know it's been on my mind a lot because as I record these words,

we're having a great event in my diocese in the town of Mancato which is about

midway in my diocese and we're gathering 5,000 people which is the limit of

the civic center there. So it's been on my mind a lot recently is the feeding of

the 5,000 that number 5,000. Why was that the capacity of the Mancato civic

center? Why do we decide upon that figure? I don't know. We came up with it but it

corresponds of course to this famous story, versions of which are

recounted in each of the gospels. It's the only miracle by the way with the

exception of the resurrection which is recounted in all four gospels. It must

have made a massive impression on the first Christians, the fact that Jesus

multiplies the loaves and fishes to the feeding of this great crowd. What I

want to do with this marvelous feast in mind is to look at this story. I'm going

to look at the earliest version of it in the gospel of Mark because every part of

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