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, last several weeks we've been reading from the

section of Luke that talks about the demands of discipleship, the radicality

what it means to follow Jesus. But let me tell you something now. Here's a

hint, it's a clue. We are called to be so radical why? Because we're meant to

imitate the even more dramatically radical way that God loves us. Be perfect

Jesus says as your heavenly Father is perfect. In other words in your moral and

spiritual life you're meant to mirror to echo the infinite extravagant love of

God. See it's never just awful moral demand to try to placate this overbearing

deity. No, no, no, no. It's a radical love on our part that's meant to respond

to the ever more radical love on God's part. So with the gospel today we're

shifting focus from what we're obliged to do really to who God is. Jesus paints

for us in these three parables a portrait of God. Now, get let me just remind you

it's up to all of us sinners. We tend to fall into this kind of logic when it

comes to God. So there's God kind of difficult, a bit tyrannical, difficult, hard

to placate. And if I do enough right things I might satisfy him sufficiently to

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