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, we

continue now our reading of the Great Book of Revelation, which the Church gives

us now every Sunday throughout the Easter season. I urged you last week I'll do

it again now. During the Easter season take out your Bible and open up easy to

find the last book called the Book of Revelation and read through it. Maybe

with a good commentary, it's a little tricky to read. It's a strange book. It's

an odd, sometimes even off-putting book, but keep in mind that the Church

place this great text at the very end of the Bible, which means it's the

culmination of the great story. If you want to really understand the story of

the Bible, you have to see where the thing ends. And it's very interesting how it

doesn't end with the gospel. The gospels are, they describe of course the

climax of the story, but that the Church put this book as a kind of

interpretive key at the very end. It's really important. I mentioned last week,

and it's important to re-emphasize it, that Apocalypse doesn't have to do

primarily with end of the world or with disaster. Now there's some of that in

there as I explained, because the giving way of an old world and the coming of a

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