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 weekend we have the privilege of hearing from the

wonderful Book of Wisdom. Now scholars say the Book of Wisdom was maybe the last

book written in the Old Testament. So a lot of the Old Testament texts are from,

let's say around the year 500 BC to near the time of Jesus and that little 500

year period. And the Book of Wisdom is written toward the very end of that

period. It's a wonderful text. It's a series of sayings and aphorisms. You

don't have to read it so much, you know, cover to cover, but you'll leaf through it,

muse through it as you read these passages. Well, as you'd expect a major theme of

the Book of Wisdom is God's wisdom, but two other themes I think are his power and

his love. What I want to do in this brief sermon is try to think together those

three things. God's wisdom, God's power, and God's love. So our reading for

today is taken from the 12th chapter of the Book of Wisdom. I want to get home and

take a look at your Bibles and read that chapter 12. But I want to go back just a

little bit before chapter 12 to a passage in the Book of Wisdom that my

spiritual hero, St. Thomas Aquinas, especially loved, and here's the passage.

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