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, it was a particular joy for me to visit recently

the sites associated with St Ignatius of Loyola. It was on our film trip. We

were filming for Ignatius and for Bartolome Dillus Casas. We went to Loyola

where he was born in the bass country. It's also where he recuperated from

his war wounds and where his kind of reawakening of the faith took place. We

went to Moserat, which is just gorgeous. It's a Benedictine monastery near

Barcelona. It's where the newly converted Ignatius went to pledge his life

to the Blessed Mother and there's this beautiful statue that he venerated and

put his accoutrements of war at the foot of the statue. Well, that statue is still

there and we venerated it too, which is a great moving moment. We're in Rome too,

visiting the rooms where Ignatius lived the last years of his life and where he

died. Right next to the great church of the Jezou, the mother church of the

Jesuit Order, that's where Ignatius is buried. But for me, the most moving

locale was a little church in Manresa. Manresa is a town just north of

of Moserat. The little church is built around the cave, which is largely

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