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, our first reading from the book of Wisdom and our

gospel are meant to be read in tandem and they articulate a such an important

principle of what I'll call spiritual physics. So anybody interested in the

dynamics of the spiritual life we got to attend to these readings. They have to

do with the play if I can put it this way between worldly goods and riches and

wisdom. So look now in the first reading which is taken from the book of

Wisdom and traditionally a Solomon himself is seen as the author of this book.

So the paradigmatic wise figure right from the Old Testament

enunciates these various principles. So listen now to what he says. I pleaded

and a spirit of wisdom came to me. I preferred her to scepter and throne and

deemed riches nothing in comparison to her nor did I like in any priceless

gem to her because all gold and view of her is a little sand. Now it's an

extraordinary thing. Again imagine Solomon is the speaker of the Solomon. Look

in the first book of kings in the Old Testament. There's no king in Israel

who had greater wealth, riches and power than Solomon. He's presented as the

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