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 come now to the very end of the Easter season, the

seventh Sunday of Easter. Next Sunday is Pentecost Sunday. I mentioned how the

first weeks of Easter we sort of focus on the radicality of the resurrection and

the last weeks we're delving into the implications of the resurrection. What

it means to live the Christian spiritual life and the focus in the

gospel has been on that magnificent section of John, chapters 14 through

17, the farewell discourse of Jesus. So I've been concentrating a bit the

last several weeks on that and today it comes to a kind of climax as Jesus

makes these extraordinary observations about what it means to follow Him, to be

grounded in Him, to be at work in the world. I just want to say a few simple

things. Again, take the time as Easter season comes to a close to read those

four chapters of the gospel of John. Here's the first thing I want you to pay

attention to. Jesus says, Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given

me so that they may be one just as we are one. Now we're on pretty holy ground

here because the sun is speaking to the Father. We're given access to the inner

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