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 to be with you. Friends I never want to pass up the

opportunity to preach on the book of the Prophet

Jonah. I know I've done it before, you've heard me on it, but there's something inexhaustible

about Jonah, and though it's a very short book, it's only a few pages in the Bible you can read it easily

easily in one sitting it repays our attention so listen now our first reading for

this Sunday how it begins the word of the Lord came to Jonah saying,

set out for the great city of Nineveh

and announced to it the message I will tell you.

Okay, it's a biblical commonplace that God speaks to certain people and gives them

missions, right? And you say, well, that's great for those people in ancient times, but

I never hear from God. Nonsense. Nonsense. We hear from God all the time

precisely in the voice of our conscience.

John Henry Newman, one of my great intellectual heroes, refers to the conscience as the

Aboriginal vicar of Christ in the soul.

It's such a good description, isn't it?

The Pope is the vicar of Christ, but the Aboriginal vicar, the more primordial representative of Christ in the soul,

newman says, is your conscience.

It's the voice of God telling you to do certain things. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but the conscience

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