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 and 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, I want

to focus all of my attention today on our very brief but very significant

second reading. Taken from the 14th chapter of Paul's Letter to the Roman, so

we're toward the end of Romans. Romans has 16 chapters, so when chapter 14

and in this letter which is filled with pithy memorable passages, it's really

Paul's classic statement. This is one of the pithiest and most memorable I think

in the whole letter. Here's what Paul says. Brothers and sisters, none of us

lives for oneself and no one dies for oneself. For if we live, we live for the

Lord and if we die, we die for the Lord. I'd invite you, at some point this week,

take out your Bible. Turn to chapter 14 of the Paul to the Romans. Find this

little passage. Spend a good amount of time meditating on it. None of us lives

for oneself. No one dies for oneself. If we live, we live for the Lord and if we

die, we die for the Lord. You know, first of all, it's a it's a variation on a

typical greeting of Paul when he's addressing his letter. So say Paul, a do-loss

Christu Yezu, Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, and mind you at a time when people knew

precisely what slavery meant. This was no abstraction. We might speak, I've

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