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. Happy Pentecost Sunday to everybody this great celebration of

the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity. And I want to suggest to you that

meditating upon the number three will tell us a lot of what we need to know about

the Holy Spirit. Think of the number one as the symbol of unity. Unity is good.

Everyone's for unity. However, if the one is sort of unilaterally

emphasized, what do you get? You get oppressive unity. You get a unity that

excludes any sort of diversity, any sort of individuality. Think of everybody

just in lockstep, moving robotically. Think of, as a kid, those films from

Maoist China, everybody in the same outfit, the same little hat, the same little

red book. Well, no one wants that kind of uniformity or that oppressive

totalitarian unity. So that's the shadow side of the one. So the one gives

rise then to the two. The two is the symbol of diversity of otherness. There's

you and there's me. There's this and there's that. Okay, good. Everybody likes

diversity. That's a good thing. Individuality, self-expression, not everyone's

the same. Great. We've overcome totalitarianism. However, if you unilaterally

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