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 as we

resume ordinary time, we come to this 11 Sunday and ordinary time. I want to

talk to you about vocations, vocations specifically to the priesthood. It's not

something I talk about that often on the Sunday sermons but the reading

today just just jumped out of me. Something else very recently, as I record these

words, I'm finishing a confirmation season in my diocese. I was at one of our

parishes way out west in my diocese with beautiful stainless windows and they

had depictions of the various sacraments and right across from me there was one

depicting marriage and very beautifully arranged window and I looked at that

and appreciated it and then right next to it there was the window dedicated to

the priesthood and it showed Jesus there with his apostles you know and I'll

tell you it's an old fashioned window probably like an early 20th century,

late 19th century. Just the way it was arranged or something about it, it's saying to

me the same way similar images sang to me when I was a kid. Here's what I mean.

So I appreciate the window dedicated to marriage and yes I understand marriage

is a great sacrament but when I was a kid when the priesthood was proposed or

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