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. We come to this second Sunday of Lent, and the readings are always rich during

Lent because we're getting back to spiritual basics. The church wants us to really reflect on

some of these elemental truths in the spiritual life. And this is a good example.

I want to start with the first reading, which is from the book of Genesis,

and it's talking about Abraham.

And everybody, whatever the Bible talks about Abraham,

our ears should perk up.

Our eyes should get more focus because he's our father in faith.

He's the one through whom the rescue operation commences.

Whatever we have of faith in a way is just imitating what Abraham had. So we pay special

attention. Well, listen now to what the Lord said.

The Lord said to Abram, that's what they call him here before the name was changed.

Go forth from the land of your kinsfolk and from your father's house to a land that I will

show you.

And then I'll make you a great nation, right?

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