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, our first reading for this weekend is of pivotal

significance in the Bible because it lays out some of the fundamentals of human

anthropology. Who are we? And specifically human anthropology in regard to

marriage. So it's passage of, as I say, pivotal importance. So it behooves us to

take a careful and attentive walk through this passage. It's from the second

chapter of the book of Genesis. So those opening chapters of Genesis are always

so important. Here's the first line out from our reading. The Lord God says,

it is not good for the man to be alone. Now say what you want about the

biblical view of a human being. But the one thing you can't say is that it's

individualistic. The focus in the Bible is not as it is in the founding text of

modernity, for example, on the individual person and his rights. I mean, we

think that way. And we take it in with our mother's milk. I mean, this idea that

the individual and defending his rights. But that's just not the biblical view.

Rather, the Bible focuses on the human being as irreducibly social. It's not

good for the man to be alone. So I mean, connectivity, community, reaching out to

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