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, this year's been kind of unusual because Easter was a bit late.

And then, you know, we go through Pentecost and then we come to the Feast of Holy Trinity

and then Corpus Christi.

And then we had theast of Peter and Paul.

So all this is delayed the beginning or the resumption of ordinary time.

So finally now on July the 6th, we resume ordinary time.

And it's appropriate, I think, that we're looking at a portrait of the church as we do so,

because we're coming back if you want to the ordinary work of the church up we do so, because we're coming back, if you want, to the ordinary

work of the church up and down the ages to the present day.

So I'm going to go through this passage from the 10th chapter of Luke and just look at it in

terms of providing a template for the life of the church.

So listen first, the Lord appointed a further 72 and sent them in pairs before

him to every town and place he intended to visit. Here's the first thing we have to see.

Inescapably, the church is missionary. Jesus took these people. He didn't just instruct them and then say, now revel in the spiritual

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