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 and 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 and a happy

blessed Easter to everybody. Friends, you know it's a weird thing in my own life

but I always like to visit the graves of famous people. I don't know why

precisely. Maybe it's sense of history, a sense of connection across the ages.

Maybe it's a form of paying tribute honoring their memory. Whatever it is,

something has always drawn me to these places, the graves and tombs of

famous people. I've done a lot of traveling around the world of my life and

whenever I come into a new place or new city, my first question is usually,

well who's buried here? Who's grave can I visit? And then I make a

beeline to those places. When I was a student in Washington DC many years ago, I

used to love to visit that little ridge just below the Custis Lee mansion where

the Kennedy brothers are buried. So of course the whole Arlington

cemetery stretches out below you but that little ridge just below the home from

which Robert Lee left to fight the Civil War, a home that was connected to

the George Washington's family right below that house is that little area where

the Kennedy brothers are. I used to go and visit their graves and I would sit for

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