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, for this Sunday, I want to focus on our second reading.

One that I don't preach on that often. It's an excerpt from Paul's second letter to Timothy.

Those two great letters to Timothy we have are fascinating from a lot of perspectives.

But it's Paul kind of giving

fatherly advice in many ways to this young disciple of his, this convert Timothy. But the section

today that's our second reading is really interesting because Paul's doing something that he does

from time to time. He tends to make these elaborate theological arguments,

but occasionally he'll kind of cut to the chase,

and he'll say in very pithy language what it's all about.

So listen to this now.

This is how the second reading commences.

Beloved, he's addressing Timothy.

Remember, Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David, such is my gospel.

Interesting, isn't it? Paul preaches the gospel, right? He's an evangelist, an evangelizer. But what's the gospel? That's a word

we throw around a lot. There's gospel music, gospel preaching, there's gospel inspiration.

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