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, we're continuing our reading of the book of Revelation.

The Church gives us throughout the Easter season these marvelous passages.

Last week we started with chapter 21, there are 22 chapters in the book so we're

right toward the very end and in many ways I think the passage for today is the

climax of the entire biblical revelation. You know keep in mind the Bible didn't

just fall out of the sky. The Bible was assembled by the Church over many

centuries so the canonical texts we call them were chosen out of many other

texts and then they were arranged in a particular order by the Church to

express important truth. The fact that they put this book at the end, well it's

very important. You're a poet, you know you're a novelist, you're a historian.

I mean the last chapter or the last verse of a poem is exceptionally

important. It's the it's the where the arc of the story was going. It's the

trajectory of the whole narrative and so we need to pay very careful attention

to this last section of the book of Revelation. I spoke last week about the

new heavens and the new earth. God is not about the business of simply

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