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 now at the fourth Sunday of Lent, and this season we're in the A cycle of readings.

That means we got some of the best Gospels that there are. And Lent, you know, is bringing us through this spiritual basic training, so it's really important for us to pay attention to these.

And we're with these marvelous stories.

This week, the man born blind, next week, Lazarus.

Last week, the Woman at the Well, these great stories from the Gospel of John,

were meant to identify with each of these people, with the woman at the well,

the man born blind, then with Lazarus, and they're all talking about the dynamics of the spiritual life.

So let me just share a few insights from this incomparably rich story that's beguiled Christians up and down the centuries.

I want you to know something now right at the beginning

and says, Jesus passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. So his disciples asked him,

Rabbi, who sinned? This man or his parents? Listen now to the answer of Jesus. Neither he nor

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