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 this series of sermons on the

magnificent and strange and puzzling book of Revelation. This marvelous text from

which the church reads all during the Easter season. It's been the second reading

now for the past several weeks. It'll continue until week seven of Easter and

it's such a fascinating book and coming as it does at the very end of the

biblical Revelation, it has an extraordinary significance because in reading this

book we're coming to the end of the entire biblical story. So it's true

that any novel isn't it? Any play, any work of fiction is you're going through it

but you come to the end and you see, ah that's what it's all about. That's when

all the strands are tied together, right? One way to judge a novel or plays if

it ends in a clunky way like it doesn't resolve the issue. Now some postmodern's

love leaving everything kind of unresolved but that's another question but the

Bible here is like a classical work of literature that the end brings it

together and notice something else, how often poets and novelists and short

story writers will draw the beginning and the end of their works together.

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