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 come to this 33rd Sunday of the year, which means next Sunday is the final Sunday of the year.

So at this end of the year time, the church always gives us apocalyptic readings.

Our gospel is from what's called the little apocalypse in the gospel of Luke. Now, as I've told you many times before, apocalypseus in Greek does not mean

end of the world. What it means is unveiling, taking away the calypso, the veil.

And that's why when Apocalypseis is rendered in Latin, we get revelatio, revelation,

taking the vellum, taking the veil away.

So they're all about, I put it this way, something old being shaken and set aside, and then something new being unveiled. That's apocalyptic literature.

Well, this little apocalypse in Luke, I think is really interesting because it's showing you,

I think, three shakings and then three unveilings. It's the showing forth of a new world,

but that has to be preceded by a sort of shaking or setting aside of the old world. Now,

what am I talking about? I'm talking about the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.

That's the good news. That's the gospel. That's, in their minds and hearts and on their lips was this

message of Jesus risen from the dead, which they took to mean, listen now, that the old world with all of its priorities

has been shaken, questioned, it's been marginalized, it's been relativized, and now a new world is

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