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 New Year's Day. We have the New Year's celebration of the

liturgical year, the first Sunday of Advent. A day of great importance as we once again commence

our march through the liturgical year.

And here's the thing I want you to see. Advent is the season of sacred waiting.

We're waiting for the Adventus, for the coming of the Savior. It's four weeks of looking and

waiting and hoping, watching with a kind of joyful anticipation. And I want you

to see this, in a way, Advent, even though it's just four weeks, name something true of all of

life, at least life in this world. All of us know there's a happiness that we want, but we don't have.

I don't mean we're all in despair.

I mean, we're making our way through life.

There's all kinds of good things.

But deep down, we know that we're hungry for something that we don't have.

And even at the best moments, I might say, especially at the best moments of life, we come to

realize that. You know, you've attained the thing you wanted forever. You've reached this great

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