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, as we come toward the end of the liturgical year, we

begin to look at more apocalyptic readings and writings in the Bible. End of

the liturgical year end of the world. As I've said though to you before, apocalyptic

doesn't really mean end of the world so much as unveiling, taking away the veil,

revealing something. Now indeed, I'll bring these two ideas together. What's

indeed revealed is the ending of the world in one sense. Not so much the end of

space-time, but the breaking down of all the frames of reference that we use to

understand our lives. Apocalypse is all about the resurrection of Jesus from the

dead. Once they knew that Jesus was risen from the dead, once they saw the

risen Christ, they knew that the world they had known was shaken to its

foundations. They knew the frames of reference they had always used were no

longer valid. Something new had happened, and then we begin to hear these

wonderful refrains throughout the Bible. Of God doing all things well, all things

new of a new heavens and a new earth. See, that's what was revealed. That's the

apocalypse. Well, our gospel for today is taken from the section of a loop that's

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