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 wonderful sacred solemnity of the

most holy Trinity. We come to Trinity Sunday, always follows on Pentecost. The

Trinity, the strangest and most distinctive of all the doctrines of Christianity.

The Trinity, the preacher's nightmare, the Trinity, the ultimate Rubik's cube of

theology. The Trinity, oh it's a lot of medieval mumbo jumbo. My point here is

the Trinity has been characterized in a number of ways, some good, some bad, to

varying degrees of reverence. So what do we make of the Trinity?

It's funny, isn't it? We invoke the Trinity every single time we make the sign of

the cross. Think of every time you pray in the name of the Father and of the Son

and of the Holy Spirit. But yet a lot of us, I think, live our practical

spiritual lives as if the Trinity doesn't really matter at all. So what do we

make of it? Well, it's for interesting how the church gives us how the church

really sets this up by giving us some interesting readings for today. And the

first one is taken from the book of Exodus. It might be a little bit surprising.

It describes the moment when Moses is walking back up Mount Sinai and he's

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