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. Today is Trinity Sunday, one of my favorite feast days of the year,

because I put my old theologians cap on and speak very theologically to you.

Some people say, oh, no, sermons shouldn't be theological.

Nonsense. Go back in our great tradition.

Go back to origin, Christom, Jerome, Augustin, Bernard, over and over and over and

Newman, they're highly theological.

So I rebuke anyone that says, don't be theological in a sermon.

You're going to get it today.

Let me start with one of the greatest of the medieval theologians, St. Bonaventure.

In his wonderful text called the Atenerari Amentus in Deum, the journey of the mind into God.

He proposes the image of the Ark of the Covenant, and remember he had two angels on top of it with their wings touching, the wings facing each other.

Bonaventure says these stand symbolically for the two highest names of God in the Bible.

The one in the left stands for the Old Testament, highest name of God, which is being.

Remember, Moses says to God, you know, when the people ask me, what's your name, what should

I say? And God responds famously, I am who I am.

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