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 on

this third Sunday of Lent we're again getting back to spiritual basics and

reading one and reading three. Both focus on this symbol of water. Now I've talked

to you before about water in the Bible as a negative symbol. Think of that

Tohu Vabohu, the watery chaos at the beginning of creation. Think of the

waters of the flood, the waters of the Red Sea. Water can be a symbol of

destruction but it's also in the Bible a symbol of life. And think these are

desert people that wrote these texts and so you know finding water. I think if

you know in a much more minor key when I was out in California there was so

much drought and when the rain would come it was like this wonderful

revelation. So for biblical people water is a symbol of life and then press it. Not

just physical life but of the divine life of grace. And that's how we should

read I think both the reading from the book of Exodus and the famous passage

that's our gospel for today. So first look at Exodus. So the people have been

led by Moses out into the desert. They're on their way to the promised land but

things aren't going well because this thing is taking a long time. Hello I mean

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