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 of us. Peace be with you and a very happy Easter to everybody. The resurrection of Jesus

from the dead is the be-all and the end-all of the Christian faith. Friends, if Jesus didn't

rise from the dead, all of us priests and bishop should go home and get on his

jobs. If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, then all those who stand up and profess Christian faith

are basically crazy. As Paul put it, remember this, Paul himself said, if Jesus is not raised from

the dead, our preaching is in vain,

and we are the most pitiable of people. So think of, you know, Paul saying his own preaching,

but by extension, the preaching of every great Christian over the centuries. From Christosom and Jerome

and Augustine to Thomas Aquinas, John Henry Newman to John Paul II,

if Jesus is not raised from the dead, all of that is basically a waste of time.

And all those who believe the Christian faith are pitiable.

That's what's at stake here in believing in the resurrection of Jesus.

And, you know, it's no good trying to

explain the resurrection a way or to rationalize it. That's what a lot of theologians in the

20th century tried to do. Explain it away as a myth or it's a symbol or it's an inner subjective

experience. I guess they felt that made it easier to believe,

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