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 great and holy season of Lent, a time

to get back to spiritual basics. A time when the church looks at some of its most

fundamental and spiritually significant texts. We begin this first Sunday of

Lent with Luke's account of the temptation of Jesus, the beginning of his

public life. You know, a basic biblical principle is the best way to disempower

evil is to look at it and to see it. Think of the bronze serpent in the desert.

You know, so those who looked at it were cured. So here's Jesus at the

beginning of his public life looking at three things that might deviate him

from the path. Three temptations. And of course, to say that Jesus is fully divine

is not to deny for a minute that in his human nature he felt temptation. Well, we

can learn from this too. Can we look honestly and directly at those things that

will cause us to deviate from the path the Lord has for us? The place for the

temptation of course is the desert. And that's very important too spiritually,

isn't it? Blaze Pascal, the great Catholic philosopher and writer. So that we

spend most of our lives with diviartisimon. That means diversions. We divert

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