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, let's we got talked about the beautiful juxtaposition

between a reading from Isaiah and a reading from Luke's gospel. Well this week a

juxtaposition between Jeremiah and Luke's gospel. And it's wonderful because

each one kind of sheds light on the other. Let me start with these simple but

very very profound words of the prophet Jeremiah. It's from the 17th chapter of

his book. Listen, thus says the Lord cursed is the one who trusts in human

beings who seeks his strength and flesh whose heart turns away from the Lord.

You say he's been pretty negative there, isn't he? So we we shouldn't trust in

human beings. No, no. See when the Bible talks about the heart as Jeremiah does

here, it was heart turns away from the Lord. The heart names the deepest center of

one's life and consciousness and activity. His mind and healing body and

spirit and all that, but heart names if you want the organizing center of one's

entire life. So who has your heart? To whom does your heart belong? So you can

have a whole range of interests. You're your mind and your passions and your

and your vocational life. They can all be preoccupied with a lot of

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