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 the sixth Sunday of Easter which means we're coming toward the end of

the Easter season which means coming close to the great feast of pentacost, the

coming of the Holy Spirit. So the church gives us a kind of little foretaste of

pentacost by talking about the Spirit and in all three readings we hear

descriptions of the work of the Holy Spirit. You know it's said sometimes that

especially in the Western Church we overlook the Holy Spirit and we underplay

the importance of the Spirit. I don't think that's true because certainly in

the Scriptures and then throughout the church there are numerous descriptions

of and celebrations of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit, of course, sent by the Father

and the Son, is the animating spirit of the life of the Church. Think of the

Spirit as like the soul of the mystical body. It's the animating principle of

the mystical body. So we see its work, we see his work all over the place and

the readings today give us some indications. I want to mention five signs of

the Holy Spirit. Look now first our first reading from the Acts of the Apostles.

We hear about Philip going down to the city of Samaria and proclaiming Christ to

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