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 now to the sixth Sunday of Easter and

point we have magnificent readings for today. I'm going to focus on the first

reading and the gospel, first reading from that first letter of John.

I'd recommend during this Easter season take the time to read the whole thing.

It's quite short. You can do it in one sitting. But the whole spiritual life

opens up in that letter and then our gospel is from that section of John's

gospel that I referenced last week. The farewell discourse chapters 14 through

17 of John another place to look for the great truth of the Christian

spiritual life. As I say, it's kind of an embarrassment of riches in these

readings. I'm going to focus just on three fundamental spiritual truths that

emerge from these readings. Here's the first one and maybe the most important

because it has to do with the very nature and being of God. Listen, whoever is

without love does not know God. For God is love. You know, the scholars look

for what they call sometimes the cannon within the cannon. That means within

the cannon of scripture can we find like the interpretive key, the interpretive

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