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, today is the great solemnity of the ascension of the Lord.

It's a very important feast.

Now, it's situated in between the resurrection of Jesus and the sending of the Holy Spirit.

So in between Easter and Pentecost, there's this feast of the ascension.

Now, how do we begin to understand it?

Well, think about this, that after the resurrection, Jesus exists on a kind of event horizon.

I mean, he's straddling two dimensions. So sometimes the risen Christ appears,

seems very much like an ordinary figure within our world. Touch me. I'm not a ghost,

you know, flesh and bones. And do you have something here to eat? And he ate in their presence.

Other times, he seems to belong to another dimension. He suddenly appears and suddenly disappears. And despite locked doors,

he's suddenly in their midst. And he walks with two of them, but they don't recognize them

until the breaking of the bread,

and then suddenly they do.

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