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, our gospel is taken from the 10th chapter of Mark and it's such high octane

spiritual business here it just behooves us to attend very carefully to these

dynamics because what's being laid out for us is something just pivotal in the spiritual order.

Here's what we hear.

James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and said,

Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.

This is comical.

You know you're in a bad spiritual space when your opening move is to say to Jesus

you need to do whatever we want. So right away we're in a bad spiritual space

when my ego is now dictating terms to Jesus.

But you know what I invite you to do fellow sinners is remember the times when

you've been in precisely this attitude. I can think of several

well. Lord, why don't you do what I want? Why are things going the way they're going?

Just get with it. I know what's best for me and why don't you just do it.

You are ipso facto in a bad spiritual space when you start dictating terms to Jesus.

Think of Martha and the Martha Mary story.

Hey Lord, tell my sister to help me.

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