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 have a great privilege now this week and the

following three weeks. We're going to read from the extraordinary sixth chapter

of the gospel of John. It's a wonderful way to meditate upon the Eucharist. Can I

recommend everybody? Break open your Bibles. And during these you know quieter days

of summer, do a prayerful reading of the sixth chapter John. Maybe spread it

out over these weeks. Read it a little bit at a time. It's one of the most

profound reflections we have on the meaning of the Eucharist. You know, a peculiarity

of John's gospel is there's no so-called institution narrative. You find

those in the other gospels, namely an account of what Jesus did at the last

supper with the bread and the wine and so on. You don't have that in John. You

have the washing of the feed of a long discourse but you don't have an

institution narrative. But it doesn't mean for a second that John isn't

intensely interested in the Eucharist because you find it in chapter six. So

we're going to read through this now the next several weeks and we get to this

wonderful discourse that Jesus gives in the Caparnum synagogue. But chapter six

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