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, I'm always delighted when the Church gives us the

opportunity to reflect on the book of Job. The book of Job is one of the

profoundest most difficult challenging books in the entire Bible. I might

encourage you to read it, I mean of course, but probably with a good commentary

because Job is it's a bit like approaching T.S. Eliot or some very complicated

poet. The central theme of Job, trust me when I tell you, has been massively on

the minds of people ever since the book was written and it's very clearly on

the minds, especially of a lot of our young people today. Namely the problem of

how do you reconcile God's existence and love with the terrible suffering that

we see in the world, especially the suffering of the innocent? There's no better

old testament wrestling with that problem than the book of Job, which is why I

think anyone interested in apologetics or trying to explain the faith could

really benefit from a serious consideration of this book. Now I know you know

the the basic story well. Job is presented as this entirely righteous man, good

man, upright man that walks with the Lord and he enjoys the blessings of his

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