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 of us.

Peace be with you.

Friends, our first reading for this weekend presents us with one of the most famous and commented upon texts in the entire Bible.

We're on very holy ground as we approach this text.

I'm talking about Exodus 314. Can I encourage you sometime today or something this week,

get out your Bibles, and open up to Exodus chapter 3, verse 14. What we find there is God's

self-definition. It's God himself telling us his name.

Do you see right away how important that is?

We're seeking the face of God. We're seeking God.

Well, who is he? Who is he? How do we find him?

Well, God himself in this passage speaks his name.

You see why Christians and Jews up and down the centuries have

specially reverence this passage. Well, the setting is familiar. Moses, in exile from his native

Egypt because he had killed the Egyptian and they were after him. Find himself on Mount Sinai,

or Mount Horeb, depending on which book of the Bible you're looking at.

He's tending the sheep of his father-in-law, Jethro.

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