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 first reading for this weekend pretends

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 some in 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. 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 especially

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 Horab depending on which book of the Bible you're looking at.

He's tending the sheep of his father-in-law Jethro. We hear that the angel of the

Lord and in this context it probably means the presence of the Lord not like a

separate being but the presence of the Lord suddenly appeared to him how in the

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