Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Matthew Petrusick, Senior Director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the Word on Fire show. Thank you for joining us.

In February of 2025, Bishop Barron returned to the Palace of Westminster in London to address

religious leaders and members of Parliament.

The focus of his talk was the rhythm of divine mercy, the abounding love that arises within

us when we accept the grace of Christ.

Today we bring you the second half of that talk.

Enjoy.

Here's the third story, making the same spiritual point.

The wonderful account in Luke of Zekeus, the story of Zekeus, the tax collector, indeed described as architelonas in the Greek.

So telonas would be a tax collector, and archi telonas in the greek so telones would be a tax collector and architelon

is like a serious chief tax collector like a tecton you know is a worker so the archie tecton is the

hive is the supreme worker the architect so he's an archonism. Mind you too as a story begins here,

you know, in the Gospels, they're such literary masters. All the little details matter.

Where's this taking place as Jesus is passing through Jericho? In the Old Testament, of course,

when the Israelites come across to Jordan and they have to blow

the trumpets and they blow down the walls of Jericho and they invade.

Jericho is a sort of paradigmatic city of sin.

It's conquered by not armaments in that story, but by a liturgical procession.

That's a wonderful biblical point that it's really by the right praise of God

that the dark powers are undermined.

Also, geographically, if you've been to the Holy Land, people went up to Jerusalem,

but then Jericho is way down, you know, by the Dead Sea.

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