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auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.

He was our Erasmus lecture four years ago. People know him very well in our audience. He has

many publications, in fact, just in the last few years, including Eucharist, a handsome little

volume with no subtitle, just the one word. This is our topic today. Welcome,

Bishop Barron. Mark, good to be with you. Thanks for having me on today. First, let me ask,

you know, I've gotten some very nice volumes from the Word on Fire Ministry project. Do you want to

just describe what that project is and how our audience might clue in? Yeah, I'd be happy to. Go to wordonfire.org.

You'll find all you need to know about it. Word on Fire is my media ministry, which started, oh,

about 20 years ago when I got on the radio in Chicago for 15 minutes on Sunday morning at 5.15 a.m.

So I began with this very low-level sermon show.

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