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, we enter now into the Easter season.

We come to the second Sunday of Easter.

Here's the thing I want you all to know.

We misunderstand Easter dramatically.

When we think primarily of spring festival time, the weather is getting nicer,

Easter bunnies, and Easter bonnets, and all that, I mean, it's great. But if you don't understand

Easter as a revolution, you have not understood it. Unless you understand it as an earthquake that has changed everything,

you don't understand it. It always strikes me, even though I've been reading these things for years

and years and preaching on them, during the Easter season, when we read the Great Easter accounts,

and then we read from the Acts of the Apostles, the book of Revelation,

you're struck by it. These people want to communicate that the entire world has changed.

This is not a little spring festival that anyone in any culture, you know, could enjoy.

That's all fine. But that's not Easter. It's everything has been shaken to the foundations. All our assumptions are thrown up for grams. Our understanding of power

relationships, all of it has changed because of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. And I want to

show this by looking at all three of our readings today.

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