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 and happy Easter to everybody. We come to this high point of the liturgical year, the celebration of the resurrection of the Lord.

You know, probably a lot of you know that I've spent a lot of my life reading texts from philosophers and religious writers and spiritual writers and Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Anselmaquinas, Kant, Hegel, all these people in the course of my studies I've read.

And I love those texts. Ideas, arguments, you know,

fine inspirational notions. What all those figures have in common, I would say, ancient and

modern, is a kind of, you know, musing detachment as they're talking about these high ideas.

They're in a philosophical sort of calm frame of mind.

Memory I have when I was a doctoral student in Paris many years ago,

my favorite spot to go is right behind Notre Dame Cathedral along the Sen.

And I would sit against the wall there,

and I always bring a book with me and probably a baguette.

And I would read one of these people, probably.

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