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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're continuing our reading of the 6th chapter of the Gospel of John all about the

Eucharist the source and summit of the Christian life and we're looking at different

dimensions of it so it's a very useful exercise to spend time with John chapter six, especially again during this time of

eucharistic revival. Here's my take on our reading for today. I hate traveling. I like getting to places so I've been because of my work

all over the world but I've always hated traveling I must say and I do a lot of it, unfortunately. I go back to when I was a kid. We lived in Detroit, but we had our family. It was based in Chicago. So we did a lot of car trips when I was a little guy between Detroit and Chicago,

which is about five hours. I hated those trips, being stuck in the car, cramped, you know,

you stop at restaurants for bad food, and so a five-hour car trip, I hated that.

I remember when I had my first really long car trip, I 19 and we were moving my life to Washington to

Catholic University where I was going and we had to put my clothes and all

this in my stereo remember those days somewhere old enough with speakers and all this in my stereo. Remember those days? Some are old enough with

speakers and all that. And we pilot in my dad's car and then we drove from

Chicago to Washington, D.C., which is about a 14-hour trip. I think we stopped near Pittsburgh somewhere overnight and then

went on. 14 hours. I thought it would never end. Whatever was bad about the five hour trip was now three times worse.

And I just kind of vowed. I'm out. I will never get in a car for that long. Well, I have.

Of course my life.

So car travel, it's bad enough.

Air travel.

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