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 come to this fifth Sunday of Lent, and I want to continue maybe

a little bit of an offbeat style here, not looking at the gospel for today. It's the wonderful

story of the woman caught in adultery, but rather, our second reading, from Paul to the Philippians,

I think it speaks of something so elemental to the Christian life, so it's really good for us

as we come toward the end of our Lenton journey to meditate on it.

This letter is very interesting, and again, when you have a chance, get out your Bibles,

and you can read it in one sitting easily, Paul to the Philippians, but he had a special affection for the people of

Philippi. It was a city, you know, in northeastern Greece, present-day Greece. And it's very important

because when Paul made his way from Asia Minor across to Europe, it represents the beginning of European Christianity.

And Philippi is the first city in Europe in which Paul founds a church. So in a way, everyone in Europe

and all the colonial descendants of Europeans who are Christians, because of that, this is the beginning.

This is where it started.

And Paul, as I say, had a very great affection for the people there.

You can sense it in his letter.

He wrote this letter from prison.

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