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're coming to the end of our Lenton journey.

We come to Palm Sunday, also called Passion Sunday,

because on Palm Sunday we always read at Mass

the passion narrative from one of the synoptic gospels,

Matthew, Mark, or Luke.

We read John's account on Good Friday. The Gospels have been

called passion narratives with long introductions, meaning what they're really about, what sums up

their meaning is this great narrative of the passion. And so we pay very special attention on Palm Sunday.

Something I like to do is to find the elements that are unique to this particular version.

So this year, we hear from St. Luke.

And there's a lot of overlap, obviously, in Matthew Mark and Luke's account of the passion.

But there are certain things stand out in each of the gospel writers.

So I want to look at two things that are peculiar to Luke.

And they both have to do with forgiveness.

They both have to do with the forgiveness of sins.

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