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.

This fourth Sunday of Lent gives us marvelous readings.

The gospel is the, you know, magnificent parable of the prodigal son, and I'll get to it.

But what I want to do today is look really at all three readings. The church always

gives us these very rich readings during Lent, and the correspondences between the Old Testament,

the Epistle of Paul, and the gospel, I think are quite striking today. The first reading

is one, it's a little sneaky. I think we tend to

overlook it and think, well, okay, why was that little peculiar passage put in here? It's from

the book of Joshua. When you have a chance, get out your Bibles, read through Joshua. It's a

very adventurous book. And you know the story that Joshua was the successor of Moses. Upon Moses' death,

he takes over the leadership of Israel, and he's the one who leads them finally into the

promised land. So Moses doesn't have that privilege. He brought them right to the, you know,

brink, but then it's Joshua who fights the great battle and leads them into the promised

land. Well, his name, we call him Joshua, but we call him that really to distinguish him

from Jesus, because it's the same name, right? Yeshua. It's the same name in Hebrew of this

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