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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, why was the story of Jesus with the little children so vividly remembered by the first

Christians? Verses of it appear in the three synoptic Gospels and it's our gospel for this weekend.

I think somehow they intuited, it got very close to the heart of Jesus teaching,

the heart of his whole manner of life.

And so it behooves us to take it with some seriousness.

The way this story is set up in the Gospel of Mark, I think is frankly funny and it's an example

of the disciples completely missing the point of everything.

Here's not begins.

So Jesus disciples are on this journey through Galilee.

He was teaching his disciples and telling them the son of man is to be handed over to men and

they will kill him and three days after his death the son of man will rise.

So that's quite that's quite a mouthful. I mean he's he's

laying out the whole Pascal mystery to them and what's the reaction? They didn't

understand what he was saying.

So I was like, well, yeah, he's going on about he's going to die and he's going to rise again.

And I don't know, I don't know what he's talking about.

So here's the most important thing in the world Jesus is talking about and they're just kind of indifferent to it.

But what are they talking about?

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