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, for this eighth Sunday of ordinary time,

we're right on the cusp now of Lent.

So next Sunday is the first Sunday of Lent.

And it gives me the opportunity to talk about something I always love to talk about,

which is the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.

I'm going to focus on our second reading from Paul to the Corinthians, his first letter to the Corinthians.

You know, if you're looking for a theological description of the resurrection,

you won't find it most thoroughly in the Gospels. You're going to find it precisely here in Chapter 15 of 1st Corinthians.

Paul, of course, has this searching sort of theological mind, and resurrection was so central to his life.

You can't really overstate that. When Paul comes into these various cities to preach,

he's not preaching a moral message. I mean, yes, there are moral implications of his message,

and you can find ethical teachings and all that in Paul. But that's not his primary focus.

The word that it's just like a refrain in Paul is Anastasis, Anastasis.

Resurrection.

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