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.

Please be with you friends for this 28th Sunday of ordinary time our first reading is from the marvelous

book of wisdom. If you look in the Bible in the so-called wisdom literature you have

this book you've got Proverbs, Syrock and many others written toward the end of the Old Testament period.

And they contain, appropriately enough, a lot of fundamental wisdom.

And the one for today, I names a very very basic spiritual truth that we can all benefit from.

This is the narrator.

Usually they conceive them as Solomon. Solomon didn't write the book but they kind of see him as the paradigmatic wisdom figure.

I prayed and prudence was given me. I, and the spirit of wisdom came to me.

Now, it's this old biblical trope here,

is if you're asking God for something, or if God comes to you and says, hey, what do you want?

What would you ask for?

What would you pray for?

It's a really clarifying question.

Think about, let that sink in a little bit as he listened to me.

If God right now said, I'll give you whatever you want,

or if you're saying, boy, there's the one thing I want to ask God for.

What would it be? Well, there's a lot of things would come

to mind, but here's what the wise man prays for, prudence and wisdom. Now what's prudence? Prudence is the queen of the virtues.

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