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 to be with you.

Friends I'm not sure if you're like me, but even though I love Lent and Easter

and all the great festivities,

it's kind of with a sense of relief

that I return with the church to ordinary time.

And how wonderful now on this 10th Sunday as we pick up ordinary time. The church gives us such a fundamentally important reading. Get out

your Bibles. Look at Genesis 1, 2, and 3. These pivotally important chapters.

Number 3, of course, is about the fall and original sin. To return to these stories is to discover again, listen, the basic

dynamics of sin. The perceptiveness here is stunning, it's staggering, how deeply the The

Septiveness here is stunning, it's staggering, how deeply the author perceives under God's inspiration the nature of sin.

So listen now, as it's done in the typically biblical leaconic narrative.

After the man in need of the tree, the Lord God called to him and said,

where are you?

Now the omniscient God obviously is not having a bad day and having lost sight of

of his creatures he knows exactly where they are but what's being signaled here

is sin always involves an alienation from God.

John Henry Newman said that natural religion always wears its dark side outward.

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