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, our Gospel for the Second Sunday of Lent this year is Luke's account of the Transfiguration.

And whenever we come to this text, I don't know, it just opens up something that's this marvelous, this confounding, there's a kind of, there's sort of an

aching and a longing associated with this text I always find. I'm going to tell you before

at Shard Cathedral, one of my favorite places of the world, and you look on that, the windows

on the facade, and they have a depiction of the transfiguration, and a certain time of year, the sun hits in such a way that the white cloak of Jesus just becomes almost like incandescent. It's beautifully crafted and beautifully arranged. And that speaks to me of the Transfiguration, these moments when life, when reality becomes

incandescent or transparent to something more.

Now, if you know what I mean, it's hard to talk about these things.

They're hard to describe.

When in the course of your normal experience,

you're going through your day and talking to people and seeing the things around you,

but it might be that particularly gorgeous sunset.

It might be that experience on the beach,

the beauty of the waves.

It might be something in a conversation

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