Inour first reading, Jeremiah the prophet tells the Israelite people torejoice because they are the chief of the nations. This would havestruck his listeners as something of a joke. They had just returnedfrom the Babylonian captivity, the worst calamity in Israelite history.How could they possibly be the chief of the nations? But Jeremiah isseeing with a prophet's eye, gazing toward that future which would befulfilled in Jesus, the Messiah who would gather the new Israel (thechurch) and make it the light to the world.

Father Robert Barron is a sought-after speaker on the spiritual life-from prestigious universities to YouTube to national conferences and private retreats. The prominent theologian and podcasting priest is one of the world's great and most innovative teachers of Catholicism. His global media ministry called Word on Fire has a simple but revolutionary mission - to evangelize the culture.

www.wordonfire.org  - Fr. Barron's website launched in 1999 draws over 300,000 visitors a year from every continent. Fr. Barron posts weekly video clips, commentaries and radio sermons and offers an audio archive of over 300 homilies. Podcasts of his sermons are widely used by tens of thousands of visitors each month.

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