# Christ Came to Cast Fire Upon the Earth

An episode of [Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/75551187), 14 Aug 2025, 15 min.

Audio: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/hjm7gdyiz7f5c54s/08_17_25_Audio7quxt.mp3

Friends, the title of my ministry, Word on Fire, came from our Gospel for today. Jesus says to his disciples, “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!” This is not the lighting of a cozy campfire. This is closer to, if you want, Sodom and Gomorrah—to fire and brimstone. It is a dangerous and divisive fire. Christ is the light of the world, the divine luminosity—but to the degree that we are still in darkness, we will experience that light as something difficult, off-putting, even torturous.

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