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Dec 2023
15m 38s

WOF 418: In the Beginning Was the Word

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON
About this episode

Friends, the prologue of the Gospel of St. John is one of the richest and most densely textured writings in the scriptures as John expresses the very nature of God and the profundity of the Incarnation that we celebrate every Christmas.

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