Word on fire is brought to you by Catholic cemeteries, serving the Chicago area since 1837.

This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to

reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on fire.

Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on fire, which is God's

Word of Love for each of us.

If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with

love about the One who is love.

The Archdiocese of Chicago, through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish and Winetka, now presents

the Word on fire.

Peace be with you.

Friends, we have the rare privilege this year of celebrating all souls day on a Sunday,

giving us perhaps a chance to think more deeply about this great feast day.

Is it, by the way, about these opening days of November that seem to complement so neatly

the remembrance of our beloved dead?

To though the weather seems to conspire with us to produce a mystical consciousness, a sense

of this haunting other world, all souls.

Why do we speak of souls at all?

Have we turned from this language?

Afraid in recent years of its dualistic overtones?

Aren't we perhaps afraid that this language of soul is a holdover from a more primitive

time?

Don't a lot of us think deep down that everything that goes out in us is simply a matter of

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