This is Cardinal Francis George. I invite you to join me for the next two minutes to reflect

with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire. Word on Fire Catholic

Ministries is a non-profit ministry at the forefront of Catholic evangelization, using

new media to spread the faith and every continent. Father Barron challenges 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 so that we might speak with love about the one who

is love. The global benefactors of Word on Fire with the support of the Archdiocese of

Chicago now present Word on Fire. Peace be with you. Friends, what a joy and privilege

we have today to meditate on the little theological masterpiece, which is St. John's story of

a healing of the man-born blind. During this A cycle of lent, we have the privilege of walking

through some of the most powerfully crafted stories in the Gospel of John, and they're

all about us. They're all about our own spiritual journey. As is always the case with St. John,

this story is so artfully told. It's filled with symbolically important detail and

operates at a number of levels at the same time. That's why anyone that's some attuned

to poetry or literature will love the Gospel of John because you see that same kind

of artfulness. As I say, the purpose of this story, and all these stories in John, is

to change us. It's about an historical event, yes and

d, but it's meant to change us now. Jesus notices a man blind from birth. We're dealing

as I say with a real historical event, something which the Christian community remembered.

This physical healing of a man who had never seen, but any biblically attentive reader

would know that we're also dealing here with an archetypal story of coming to spiritual

vision. We are all meant to identify with the man born blind. Why? Because we've all been

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