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

and FSP dedicated to food service excellence.

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.

Please be with you.

Friends and special blessing that this year the feast of all souls falls on a Sunday,

so that we can in a particularly universal way as a church, meditate upon the dead, the

beloved dead, those for whom we pray.

You know, like most religions around the world, Catholic Christianity honors and reveres

the dead.

When I was studying over in Europe, it always struck me when you walk around the great

churches how present the dead are in a very physical, literal way.

The most remarkable example I think I've told you about it already is the famous bone church

in Rome.

It's a church of the captions attached to their monastery and when you go in the church,

what you notice is the altar, the candle stands, all the decorations and so on are made

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