This is Cardinal Francis George.

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.

Word on Fire Catholic Ministries is a non-profit ministry at the forefront of Catholic evangelization,

using new media to spread the faith on 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, in the middle of the

Second World War in 1943, an Oxford professor of English, a specialist in the poetry of the 17th century, accepted an invitation from the BBC to do a series of short radio talks on Christianity.

That professor's name was Clive Staples Lewis, better known as C.S. Lewis. And these talks represented his entree into

popular apologetics, a field in which he became one of the undisputed masters of the 20th century.

In these famous radio talks, he didn't want, he said, to descend into the bitter disputes that had divided

the Christian churches for centuries. He didn't want to get into the Protestant Catholic

divide, for example. Instead, he wanted to lay out the fundamentals that any Christian would hold.

He wanted in a word to discuss, in his famous phrase, mere Christianity.

Well, these radio presentations proved against all expectations to be remarkably popular,

so popular in fact that Lewis was urged to publish them as a short book.

That text, which was entitled Mere Christianity, has become one of the most

respected and persuasive cases for Christianity ever written. You know, in a lot of my dialogues

on YouTube with atheists and agnostics, I'll often recommend they read mere Christianity.

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