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, how fascinating the Church

gives us a passage from the Noah story as Lent commences. Everyone knows the tale of

Noah in the ark, but most probably think of it as a charming story that we tell to kids. Although

it is that, kids always respond to this story, but in point of fact, it's decisively important for

understanding the ways of God in regard to the human race. Let's go back to the very beginning of

the Bible. We know from the opening verses of Genesis that God made everything good.

The Bible stands a thwart, all forms of dualism, puritanism, manicism,

gnosticism, doctrines by the way as seductive today as they ever were. That would be a sermon

for another time. But all of creation, spiritual and material, the Bible says, is good. Even those

things that creep and crawl on the ground, how wonderful that Genesis mentions not just

sort of high exalted creatures. It mentions the insects, the creepy crawly things.

I think of this whenever I react, as most of us do it, what kind of disgusting insect,

you know, some insect is coming to your room and you. We might find it creepy, but God found it

very good. Extraordinary unity of the biblical imagination.

Well, what is sin? What does it do? Sin in its core is disobedience to God.

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