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🗓️ 10 August 2003
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic Cemetery's, serving the Chicago area since 1837, and |
0:06.6 | FSP dedicated to food service excellence. |
0:11.0 | This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to |
0:15.2 | reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire. |
0:21.7 | Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's |
0:26.1 | Word of Love for each of us. |
0:28.4 | If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with |
0:33.4 | love about the one who is love. |
0:36.8 | The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish and Wunetka |
0:40.6 | now presents the Word on Fire. |
0:44.2 | Peace be with you. |
0:46.6 | Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. |
0:49.8 | Dante's Divine Comedy Chaucer's Canabary Tales. |
0:54.2 | Melville's Moby Dick. |
0:56.8 | Jack Kerouac's On the Road. |
0:59.6 | All these texts from many centuries, many different cultures, all have one thing in common. |
1:06.0 | They're about a journey. |
1:09.0 | And in every one of those cases, the journey is evocative of the journey of life. |
1:15.1 | As these people make their way through this narrative, symbolically, it's about our |
1:19.4 | journey through life. |
1:23.1 | We have something very much like this in our first reading. |
1:26.8 | It's from the first book of kings. |
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