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, there is a logic to grace that's

just confounding, finally, to the logic of justice. We've all come of age in a culture where

the logic of justice prevails. What's the logic of justice? Well, it has to do with owing and being

owed, with calculating, with control, with tit for tat. I do this, you do that for me. What tends

to accompany the logic of justice is division, who's in, who's out, who's owed, who does the

going, and a certain inability to forgive. See, because the logic of justice is calculating. Well,

you've hurt me. I need to do something back to you. I owe you because you do that for me. It's

not a forgiveness mentality. It's a calculating mentality. I do something for you. You're putting

my debt. You owe me something commensurate in return. You hurt me in some way, and I strictly

calculate the way in which I will hurt you back. I've taken something from you, and so you have

a justified claim on me. It should all sound very familiar because this is the world that we normally

live in. I'm always struck by the fact that little kids, I see it, my nieces and effie over the

years, little kids have a very instinctual sense of justice, don't they? Of what's owed, if they've

been hurt in some way, how they have to hurt back, if they've been promised something they haven't

gotten. Children, right away, catch the rhythm of the logic of justice. And then extrapolate

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