This is Archbishop Blaise Supich, Archbishop of Chicago.

Today, I invite you 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-for-profit apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization that utilizes media

both old and new to share the faith on every continent and facilitate an encounter with Christ

in its church. The efforts of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries engage the culture and bring the transformative power of God's Word

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This is an invitation to open our hearts

to the Word on Fire,

which is God's Word of Love for each of us.

When our hearts are open,

the Lord changes and transforms us so that we in turn begin to share the warmth and light of Jesus Christ, who is the Word on Fire.

The global benefactors of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, with the support of the Archdiocese of Chicago now present word on fire

Peace be with you friends I begin today with my philosophers hat on and tell you that a basic

tenet of existentialism which is a very influential philosophy in the 20th century,

a basic tenet of it is that we invent ourselves.

So Jean-Paul Sart, the famous philosopher who invented the existentialist philosophy,

said that existence precedes essence.

It's his fancy way of saying that our freedom comes first,

and then what we are or who we are follows as a consequence.

In other words, we decide.

We decide who we will be, what we will be.

Well, I would say that what was once a kind of

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