This is Father Robert Barron. Friends, I invite you to reflect with me on the word of God, which is the word on fire.

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We utilize media both old and new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with Christ and His Church.

Through our efforts, we hope to take the gospel out into the peripheries of the culture, where the transformative power of God's Word is most needed.

Let us open our hearts to the word on fire, which is God's Word of Love for each one of us.

If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, so that we might share the warmth and light of Jesus Christ, who is the Word on fire.

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Peace be with you and happy season of Lent. We commence the Holy Season of Lent today.

A time of kind of back to basics. I always think of Lent and Advent as a time to move into the basics of the spiritual life.

It is wonderful that on this first Sunday of the Holy Season of Lent, the church invites us to meditate on the story of Noah.

This story I think is a way to get back to the essentials of the spiritual life.

This well-known narrative provides a sort of interpretive key to the rest of the Bible and indeed I would say, to the life of the church to the present day.

We will look at some of its key features.

First of all, it is just a little bit of background.

Almost all the other ancient accounts of creation contain some measure of dualism.

What I mean is they usually hinge upon the battle between forces of good and forces of evil.

But there is none of that in the Bible. God brings the whole of the created order into being and pronounces every bit of it good.

God does not stand over and again some rival reality.

And nothing that exists is in itself wicked.

I think of all that God creates from the planets and the stars, to the earth and the sea, the animals, even the insects that crawl upon the earth.

They are all good.

Moreover, human beings are seen as intricately related to all the non-elements of creation, indeed to the planets and stars, animals, plants and insects.

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