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, Charles Williams, along with

C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, was one of the Inklings, a little group of Christian writers

in mid-century Oxford, who wanted to bring Christian themes into their writings. Of course,

Lewis and Tolkien did it very famously, but Williams wrote both novels and nonfiction, which

are extraordinary in their articulation of the Christian thing. Well, he argued that the

master idea of Christianity is co-inherence, mutual indwelling, you might say. John

Dunn, the poet, long before Williams said much the same thing when he said, no man is an

island. Rather, all of us are radically interconnected. You must see this idea concretely displayed.

Look at the wonderful pages of that early medieval book of Kells that masterpieces of early

Christian illumination. You can find it now in Dublin. It was in many different places throughout

the Celtic world for many centuries. It's a book of the Gospels, and the pages are masterpieces

of illumination. Lines interwoven, designs turning in and around each other. Plays of plants

and animals and planets and human beings and angels and saints. It's Irish, yeah, but

I think more deeply Christian, this coming together, this interdependence. The Germans always

seem to have a good word for things. Their word for this is in Aynanda, one in the other,

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