This is Cardinal Francis George. I invite you to join me for the next few 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, we have a great privilege

this year that all Saints Day falls on a Sunday. So more and more people can participate

in this wonderful feast day. We've just been through Halloween to, of course, all

Hallows even, the eve of all Saints Day. It's too bad that we often forget that association.

Halloween does have a very strong spiritual overtone. It's a way of kind of mocking the

dark powers. That's why we dress up. That's why we hold up images of death and so on. It's

not just to scare us. It's almost the contrary. It's too mock. It's to laugh at the powers

of death. And we do that with great confidence on the eve of all Saints Day, because in

the saints we see this great possibility for life that God has held out to us. Okay.

So let's talk about the saints, all the saints. What strikes you first about the saints

is their incredible diversity. It would be next to impossible to find one pattern of

holiness, one way of following Christ. Among the saints, you have Thomas Aquinas, that

towering intellectual, one of the most brilliant men that ever lived. And among the saints,

you find the Kirhevars, a man who barely made it through the seminary, a man who struggled

to learn Latin. Among the saints, there is Vincent de Paul, who is periodically a saint

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