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This is Cardinal Francis George, and 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.

Father Barron will challenge 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, to that we might speak with

love about the One who is love.

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the Word on fire.

Thanks be with you, friends.

Before getting to the very rich readings we have for this week, I do want to say something

about an event that's been in the news recently, and that's the discovery of the so-called

Tomb of Jesus.

I'm sure you've been hearing about it on CNN and Larry King and the news and so on.

James Cameron, the fellow who made the movie Titanic, is sponsoring this documentary.

All about the discovery of what some people are saying is the tomb of Jesus and his family.

Well let me say this, James Cameron did a very good movie about a leaky boat, and this

is an even leaky boat these on this time.

They discovered, actually it happened back in 1980, a tomb, a family tomb in the southern

part of present-day Jerusalem, and they found within this tomb these Asuaries or boxes

that carry the remains of the bones of people, and on some of these Asuaries are scratched

in a kind of graffiti manner, the names of certain people, including Yeshua, Jesus,

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