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, who we might speak with love

about the one who is love.

The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish in Winnetka now presents

the Word on Fire.

Peace be with you.

Friends as we all know, this has been a horrible week.

On the day of the attacks in New York and Washington, I felt a quality of fear that I

think I've never really experienced before, a fear that wasn't so much personal as though

I were in danger directly.

But a much more generalized fear for the country and fear for the world that we're in,

how deeply vulnerable all of us are.

It was real personal for me, too, because just about four days before the attacks in New

York, I had been in New York.

I'd given a talk to the priests of the Brooklyn Diocese, and I've flown into La Guardia, and

we came right up Manhattan Island, and I remember looking out the window as a beautiful sunny

day like yesterday, or like the day of the attacks was, and I saw all the buildings in New

York and remarked, of course, the World Trade Center.

So just to know that a matter of days before the attacks, I was there, I think, increased

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