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, we're very

accustomed to speaking of laws in the physical order. I mean those predictable patterns

discernible with the nature. It's simply a law that objects fall and move according

to the law or force of gravity. It's simply a law that energy is equal to the mass times

the square of the speed of light. It's simply a law that a rainbow will manifest itself

according to the color spectrum of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

For some reason, I remember that for my high school years. These laws simply name the way

things are in nature. There are laws, too, perhaps a bit less stringent and easily knowable

that govern human affairs and activities. Think of the law of supply and demand that

orders so much of economic activity within a market economy. Or think of the principles

of the psyche studied by any decent psychiatrist or counselor. Think, too, of the pretty

strict laws that determine the way someone gets through an addiction according to the

12-step program. If someone box at that, they say, well, these are just the laws that

we've discerned by which someone moves through this process. Or think, again, use my favorite

and probably overused example of golf. Think of all the laws that govern a correct

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