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🗓️ 20 October 2013
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0:00.0 | This is Cardinal Francis George. I invite you to join me for the next two minutes to reflect |
0:09.0 | with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire. Word on Fire Catholic |
0:14.2 | Ministries is a non-profit ministry at the forefront of Catholic evangelization, using |
0:18.9 | new media to spread the faith and every continent. Father Barron challenges us to open our hearts |
0:23.9 | to the Word on Fire, which is God's Word of Love for each of us. If our hearts are open, |
0:29.5 | the Lord can change and transform us so that we might speak with love about the one who is |
0:34.8 | love. The global benefactors of Word on Fire with the support of the Archdiocese of Chicago |
0:40.3 | now present Word on Fire. Peace be with you. Friends, our first reading for this weekend is taken |
0:49.4 | from the book of Exodus. And it's a very good example of the kind of biblical story that drives |
0:56.8 | a lot of people today to distraction. Listen to the closing line of the reading. And Joshua |
1:05.2 | mowed down Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. Now, I'll confess to you, it does |
1:11.8 | seem a touch comic to utter right after that line, the Word of the Lord. Remember the story here |
1:17.9 | is Moses is holding up his arms, as long as the arms are up Israel does well, and then these two |
1:25.0 | assistants come and they hold up his arms and while he's doing that, they succeed when the |
1:29.6 | arms get tired, etc. So that's the famous story. But it closes with this rather striking, disturbing |
1:38.0 | line. Israel mows down this entire army. Of course, this is only one of many similar pastors that |
1:48.7 | we could indicate. The psalmist, for example, dreams of dashing the heads of his enemy's children |
1:55.7 | against the rock. God, little later in the Bible, tells Saul to put the ban on the same people on |
2:04.0 | the Amalekites. That means killing every man, woman, child and animal of theirs. God sends fire and |
2:13.2 | brimstone to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. Joshua, at God's command, unleashes a ruthless blitzkrieg |
2:23.7 | against the peoples of the promised land when Israel invades. Now, see, here's the problem, |
2:29.6 | and why it drives people crazy. How do we square any of this mayhem with the gentle and compassionate |
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