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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.

Peace be with you.

Friends, our first reading in Gospel today are wonderful readings, and they're all about

marriage.

I'm convinced that the deep, sacramental, and religious meaning of marriage, even within

the church, has been in recent years rather dramatically compromised.

We say marriage is a vocation, marriage is a sacrament, married people have given their

relationship to God, surrendering it to God's purposes.

That's the faith of the church.

But do we mean it?

Do we know what all that implies?

Look, we can look at human sexual relationships at a number of different levels.

Two people can come together purely for physical pleasure, and at the negative limit, this

can be nothing more than an expression of violence.

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