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. Please be with you. Friends, every third summer we have

the privilege of reading at Mass from the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John. Can I recommend

you at some point today or this week take out your Bibles and read through the sixth chapter

of John. You can do it easily in one sitting. Maybe read it with your family. It's the greatest

eucharistic theology in the New Testament. It's kind of curious because in John's Gospel

there's no institution narrative. I'm using that technical term there. It just means the account

of what Jesus said over the bread and cup at the last supper. So you find that in Matthew,

Mark and Luke, you find it even in one Corinthians by St. Paul. But in John's account of the last supper,

you don't find that. Well, it doesn't mean for a second there's no eucharistic theology in John,

just the contrary because the sixth chapter is Jesus' great discourse at the Capernaum synagogue

after the multiplication of loaves and fishes. He goes there and the people follow him and he gives

a speech that more or less comments on the deeper meaning of this multiplication of the loaves

and fishes. And it constitutes, as I say, the most penetrating profound commentary on the eucharist.

So take the opportunity with your family maybe to read through John 6. Well, today's Gospel

in many ways is the climax of this great discourse. The first thing I want you to see is

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