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,

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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 art styles of

Chicago now present word on fire. Peace be with you. Friends, what's it like to have Christ for a

king? That's the question raised directly or indirectly by all the readings for this weekend.

Let's begin with the magnificent little passage from the Book of the Prophet Zechariah. It's our

first reading today. It's interesting. The Book of the Prophet Zechariah is clearly one that

Jesus read carefully and used as an interpretive key to his own ministry. Walk through the Book of

the Prophet Zechariah and notice how many points of contact there are with Jesus. Well, the

passage for today, the Prophet is dreaming, prophesying if you want, about the return of a

definitive, Davidic king who would restore the splendor in glory of Israel and hence bring peace

to the nations. As I've said to you many times before, this is a central theme of the Bible. Adam

was the first king presiding over a properly ordered garden. One way to read his sin was a

suspension of right kingship. It was bad leadership. And ever since then, God's been looking for

his vice-roy. He's looking for human beings who will rule in his name and according to his

purposes. And that kingship that knew Adam would attract the other nations so that all the world

would become a rightly ordered place. That's the biblical vision. It's a vision, it's a dream that

haunted the imaginations of many of the prophets. The psalmist too, you're at over and over again in the psalms. And we

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