S07 Episode 16: Seized by Beauty (with Bishop Robert Barron)
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🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Seized by Beauty (with Bishop Robert Barron)
In this episode, we have the distinct pleasure of having Bishop Robert Barron as our guest. We talk about everything from how he takes his coffee to experiences of beauty that lift us beyond the natural to a transcendent encounter with God. We also discuss how to engage with the culture and extract what is good, true, and beautiful, so that we can not only relate, but be relevant in our mission of evangelization.
Sister Miriam's one thing - Friends of the Bridegroom: For a Renewed Vision of Priestly Celibacy by Marc Cardinal Oullet (Amazon US, Amazon Canada, Amazon UK)
Michelle's one thing - St. Catherine of Siena: The Mystic by Fr. Paul Murray (Amazon US, Amazon Canada, Amazon UK), and the NFL draft. One of my favorite players went #7 in the draft - Derrick Brown, Auburn
Heather's one thing - My dear parents and having them move in next door.
Bishop Barron's one thing - The ESPN documentary on the Chicago Bulls: The Last Dance
Additional Resources:
Civilisation - Kenneth Clark (Amazon US, Amazon Canada, Amazon UK)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (Amazon US, Amazon Canada, Amazon UK)
Meeting with Artists - Pope Benedict XVI
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Discussion questions:
- What struck you from the podcast?
- What is your first memory of encountering beauty?
- Share some experiences of beauty you've encountered in the culture!
- What secular movie scene made you think about the Christian life or God?
- What are you most passionate about right now?
Journal Questions:
- Reflect and journal about this scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:11 "He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end." What does it speak to you personally?
- How can you make time each day to pause and look for beauty?
- What are some things you find beautiful? What do they teach you about Who God is?
Quote to Ponder - The truly beautiful doesn't submit to our little whims and our little preferences. The truly beautiful stops you in your tracks and seizes you and takes control of you and doesn't let you go. - Bishop Robert Barron
Scripture for Lectio Divina - Ecclesiastes 3:11 "He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end."
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Abiding Together podcast. Abiding together is a place where you can |
| 0:13.4 | find connection, rest and encouragement on your journey with Jesus Christ. My name is |
| 0:18.2 | Sister Miriam James Heitland and every week I am joined by two of my dearest friends, |
| 0:23.1 | Michelle Benzinger and Heather Kim. This podcast is born out of our friendship of sharing |
| 0:28.4 | all kinds of things together. Our walk with Christ, our insights, our joys, sorrows, tears |
| 0:34.2 | and laughter and you are most welcome on the journey with us. So grab a cup of coffee, settle |
| 0:40.5 | in and welcome home. |
| 0:48.2 | Hello and welcome to the Abiding Together podcast this week and happy Easter. Again, we're |
| 0:52.5 | journeying when the fourth week of Easter now. I'm Michelle and Heather. How are we Easter |
| 0:56.1 | doing? We're doing great. I'm so glad in our church that we have lots of time to celebrate Easter. |
| 1:00.3 | It's one of my favorite things, of course. So Michelle, how are you? |
| 1:04.1 | I am good. I'm still smacking on jelly beans and I promise I will quit the sugar after this week, |
| 1:08.8 | but it is Easter people and we are in quarantine and so that combination you have to have sugar. |
| 1:13.6 | And so I am still getting over 15,000 steps a day so life is good, you know. |
| 1:18.3 | We're doing what we can and we have the distinct just joy. Absolutely joy today to welcome one of our |
| 1:23.0 | favorite people on planet earth and he's never been on our podcast before. So we're going to |
| 1:27.3 | welcome him for the first time. So we would like to welcome to our episode this week, Bishop Robert |
| 1:32.0 | Barron. Bishop, how are you today? I'm well. Thank you guys for having me on. I'm just delighted to |
| 1:36.8 | be with you. Yeah. You hanging in there during the quarantine. You know, I almost has to say this, |
| 1:42.2 | but in some ways the quarantine has been a marvelous time. What I mean is it's been like a retreat |
| 1:49.1 | in a way and I've gone back to work on a book which I started some, oh, maybe that a year ago and |
| 1:54.8 | I thought, oh, maybe in the next couple of years I'll be able to with all my other duties, you know, |
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