Why Women Religious Are Essential (with Fr. John Burns)
Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)
Ascension
4.9 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Are women religious just nice to have around or are they essential to the Church and to the world? Mike and Dave are joined by special guest Fr. John Burns to discuss the status of women’s vocations to the consecrated life and why it is a major crisis. They offer reasons for why it is so important to have women religious and how we can introduce more people to their way of life.
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The consecrated woman reminds the Church what it means to be espoused to Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | The witness of the consecrated woman brings something ultimate down and shows us the other half of the story, the priest. |
| 0:06.0 | Consecrated men, that's only half the story, right? That's the Christological side. |
| 0:10.0 | But you take out the bridal, you not only take on half the story, you take out the church's own kind of awakened self-awareness because the church is the bride. |
| 0:17.0 | All of us are the bride. I don't know how to be a bride. But when I see a holy, vibrant, consecrated woman, I'm like, oh, that's how a bride relates to Christ. |
| 0:43.1 | Welcome to every new. YouBow, your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization. |
| 0:48.3 | My name is Mike Gomer Gormley, and I am joined, as always, by Dave. |
| 0:49.8 | Let the Firefall Van Vickle. |
| 0:50.4 | How are you doing, Dave? |
| 0:51.5 | Yeah, okay. |
| 0:53.2 | Yeah, let the fire fall. |
| 0:53.9 | We need it, man. |
| 0:56.0 | We really do. We really do. |
| 1:01.6 | And today we are joined by a special guest. Father John Burns, how you doing today, Father John? |
| 1:06.8 | Hey, what's up, guys? I'm doing great. I need a nickname, too. I let the firefall twice. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah, yeah. You're hanging out in a seminary right now? I am. Yeah, I am. St. Francis is the sales seminar here in Milwaukee. Nice, nice. And what do you, we were just talking a little bit before the show, |
| 1:18.2 | and I just randomly, I was like, yeah, what are you up to now? And then it was the most fascinating |
| 1:21.7 | thing. So what are you up to right now? Yeah, that's the question everybody, even in my own diocese asks. I have a weird |
| 1:29.5 | assignment. I'm assigned to like, it doesn't even really have a title. It's basically the |
| 1:33.5 | renewal of women's religious life. I am basically released or set by my bishop to help across |
| 1:39.6 | the country anywhere that needs help, either renewing existing religious communities or helping |
| 1:43.9 | get women's vocations on track, on the ground, anywhere that needs help, either renewing existing religious communities or helping get women's |
| 1:44.8 | vocations on track on the ground anywhere that, yeah, where we don't have someone walking with |
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