Welcome to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vat, the content director at Word on Fire.

And with me, as always, is the great Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop Barron, welcome.

Brandon, it's always a pleasure to be on here with you.

Today, we are going to be discussing Bishop Barron's upcoming visit to the Philippines.

He's going over there as part of the International Eucharistic Congress.

He's given a few talks there. But before we talk about that, let's catch up a little bit,

Bishop. You were out this whole past week at a retreat with a bunch of other bishops.

And I first heard about that. I was really intrigued. I thought, what do bishops do when

they go out on retreat? So tell us a little bit about what that was like.

Well, it was a great week. I'm just back. I just got back about an hour ago. And I was

up at the House of Prayer for Priests in Los Angeles. It was founded the way back when

by Cardinal Manning back in the 1960s. And it's a lovely place because it's in the city,

but it's right near Griffith Park. And Angelino's and I was with no about that. Griffith Park

is kind of like Central Park. It's right in the heart of the city, but it's like you're

in Wyoming. You go up on this hill and it looks like you're in the wild west. It's

worth the Hollywood sign. People know that. It's right near there. Anyway, the House of

Prayer is kind of at the foot of that mountain. So it's a lovely little oasis in the middle

of the city. I gather with the bishops of the Los Angeles province. That means roughly

the bishops of Southern California, like from Fresno to San Diego. There are about 20 of us

or so. So you have the the ordinary is the bishops of the dioceses plus auxiliaries plus

a number of retired bishops. So there were, you know, a lot of us. What I did is follow

the nation exercises. So the kind of retreat we do here is not a preached retreat.

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