WOF 006: Three Paths to Holiness
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean to be a saint? Bishop Barron shares the three-fold path to holiness, which involves finding the center, knowing you're a sinner, and discovering that your life is not about you. This week, Bishop Barron also answers a question about the relationship between mercy and justice.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vaat, the host, and with me, as always, |
| 0:08.5 | is the founder of Word on Fire and auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, |
| 0:13.7 | Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop Barron, welcome. Brandon, it's always a great joy to be on with you. |
| 0:19.2 | Now, in the last episode, we talked about your upcoming trip to the Philippines. You're heading |
| 0:23.8 | over there in about a week here at the end of January, 2016, for the International Eucharistic |
| 0:30.9 | Congress. You're going to be giving three talks there. One is the main doctrinal talk on the Eucharist, |
| 0:36.9 | two thousands of people. Then you have a breakout session on the new evangelization. Then you're |
| 0:43.8 | giving a third talk to a bunch of the youth in Seibu City and the Philippines. This talk you're |
| 0:50.4 | giving is on the three paths to holiness. It's a structure that you've used many times over the |
| 0:57.0 | years, and you're teaching through Word on Fire and elsewhere. We went in depth into your other |
| 1:02.8 | two talks in the last episode. But in this episode, I want to spend a lot more time on these three |
| 1:08.1 | paths to holiness. The great French poet Leon Blau said that the only tragedy in life is not to be |
| 1:16.2 | a saint. Talk a little bit about this idea that we're called to be saints. I know not a few |
| 1:22.9 | Catholics hear that and they think, I could never be a saint. I'm not as good as those super holy |
| 1:28.7 | men and women. We're all called to be saints. Is that right? Absolutely. They had called from |
| 1:34.0 | Leon Blau, because it revolutionized the life of the young Jacques Meritin, the greatest Catholic |
| 1:40.4 | philosopher of the 20th century, and Mary Taz, a young man, had decided that if he couldn't discover |
| 1:46.2 | the meaning of life within a year, he would kill himself. He was a kind of despairing French |
| 1:53.2 | academic. He was caught up in all the materialism and relativism of that time. He resolved. He |
| 1:59.9 | said, well, I'll give myself a year to find what makes life meaningful. If I don't find it, |
| 2:05.2 | it's curtains for me. Well, during that year, he stumbled across a number of interesting people. |
| 2:11.1 | But one of them was Leon Blau, whom we knew personally. And that quote that you just gave, |
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