WOF 017: Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
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šļø 5 April 2016
ā±ļø 28 minutes
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Summary
During this Easter season, when Christians around the world celebrate the rising of Jesus from the dead, Bishop BarronĀ looks reflects on the evidence for this extraordinary event and what it means for us today. A listener asks, inĀ response to a previous episode, how to teach our kids about God without watering down the faith.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. We're really excited to be here with you. I am Brandon |
| 0:07.7 | Vott. I'm the content director at Word on Fire and with me is Bishop Robert Baron. Bishop |
| 0:12.7 | Baron, happy Easter to you. Brandon, happy Easter to you and your family and it's always |
| 0:17.1 | the light to be on with you. Now this is your first Easter as a bishop. How's that been |
| 0:22.5 | so far? How's the Easter season going? It was great. I was down during Holy Week. I |
| 0:28.1 | was at the LA Cathedral to give a couple talks on Divine Mercy and then on the Chrism Day. |
| 0:34.4 | So Monday of Holy Week, I gave a talk to all the priests of LA and I talked about spiritual |
| 0:41.5 | life and priest-profit king, various things. Then I came back up to Santa Barbara for the |
| 0:47.6 | Tridum and I was in three different places for Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. |
| 0:52.3 | So I had a ball. It was great fun. Especially Holy Thursday. I was down at the Bonaventure |
| 0:56.9 | Mission, one of the old Padres Sarah missions. We did the liturgy but then we processed with |
| 1:02.7 | the Blessed Sacrament out into the streets of Ventura. So I always love public displays |
| 1:07.5 | of religion. To be in that church which Sarah, well it was rebuilt from his time but it's |
| 1:12.3 | the same spot where Padres Sarah founded his mission. I always find that really moving. |
| 1:19.1 | We're here in the Easter season. For us Catholics Easter just isn't a day. It extends all the |
| 1:25.3 | way through Pentecost. Tell us a little bit about the centrality of the resurrection for Easter. |
| 1:33.4 | When you read the scriptures, especially the writings of St. Paul, it's always resurrection, |
| 1:37.7 | resurrection, resurrection. Why this incestcent focus on this one event? Well, first of all, |
| 1:42.9 | you're right. It's the be-all and the end-all of Christianity. I mean, you could pick out elements |
| 1:47.7 | of the Christian religion and say, oh, those are good and true and noble and so on. But if Jesus |
| 1:52.3 | didn't rise from the dead, then Christianity is a joke. It's a fraud. And Paul knew that when he |
| 1:57.0 | said, you know, if Christ didn't rise from dead, all of my preachings in vain. I mean, everything he |
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