Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show.

I'm Brandon Vott, the content director at Word on Fire.

Bishop Baron is not with us today.

He's wrapping up the tail end of his well-deserved vacation,

but we didn't want to leave you hanging.

So we decided that over the next couple weeks,

we'll share with you a talk that Bishop Baron gave

a few years back at the University of St. Michael's.

The talk was titled, To Evangelize the Culture

and was part of the John M. Kelly lecture series.

In the talk, Bishop Baron shows how the church

isn't meant to just hunker down within its own walls,

but is meant to escape into the culture

and flood it with the light of Christ.

So sit back and enjoy part one of this talk

on Evangelizing the Culture,

and next week we'll be back with the second part.

Well, thank you all very much for that warm welcome,

and Father Tom, thank you for that beautiful introduction.

Sister Ann, thank you for your hospitality.

Archbishop Collins, thank you for your kindness

in inviting me to deliver this historic lecture here,

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