WOF 036: St. Francis, The Reformer
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We are taking the next six episodes of the Word on Fire show to discuss each of the great men and women featured on Word On Fire's epic new film series, Catholicism: The Pivotal Players. The focus of this episode is Saint Francis, the great reformer of the Church from the early 13th century who truly embodied the life of Christ through his radical ministry of mercy and love. Our listener question asks about mysticism in the Church today.
*In this episode we include a limited time Word on Fire Show discount on Catholicism: The Pivotal Players with Coupon Code: Fran1226
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Topics Discussed
- 0:19 - Bishop Barron discusses his trip to Poland for World Youth Day
- 3:00 - Intro about Pivotal Players and St. Francis in particular
- 6:23 - Why is Saint Francis so universally revered?
- 8:18 - What's the most misunderstood element of Francis?
- 10:17 - How did Saint Francis come to faith?
- 12:25 - How did the Franciscan order come to fruition?
- 14:44 - What does it mean that the Pope chose the name Francis?
- 16:14 - What are some of Bishop Barron's favorite Francis stories?
- 19:48 - Why is Saint Francis a pivotal player?
- 21:25 - Listener Question: What does it mean to be a mystic today?
Bonus Resources
- Calendar and Prayer Cards
- Pivotal Players Calendar (Bishop Barron)
- Pivotal Players Prayer Cards (Bishop Barron)
- Books
- Praying with the Pivotal Players (Bishop Barron)
- The Little Flowers of Saint Francis (Brother Ugolino)
- The Strangest Way (Bishop Barron)
- Study Guides
- Catholicism: The Pivotal Players - Leader's Guide (Bishop Barron)
- Catholicism: The Pivotal Players - Study Guide (Bishop Barron)
- Catholicism: The Pivotal Players - Leaders Kit (Bishop Barron)
- DVDs
- Catholicism: The Pivotal Players (Bishop Barron)
Find bonus links and resources for this episode at http://WordOnFireShow.com and be sure to submit your questions at http://AskBishopBarron.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon Vott. I'm the content director at Word |
| 0:07.3 | on Fire. And joining me is Bishop Robert Barron, Bishop Barron. We always love to have |
| 0:12.6 | you. Brandon has always joy to be on this program with you. |
| 0:16.0 | Now, it's been a few weeks since your trip to Krakow for World Youth Day. And we haven't |
| 0:20.7 | talked about it yet. So give us some feedback. What was it like? What were some of the major |
| 0:25.0 | experiences there at World Youth Day? |
| 0:27.1 | Unbelievable. It was one of the great experiences of my life. I really mean that. I think |
| 0:31.6 | of the first night when I met through the good administrations of George Wigel, I met |
| 0:37.4 | with a number of these men and women now in their high 70s and 80s who were members of |
| 0:43.5 | John Paul II's youth group back in the 1940s and 50s. These were the young people that |
| 0:50.3 | Carl Voity will gathered at St. Florian's parish in Krakow. And they became the core of |
| 0:56.8 | World Youth Day. Because with these people, he went kayaking and he went skiing and camping. |
| 1:02.2 | And on those trips, he formed them in Catholic spirituality and theology. And despite all |
| 1:09.2 | the efforts of the Communist authorities to shape young people, Carl Voity will want |
| 1:14.0 | it to counter shape, you know, a group. And these people stayed with him all those years. |
| 1:18.5 | As he married them and baptized their children and their grandchildren, they came to see him |
| 1:23.6 | when he was Pope and Rome. It was very moving. I'm there in this kind of little hot apartment |
| 1:30.6 | and with these wonderful people, along with several bishops, Cardinal Dolan was there, Bishop |
| 1:36.4 | Aproche of Springfield was there, Bishop Conley of Lincoln, all people that have a real devotion |
| 1:41.4 | to John Paul II. And these wonderful people told the story after story about him. And as |
| 1:46.6 | they were telling the story through the open windows, we could hear all of the songs and |
| 1:52.4 | the chants and the cries of these young people gathering in Krakow. And it just struck |
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