WOF 050: 3 Lessons for Young Catholics

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 22 November 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Bishop Robert Barron recently had the privilege of speaking to around nine thousand students from the Catholic middle schools and high schools of the Los Angeles Archdiocese. Encouraged by their enthusiasm, he invited them to internalize three spiritual truths as they come of age. In today's episode, Bishop Barron recounts the event and explains some lessons that all Catholics but particularly young Catholics need to take to heart. The listener question asks what Gospel passages are difficult for the bishop to come to terms with and how Catholics ought internalize Jesus' more troubling messages.

Topics Discussed

0:17 - Introduction, The Word on Fire Show 50th Episode, Youth Event Details
2:50 - Lesson 1: The Law of the Gift, what does that mean?
5:55 - What do you say to someone who claims total happiness in the secular world?
8:49 - How does St. Mother Theresa of Calcutta represent the Law of the Gift?
10:35 - Lesson 2: Spiritual Excellence, why not settle for spiritual mediocrity?
12:50 - How does Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati best represent aspiring young Catholics?
14:30 - What does it mean to say that holiness is broad, vibrant, and colorful?
16:45 - Lesson 3: Be a Rebel! What is true rebellion?
19:36 - Who is Jose Sanchez del Rio?
22:57 - Question from listener: What does Bishop Barron consider to be the most difficult messages of Jesus? How ought we wrestle with them?

Bonus Resources

Videos
DVD's
- CATHOLICISM: The Pivotal Players (Word On Fire)
- Faith Clips (Word On Fire)
- For Greater Glory (Dos Corazones Films)
Articles
- Advice to Students New and Old (Bishop Barron)
- Why Anti-Catholic Prejudice Ought to Bother Everyone (Bishop Barron)
- Porn and the Curse of Total Sexual Freedom (Bishop Barron)
Books
- Seeds of the Word: Finding God in the Culture by Bishop Barron
- Word On Fire: Proclaiming the Power of Christ by Bishop Barron
- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
- Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton

Study Program
- The Mystery of God: Who God Is and Why He Matters (Bishop Barron)

Websites
- Word On Fire (Proclaiming Christ in the Culture)

Find bonus links and resources for this episode at http://WordOnFireShow.com and, again, be sure to submit your questions at http://As kBishopBarron.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I can't believe it, but this is our 50th episode,
0:09.3	and we are excited to be here with you. I'm Brandon Vott, the content director. I'm
0:13.2	here with Bishop Robert Barron, Bishop Barron, 50 episodes.
0:17.4	You know, honestly, when you said that, I couldn't believe it. I shook my head. I couldn't
0:21.0	believe we've done 50 of these. Is that right?
0:23.2	Yeah, I'm thinking, you know, they're each about 25, 30 minutes. That means we've spent
0:27.4	about 24 hours putting these together.
0:29.9	That's a lot of, no, but honestly, I would never have guessed 50. I would have said like,
0:34.1	oh, 20 or so we've done. Wow.
0:37.2	So we're excited to be here with everybody. Today we're going to be discussing an interesting
0:42.0	topic. It's based on an event you just were at. We talked about it. I think last episode,
0:47.5	you spoke to a group of young kids out there in Los Angeles. Tell us about the event.
0:52.9	It's a great event. I did it a year ago. I just arrived as Bishop and I
0:56.8	did it again. It's a gathering of about 9,000 Catholic school kids from LA, middle school,
1:03.9	and high school kids. And they come to the Galen Center, which is a big kind of like basketball
1:07.9	arena at the University of Southern California. So right in the heart of LA. And it's just an
1:13.6	electric environment. It's a bit like a mini world youth day for the Catholic kids of LA.
1:19.2	There's a lot of singing and games and prayer, blessed sacrament, talks. So I gave a talk at the
1:26.6	very end of it. Kind of a wrap up for Verino, send you out, sort of talk. And I just I loved it.
1:33.2	Both years. It's a lot of fun and the kids. I don't know. They really seem into it. And they get
1:38.4	both the fun and the serious part of it. So I really appreciate it. So you walked out on stage.
1:43.6	And the first thing that you had them do was to scream as loud as they could. What was that all
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