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🗓️ 27 November 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Have you ever wondered why there is a Christmas Season? Like no other holiday, Christmas carries with it an intense period of anticipation, in which our hearts are readied with hope and love. Christians call this waiting time "Advent", and Bishop Barron explains precisely what this time is all about in today's episode of the Word on Fire Show. The listener question asks how much is enough when it comes to petitionary prayer.
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0:00.0 | Welcome everybody to the Word on Fire Show. I'm your host Joseph Gloren. And with us is my favorite bishop, Bishop Robert Baron. |
0:12.0 | Bishop, great to have you back. You were just with a bunch of other bishops on the East Coast. |
0:15.0 | Well, there's like how many bishops do you know? So I'm your favorite of how many that you know. |
0:19.0 | I think you're the only one I know personally. |
0:21.0 | It was an easy choice. I'm your favorite and least favorite bishop. |
0:24.0 | Yeah. Well, yeah, I suppose so. I suppose so. If you want to frame it that way. |
0:28.0 | With me is my favorite bishop, Bishop Baron. But you were with a bunch of other bishops that you know very well. |
0:34.0 | I was indeed. I'm just back from Baltimore where we had the annual November meeting, which is kind of our biggest meeting of the year. |
0:41.0 | And pretty much all the bishops of the country get together for about four days. And you know, it's good. |
0:47.0 | It's a good opportunity to see other bishops. But then we cover a lot of ground. |
0:52.0 | We cover a lot of important topics and it was enjoyable. It was like nine days. |
0:57.0 | Well, I was nine days because I was also in another part of Maryland speaking to the priest of Washington. |
1:03.0 | So Cardinal Warles asked me to lead a sort of two day |
1:06.0 | convocation or retreat for his priest. So first I went there. |
1:11.0 | Then I came up to the meeting for my committee meeting. |
1:14.0 | So I'm now the chair of the bishops committee on evangelization and catechesis. |
1:18.0 | So they met for a day. |
1:20.0 | And then I had mass on Sunday. Then the official meeting began Monday. |
1:24.0 | So I was there for extended period. |
1:26.0 | Well, we're glad to have you back here. |
1:28.0 | And have you back for Thanksgiving? |
1:31.0 | Give, keep leaving. It's already Thanksgiving now. |
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