WOF 104: Sports and Spirituality

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

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🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

If you've listened to any number of Bishop Robert Barron's homilies or lectures, you've likely heard him use sports analogies to create a vision of the spiritual life. In this episode of the Word On Fire Show, Bishop Barron discusses how the world of sports and athleticism can help us grow in faith and understanding. The listener question asks about leisure and the Sabbath.

Topics Discussed

0:05 - Introduction
1:30 - What is Bishop Barron's background with sports?
4:00 - Why does the culture hold sports in such high regard up and down the ages?
6:00 - How do the rules in sports relate to religion?
10:30 - What do coaches teach us about real love?
15:00 - How do the rigors of sports offer insights about the rigors of the spiritual life?
20:00 - Does athleticism and fitness ever do harm to the spirit?
22:47 - Listener Question: Why is leisure important on the Sabbath?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to the Word on Fire Show. I'm your host Joseph Glor and I'm here with
0:09.3	the illustrious Man in Black here, Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop good to be here with you
0:13.3	in the studio in Santa Barbara. Joe always a pleasure to be on with you. What a fun
0:17.6	weekend we have coming up here. Everyone's in town. We got our big summer for the mass
0:21.6	series tomorrow. That's right. So we've got the spirit juice studios from Chicago. We
0:26.8	work with them a number of times and they're in town now to do this taping tomorrow. And
0:31.0	it's always kind of a big deal. I'll be giving six 20 minute talks tomorrow that'll be filmed.
0:37.1	It'll be in front of a crowd of about a thousand people in our Lady of Saros church right
0:41.2	here in Santa Barbara. And our Word on Fire team is in here. So yourself and Anne Strauss
0:47.8	and we got Cassie and Caroline from the office in Chicago. We have John Carney and his wife
0:53.0	Emily. So all kinds of people are in town. Jolene is here. Yeah. Your dog Jolene who's
0:59.2	always kind of sets the tone. Yeah. She's the the Word on Fire mascot is the present thing
1:03.7	for sure. Although she's not crazy about me. You know, she I guess she likes the ministry
1:08.2	in general, but she's not crazy about me. She's not crazy about anybody. That's her that's
1:13.5	her cross to bear as her personality. Well, I want to have a talk today about something
1:19.3	that's dear to both of our hearts. I'm a fitness trainer and you've always been a big
1:22.2	sports enthusiast. I want to talk about the kind of the parallels between sports and
1:28.5	the spiritual life. So you've had a long history with sports in your life. You've always
1:32.7	been kind of an athlete ever since you were a kid, right? Yeah. Yeah. My dad was an athlete.
1:37.1	My dad played a lot of sports and he was a gymnast back in the day. He's like in the
1:41.5	1940s. So he got us my brother and me. He got us going in sports right away. I remember
1:47.7	distinctly my dad teaching me how to throw baseball and get the coordination of the arm
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