WOF 108: Lead with Beauty

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

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🗓️ 1 January 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

How is beauty a route of access to God? In this episode of the Word On Fire Show, Bishop Barron explains how leading with beauty is the best way to evangelize.

Topics Discussed

0:04 - Introduction, Thomas Fire continues to blaze
3:15 - What does it mean to lead with beauty?
5:52 - Why has there been a resurgence of the way of beauty?
8:15 - What are some forms of beauty outside of high art?
10:00 - How have the martyrs become a way of beauty?
13:15 - Why is Brideshead Revisited a great example of the way of beauty?
17:23 - How is the Christian life a way to evangelize through beauty?
19:15 - How can we evangelize through beauty?
23:15 - Listener Question: How can we speak with certainty about our faith if we are struggling with our faith?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm your host, Jared Zimmer, the director of Outreach
0:09.2	and Mission here at Word on Fire. And as always, a warm welcome to Bishop Robert Barron.
0:14.6	Bishop, it's good to be with you again. Hey, Jared, always good to be with you. How
0:18.5	the kids doing? They're doing great. Getting ready for Christmas and all the craziness that
0:23.2	goes along with that. But everybody's doing really well. Little Anastasia's already three
0:26.8	months old now. It seems like it's just flying. How about a little fault on us? He started
0:33.0	to preach now. Yes, he preaches on all of the superheroes. So I know that one of the
0:41.2	more concerning efforts or deals that you're going through right now there in Santa Barbara
0:46.1	is the growth of the Thomas fire. Can you kind of fill us in a little bit on that?
0:50.5	Yeah, it's been awful. I'm sure as people around the country have been following no,
0:54.5	but we've been living out here with it. And it's all in my pastoral region. So my region
0:58.7	is Ventura County and Santa Barbara County. And that's where the fire has been called
1:03.4	Thomas because of Thomas Aquinas College. It started near there. And that's in my pastoral
1:08.1	region. It burned its way all the way to the sea in the city of Ventura, which is one
1:12.7	of the big cities in my region. Did terrible damage there. A lot of buildings lost at
1:17.8	homes. It came within a few blocks of the famous mission founded by Winniperals there.
1:24.4	Then it started coming up the coast toward me and it went to the city of Carpenteria and
1:29.1	it burned right down almost to the sea there. Then it kept coming and it came kind of
1:36.1	behind where I live. I live in Santa Barbara, which is right on the coast. The next to
1:40.0	me is Montecito. It's a well-known little enclave. And the fire came right behind those
1:46.2	two cities over the weekend. And Saturday was a terrible day. We had what they call
1:52.2	the Santa Ana winds, which are very intense winds. And they kick up the fire and they sent
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