WOF 110: Word on Fire in 2018
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
What does Bishop Barron have in store for 2018? Find out in this episode where he talks through several exciting new projects, talks, and initiatives. A listen asks how to choose good books, ones that help your faith rather than harm it.
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Topics Discussed
- 0:05 - Introduction, the FOCUS Conference, the Santa Barbara mudslides
- 5:50 - What are the upcoming talks Bishop Barron has scheduled for 2018?
- 8:00 - What is special about the upcoming vocation conference?
- 9:45 - What are the upcoming CATHOLICISM: The Pivotal Players episodes Word On Fire is filming?
- 13:40 - What are the Word On Fire Classics?
- 16:30 - What is the new Word On Fire Institute?
- 18:20 - What will be the purpose of the Word on Fire Bible
- 20:55 - What will Word On Fire's partnership with Flocknote provide?
- 23:15 - What is the Mystery of the Mass film series?
- 25:22 - What does Bishop Barron's USCCB committee on Evangelization and Catechesis entail?
- 28:15 - How do you judge whether a spiritual book will help or hinder your faith?
Bonus Resources
- Books
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon Vot, the host and the content director |
| 0:08.8 | here at Word on Fire. And joining us from California is Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop |
| 0:14.1 | Barron, great to be talking with you. Hey, Brandon, good morning. Always great to be with |
| 0:17.8 | you. Well, I want to update everyone on a couple things here. One on a somewhat lighter |
| 0:23.2 | note, you just returned from the big focus conference. Give us a little recap of that. |
| 0:28.8 | Well, it was splendid. It was in Chicago. And of course, Chicago was awful. It's what I grew |
| 0:34.4 | up with, you know, five degrees above zero, freezing cold. So it's a little bit depressing, but |
| 0:41.9 | we were certainly warned by the presence of about 8,000 college aged kids at the McCormy |
| 0:47.2 | Place, which is the biggest convention center in Chicago. And I had the privilege of addressing |
| 0:52.0 | them one evening and then mass the next day. And, you know, there's so much to admire about |
| 0:57.2 | focus. I've watched them over the years, watched their growth and the spirit. And I remember the |
| 1:04.0 | mass, you know, being very reverent and beautiful and pious in the best sense of the term. |
| 1:11.0 | Then, you know, before my talk in the evening, they were kind of rocking out. I mean, there were |
| 1:15.3 | some bands there and the kids were really into it. And to me, that's the best combination. You |
| 1:20.6 | know, they're able to enter the mass and the great reverent spirit. And there's still young kids |
| 1:26.3 | having fun, you know, and anyway, it was very uplifting for me to just to be with those great people. |
| 1:33.8 | And you said at the end of your talk, you've said this many times in the past that you think |
| 1:37.6 | focus is one of the radiant lights of the new evangelization. I do. What I said to them was, |
| 1:42.7 | I don't know any group or movement in the church right now that is true or to its carism, |
| 1:48.6 | than focus. That focus had a very clear identity and mission and they lived up to it and they |
| 1:55.8 | embodied it. So I deeply admire that. And I had a great breakfast with Curtis Martin, the founder |
| 2:01.0 | and his wife. And we had a wonderful, you know, kind of conversation in the in the spirit about |
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