WOF 112: Collaborative Apostolate
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
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🗓️ 29 January 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The Second Vatican Council called for a more active collaboration between the ordained and lay people. In this episode of The Word on Fire Show, Bishop Barron discusses the proper roles of the laity and the clergy in our evangelization efforts and how the collaboration of both vocations, within those proper roles, can lead toward a more effective outreach.
Topics Discussed
- 0:04 - Introduction: Mudslides in Montecito, California
- 3:00 - What does it mean that Word on Fire is a collaborative apostolate?
- 5:30 - What role does the clergy have in evangelization?
- 8:35 - Why is it important that the clergy and the laity assume some different roles?
- 11:00 - Why is it so important for the laity to get involved in evangelization?
- 15:00 - How can we stay inspired to continue to evangelize the culture?
- 21:00 - How has Word On Fire served as an example of an effective collaboration between the laity and clergy?
- 23:15 - Listener Question: How can a teenager discern his vocation?
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 |
| 0:08.2 | and Mission here at Word on Fire. And as always, a warm welcome to Bishop Robert Baron. |
| 0:12.9 | Bishop, it's good to be with you again. Hey, Jared, how you doing? How are all the kids? |
| 0:17.4 | Doing well. Doing well, growing like weeds. That's good, I'm glad. |
| 0:21.7 | Yeah. Well, I know recently you were able to partake in a symposium with William Lane |
| 0:27.8 | Craig discussing culture and the relationship between faith and reason and science and numerous |
| 0:34.0 | different topics and it was live streamed on Facebook. Can you kind of fill us in on how |
| 0:38.1 | that went and what you thought really stood out? Yeah, it was a great experience. It was organized |
| 0:43.2 | by some good people at Claremont McKenna University outside of LA. And we've been talking for |
| 0:49.5 | about a year about this possibility because I'm out here permanently and then he comes for |
| 0:55.2 | a couple of weeks every January. So we got our schedules together and I've been an admirer |
| 1:00.4 | of William Lane Craig for a long time. He's the greatest of the Christian warriors in the struggle |
| 1:06.3 | with the new atheist. So go on YouTube some time and look up his name and his debates with |
| 1:11.4 | Hitchens and Dawkins and Sam Harris will come up. So I've admired him for a long time. I also disagree |
| 1:18.0 | with him on a number of intellectual issues. So we structured the day where in the afternoon, |
| 1:24.0 | we got about 30 or so academics around the table and he and I both gave papers, Craig and I gave |
| 1:30.0 | papers and responded to each other and then we had a wide ranging conversation. So it was it was good, |
| 1:35.6 | pretty high level intense academic conversation. Then in the evening, what we |
| 1:41.5 | live streamed was this conversation between the two of us about, as you say, culture, |
| 1:46.8 | evangelization, the church and it was not meant to be a debate. So it wasn't in that format but |
| 1:52.3 | it's like kind of two in many ways like-minded people talking about these challenges. So it was |
| 1:58.0 | a great day. I loved it. I'd met him very briefly some years before but now had a chance to |
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