WOF 114: Three Great Spiritual Athletes

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🗓️ 12 February 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

At Mundelein Seminary you'll find a statue of St. George slaying a dragon below which reads, "Athleta Christi Nobilis" —The Noble Athlete of Christ. As we head into the spiritual desert of Lent, we benefit by examining the lives of those saints who courageously embraced a life of profound asceticism and self-sacrifice. In this episode of the Word On Fire Show, Bishop Barron discusses three great spiritual athletes from across the centuries. The listener question asks how to remain charitable when you disagree with your interlocutor.

NOTE: Get your free Lent Reflections booklet from Bishop Barron here >> http://wordonfireshow.com/lent

Topics Discussed

0:04 - Introduction, the Churchill movie
2:45 - What is a spiritual athlete?
6:25 - Why is St. Anthony of the Desert a great spiritual athlete?
9:55 - Is there something wrong with living your entire life in the desert?
12:25 - What can Thomas Merton teach us about the purpose of asceticism?
16:45 -Why is St. John of the Cross a great spiritual athlete?
20:00 - What is the Dark Night of the Soul?
24:30 - Why is Pier Giorgio Frassati a great spiritual athlete?
28:25 - Listener Question: How might we remain charitable with someone we passionately disagree with?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to the Word on Fire Show. I'm your host Joseph Glor and with me in this
0:10.0	Santa Barbara Studios is Bishop Robert Barron Bishop. Good to be with you. Hey Joe, always
0:14.5	good to be with you. We had a good night last night. I came in yesterday and we were able
0:19.1	to go see with Father Steve. We saw the darkest hour finally. Yeah, the Churchill movie,
0:23.2	which I wanted to see all during this season and it's finally playing a little local
0:26.8	figure here in Santa Barbara. And it was good. The great Gary Oldman plays the Churchill.
0:31.1	And I love Gary Oldman for years since he played Dracula back 20 years ago. Didn't see
0:37.3	that one. Oh, it's great. In fact, he with the old age makeup on, and Churchill, he reminded
0:42.4	me a bit of his Dracula movie. I could see him. I could see him as a vampire. Oh, he was
0:45.4	really good. But Churchill was a good movie. Kind of thoughtful, not like a super energetic
0:52.3	movie, but sort of a thoughtful movie. It was a movie about speech to me. There's a
0:56.9	lot of talking and the power of speech. I think Churchill's famous for his speeches.
1:00.9	Right. For me, that was the point that came across. Yeah, I think that's right. And Lord
1:05.2	Halifax's famous line, which they have in the movie of, you know, at this moment when Britain
1:09.1	had nothing else, he mobilized the English language and used it as a weapon. You know, he
1:14.1	used the language itself to rouse the people. So that's true, I think. Well, Churchill
1:18.3	was a pivotal player in the history of the 20th century. Absolutely. And for anyone who
1:24.7	follows word on fire, you know that our big film project is Catholicism, the pivotal
1:30.0	players. That's the one we're working on now. We finished volume one, which tells the
1:33.7	stories of six pivotal players in the Catholic church that also influenced all of Western
1:39.7	civilization. Now we're working on the next six pivotal players. Can you rattle them off
1:44.6	quickly? I asked that because I always forget somebody, but we did Augustin and Benedict
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