WOF 115: Grounded in the Eucharist

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🗓️ 19 February 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Eucharist is at the foundation of the Word On Fire Institute. In this episode of the Word On Fire Show, Bishop Barron discusses what it means to be grounded in the Eucharist and how all Catholics can draw closer to the Blessed Sacrament as meal, sacrifice, and Real Presence of Jesus Christ.

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Topics Discussed

0:04 - Introduction, recap of the natural disasters in Santa Barbara County
2:45 - What does it mean to be grounded in the Eucharist?
5:00 - How is the Eucharist religiously themed as "meal"?
9:30- How does the Eucharist as "sacrifice" illuminate our understanding of Communion?
14:50 - How does the Eucharist as the "real presence" relate the power of this sacrament?
18:55 - How can we learn from the Eucharistic miracles?
21:40 - How can we better ground ourselves in the Blessed Sacrament?
24:00 - Listener Question: How can we explain God's non-competitive transcendence in light of transubstantiation?

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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
0:08.6	and Mission here at Word on Fire. And as always, a warm welcome to Bishop, Robert Barron.
0:13.6	Bishop, it's good to be with you again. Hey, Jared. Always a joy to be on with you.
0:18.2	Yeah, so I know one of the more difficult things you've been dealing with out there is the
0:22.7	recent flooding and landslides out there in Montecito, which is in your region. Can you give us
0:28.6	an update on all of that? Yeah, it's been pretty bad, Jared. As the listeners know, we've been through a
0:34.3	lot in this part of the world. We had that terrible Thomas fire that lasted about a month and burned
0:40.8	through a lot of my pastoral region, ending up here in Montecito and Santa Barbara right-live.
0:46.8	I was evacuated at one point, you know, a thousand homes were destroyed. Now there was very little
0:52.5	loss of life, thank God, and that fire. But then what happened is the, you know, all the vegetation
0:59.1	and the trees are burned out. So then when the rains come and they come out here kind of once a year,
1:05.2	they come right around this time of year, January, February, March. And there's nothing to hold the
1:11.2	hillside. And so when the rain comes, then the mudslides commence. So people knew this was a real
1:17.4	possibility, but they had no idea of as bad as it was. And so as I record these words, I'm not sure
1:22.8	when people will hear them, but I think 20 people now have been confirmed, killed in this disaster,
1:28.8	and then many more missing. There was a liturgy yesterday at the old mission here in Santa Barbara.
1:35.7	When we were praying, we invited the people from Montecito to come. The Archbishop Gomez came out
1:41.4	here and I was there and we prayed for them. I'm going to go to the hospital today to visit a lot
1:45.8	of those who were injured. So it's been a rough go out here. And in this very beautiful part of the
1:51.9	country, but it's, it's a dangerous part of the country too, precisely because it's so beautiful.
1:57.5	The very thing that attracts people here, the mountains and the craggy hill sides and all that,
2:03.4	makes it dangerous for fires and for floods. So keep praying, please, for all the suffering people here.
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