WOF 122: God at the Googleplex

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 9 April 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Bishop Barron recounts his visit to the headquarters of both Google and YouTube. He was there to deliver a talk to Catholic Googlers on "Religion and the Opening of the Mind." He reflects on the hungering intellect and why wealth, power, pleasure, and honor all fail to satisfy its restless longings. A listener asks why Jesus didn't appear to more people after his Resurrection.

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Topics Discussed

0:04 - Introduction, Holy Week in Bishop Barron's Santa Barbara pastoral region
2:20 - What was Bishop Barron's impression of the Google and YouTube offices?
7:00 - Why did Bishop Barron choose the topic "Religion and the Opening Up of the Mind"?
10:10 - How does Thomas Aquinas's epistemology explain the "agent intellect"?
13:40 - Why does Bishop Barron bring up Elijah and the priest of Baal while at Google?
17:00 - Why can't wealth, power, pleasure or honor be the greatest good?
25:00 - What can satisfy the questing mind?
32:30 - Question: After his Resurrection, why did Jesus show himself only to a few people and not to the Pharisees, Pontius Pilate, or to a large crowd?

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
0:09.5	at Word on Fire. And joining us is Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop Barron Happy Easter and
0:14.9	welcome. Hey Brandon, happy Easter to you. How are the all the kidneys doing, especially
0:18.8	the little Gilbert? They're doing very well, thanks for asking. We're recording this just
0:24.8	a few days after Easter, about a week after Easter. And we haven't had a chance to catch
0:29.3	up and here I want to hear how how holy week went for you. This is your third holy week
0:34.1	now is Bishop. So, Phyllis and what was holy week like this year? Well, I usually go
0:38.0	around the different parishes in my region during holy week. And this year we did some
0:43.1	recordings as well. We got our Word on Fire team out there and recorded these liturgies.
0:48.0	So, Palm Sunday and holy Thursday, good Friday. I didn't do the vigil because I like leaving
0:54.2	that for the pastors. It's an important thing for the pastor to be receiving those to be
0:58.1	baptized and confirmed and so on. But then of course Easter Sunday I did. And it's always
1:02.7	a joy. I went to different places all around this big region that I have. So, a lot of
1:07.7	different economic situations and different kinds of communities, etc. But a lot of enthusiasm,
1:18.1	good numbers. Think about LA, we're the biggest archdiocese in the country. And so things tend
1:22.6	to be big out here. Whenever you go for liturgies and all that, you get good crowds.
1:28.1	So, it was very uplifting for me. Did you do any of the liturgies in Spanish this
1:34.1	holy week? Oh, yeah. I mean, typically I'd say half my liturgies out here would be in Spanish.
1:39.7	I preached in Spanish for... Was it good? No, it wasn't good for... Was it holy Thursday?
1:45.4	I did the sermon in Spanish. It was a great parish in Oxnard, which is the most populous
1:50.7	part of my region. There were five parishes, all huge in Oxnard. And that mass was all Spanish.
1:57.0	I preached in Spanish. Then I did some confirmations this past weekend. No, both were... Both masses
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