WOF 124: Listener Q&A with Bishop Barron

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 23 April 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Bishop Barron answers several listener questions during this episode, ranging from classic education to the Great Story of Israel to living the faith while under persecution. Enjoy this listener Q&A episode!

Topics Discussed

0:04 - Updates about Confirmation season
2:00 - Video made by students at Bishop Sullivan High School (Virginia Beach, VA)
5:00 - What do you think about the movement promoting Catholic classical education?
7:40 - Does Psalm 23 demand some sort of prosperity Gospel (e.g., Joel Osteen)?
11:00 - What books do you recommend to understand God's relationship with Israel, and the Great Story?
14:30 - What do make of the Scripture that says, "God did not do the evil he had been planning to do." How should we read this?
18:00 - What key topics and elements do you think every parish religious education program should have?
22:15 - Is it possible to be gluttonous in the pursuit of knowledge about God? How do we address that?
25:45 - What did John Paul II do to facilitate the downfall of communism?
30:15 - Any advice for people living in places where you can't outwardly practice your faith?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Votte and I'm excited to be joined
0:09.8	by our great host, Bishop Robert Barron, Bishop Barron. Welcome.
0:14.0	Brandon, it's always a pleasure to be with you. How's it all Gilbert doing?
0:18.2	He's good. You ask about him often. Not much changes except he cries a lot, he poops
0:23.9	a lot. That's basically his life.
0:25.6	Well, that's his agenda. No. Listen, before we get into the topic of today's show,
0:31.8	which is a listener Q&A where we're going to take a lot of questions from our wonderful
0:35.5	listeners, I wanted you to update everybody on a couple exciting things. One is that you've
0:40.7	moved back full force into confirmation season. How's that been going?
0:44.8	It's good. It's my third go-around now. I started doing confirmations in the spring
0:49.8	of 2016. So it was my third time. And it's good. I've done, I think, 10 so far. I've got
0:55.1	about 25 more to go. I've been all over my region already. And I like confirmation season.
1:01.8	I think it's fun. And I love talking to these kids. And the parish is the church usually
1:07.4	is full for the confirmation. And there's just a lot of energy and enthusiasm. And so
1:12.0	I get a kick out of them. I'm trying to do the math here. So you said you've done 10
1:16.2	and you've got 25 more to go. So that's about 35 or so during the season. Most of us
1:22.5	in LA do that many. And what's a typical class for each of these
1:26.9	parishes? How many kids are you confirming each season?
1:30.0	It varies widely. I'd say the average is probably 80 or 90. It varies from, it can be as small
1:35.8	as maybe 40 to as big as 150. And so I'm going to a parish tomorrow. In fact, in Oxnard,
1:42.9	in Oxnard, it's by far the most populous part of my region. And a lot of Hispanic parishes
1:47.4	there. And there might be 150 kids at this confirmation.
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