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🗓️ 30 April 2018
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Part One of Bishop Barron's talk on Catholicism and beauty.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vat the host. Today, Bishop Aaron is not |
0:10.1 | with us in studio, so instead we're sharing with you his talk from the 2018 Los Angeles |
0:16.4 | Religious Education Congress. This talk was titled Catholicism and Beauty, and surveyed |
0:22.6 | much of the beautiful and literary artistic tradition of the Catholic Church up and down |
0:27.7 | the centuries. He covers everything from the poetry of Dante to the beauty of the medieval |
0:33.4 | Gothic cathedrals to modern writers like Paul Claudel, and he highlights how beauty has |
0:39.1 | served as an effective route of access to God. So this episode, we're going to play the |
0:44.4 | first half of his talk titled Catholicism and Beauty, and next week we'll cover the second |
0:49.4 | half. So sit back and enjoy the talk. |
0:58.9 | As always, a joy to be here at Congress. I remember it was many years ago, I gave the keynote |
1:04.1 | in this room, and it's just one of the great places I think in the Catholic Church today, |
1:08.6 | this place and this gathering. I'll tell you a little story. I was in Washington last |
1:13.6 | week for the USCCB meetings because now I'm chair of this committee on evangelization. |
1:19.7 | So they're all week in DC, and so I was telling someone about my itinerary coming up. I |
1:24.4 | said, well, I'm here until Thursday, and then I'm going to Congress, and they said, oh, |
1:29.5 | are you going to say something on the hill? I said, not that Congress, not on. I'm going |
1:35.6 | to say the LA Congress. My 20, well, 21st year, I've been coming here since 1997, pretty |
1:43.7 | much every year. It's always been, thank you. And a special joy now to be auxiliary bishop |
1:52.9 | of this great Church of Los Angeles. So just a thrill to be with you all. I know we probably |
2:00.5 | everyone's been talking about St. Patrick today on his feast day, but when I was doing |
2:04.3 | my prayers this morning, what was striking me was, you know, how much I owe to the faith |
2:10.5 | of my parents, past on Catholicism to me. And of course, they received it from their parents. |
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