WOF 139: Get Out of the Sacristy
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Pope Francis has encouraged priests to "get out of the sacristy into the streets," to find the Church's lost sheep and evangelize them. Bishop Barron agrees with this advice, and in this episode, he offers his take on the best ways to do that. A listener asks why we need to repent if God's love is unconditional.
Topics Discussed
- 04:00 - Bishop Barron's favorite memories from the Pivotal Players film trip
- 4:00 - What is Bishop Barron's article about?
- 8:15 - How does a parish shift gears to evangelization?
- 14:00 - What has been the common perspective on evangelization?
- 17:30 - How will the Word on Fire Movement serve this mission?
- 22:00 - What advice does Bishop Barron have for evangelizers, both lay and clergy?
- 26:15 - Listener Question: Is the love of God really unconditional?
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 |
| 0:10.1 | and Mission here at Word on Fire. And as always, a warm welcome to Bishop Robert Bairn. |
| 0:14.9 | Bishop, it's always good to be with you. Hey Jared, how you doing? How are the kids doing? |
| 0:18.8 | Doing well, trying to survive this Texas heat. We've had like two weeks of 104 degrees |
| 0:24.1 | almost every day. Well, you guys are tough though in Texas, right? That's true. That's |
| 0:28.4 | why we all have leather skin just because I know you've been traveling kind of all over |
| 0:36.0 | the East Coast into the Midwest to film for the upcoming pivotal players two more episodes |
| 0:42.0 | on Fulton Sheen and Flannery O'Connor. Maybe you can share some of the highlights. |
| 0:46.4 | Oh, we had a great time. It's you say for about two weeks on the road. And it's hard in |
| 0:50.9 | its own way, but they're also wonderful very rewarding these trips. Gosh, there were a lot |
| 0:55.4 | of highlights. We were in New York, you know, for Fulton Sheen, spending time in the newly |
| 1:00.4 | renovated St. Patrick's Cathedral. It was always a joy. But one of my favorite things |
| 1:04.0 | was we're walking along the river, looking back from the Jersey side to the New York |
| 1:12.7 | skyline. And it's actually Frank Sinatra Park because it's in Hoboken, New Jersey. And |
| 1:17.8 | it's just a beautiful view. I never had been there before. Another highlight of that same |
| 1:22.3 | day, we were with the Franciscan Friars, the renewal over in Newark, in a pretty rough neighborhood. |
| 1:27.9 | And I had no idea that Benedict Groschel himself, the founder of his buried at that place. So |
| 1:34.0 | after we finished filming, one of the Friars said, would you like to visit Father Benedict's |
| 1:40.0 | grave? And I said, oh my gosh, I had no idea. So we all spent a good amount of time there |
| 1:44.7 | because he's one of the figures I think in the in the late 20th century who had a huge |
| 1:49.3 | impact in the life of the church in America. That was a highlight. And of course, Flanagan |
| 1:53.0 | O'Connor's home down in Millageville, Georgia, which I long to see. We spent a good long |
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