WOF 157: The Greatest Woman Ever
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
William Wordsworth called Mary, the mother of Jesus, "our tainted nature's solitary boast." Who was this extraordinary woman, and how should we understand the key dogmas about her life and nature? Bishop Barron offers a crash course on Mary in today's episode. A listener asks why God created us as humans instead of as angels.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Votte, the host. We hope you're having |
| 0:10.1 | a wonderful advent. I'm joined here by the great Bishop Robert Barron, Bishop Barron, |
| 0:14.8 | always delightful to talk with you. Brandon, always joy to be with you. |
| 0:19.7 | Listen, before I forget, I want to mention this at the beginning and not just at the end, that as we |
| 0:24.6 | get closer to the end of the year, 2018, we're moving into 2019. If you're listening to this show, |
| 0:30.8 | and you've enjoyed the Word on Fire Show for some time, we're asking for your help. We would love |
| 0:35.7 | it if you would join us on this mission. We produce hundreds and hundreds of free resources, |
| 0:39.9 | including this podcast, Bishop Barron's Daily Reflections, our websites, our articles, |
| 0:44.1 | all that kind of stuff. But the fact is, it takes time, it takes energy, it takes resources, |
| 0:49.3 | but it takes money. It just takes money to produce these things. We have to pay for the equipment, |
| 0:53.6 | the hosting, the manpower, the operations, all that. We can't do it without the help of our |
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| 1:03.8 | to evangelize the culture, please help us out. Go to wordonfireshow.com slash giving and help us |
| 1:10.8 | continue this great mission into the new year. Bishop, we're smack in the middle of the |
| 1:17.2 | Advent season here. We did a whole episode last week on the theme of Advent. Any more thoughts |
| 1:24.4 | on Advent as we move near to the Christmas season? Well, what a spiritually rich season it is, |
| 1:30.9 | and how it is echoed throughout the entire year. All of Christian life is a kind of Advent season. |
| 1:37.0 | Adventers, the Lord of come, Lord, think of the very last words of the whole Bible, |
| 1:41.8 | go to the end of the book of Revelation. Come, Lord Jesus, come. That's the attitude of the |
| 1:48.0 | church now throughout the ages. That's the Advent attitude. We talked in the last episode about |
| 1:53.6 | some of the key Advent figures, including Isaiah, but one of them is Mary, the mother of God, |
| 1:59.7 | maybe the preeminent Advent figure, because she's sort of waiting for the birth of her Lord |
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