Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon Vaat, the host and the content director

here at Word on Fire. Joining me is the great Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop Barron, good

to talk with you. I'm not sure how great I am, but always nice to see you and talk to

you. Well, I call you the great bishop and you recently had the chance to perform one

of the very important functions of a bishop for the very first time. After three years

of being a bishop, you finally ordained your first priest. Tell us about that. It was a

thrill. It was a great honor. You're right. I mean, it's one of the maybe the distinctive

thing that a bishop, quad bishop, can do is ordained priest. And the Dominicans asked

me, I think it was last year if I could ordain their guys. And there was a schedule problem

last year. So I said, well, how about let's make sure we get it for 2019. So I went out

to Catholic you, my old stomping grounds and stayed with the Dominicans, their house of

studies, and then on Saturday ordained. The great privilege of ordaining six wonderful

young guys. I had dinner with them the night before. So I chance to meet them and talk

to them and very impressive young guys. And what a thrill it was. I mean, that great

Basilica, which I know well, graduated twice from that Basilica, went to master all the

time when I was a kid, and to preside there as a bishop. And even though I've attended

a hundred pre-sort nations over the years, but it's different when you're actually doing

it. And I had a wonderful MC, a master of ceremonies who kind of walked me through and just stood

right there and now stand up and now put the hat on and now you're doing this. Because

you know automatically what comes next in the ceremony. But it was just a thrill for

me and delighted to meet those guys. And then to feel this bond, I mean, that my, I'll

be connected to them for the whole their priesthood. So it was marvelous.

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