Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Jared Zimmer, the host for this episode. Brandon is out this week.

And so I took the privilege of getting to sit here with Bishop Baron on the Word on Fire Show.

As I mentioned, my name is Jared Zimmer. I'm the director of the Word on Fire Institute.

And Bishop, as always, it's great to be with you again.

Hey Jared, I'm always good to see you and talk to you. How are things in Texas?

Doing well. It's already getting hot, of course. You had good Texas weather out here,

but doing really well. And how are the kids? Little Fultons okay? He's doing good. Yeah, they're

now on summer vacation and going crazy. So it's good. So I know you actually have several

things coming up. I know you've got an ordination coming up. And you also just spent some time

with some Franciskins. I did. That was a couple days ago. All the Franciscan families have their

novitiates out here in my region, really, in Southern California. And I met with them. So the

captions and the and the conventions and the OFMs. And we had a wonderful day together,

talking about evangelization, the intellectual life and all kinds of stuff. So that was fun.

As we record these words, tomorrow is our priesthood ordination here in L.A.

And I have the privilege of investing one of the guys who's from my region.

Wonderful young man. He's been out here for, you know, dinner a few times. I've gotten to know him.

So always looking forward to that. Then the next week, I've got to head back to Baltimore to

the USCCB meeting. So never a dull moment. It does seem very constant.

Well, in that in that constancy, what are you reading these days? I always love to ask you that

question. Oh, yeah. Well, one thing I'm listening to, you know, I spent so much time in the car. I

listened to these novels and listened to Italian two cities. Dickens great novel, which, you know,

I think I might have read it or read part of it many, many years ago. But it's basically,

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