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The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

WOF 213: More Church Fathers You Should Know (Part 2 of 3)

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this second part of our series on the Church Fathers (listen to Part 1), Bishop Barron takes a look at some important Church Fathers from the pre-Nicene and Nicene periods, including:

  • Justin Martyr (100 – 165)
  • Irenaeus (130 – 202)
  • Origen (184 – 253)
  • Athanasius (292 – 373)
  • Gregory of Nyssa (335 – 395)

A listener asks how we can understand Purgatory and Heaven in relation to time.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. This is Brandon Vott. I'm the content director here at Word on Fire.

0:14.0

And this is our first episode in the new year of 2020. I'm here with the great Bishop Robert Barron, Bishop Barron.

0:20.0

So good to see you after a little bit of a Christmas break. Welcome.

0:24.0

Yeah, thanks Brandon. Always a joy to see you.

0:26.0

Hey, Ken, you're just up on your Christmas. I know you went back to Chicago, got to spend time with your family. How was it?

0:32.0

It was fun. I was there just for about a week. And I found a little bit too over-scheduled. I saw all kinds of people.

0:38.0

I don't get back that often. So I see my dear mother and then my family and then all kinds of friends and people I've known for years.

0:46.0

So I was kind of going, you know, morning, noon, and night seeing folks, but it was fun.

0:50.0

I know you get to spend a little more time with your niece, right? Who you just baptized.

0:54.0

Yeah, my grand niece, right? My niece is first a child. That's right. That's right. And you married them, her parents.

1:02.0

Yeah. And then you baptized your grand niece, right?

1:04.0

That's right. So a couple of years ago, I married them and then I baptized this baby last, I think, of September.

1:10.0

And yeah, she's, she's grown up.

1:12.0

And I know you also sent a really cool picture of a great gift that you got.

1:18.0

Oh, it's about that. Yeah, it was real surprise.

1:20.0

This is box and I thought, what is this? And it didn't feel like a book or like clothes, you know?

1:26.0

So I opened it up and it's my mitt from when I was in Little League, like from 19 to late 1960s.

1:32.0

And I think my mother must have had it in her house somewhere because my sister and brother-in-law somehow got it.

1:38.0

And I didn't know you could do this, but it was sent away to be kind of revamped. And they, they oiled it up and they put new strings in it and everything.

1:48.0

So it was quite a surprise. And I remember it vividly. I remember playing with that mitt when I was a shortstop, you know?

1:55.0

So anyway, it was fun.

1:56.0

They have you had a chance to play throw and catch with the new event?

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