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🗓️ 13 January 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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In this third and final part of our series on the Church Fathers (listen to Part 1 and Part 2), Bishop Barron examines four influential Fathers from the post-Nicene period:
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vot, the host and the content director |
0:12.9 | here at Word on Fire and joining us is Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop Barron, welcome. |
0:17.7 | Brandon, always good to be with you. You too. I'm doing great. New years, wonderful. Lots of |
0:23.6 | exciting things happening at Word on Fire. I know for you, we're recording this here in mid-January, |
0:29.1 | you're getting ready to go to Rome for your first ad limina visit. What is that? What do you expect? |
0:35.2 | Yeah. Every five years, bishops are obligated in Canaan law to visit the to go ad limina apostolorum. |
0:42.3 | It means to the threshold of the apostles, meaning Peter and Paul to go to their tombs to pray. |
0:48.3 | And then while we're there, we also visit with the successor of St. Peter, the Pope and then his |
0:53.4 | curia. So the idea is to kind of give a report on the diocese to the Pope and also to have a |
0:59.2 | dialogue with him and with his curial supporters. So it's my first one. So I'll see. I'm going to be |
1:07.0 | giving when the California bishops go to the Nikastri for the new evangelization. They asked me to be |
1:13.6 | the sort of lead figure there. It just means to kind of introduce the discussion and raise some |
1:19.3 | questions. So and then we see the Pope on our very first day. I know when we're at the last USCCB |
1:26.5 | meeting, there was other bishops telling who had just returned from their ad limina visits, |
1:30.4 | telling us about it. And they said that Pope Francis and Pope Benedict and Pope John Paul each had |
1:35.7 | unique styles of welcoming the bishops. How does it work? You just come in a room and talk, |
1:41.5 | listen to this and that's the format. I don't know. What I've heard about Francis is he comes in |
1:46.4 | and you sit kind of in a horseshoe, you know, a round him and then he says, okay, you know, no |
1:51.8 | formality. What's on your mind? Tell me. And also I guess he says no pecking order, no hierarchy, |
1:57.6 | just anyone that wants to speak, you know, speak. And they've all been very positive about that, |
2:02.5 | like an hour and a half or two hours of conversation with them. All right. Well, today we're going to |
2:08.0 | continue our seemingly never ending series on the church fathers. We keep extending it. It was |
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