WOF 230: Understanding the Holy Spirit

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

What are the basics we should know about the Holy Spirit? Who is he? And why is the Holy Spirit even necessary? Why not just God the Father and God the Son? In today's episode Bishop Barron reflects on the Holy Spirit and explains how to grow closer to him and receive all his gifts.

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Saint Catherine of Siena by Fr. Paul Murray, OP

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0:00.0	But God is Ipsum Essay, God is the sheer act of to be itself.
0:03.6	Therefore God is utterly perfect and personal in his reality.
0:07.6	Now, who's the Holy Spirit?
0:09.8	The Holy Spirit is a person who shares in the One Divine Essence.
0:13.5	That One Divine Essence is the unconditioned reality I've just been talking about.
0:17.3	Therefore, of course, the Holy Spirit is personal as the Son is personal, as the Father is personal.
0:30.8	Welcome back to the Word on Fire show.
0:34.4	I'm the host, Brandon Vod, the content director at Word on Fire.
0:38.1	Joining us from Santa Barbara is Bishop Robert Barron.
0:41.7	Bishop Barron, good to see you.
0:42.9	Hey Brandon, good to see you as always.
0:46.5	Hey, one of the most exciting new books that we've released just came out a couple weeks ago.
0:50.8	And I know it's very special to you, given your connection to the author,
0:54.9	is a book titled St. Catherine of Siena.
0:58.4	And it's by Father Paul Murray.
1:00.5	Talk a little bit about the new book and your relationship to Father Paul.
1:04.3	Yeah, we've been friends for about 20 years now.
1:06.3	And Father Paul teaches spirituality at the Angelicum, the great Dominican University in Rome.
1:11.4	And I think one of the really leading spiritual writers in the world today.
1:16.8	So we were delighted that he was willing to contribute to this series of ours.
1:21.7	And it's a book on St. Catherine, who is one of his great mentors and heroes.
1:26.8	And it's a really penetrating, interesting study of St. Catherine of Siena.
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