WOF 237: Distraction and Useless Things

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

We’re all hyper-distracted, pulled in so many directions from our phones, to TV, to social media. We’re plagued by notifications, texts, pings, and alerts. Why do we put up with all these distractions? How can we avoid them? Bishop Barron shares how to fight back and find pleasure in “useless things.”

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0:00.0	the highest things in life are useless because they're done for their own sake.
0:04.0	But I think we have so hyper-emphasized the useful that people are often lost.
0:10.0	They don't know what to do with their useless time.
0:13.9	And therefore it's filled up with a lot of triviality.
0:18.5	Welcome back to the Word on Fire show.
0:29.0	I'm Brandon Vat the host and the content director at Word on Fire.
0:32.6	Joining me from the Santa Barbara studio is Bishop Robert Barron.
0:36.4	Bishop Barron, good to see you.
0:37.9	Hey Brandon, always a joy to be with you.
0:40.1	How's it all Gilbert doing?
0:41.7	He's good. He's walking around causing tear.
0:43.9	He's taking swimming lessons now, which is something that all families in Florida have to do.
0:48.5	When they're kids just a couple years old and he's almost floating.
0:52.2	Is he like his namesake yet anyway?
0:54.4	He's like Governe Keith.
0:55.3	Yeah, he wrote John.
0:57.3	Hey, I've liked seeing a lot of the pictures and videos coming out of Santa Barbara.
1:03.4	As you guys try to figure out creative ways to still worship and share the sacraments and the
1:09.3	liturgy with people, of course, you know, you did your daily online masses for a while.
1:14.0	But in your local region of Santa Barbara, one cool thing you recently did was there was a
1:14.0	whole drive-in service at a nearby parish where you offered an addiction, sort of a liturgy
1:18.4	of the word.
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