WOF 273: Abandonment to Divine Providence

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Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Jean-Pierre de Caussade's spiritual classic, Abandonment to Divine Providence, taught that everything falls under God's will, from our delights to our challenges, and our happiness will only be fully realized in cooperating with that will. But does this include painful and traumatic experiences? What about COVID? Bishop Barron and Brandon discuss these questions as well as a priest, Fr. Walter Ciszek, who heroically embodied this spiritual principle.

A listener asks, if all of us were like Jesus, wouldn't the world be really boring?

LINKS

The Rosary with Bishop Robert Barron
Abandonment to Divine Providence by Fr. Jean-Pierre de Caussade
With God in Russia by Fr. Walter Ciszek
He Leadeth Me by Fr. Walter Ciszek

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0:00.0	God is proposing something to me.
0:03.3	And it might look like just dumb suffering as far as I'm concerned.
0:06.7	But somehow in there, God is proposing to me what?
0:11.6	The possibility of love.
0:14.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I am Brandon Vodt, the Senior Content Director here at Word on Fire.
0:29.0	Joining me from Santa Barbara is Bishop Robert Barron.
0:32.4	Bishop Barron, good to see you.
0:33.8	Hey Brandon, always nice to talk to you. How you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing?
0:38.0	Oh, we're doing very well. We were just talking about our little three-year-old Gilbert before the show.
0:43.7	He is in the two three-year-old phase of obstinacy, but he's getting there.
0:49.9	Good.
0:51.1	We've got lots of good stuff to talk about today. We're going to focus on the issue of God's will.
0:57.0	Why does God allow the things that He does in this world?
1:00.9	We're going to learn about the difference between God's active will and God's passive will,
1:05.4	and the unbelievable story of a Catholic priest who spent 23 years in Siberian prison camps,
1:13.1	and later reflected a lot on why God allowed that to happen to great spiritual edification.
1:19.6	Before we get to that, though, how about a few updates here, Bishop?
1:22.8	You've had a lot going on during this time of COVID.
1:26.0	You've had some exciting trips, some exciting conversations.
1:29.7	I got a few here. I wanted to get your feedback on the first one is your recent trip to Dallas. Tell us how that went.
1:36.8	You know, it was good. I was there visiting our office in Dallas.
1:41.2	A lot of these people, I hadn't even met yet. People we've hired since I was last there.
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