WOF 286: Sanctifying the World

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Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Bishop Barron recently visited the University of St. Thomas in Houston, where he had the great privilege of preaching at their baccalaureate Mass. In his homily, shared today on the podcast, he said we must remember that the primary purpose of a Catholic university is evangelization, the proclamation of the lordship of Jesus Christ. Therefore, education must equip and form graduates to sanctify the world, so that the light of Christ can be brought into workplaces, classrooms, and trades.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vat, the host and the senior content director.
0:11.3	Today, we share with you a recent homily Bishop Aaron preached at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas.
0:19.5	He was there on May the 7th to pray with the graduates for their baccalaureate mass.
0:26.5	In his homily, Bishop emphasized that we must remember that the primary purpose of a Catholic
0:31.7	University is evangelization, the proclamation of the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Therefore, he said,
0:39.0	education must equip and form graduates to sanctify the world so that the light of Christ can be
0:45.8	brought into workplaces, classrooms and trades. It's a really great homily. We hope you enjoy it.
0:52.4	Next week, Bishop Aaron will be back in the studio with me. We're going to have a great discussion
0:57.3	about the future of Catholic schools. So, look forward to that. We'll be there together next week,
1:03.2	but for now, enjoy this homily from Bishop Aaron titled, Sanctifying the World. Enjoy.
1:09.3	We're going to have a good evening, everybody. Delighted to be with you for this baccalaureate mass.
1:24.6	And especially delighted that the theme of the mass is the new evangelization. I can't
1:32.4	think of a better motif for a baccalaureate mass. First of all, the new evangelization was the
1:38.0	central preoccupation of the Second Vatican Council. My mentor was Cardinal George of Chicago,
1:44.7	and he always said, the key to understanding Vatican II is to see it as a missionary council.
1:53.7	So, one of its principal texts is called Lumen Gencium, right? The light of the nations.
1:59.3	The idea is to bring the Lumen, the light of Christ to the Gentiles, to the nations. That was the
2:08.8	purpose of Vatican II to make the church a more effective vehicle for the evangelization of the world.
2:17.1	Now, read all the popes from Saint Pope Paul, the sixth, all the way through the present
2:21.9	Bishop of Rome, and you see the same theme over and over again, a church that goes out from itself
2:30.7	to proclaim the lordship of Jesus. That's evangelization. Now, listen, everybody. The primary
2:38.8	purpose of a Catholic university is to evangelize. It's got many purposes subordinate to that one.
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