WOF 311: Bishop Barron Q&A on Discernment

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Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Friends, at the recent FOCUS SEEK, seminarians and young people discerning their vocation asked me range of questions about calling and vocations, including:

Did Bishop Barron ever consider religious life?
How should we use philosophy to approach and interact with theology?
What should we do about a “dark night of the soul” when it comes to discernment?
How should one discern between dating versus pursuing a religious vocation?
What should women in particular look for when discerning a religious order?
How should one sift through fears and anxieties during discernment?
What is something that Bishop Barron learned as a priest, that he wish he had known as a seminarian?

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vot, the senior publishing director
0:10.4	at Word on Fire. Today we share with you a Q&A session that Bishop Aaron hosted at
0:16.1	the recent Focus Seek Conference. He was speaking with a group of seminarians and young
0:22.0	people, discerning their vocation, and they asked a whole range of questions about calling,
0:27.6	discernment and vocations. Some of the questions include things like, did Bishop Aaron ever consider
0:33.3	religious life? How should we use philosophy to approach and interact with theology? And
0:39.4	how should one sift through fears and anxieties during discernment? So lots of great questions
0:45.3	relevant, I think to anyone, not only if you're trying to discern your vocation, but trying
0:49.9	to make any decision in life, and I think you'll really enjoy it. So sit back and enjoy
0:54.9	this Q&A session from Bishop Aaron from the Focus Seek Conference.
1:05.6	Bishop Aaron, how many years have you been ordained a priest? How many years of Bishop now?
1:10.0	Priest, 35 years. It'll be 35 years in May. I've been a bishop for five years.
1:16.6	Five. Alright. So excellent. And you were a seminary professor and a seminary
1:23.8	rector. I was at Mundlein Seminary outside Chicago. I was a teacher for, I don't know, for
1:29.4	about 20 years. And then I was rector for three years. I think I'm sure I'm the shortest
1:35.5	serving rector in Mundlein's history. His name, rector in 2012 and then 2015 to my great
1:41.8	surprise. I was sent out to our neck of the woods here. Yes. And Chicago's loss, the
1:47.2	archdiocese of Chicago's loss was our huge cane in Los Angeles, but the whole church,
1:51.9	the word on fire continues to benefit. So what age did you first feel the call to the priesthood
2:01.1	and what led you into the seminary? Well, I'd say probably about the age of 16.
2:07.8	I often say it was my reading of Thomas Aquinas when I was 14 in high school or my first exposure
2:13.5	to Thomas Aquinas that kind of woke me up. You know, I was a, you know, I was a Catholic kid going
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