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Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I am Brandon Vot, the host and the Senior Publishing Director.

And I'm joined today by the new bishop of the diocese of Winona Rochester, Bishop Baron,

who is recording this now from Minnesota.

So it's the first show we're doing here from Florida to Minnesota and instead of Florida to California.

So Bishop, it's good to see you in your new home state.

Thank you Brandon. We're a little bit closer to geography now aren't we?

A little bit and I do want to talk about the installation, but I wanted to tease out what we're going to be discussing here on this episode.

We're continuing our series on understanding the present moment.

So this is a series where we're looking at four influential figures who together help explain how we got to where we are today in the culture.

We've already looked at Karl Marx and Frederick Nietzsche. Today we're going to be looking at Jean-Paul Sart, probably the most famous philosopher of the 20th century.

But before we get to Sart, let's talk about your installation as Bishop.

I had the great pleasure of being there with you along with, I don't know, maybe 20 people from Word on Fire and then hundreds and hundreds of your new faithful there in Winona Rochester.

Talk about that experience. First, Vespers, then the installation mask. It was a whole kind of weak end of activity.

It was, I loved all of it. The Vespers was Thursday night and you know, I actually had a homily sort of written out in plan.

But the last minute I changed my mind and did something much more about evangelization and I mentioned Cardinal George, you know, his famous observation that at the beginning of the church's life, there were no institutions.

There were no institutions, there were no dioceses and there were no hospitals and schools and there's no Vatican. But there were evangelists.

And it was my way of his way of saying and I'm echoing him. That's what's always essential in the life of the church. Everything else really serves that mission.

So that was the first night. The installation was a marvelous experience. Great to acquire. The liturgy was done in a very beautiful, stately way.

The thing that's most moving, you know, when you, you're a new bishop, they give you the, the bowl from the Vatican. So the official statement in Latin that installs you as, as bishop.

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