commit yourself to this extended period of simply being in the presence of the Eucharistic Lord.

That's a holy hour.

Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vott, the host and the senior publishing director

at Word on Fire. What is a holy hour? How do you do it? Why should you start? That's what we're

going to be discussing today with Bishop Barron, Bishop Good to be with you.

Hey Brandon, always a joy to be with you.

You got back recently from another transatlantic trip. This one we kind of teased it out earlier.

I don't think we've recapped it though. You were flying to Rome and then to England for a

couple of big exciting events. Tell us how it all went. Well, it was an interesting trip,

interrupted a bit. The Rome side of it was great. I was there to speak to the Pontifical

Academy of the Sciences. They invited me to speak on science in relation to philosophy and

religion. The outgoing president, Sanchez Sorondo, is retiring and Cardinal Turksen is taking over.

So this was kind of a celebration of Sanchez Sorondo and a welcome to Turksen. So he had this big

to do. And listen for two days to some very interesting voices, including Karen Oberg, who's

going to be speaking at our wonder conference in a few months. Also two people who've recently been

on Lex Friedman. So there were three of us who've been recently interviewed by Lex Friedman,

who were all at this conference. Anyway, that was really good. And then at the end of it, we had

an audience with the Pope. So just about 40 of us came in there to the Apostolic Palace and

Francis gave a little presentation and we all met with them. So that was a joy. But then as you

say, we were supposed to go to England for a whole series of events. This was twice delayed by

COVID. We were supposed to go I think two years ago. Anyway, so I'm having dinner in Rome,

typical Roman style. It's about 9 p.m. or having dinner. And a phone call comes that the queen had

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