WOF 378: Bishop Barron, Fr. Mike Schmitz, and the Priesthood
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
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🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Friends, in this conversation at the 2021 Good News Conference, Bishop Robert Barron and Fr. Mike Schmitz share about their vocation stories.
This is part of a much longer conversation the two shared. You can hear the full discussion in episode 331 of the “Word on Fire Show,” during which they discuss how they began their ministry on YouTube, their favorite movies, and what inspired them to approach their creative presentations to the Bible.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vat, the host and the Senior |
| 0:10.4 | Publishing Director. And this conversation from the 2021 Good News Conference |
| 0:15.8 | Bishop Robert Barron and Father Mike Schmitz, the popular priest and |
| 0:19.5 | podcaster, both share about their vocation stories, how they became priests. This |
| 0:25.6 | segment is part of a much longer conversation that the two men shared. And you |
| 0:30.1 | can hear the full thing in episode 331 of this Word on Fire Show podcast. In the |
| 0:36.0 | full conversation, they discuss how they began their ministries on YouTube, |
| 0:40.0 | their favorite movies, and what inspired them to approach their presentations of |
| 0:44.8 | the Bible and the fruits that they've seen from those projects. But for now, sit |
| 0:49.4 | back and enjoy this vocation conversation with Bishop Barron and Father Mike |
| 0:53.9 | Schmitz. Enjoy. |
| 0:59.9 | Welcome, everybody. I'm John Barron from Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. And what |
| 1:05.0 | we are doing today is seizing an opportunity. I'm here in Orlando, Florida, |
| 1:11.2 | where the Good News Conference is about to get underway. And the two men who |
| 1:15.9 | are delivering the keynote addresses at this very large gathering of Catholics |
| 1:20.5 | just happen to be with me now. We've got Bishop Robert Barron and Father Mike |
| 1:25.1 | Schmitz. And it's no doubt that they are maybe predominantly responsible for the |
| 1:30.2 | fact that this conference is sold out at this point. So everybody is |
| 1:33.8 | thrilled and looking forward to seeing you too over the weekend. They, of course, |
| 1:38.1 | are two of the most prominent and most widely followed Catholic churchmen in the |
| 1:43.3 | US. They are master evangelists, speakers, authors, Bishop Barron is, of course, |
| 1:50.4 | the founder of Word on Fire. And everybody knows Father Mike from his ubiquitous |
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