WOF 401: A Theology of Work
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Friends, is work something good or bad? Is it central to being human, or a punishment resulting from sin? And how do we understand our work theologically, tying it to God?
On today’s episode of “The Word on Fire Show,” Brandon Vogt and I discuss the Catholic Church’s view toward the dignity of work and the rights of workers, learning from Dorothy Day, St. Josemaría Escrivá, and several recent popes.
A listener asks, what do you mean by the term “transcendence,” and how does it differ from immanent?
Links
- The Theology of Bishop Barron by Matthew Levering
- Catholic Social Teaching Collection by Word on Fire
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| 0:00.0 | come up out of your life of prayer and then apply that to whatever the Lord has given you to do. |
| 0:06.1 | And never say, oh, this is what good is this? No, no, it belongs to the very creativity of God, |
| 0:13.2 | participates in it. And God has given you this work to do on behalf of people. And it might be, |
| 0:19.5 | you know, putting together a camera. It might be sewing clothes. But whatever it is you're doing, |
| 0:25.3 | if it's done with dignity and with truth and with a sense of of its loving purpose, |
| 0:32.4 | that's beautiful. That's sanctified. |
| 0:43.1 | Welcome back to The Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vaat, the host and the senior publishing director |
| 0:48.4 | at Word on Fire is work, something good or something bad? Is it central to being human or is it |
| 0:56.0 | a punishment resulting from sin? And how do we understand work, theologically, in relation to God? |
| 1:02.6 | That's what we'll be discussing today with Bishop Robert Barron joining us from Rochester, |
| 1:06.9 | Minnesota. Bishop, good to be with you as always. Hey, Brandon, how are you with the kids doing? |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah, we're doing really well. We just got back from our long cross country |
| 1:16.4 | trip. We drove all the way out to Denver to have our boys attend Camp Voitiwa, |
| 1:21.5 | which shout out to the good folks out there. And then we stopped by and saw you and Steve for a while |
| 1:25.9 | there. And Mount Rushmore before us, right? And then you went to Chicago. And then back to Florida. |
| 1:31.7 | That's right. It was quite an adventure. But you yourself are just wrapping up a vacation too. Tell |
| 1:36.4 | us about that. How's it been? Have you read any good books during your vacation? Well, I have the |
| 1:40.9 | vacation. I just did a staycation here because I, I traveled so much, you know, the thought of |
| 1:44.7 | getting on an airplane and going somewhere. So I just stayed here at my home in Minnesota and for |
| 1:49.6 | a couple weeks, really, and the weather was great. And I did read things that I, that are not |
| 1:55.7 | connected to projects. It would just be, you know, for fun. One is the intellectual autobiography |
| 2:02.0 | of the great Peter Brown, you know, Peter Brown, the Oxford historian that wrote the definitive |
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