WOF 407: What’s Next for the Word on Fire Institute?
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Friends, five years ago, we started what has become the largest online community of Catholic evangelists: the Word on Fire Institute.
Where did this come from, what’s the purpose of the Institute, and what’s coming next? That’s what Brandon Vogt and I discuss on today’s episode of “The Word on Fire Show.”
A listener asks, will God still create humans in heaven?
00:00 | Intro
01:17 | Bishop Barron’s USCCB meeting
02:13 | Updates from the Diocese of Winona-Rochester
04:06 | Where did Word on Fire Institute come from?
08:00 | Building an army of Catholic evangelists
09:36 | St. Thérèse of Lisieux and the Word on Fire Institute
11:04 | Introducing Dr. Petrusek, new Senior Director of the Institute
12:52 | What a fully-formed evangelist looks like
14:53 | Why evangelists should be familiar with popular culture
17:36 | Why Catholic evangelists must understand the “nones”
19:31 | The future of the Word on Fire Institute
21:01 | Master’s Degree in Evangelization and Culture w/ University of St. Thomas
22:43 | Listener Question
24:40 | Join the Word on Fire Institute!
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| 0:00.0 | I think a lot of Vatican II remains unrealized. |
| 0:02.8 | That's why people would say, |
| 0:04.4 | let's have Vatican III, I forget it, Vatican II. |
| 0:07.4 | We barely realized it. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the unrealized features is the call |
| 0:12.4 | of every single baptized person to be |
| 0:14.6 | priest, prophet, and king. |
| 0:16.3 | Well, prophet means evangelizer. |
| 0:18.7 | When you go forth from mass, |
| 0:20.2 | you're not meant just to go home |
| 0:21.7 | and have breakfast and watch the football game. |
| 0:24.9 | You're now called for the rest of the week |
| 0:27.7 | to bring Christ to the world, to evangelize. |
| 0:30.1 | MUSIC |
| 0:38.3 | Welcome back to The Word on Fire Show. |
| 0:40.6 | I'm Brandon Vaat, the host and the senior publishing director. |
| 0:44.0 | Five years ago, we started what has since become |
| 0:47.4 | the largest online community of Catholic evangelists |
| 0:50.6 | in the world, the Word on Fire Institute. |
| 0:53.3 | But where did this come from? |
| 0:54.7 | What's the purpose of the Institute |
| 0:56.8 | and intriguingly, where is it going next? |
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