WOF 419: How to Become a Person of Love
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Friends, each of us wants to be a good person. But how do we actually do that? How do we truly become a person of love? That’s what Brandon Vogt and I discuss on today’s “Word on Fire Show” episode.
A listener asks, if I did not inherit the sins of my parents, why did I inherit the sins of Adam and Eve?
00:00 | Intro
00:46 | Update on Winona-Rochester Diocesan Pastoral Center
02:38 | Dorothy Day and the need for corporal and spiritual works of mercy
04:41 | The seven corporal works of mercy
05:50 | Corporal works of mercy as measuring marks for self-examination
06:36 | 1) Feed the hungry, 2) give drink to the thirsty, 3) clothe the naked
10:53 | Direct aid for the needy vs. indirect aid
12:57 | 4) Visit the imprisoned—is this literal?
14:41 | How acts of love can lead to peace
17:27 | 5) Shelter the homeless
18:53 | 6) Visit the sick
21:02 | 7) Bury the dead
22:57 | How ordinary parents can pursue corporal works of mercy
24:12 | Listener question
27:21 | 2024 Lenten Reflections booklet from Word on Fire
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| 0:00.0 | Don't talk about a government agency taking care of these things. |
| 0:04.2 | Don't talk about some institutional program that will look after the homeless and the hungry and so on. |
| 0:09.8 | No, you do it. You do it. There are hungry people right near you. We'll feed them. Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vat, the host and the senior |
| 0:28.0 | publishing director at Word on Fire. Almost all of us want to be a good person. |
| 0:34.0 | But how do we actually do that? |
| 0:36.0 | How do we become a person of love? |
| 0:38.0 | That's what we're discussing today with Bishop Robert Barron, |
| 0:41.0 | joining us from Rochester, Minnesota. |
| 0:43.8 | Bishop, good to see you. |
| 0:44.8 | Hey Brandon, how you doing today? |
| 0:47.2 | Pretty good. |
| 0:48.2 | I hear there's some exciting developments and updates |
| 0:51.1 | with the new pastoral center that you're building there in Rochester. |
| 0:54.6 | Tell us about that. |
| 0:55.6 | Yeah, as we record these words, I'm not sure when the show will come up, but as we |
| 0:58.4 | record them, I just got back from a meeting at the new pastoral center. It's about six or seven minutes from where we're |
| 1:06.1 | recording these words. It's in Rochester here and we're moving you know the |
| 1:09.7 | headquarters of the Diocese from Winona to Rochester and through wonderful donation |
| 1:16.0 | from a great Catholic here and other donors we got property and we're |
| 1:20.5 | building a lovely pastoral center and I brought in an architect friend of |
| 1:26.5 | mine Nicholas from Chicago who was trained at Notre Dame in the in classical |
| 1:31.7 | Catholic architecture and he sort of enhanced the building to |
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