WOF 421: 7 Ways to be Spiritually Great

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Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Friends, we all strive to be spiritually great. We want to be magnanimous, great-souled men and women. But how do we get there? The Church offers a concrete seven-fold path, and that’s what Brandon Vogt and I discuss on today’s “Word on Fire Show” episode.

A listener asks, I’m coming back into the Church after a 15 year absence, and all the words [of Mass] have changed. What happened?

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0:00.0	It's a work of mercy. All of them are. That means they're hard. If they were walking the park, we wouldn't call them works of mercy.
0:09.0	It's an effort. In our sinful fallen world, given my sinful condition. They're always an effort. Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vott, the host and the senior
0:28.9	publishing director at Word on Fire. We all strive to be spiritually great. We want to be magnanimous men and women,
0:37.6	great-souled people. But how do we get there? Well, the church offers a concrete sevenfold path and that's what we'll discuss
0:46.3	today with Bishop Robert Barron joining us from Rochester, Minnesota. Bishop, good to see you as always.
0:52.0	Hey Brandon, good morning to you.
0:54.6	You just got back from your old stomping grounds in California.
0:58.4	You went over there for a few days.
1:00.0	Tell us about that trip, what'd you do and how did it go?
1:03.1	Yeah, I went really for two official reasons.
1:05.3	One was to preside at the wedding of Madeline Lear and her husband.
1:10.5	Madeline's the youngest daughter of the legendary TV producer, Norman Lear, whom I came to know a little bit when I was out in California.
1:18.0	And as a touch of sadness, you know, Madeline got married a few days ago and just a few weeks before the wedding her dad died so
1:25.2	Norman was at the age of a hundred and one so it was kind of a poignancy to it but it was a
1:31.2	lovely wedding at St Monica's Church in Santa Monica so I saw a lot of my old friends back there and presided at that wedding.
1:39.0	Then a few days later I confirmed Shaya Labuff. So Shai as many of our listeners know I met when I was in California.
1:47.5	We did that interview that was viewed by a lot of people. Well he's you know hung in there with his formation as a Catholic and so he
1:56.7	petitioned for a confirmation and asked if I would do it. So I went out there to the lovely
2:01.2	mission of Santa Inez which I knew very well from my pastoral region.
2:05.1	That's where I first met Shaya,
2:07.8	and presided at his confirmation, which is very moving
2:10.7	and a lovely event.
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