Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Matthew Patrucic, Senior Director of the Word on Fire Institute and

your host. Today we bring you a recent talk by Bishop Barron from the Good News

Conference. In this keynote Bishop Barron addresses in depth what it means to be a full witness to Jesus Christ.

Enjoy. Well, God bless you all, thank you. That was very nice and love this conference.

Delighted to be part of this from the beginning and to see it succeeding over these

years is just a source of great joy for me and a source of hope for the church so

thank you everybody for being here. As you can tell I got a little bit of a cold, so I'll be sipping some little water during this

hope my voice makes it through the night. I thought before getting to my formal talk,

well of course, maybe I could just give you the homily I was planning

to give earlier tonight.

I thought I'd tell you a little bit about the Synod. I've been on a bit of a roller coaster the last about six weeks or seven weeks.

I met with the priests of my diocese at Lake Okabojia, Iowa. Anyone know where that is. It's a resort, you know? It's a nice little town and the

priests of my diocese go there yearly for a retreat. So I gave a series of talks in Okaboj and then I went directly from Okaboji to

Roma boji. The Pope had called all the Synod members over for a retreat.

So we went to a place called Sacrofano, which is just north of Rome,

a retreat center, and we spent three or four days there,

listening to spiritual talks and attending the liturgy,

and in many ways the Synod began on the retreat because during the afternoons we gathered into

these small groups and began the process of you know

talking through some issues. The Senate began formally I think on October

the 4th, lasted until October 29th. So it was a bit of a slog I must say the

Senate. I was at the Senate five years ago on young people and that too was four weeks and it was

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