WOF 469: 5 Reasons to Be Hopeful in the New Year
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
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🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
One of the defining features of the Christian moral and spiritual life is the supernatural virtue of hope. What is hope? What makes hope more than a mere superstition? How does hope help us live both individually and in community? Can hope have negative consequences, like motivating people to remain passive in the face of injustice? And what, if any, evangelical significance does hope have? Bishop Barron gives us five reasons why we should be hopeful in the new year.
A listener asks how he can find the strength to pray again.
00:00 | Intro
01:14 | Bishop Barron’s 2024 highlights
02:47 | The Christian concept of hope
04:15 | Hope’s relationship to reason
05:12 | Hope’s practical value in life
06:24 | Distinguishing hope from faith
08:27 | Distinguishing hope from optimism
10:21 | Responding to critiques of hope
15:37 | Reason 1: Bible sales increase while “nones” appear to have peaked
19:53 | Reason 2: Woke ideology is losing its grip on the culture
23:27 | Reason 3: Protestants and Catholics have increased cooperation
25:36 | Reason 4: The public response to the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral
30:01 | Reason 5: The Church continues to grow
31:27 | Listener question
33:53 | Join the Word on Fire Institute
Links:
- Article on Bible sales: https://www.foxnews.com/media/bible-sales-surge-thanks-fresh-editions-new-buyers-looking-things-feel-more-solid-report-finds
- Word on Fire Institute: https://institute.wordonfire.org/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Matthew Petrusik, senior director of the Word on Fire Institute |
| 0:04.5 | and the host of the Word on Fire show. Thank you for joining us. One of the defining features of the |
| 0:09.9 | Christian moral and spiritual life is the virtue, the supernatural virtue of hope. What, however, is hope? |
| 0:16.9 | Is it merely a positive disposition towards the future? If so, what distinguishes hope from a secular |
| 0:23.3 | conception of optimism or even wish casting, projecting our desires out onto what lies ahead? What makes |
| 0:31.6 | hope more than a mere superstition? What practical value, if any, does hope have for helping us live both individually |
| 0:39.0 | and in community, including in our shared political life? Can hope have negative consequences, |
| 0:45.4 | like motivating people to remain passive in the face of injustice? And what, if any, evangelical |
| 0:51.0 | significance does hope have? Here to help us get clarity on these and related questions, |
| 0:56.0 | and to give us five reasons why he believes we have reason to be hopeful for the new year is Bishop |
| 1:02.1 | Robert Barron. Well, Bishop, welcome back to the studio on this very snowy, very Minnesota-e day. |
| 1:19.8 | So today we're going to be looking at the topic of hope and connected to that some reasons that you have for us to be hopeful in the new year. |
| 1:27.1 | This episode is going to be coming out right before 2025. |
| 1:31.7 | Okay. |
| 1:32.1 | But before we do, give us a sense of some of the highlights for you from this past year, |
| 1:36.5 | both in your work in the diocese, Winona, Rochester, and also with your work at Word on Fire. |
| 1:41.5 | Yeah, well, this past year for the diocese certainly it's the |
| 1:44.3 | inauguration of our new chance fee office so that was such a joy i mean the first two years is bishop |
| 1:49.8 | here it's been my main preoccupation getting that building you know funded and built and there's a lot |
| 1:56.5 | of headaches involved in putting up buildings but it came out beautifully and we dedicated it last |
| 2:01.1 | September. So that was, for me, the highlight for the diocese for sure, you know. And then also I'd |
| 2:05.6 | say ordaining the first priest I've ordained for our diocese last May. I'd ordained priests before, |
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