We can’t rely on someone else to do the work for us.
We’ve got a particular take on this thing called Christianity that don’t have. What we place on that should be as high quality as what Michelangelo produced - at least we should be trying. Television and digital expense is going up. Bishop Barron journeys around the world and deep into the Faith to teach us what Catholics believe and why. We don’t necessarily use marble and frescoes to do that in our time, but we use the tools of film. You tell the Christian story in a compelling way. You create good media, and then you get a chance. That entails a lot of sacrifices and costs, but if you create bad media, don’t expect people to watch it. You have to keep your production values high. We shouldn’t be shooting low, just so we can create something. We should hold ourselves to standards that are as high, if not higher, than the culture, than modern media has. What should be the place of the Church in producing modern media? That was his mission, and people found that mission to be so foretelling that a movement arose that was associated with the charism of this person, but it wasn’t his role to necessarily give structure to that movement. He set out with this personal call from Jesus Christ to proclaim the Gospel in this extraordinary way.
He was very off-putting to most modern sensibilities. He was a frightening figure when you really look into it, somewhat of a cave dweller. If you break open that pearl, there’s that grain of sand, and that’s Francis of Assisi. He’s hard for us to take, so we clothe him over time with this mythology to turn him into a pearl that’s easier for us to keep in our gullet.
He’s like the grain of salt that gets into the life story, and we’re the oysters. It was the display of himself as a disciple of Jesus that made him so attractive and strange. We wanted to show that he was a radical Christian, that he was a disciple of Jesus, embedded in these particular circumstances, in this particular period of time. There’s much more to Francis than any of those types of things. What do you want people to learn about him? Each evening is stand-alone, as well: no registration, no previous participation is necessary.just come!įor more information, please call people picture Francis as a tree-hugging vegetarian who spent all day playing with birds and bunnies - but none of this is true. Bishop Barron journeys to the humble remains of Mary’s house in Nazareth, to the ruins of the ancient city of Ephesus and to the great Marian shrines of Lourdes and Guadalupe to explain the Church’s teachings about Mary as the Mother of God, the Immaculate Conception and the dogma of the Assumption. This series is excellent (though not required) preparation for RCIA - the formal process of becoming Catholic. Each time we're together, we'll view an episode featuring a different aspect of the Catholic faith and have a brief discussion afterwards, wherein questions are welcome.
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