The priestly office leads now to the prophetic and kingly office. Vatican II wanted to remind every baptized person that you’re a priest, which means you’ve got a responsibility to enter into this great act of worship, the Mass. Q: How do you envision this series inviting people to participate more fully not just in the Mass but in the life of the Church?Ī: What I try to emphasize is a very Vatican II idea, with its roots in the liturgical movement: The Mass is the place where all the baptized exercise their priestly responsibility.
So the series has been widely listened to and bought, and I’m happy about that. I think a lot of Catholic educators - RCIA directors, adult formation people - understand how poorly the Mass is understood. The series has already sold exceptionally well, and I’m not really surprised. So that’s what I focused on: what the Mass is and why it matters. But what’s really happening at the Mass? How is it different than a TED Talk with music, or a religious jamboree? Few people are clear on that. We all come together to sing songs and talk about Jesus. I’m convinced that most Catholics stay away from the Mass (only 25 percent show up each week), and that even those who come have, to an alarming degree, lost a sense of what the Mass is. My conviction is that the Mass is one of the most misunderstood, or poorly understood, elements of our faith. From there I walked my way through the different parts of the Mass. Q: What about the talks themselves - what was your goal for them, and what is their focus?Ī: The first talk is kind of a general theology of the Mass, an overview. They also had a drone camera taking sweeping aerial shots of Santa Barbara. I gave the talks, and Spirit Juice put together the presentations with lots of beautiful graphics and music. We had about a thousand people come out to Our Lady of Sorrows, a beautiful church in downtown Santa Barbara, and we filmed these talks that I gave, walking through the Mass. What can you tell us about the development of the videos and about the series itself?Ī: We, the Word on Fire team, developed the series in conjunction with Spirit Juice Studios, with whom we’ve worked many times. Q: We understand you have a new series about the Mass.
Bishop Barron after Easter Mass in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1986 in the Archdiocese of Chicago.īishop Barron spoke with Catholic Digest about his latest work, The Mass, a six-part video series that explains the liturgy, and some of his other projects. Since 2015 he has served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, a global media apostolate.
Bishop Robert Barron is one of the most widely read and respected clergy members in the Church today.
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