Christian Poverty, Vocations, Wolves, and Beet Burgers w/ Fr. John Burns

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0:00 Australian stuff (meat pies, sausage rolls, pasties, AFL)
8:40 How Fr. John Burns started giving retreats
11:49 Missionaries of Charity (and radical poverty)
24:14 Field of polarity
34:01 Vocations (and the essence of the priesthood and the religious women)
39:35 Dyad (united in two parts)
43:07 Trophic cascade
53:27 Parents
56:25 Preparation time for vows (and marriage and providence)
1:16:59 Gaze of God (Song of Songs chapter two)
1:26:37 Fixation on Hell (and control and fear and judgement)
1:32:56 Relating everything to God
1:35:03 Aquinas on Hope
1:38:00 God tabernacles with us (Matthew 6:5 and the inner room)
1:47:42 Victory channel (and music)
1:56:38 How to remedy functionalism (Start of Q&A)
2:03:44 Solutions to the sickness in the clergy (and concupiscence)
2:07:08 Bubbler
2:08:25 Spiritual direction (and calling)
2:13:08 Monastic life (and Carthusians)
2:22:35 Sacraments
2:24:41 What does poor in spirit mean
2:30:46 What is vocation
2:32:11 Wrap-up