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In July, Catholics are encouraged to pray at least 10,000 Holy Hours in the hopes of a \u201cEucharistic revival\u201d across America. Bishop Robert Baron of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota and founder of Word on Fire ministries said in a press release, \u201cI hope many people will participate in this campaign as a public witness to the centrality of the Eucharist.\u201d Participants are encouraged to log their hours on the Word on Fire website, where a map of those who have prayed and a prayer counter is visible to keep score.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Barron described a Holy hour as \u201can uninterrupted time of prayer in the presence of the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. So, in the presence of the Eucharist, to pray for an hour, just as Jesus asked his three disciples at Gethsemane to stay and pray with me for an hour.\u201d According to its website, \u201cWord on Fire Catholic Ministries is a nonprofit global media apostolate that supports the work of Bishop Robert Barron and reaches millions of people to draw them into \u2014 or back to \u2014 the Catholic faith.\u201d The ministry is self-described as \u201cevangelical\u201d and \u201cCatholic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barron encourages everyone to take time to pray, suggesting, \u201cWell, if you can\u2019t do a Holy hour, do a Holy half hour. You can\u2019t do a Holy half hour, how about even 10 minutes a day? Sequester some time every day to focus on the Lord.\u201d The bishop added, \u201cNow, it might be scripture reading. It might be the praying of a decade of the Rosary. It might be simply asking God to help someone who\u2019s suffering. Take the time every day to focus on God.\u201d Barron shared that he believes people\u2019s lives change when they invest their time in the presence of God. The bishop stressed, \u201cWhat I found over many years now of pastoral ministry is when people do that, their lives change, period. They just do.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the bishop, what stands in the way of\u00a0Americans\u2019 faith\u00a0generally is \u201csecularism or materialism.\u201d For younger people, Barron argued that a lack of faith in God can sometimes come from too much faith in science. The bishop said, \u201cThis view, which is increasingly strong among young people, is that all there is, in reality, is the world that we can see with our senses, that we can measure with our\u00a0scientific instruments, the world of our immediate experience. That\u2019s all that matters.\u201d Barron added, \u201cAnd, you know, from time immemorial, people have intuited, no, no, there\u2019s more to reality than that. There\u2019s the world that we can see and measure. Yes. But then there\u2019s a transcendent world in which that world is situated, upon which it depends the reality of God and the things of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

As far as the 2024 elections go, Barron takes no political sides but believes that faith in God should take precedence. \u201cWhat concerns me politically is that let\u2019s say for a lot of people under 45, let\u2019s say, belief in God, that\u2019s much more tenuous, a belief in a stable human nature, belief in\u00a0objective moral values, not as strong as it was,\u201d he said. The bishop added, \u201cAnd I think that basically, spiritual and moral vision is indispensable to a healthy political life. So I would encourage people to get back into that spiritual and moral space, which would then inform their political decision-making.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over 4,000 Holy hours of prayer have currently been logged this month, according to the Word on Fire website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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