Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of God
Jun 10, 2026 · 11 min · 6 segments
What does it mean for us as human beings to flourish? What does it mean to have dignity as a human person? And what is the common good for all people? He goes through a whole hundred and…
Brendan McGuireHost
I think we did a good job, but there was something else more powerful that took place.
Like for example, down in Los Angeles, What struck me more than the presentations was the conversations we had at breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day.
I found it interesting that it's like, you know, over 50 different priests representing 50 different communities, but it's the one common struggle was that everyone was distracted and out of time.
Everyone was so busy that they were struggling to keep up focusing on the real message of life, the real message.
And ironically, this is the very thing that Pope Leo has done in his encyclical, is that he's reframed the whole conversation of artificial intelligence around human flourishing and human dignity.
And what does it mean for us as human beings to flourish? What does it mean to have dignity as a human person? And what is the common good for all people? And he goes through a whole 135 years of church's social teaching to refocus our energies on that.
But what was interesting was that this distraction, or as we hear in today's readings today, is that we're distracted.
Remember now the context is Moses is not going to enter into the promised land himself.
He has been journeying with them for 40 years and been up and downs in life, and he is at the edge of the Jordan River, and he's giving them his final sort of debt wishes.
In this land of milk and honey of abundance, don't forget who took care of you in the desert.
And he asks them then, well, here in the next section, you've got a choice of life and death.
I think we did a good job, but there was something else more powerful that took place.
Like for example, down in Los Angeles, What struck me more than the presentations was the conversations we had at breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day.
I found it interesting that it's like, you know, over 50 different priests representing 50 different communities, but it's the one common struggle was that everyone was distracted and out of time.
Everyone was so busy that they were struggling to keep up focusing on the real message of life, the real message.
And ironically, this is the very thing that Pope Leo has done in his encyclical, is that he's reframed the whole conversation of artificial intelligence around human flourishing and human dignity.
And what does it mean for us as human beings to flourish? What does it mean to have dignity as a human person? And what is the common good for all people? And he goes through a whole 135 years of church's social teaching to refocus our energies on that.
But what was interesting was that this distraction, or as we hear in today's readings today, is that we're distracted.
Remember now the context is Moses is not going to enter into the promised land himself.
He has been journeying with them for 40 years and been up and downs in life, and he is at the edge of the Jordan River, and he's giving them his final sort of debt wishes.
In this land of milk and honey of abundance, don't forget who took care of you in the desert.
And he asks them then, well, here in the next section, you've got a choice of life and death.
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