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Archbishop Cordileone and other California bishops are seen in Rome in January 2020 during their "ad limina" visits with the pope and Vatican officials. (Catholic News Service)
May 14, 2020
Catholic San Francisco
Infrastructure to keep Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone in touch with the faithful now includes a podcast, “At your Word.” The title comes from the archbishop’s episcopal motto. The 30-minute podcast is available at https://archdiocesesf.libsyn.com.
“We are planning on releasing a new episode each month,” Jan Potts, assistant director of communications for the archdiocese and host of the program, told Catholic San Francisco. “The podcast allows the archbishop to speak directly to the people of the archdiocese on topics he thinks important.”
Potts said the first episode addressed the topic on everyone's mind, the coronavirus.
“I also asked the archbishop to tell us what was behind his choice of his episcopal motto, ‘At Your Word.’”
The archbishop said his motto comes from Luke’s Gospel describing Peter and his crew coming in from fishing with empty nets only to be told by Jesus to go fish again. The men thought they would see no fruit in fishing again but went anyway at Christ’s word only to catch so many fish their nets were breaking.
“It is taking the Lord at his word even if what you have to do is seemingly impossible,” the archbishop said in the podcast. The archbishop was proud to remember his father and grandfather who were both commercial fishermen.
Potts and Archbishop Cordileone each broadcast from equipment in their homes connecting over Zoom, Potts said.
“Our podcasting platform is Libsyn but you can find us anywhere you usually get your podcasts,” Potts said.
The site also includes access to the archbishop’s homilies which are now daily from his livestreamed morning Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral as well as his livestreamed Sunday and holy day Masses.