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Build the Church, bless the nations.

Ave Maria Radio presents Christ is the answer with Father John Ricardo.

One of my favorite things to do as a priest is to journey with our brothers and sisters

as they explore becoming Catholic in the RCIA program.

The oddity is that oftentimes those who come into the church are the best educated Catholics that there are.

It seems that what we need is something like RCIA for Catholics, for those of us who've

grown up with the faith and have never really learned it.

So I invite you to join those coming into the church as they learn about the beauty of our faith

and hope as well that it will help to draw you ever closer to the God who is truth and love.

I think it was a quasi-divine appointment, if not a downright divine appointment.

I had an interaction today with some folks more or less precisely on the identity of Jesus.

It had to do with our school and some confusion as to whether or not our Lady of Good Counsel

is a private school or a Catholic school.

And we tried to make abundantly clear that we are a Catholic school, that Jesus is in fact

the center of all that we do, and that to be Catholic doesn't merely mean that we're

interested in teaching an ethic,

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