Knowing Jesus is the best gift that any person can receive.

That we've encountered him as the best thing that's happened in our lives.

And making him known by our word and deeds is our greatest joy.

Then join me and dig into the scriptures and the teachings of the church so that we can find the life that Jesus has made us for.

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

He's a priest of the Archdiocese of Detroit and is currently the executive director of a non-profit organization called Acts 29,

which exists to work with pastors and their teams to transform their parish culture

and reclaim the church's missionary identity. He was ordained in 1996. A significant portion of

Father Ricardo studies was spent with St. John Paul II's Theology of the Body. He teaches

frequently from that knowledge base. This program serves as an introduction to our late Holy Father's work.

The scriptures Father Ricardo uses on this program are from Genesis 1 and 2 and Matthew 19.

Here is Father John Ricardo and, in the image of God, he created them.

Let's remind ourselves what we're trying to do.

I'm trying as best we can to give something like a handshake introduction to the Pope's Theology of the Body.

With the hope that some of you will express an interest to want to get into something like a more regimented Theology of Body study group.

This happens at a number of parishes throughout the country.

I was involved

with some folks in Canada who have started one in their parish, some folks out east I know in Washington,

D.C., who've been doing it. And it's just a collection of couples, oftentimes some singles too, of all

different ages and different realms of experience who can bring different things to the table

to try to reflect upon what it is that the Pope reflects upon as he

dives into scripture. At times, and perhaps especially tonight, out of the four different

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