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 R-CIA 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.

On the 15th part of this RCAA for Catholic series, Father Ricardo concludes his sub-series on prayer.

On this program, he provides some church teaching on pilgrimages, and several returning travelers reflect on their pilgrimages.

Here's Father John Ricardo.

Evening, everybody.

We thought we would do something a little bit different tonight as a means to close up our

little series on prayer.

That was given some of the stories that were shared last week,

particularly by people who were here for whom we were praying while we were on

pilgrimage. In praying and then in talking with some other folks who were on the pilgrimage with me,

it seemed like it might be a most fitting thing for us to do tonight to try to bring the pilgrimage

back to everybody. I'm standing here, but I want anybody who feels like they have something to share to

come stand with me.

And I have another mic that I'm just going to kind of pass around, and when you're

talking too long, I'll just pull it away from you.

Because I really don't want to, in any way, monopolize tonight because the experiences that

we all had who were on the trip to Fatima and Lords and Santiago and Santeram and Loyola and the other places that we went to, I think at one at the same time, very personal to us and yet something that happened to us, which we really want to try to convey to everybody back here. And, you know, the purpose of a pilgrimage, I can't say this enough, is for some people

to go for the benefit of others or for the benefit of all.

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