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.

If you're hungry for that encounter, if you're dying to know the love of God, which

alone makes sense out of life, if you're longing to know that you matter so much and that

his power can fill you with all that you need so that you can be the man or the woman

that you want to be, 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.

This is the second part of a six-part mission series called

No Greater Love Has a Man Than This.

Here is Father John Ricardo.

Father, we have just feasted on the body and the blood of your son, whose sacrifice has

made our peace with you and restored us to friendship with you. Father, we pray that the power

of the sacrament that we have just received would continue to flow through us and transform us

and give to us tonight in a particular way the grace to be merciful as you have been with us.

Lord, these are tremendous days of reconciliation.

So we ask that you would give us an abundance of your Holy Spirit

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