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You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo

Episode 104: No love, no Eucharist!

You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo

ACTS XXIX

Detroit, Catholic, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Evangelization, Fr. John Riccardo, Parish Transformation, Acts Xxix

4.9624 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

No love, no Eucharist!

In this episode, Fr. John, Nick, and Mary talk about a story that occurred in 390 when a Roman emperor who had been refused communion by his bishop publicly repented and returned to the Church. Do we believe that things like this can happen today?

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, welcome to the You Are Born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo.

0:08.8

I'm your host, Father John.

0:09.8

I'm the executive director at Acts 29, but we talk about anything and everything related to transforming the church and making our way through Advent as usual.

0:18.7

I'm here with my co-host, Nick Mary.

0:20.3

How are you guys doing?

0:21.4

Hey, it's great to be with you guys today.

0:23.7

It's kind of mellow over there. I know, but you've been like pumping in hot chocolate and coffee all

0:28.9

morning. We've been laughing a lot actually trying to try to get rid of this one. We have been.

0:32.5

No laughing matter though. What's our topic today, bro? is not. It is no laughing matter. Seriously. We're talking about examples of courage and charity and speaking truth to power and then what

0:44.1

we can do about it.

0:45.2

None of those things seem relevant, quite frankly.

0:47.2

Courage, charity, truth to power.

0:49.3

Oh, no, actually they're pretty relevant, aren't they?

0:51.3

They're extremely relevant.

0:52.3

Yeah, absolutely.

0:53.3

We need people who are willing to speak to truth right now in a big way.

0:56.6

Do we ever?

0:58.6

All right, let's pray in.

0:59.5

In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.

1:02.1

Father in a very special way in this feast of St. Ambrose,

1:07.0

this tremendously heroic and courageous shepherd of the past,

1:15.9

we ask his intercession for all of our leaders,

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