Episode 106: The Gift
You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo
ACTS XXIX
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🗓️ 21 December 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Hope for a weary world!
In this episode, we want you to enjoy an anointed Christmas homily Fr. John preached two years ago and be filled anew with the gift of hope. Merry Christmas everyone!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, this is Mary Guilfoyle with Acts 29 and the you were born for this podcast. We're doing things a little bit different this week because we want to give you a gift. It's hard to believe Christmas is only four days away, but praise God it is because we desperately need to be reminded again and again, especially now when both the |
| 0:22.7 | world and the church are crying, the reasons that we have for hope. We at Acts 29 would argue that |
| 0:29.1 | there's no better time than Christmas to get clarity on the mission of Jesus and understand why |
| 0:34.4 | in the world he came. Given that, we want to share with you this homily |
| 0:38.5 | preached by Father John two years ago on Christmas Day. |
| 0:41.9 | It's as powerful now as it was then. |
| 0:44.6 | Enjoy. |
| 0:45.8 | What are we celebrating? |
| 0:49.3 | Why is everything still so messed up? |
| 0:54.0 | What impact does what we're celebrating have on your life and mine right |
| 0:58.1 | now tonight? And how should you and I respond? Those are the four questions on my mind |
| 1:06.1 | on this Christmas morn now. What are we celebrating? Why is everything still so messed up if we're celebrating? |
| 1:13.6 | What impact does this have on your life and mind tonight? And how should you and I respond? |
| 1:21.6 | First, what are we celebrating? This should be obvious, but I don't think it is. |
| 1:32.3 | I'm struck actually by how many people don't seem to really know the basic message of the gospel. |
| 1:41.3 | Let me try to offer you an image which has been particularly helpful for me. |
| 1:47.0 | Imagine that you and I are not Americans, that were French. |
| 1:55.0 | And it's not 2018. |
| 1:59.0 | It's not 2018. It's 1944. |
| 2:04.6 | And since June 14th of 1940, |
| 2:07.6 | our country has been occupied |
| 2:12.6 | by a tyrannical, demonic regime. |
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