Episode 110: Heralds of Hope in an Age of Despair

You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo

ACTS XXIX

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

4.9 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Got Hope?

In this episode, Fr. John, Nick, and Mary talk about their sense of what’s happening culturally, politically, and ecclesially and the urgency to understand what real hope is.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome to the You Were Born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo.
0:07.9	I'm your host, Father John. I'm the executive director at Acts 29.
0:11.9	And here we talk about anything and everything related to transforming the church.
0:16.9	Nick, Mary, still January. We're still standing. And a few things going on right now. How you doing?
0:23.5	Just a few things going on. I had to stop these guys from a laughing fit before we came on.
0:27.8	Oh, my gosh. Catch your breath.
0:29.2	I needed to pinch myself so I could stop.
0:31.8	No good. We're going to need joy for this topic, aren't we?
0:34.6	Yeah, we have so much fun here, X-29. Thank you, Jesus. We do. But today's topic is serious because we're observing something happen in our Christian brothers
0:42.7	and sisters in the church.
0:43.9	So today's topic is a crisis of hope and the need to be exporters of hope.
0:49.4	Ooh, I love it.
0:49.9	I can't wait to get into this.
0:51.0	So, Padre, come on.
0:52.1	Let's pray. Every time we pray in, pray in. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
0:56.0	Amen.
0:57.0	Lord, we just ask for a brand new outpouring of your Holy Spirit upon us and upon everybody
1:04.0	who's listening right now.
1:07.0	We ask for the grace to see you in your magnificence, your beauty, your power, your love, your mercy.
1:18.9	Take our eyes off of ourselves and off of the circumstances that we're dealing with
1:25.0	and the things that are going on around us and put them on to you
1:28.8	who are reliable and trustworthy and faithful and steadfast.
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