Hey, everybody. Welcome to the You Were Born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo. That's me. I'm Father John.

Last I checked, and oh, Bottlehead Nick is back and Mary's live. How you doing, sister?

I'm doing great. It's great to be back in the chair. I miss being with you guys last week.

Yeah, and as usual, when you're not here, people ask, oh, oh, hey, hope you don't know. Okay. Are you sick? It's like, no, she just wasn't here for the podcast. And Nick's not here either. So don't worry, Nick's fine. He's just not able to be with us. We are all recuperating from three pretty intense weeks of travel,

and it's got some awesome things to report.

And that's really the title of our podcast, isn't it?

It is, Father John.

It's great to be able to put our suitcases away for about maybe three more weeks.

And so the topic for today is a prayer for repentance, reconciliation,

and unity in the church,

and especially the priesthood.

So Father John, before we tackle that one, will you pray us in?

I'm going to pray for that one.

All right.

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

Amen.

Father, in these great days of Easter, and especially as we continue to get ever closer

now to the celebration of Pentecost and the outpouring of your Holy Spirit.

But we ask that in our day and age, the Spirit would fall afresh upon the Church.

And especially today, we ask that the Spirit would fall afresh upon me and all my brother priests, that he would make us ever more united, rid us of any and all division,

any ways that the enemy tries to hinder the efforts that you have entrusted to us,

that he would be exposed, that we would repent, that we would be

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