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

That's me. I'm Father John. I am the executive director at Acts 29, where we talk about anything and everything having to do with transformation in the church.

And this week, I'm here with, well,

actually I'm here with nobody. That's because what we thought we do this week, especially given

all of the attention that has been garnered in the church with regards to the bishop's meetings

these past few days and all the discussion on the Eucharist and just whether or not

there are any conditions for any of us to be receiving Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

I thought what we would do is we would share this week what I find to be one of the most

extraordinary homilies I've ever heard in my life, given by Bishop Daniel Flores,

who's down in Texas now, who once served here in the Archdiocese in Detroit where we're stationed as an auxiliary bishop.

So Bishop Flores, for those of you who don't know him, I always kind of half-jokingly refer to, was something of a hybrid between Frank Sinatra

and Fulton Sheen, Bible in one hand, and a cigarette in the other, and just an extraordinary

preacher and a great gift to the church. So he gave this homily back in April of 2008 at a men's conference here in the Archdiocese

of Detroit, and it's one of those homilies that I go back and listen to probably two or three times a

year at least. And because we find it to be so good and so spot on, and probably also because

it's just so encouraging when we hear our shepherds talk

strongly and pastorly and charitably about what it means to be a disciple and of the challenging

question from Jesus in John chapter 6 do you want want to leave too? After so many walk away,

after his teaching on the real presence, we just thought it would be a great homily to share with

everybody this week. So enjoy, sit back, and let's just continue to pray for our shepherds in a

particular way, for all those who teach the Catholic faith,

whether they're priests or deacons or parents or catechists or lay leaders.

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