Episode 156: Something Momentous This Way Comes!
You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo
ACTS XXIX
4.8 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Fr. John and Mary look at the genealogy of Jesus that we'll hear on Christmas Eve and talk about why it is a source of such great hope for us right now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to you. We're born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo. That's me. I'm Father John. I'm the executive director at Acts 29, where we talk about anything and everything having to do with transformation in the church and in these days leading up to Christmas. I'm here as always with my partner in mission, dear sister on our team here, Mary Guilfoyle. |
| 0:22.6 | How are you, Mary? |
| 0:24.6 | John, I am great. |
| 0:26.6 | And I just have to tell you as I was driving here |
| 0:29.6 | to record this podcast, I was just struck with, |
| 0:34.6 | I don't know, maybe an extra dose of gratitude that you and I get to have conversations once a week with our friends. |
| 0:43.7 | And just what an extraordinary privilege that is. |
| 0:45.9 | I just don't want to take that for granted. |
| 0:47.6 | You and I look forward to this every week. |
| 0:49.8 | And we're just grateful for all of you, our brothers and sisters and friends who listen in. |
| 0:54.5 | Amen. |
| 0:55.4 | What a great point. |
| 0:56.6 | Very early, merry, blessed grace-filled Christmas to everybody. |
| 1:00.5 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:02.2 | So flowing right from that and from our well wishes and prayers for our brothers and sisters who listen, what's our title? |
| 1:08.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.0 | So our title for today is something |
| 1:11.7 | momentous this way comes. How's that for a hook? I like that. Okay, let's pray in the name of the |
| 1:18.5 | Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Amen. Father, we just offer this time to you right now. We pray for |
| 1:24.0 | your Holy Spirit to be upon us, bless our conversation right now the ears and |
| 1:30.0 | the hearts and the minds of our brothers and sisters who are listening. Lord just open our minds |
| 1:36.4 | anew to the unfathomable events that we're about to celebrate. Forgive us for the times we've taken |
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