Episode 157: Invasion On! God Lands Behind Enemy Lines to Rescue His People!
You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo
ACTS XXIX
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🗓️ 25 December 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In lieu of a conversation with Fr. John, Mary invites us all to listen to a Christmas homily from Father John that has touched many deeply and changed the way we think about the Incarnation.
https://stanastasia.libsyn.com/christmas-2018-midnight-mass-homily
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| 0:00.0 | Merry Christmas, everybody, from all of us at Acts 29. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Mary Guilfoyle, and I'm excited to share with all of you a bonus episode that I know |
| 0:09.4 | will touch your hearts deeply this Christmas. |
| 0:13.2 | Over the last couple years, we've spent a lot of time breaking open the Gospel of Jesus Christ |
| 0:18.5 | and, in fact, have turned it into a soon-to-be-released video |
| 0:22.6 | experience called the Rescue Project, which we're excited to release in late next year. |
| 0:30.6 | But my husband and my daughter and I were at Mass on Christmas Eve in 2018 when Father John first started to preach in a language |
| 0:40.5 | that has become so familiar to all of us now. |
| 0:43.5 | And it made a tremendous impact on us that night. |
| 0:47.1 | And because of that, we wanna share this homily |
| 0:50.4 | from that night with all of you this Christmas day. |
| 0:55.3 | Merry Christmas, friends, and God bless you from our X-29 family to yours. |
| 1:01.8 | What are we celebrating? |
| 1:05.4 | Why is everything still so messed up? |
| 1:10.0 | What impact does what we're celebrating have on your life and mine right |
| 1:14.6 | now tonight? And how should you and I respond? Those are the four questions on my mind |
| 1:22.6 | on this Christmas morn now. What are we celebrating? Why is everything still so messed up if we're celebrating? |
| 1:31.9 | What impact does this have on your life and mind tonight? And how should you and I respond? First, |
| 1:39.3 | what are we celebrating? This should be obvious, but I don't think it is. |
| 1:49.0 | I'm struck actually by how many people don't seem to really know the basic message of the gospel. |
| 1:58.0 | Let me try to offer you an image which has been particularly helpful for me. |
| 2:03.6 | Imagine that you and I are not Americans, that were French. And it's not 2018. It's 1944. |
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