Hey, everybody. Welcome to You Were 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. I'm here in this octave of Christmas with my partner in mission

here on our team. Mary Guilfoyle. How are you, sister? I'm great, Father John. Merry Christmas.

Are you enjoying these Christmas days?

I am. We are.

And we have, I think, oh gosh, we have something I've been dying to talk about since I first came across this story a couple of weeks ago now.

And it is, I just find it to be something like God's Christmas gift

to someone absolutely and utterly undeserving of it right so what's our title so our title for

today's conversation is you can't even have him oh I can't wait to break this over okay father

John let's pray In the name of the

Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Father, we just want to thank you for these extraordinary

days that we're in this time as we give thanks for the gift of your son, for all that he has done

for us and for the entire human race. We thank you for the unfathomable nature of your

mercy, which is truly limitless in desires all men and women to be saved.

We prayed that this conversation would give us all hope right now, especially for those

that we feel most distressed over or are tempted even to despair over their conversions.

Lord, just remind us again and again that there is no one like you and that your power and

your love and your mercy are beyond all telling. All this we ask in Jesus' name. Amen.

Amen. In the name of the Father and the Son and the

Holy Spirit, amen. Okay, Father, you've been wanting to talk about this? Let's dive in. Yeah, so we miss

the Feast of Stephen. Right. So we're in the octave of Christmas and the first day after Christmas,

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