Episode 176: I Had No Idea!
You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo
ACTS XXIX
4.8 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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In this episode, Fr. John and Mary pull back the curtain and share a bit about their ministry to priests and invite everyone to pray for them and think about ways they can come alongside their pastors to help encourage and support them.
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| 0:00.0 | 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, as always, with partner and mission. Great teammate, Mary Guilfoyle. |
| 0:18.4 | Mary, welcome to the month of May. |
| 0:19.7 | Can't believe it. It's May 1st. |
| 0:21.5 | I know. |
| 0:22.0 | It's the month of our lady. |
| 0:23.4 | Not in my month. |
| 0:24.5 | It's a month of our lady. |
| 0:26.0 | A beautiful month. |
| 0:27.1 | Amen. |
| 0:27.8 | And an appropriate month for us to bust open this topic, huh? |
| 0:30.8 | What is our topic today? |
| 0:31.7 | Absolutely. |
| 0:32.3 | So our topic for today, Father John is, I had no idea. I had no idea. I can't wait to break this open. |
| 0:38.3 | Let's pray first, shall we? |
| 0:40.1 | In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:42.9 | Amen. |
| 0:44.0 | Father, we just surrender this time to you right now. |
| 0:46.3 | We ask for your Holy Spirit to anoint this conversation, |
| 0:50.8 | and in a particular way that it would be a source of inspiration and encouragement and perhaps even conviction |
| 0:59.0 | for those of us who might need to do a better job, a more intentional job of praying for our brothers who are priests, |
| 1:11.6 | of encouraging them, of doing what we can to come alongside them |
| 1:16.6 | so as to help them be the men that we desire them to be |
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