Hey, everybody. Welcome to you. You are born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo, Mary

Guilfoyle. We're a couple of missionaries at Acts 29. This is the podcast, what we talk about

the Word of God, and especially the first reading at Mass for the Sunday coming up,

and how it just blows the lids off of everything that we expect God to be and

say and do. Mary, happy Easter. Happy Easter to you, Father John. Jesus is risen. He is risen in the

praise of God. Praise the Lord. He hasn't risen in Michigan yet because we still got dumped with snow, but we trust that.

The tomb is empty. We just...

We know that's true. Yeah. Praise the Lord.

Hey, I'm very excited about what we're going to break open today, just because I think it's a great illustration for how much more is in the Word of God than we might expect at first pass.

We both had an experience of, well, we'll share about the experiences.

We're breaking this open.

But what's our topic?

So our topic today is, the first Gentile Christian is a what?

All right.

Let's pray in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Lord, be just thank you for these extraordinary days that we've entered into this time of hope.

Jesus has risen truly from the dead.

He has triumphed over sin and over death and over Satan.

He's given hope to our race.

He's shown us the love that you have for us. He's made

atonement for us. He's gone to war to rescue us, and we are filled with joy. So we just ask for

your Holy Spirit to come upon us, to be with us in our conversation right now, that all that we're

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