Hey, everybody. Welcome to the We're born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo, Mary Guilfoy.

We're a couple of missionaries at Acts 29.

This is the podcast where we talk about the Word of God, the Sunday reading, the first reading coming up for Mass, and how it brings renewal and transformation into our lives.

And Mary, for real this time, happy Easter.

Happy Easter, Father Todd.

So for those of you who were listening last week, we were a week early on jumping out there with a happy Easter.

We hadn't even been through Holy Week, And our friends were so kind if they did notice

that they were too kind to let us know that, hey, what are you guys? What's up with those Acts 29 people?

I think they have their own liturgical calendar. Yeah, we didn't skip Holy Week. We had an extraordinary

holy week, didn't we? Oh, yes, we did. But now we get to bask in the reality of the resurrection. And I'm excited

about this because our episodes today is going to talk about one of the ways that people can

actually come to believe the resurrection is true. So what's our topic? Yeah, and it's closer to home than

we all think. So today's title of our conversation is, are we turning anything upside down?

Yeah, let's pray. In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Father, we thank you for the spectacular truth that your son has risen from the dead.

That on the cross, he has definitively revealed to us that you are a good father.

He's made atonement for us and that he's gone to battle for us against sin and death and hell,

and he's won. Good Fridays of victory and not a defeat. That's the message of Easter.

And there's work for us to do, to bring about the transformation of this world

until he returns and makes all things new.

What we want to be instruments in your hands to do as the early church and turn things upside down

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