Hey everybody, welcome to You Were Born for this with Father John Ricardo.

That would be me. I'm Father John and I'm here as always with my host, Mary and Nick.

And we are with Acts 29 where we talk about anything and everything that's related to transforming parishes.

Guys, good to be with you, and as we continue this time of social distancing.

Nick, what's our topic today? It's pretty relevant, given the fact that we enter into

Holy Week, huh? Oh, yeah, Father John, this, today's topic is a Holy Week unlike any other and uh i think i think everyone is asking

asking themselves the question um you know how how do we make holy week holy given given our

ability to access to sacraments in this coming week so So John, I know we a lot to talk about.

Can you open us in prayer?

Always, absolutely.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Heavenly Father, as we enter into these great days, this week that the church calls

the great week, the week unlike any other week, the week when we celebrate, call to mind, give

thanks for the mysteries of our rescue from the powers of sin and death. We just ask for an

outpouring of your Holy Spirit, not just upon us and upon the church, but indeed upon the whole

world at this time of experiencing this pandemic that we're living through,

which has stopped our lives from the normal chaos and has created an opportunity for us to

focus our attention on Jesus' death and his glorious resurrection, perhaps in a way like never before.

Lord, we ask that you just cover us, our loved ones, our family members, all those that we care

about, and indeed this whole world with the precious blood of your son, and that we would

emerge at Easter, able to proclaim with new conviction

that Jesus is Lord and because he is, we're not afraid.

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