Hey, everybody. Welcome to you. We're born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo and Mary Guilfoyle. We're a couple of missionaries at Acts 29, and this is the podcast where we talk about the Word of God, how it brings transformation and renewal into our own personal lives and our marriages, our families, our parishes, the world, the universe, you name it. Mary, happy Monday.

Happy Monday to you, Father John, and I have to tell you how excited I am to return to our,

what I would call our regular format of breaking a world.

You now return to our regularly scheduled programming.

And hopefully, hopefully today's sound quality is going to be a little bit better.

We've been troubleshooting it off and on last week.

So we'd love to hear from y'all.

Probably a user error.

Who we've been hearing from.

Hopefully the sound is going to be what we want it to be today.

Yeah.

And I'm very excited about what we're going to talk about simply because it flows actually from something we began to speak about last week and what it is that

the scriptures this week lends itself to an opportunity to really lay out in front of people,

something that the Lord's been putting on our hearts, which we think is increasingly timely

in this age that we're living in, most especially as we start thinking about the primary role of

the laity. This is often called primary role of the laity.

This is often called the age of the lady.

I'm not sure that it's actually been the age of the lady,

because oftentimes I don't think priests actually take their hands off the reins

and let the lady do what it is that the Lord's asking them to do.

But we'll get into all that.

So what is our topic?

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