Hey, everybody. This is Father John Ricardo with Acts 29. And in the middle of all the craziness

and the uncertainty that's going on right now, it seems from our perspective as a team that it's

worth using these days to reflect in a more deliberate way on the scriptures every day, which

for many of us now is the only spiritual food that we're receiving. And so we're going to do a special podcast series simply entitled,

Be Not Afraid, God's Word in Uncertain Times.

And we'll try to post something every day, usually reflecting on the scriptures,

so that we can listen in on what God is trying to say to us in these days.

On this final day before we enter into the most sacred Chitraum, Holy Thursday,

Good Friday and Easter Sunday in this most bizarre holy week that any of us have ever lived

through anyway, let me share with you a thought which I pray will be comforting for you

and hopeful as we

prepare to celebrate these great feasts even if we're celebrating at home.

It might take me a minute to get there, so I beg you to be patient with me.

So I've been reading, using actually as fodder, if you will, for my prayer, a book put together by a priest, Father William Watson.

He's a Jesuit and a psychologist named Dr. Bob Schutz, who some people might be familiar with,

who runs a wonderful ministry down in Florida called the John Paul II Healing Center.

In fact, we were supposed to go down there as a team to go on retreat, and then it

got canceled because of the coronavirus, obviously. Anyway, this is a book entitled 40 Weeks,

and it's a retreat for priests. And so I started it maybe two and a half months ago, and I found

it just to be extraordinarily rich for any of my brothers who might be listening.

I can't encourage you guys enough to do this.

Anyway, I'm in week 10 right now, which is kind of a culmination of everything to this point.

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