Episode 32: The End of the Eclipse: Holy Thursday Homily, April 2019

You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo

ACTS XXIX

Detroit, Catholic, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Evangelization, Fr. John Riccardo, Parish Transformation, Acts Xxix

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🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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We are re-releasing this homily, "The End of the Eclipse," that Fr John Riccardo proclaimed on Holy Thursday in April 2019 because we think it is more relevant now than when it was originally released.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, Father John Ricardo from Acts 29, and I just want to make a quick introduction to these homilies that we're airing right now.
0:10.1	These were originally proclaimed a year ago, Holy Week 2019. And though they're a year old, they seem even more relevant right now, given the situation that we find ourselves in, not just in the country, but in fact in the world as we continue to deal with this pandemic.
0:29.2	The theme, a year ago, was reflecting on the extraordinary things that God has done for us in the person of his son and how those things, those
0:39.1	real moments in history, namely Jesus's death and his resurrection, and then his sending us out
0:46.6	into the world to recreate the world or to be agents of recreation until he gloriously returns
0:52.8	only seem more significant now. Given obviously the
0:58.3	number of people who are sick and who are struggling because of the virus, those who are anxious
1:03.6	about loved ones who are sick, the many men and women who are putting themselves on the front
1:08.9	lines each and every day, whether it's in health care or in other ways of being first responders,
1:15.2	those who go to work so that we can have the things that we need to live our daily lives
1:20.7	and the rest of us who are just simply wondering,
1:23.8	where is God in all of this?
1:27.2	All of those things are addressed in these three, I was going to say short, but they're not
1:33.6	short homilies.
1:35.4	So again, even though they're recorded from a year ago, we pray that the Word of God, which
1:41.2	is the substance and the foundation of everything that's being reflected upon,
1:45.7	will find room in our hearts to calm our fears and anxieties, and to fill us with unshakable
1:54.1	confidence in Jesus who is not just kind or good or merciful, but who is risen and who is Lord and who holds our lives in
2:06.9	his hands. God bless you all. So I'm approaching these three days that have begun tonight, tomorrow,
2:15.2	and Holy Saturday, especially the vigil, has something like a mini parish
2:20.3	mission.
2:21.3	The last one I get to be a part of, if you will, this is the last time I get to celebrate these
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