Episode 321: Sticks, Stones, and Names
You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo
ACTS XXIX
4.9 • 624 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Fr. John and Mary continue the conversation from last week’s episode on speech and consider how we as disciples of Jesus can be agents of recreation in our culture by how we speak, text and post.
First Reading: Sirach 27:4-7
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Book Recommendation: The Hidden Power of Silence in the Mass, by Fr. Boniface Hicks, O.S.B.
Scriptural Exam for speech:
Prov 15:28 “The heart of the righteous weighs its answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes evil.”
Prov 16:28 “A perverse person stirs up conflict and a gossip separates close friends.”
Prov 20:19: “A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid anyone who talks too much.”
1 Peter 3:10: “For whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech.”
Titus 3:2: “Slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate and always to be gentle towards everyone.”
Prov 21:23: “Those who guard their mouths and their tongues keep themselves from calamity.”
Prov 18:13: “To answer before listening, that is folly and shame.”
1 Thess 5:11: “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up just as in fact you are doing.”
Prov 16:24: “Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.”
Eph 4:29: “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs so that it may benefit those who listen.”
James 3:5: “Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark.”
Col 4:6: “Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.”
Prov 12:18: “The words of the reckless pierce like swords but the tongue of the wise brings healing.”
Ps 19:14: “May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart, be pleasing in your sight, my Lord, my rock and my redeemer”
Mt 12:34: “For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to you. We're born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo and Mary Gilfoyle. |
| 0:06.5 | We are a couple of missionaries at Acts 29, and this is the podcast where we talk about how acquiring a biblical worldview brings us great hope in the God who created and rescued this world in order that we can be agents of transformation and recreation. |
| 0:23.7 | Don't be shocked here, Mary, but we're like 10 days from Lent. |
| 0:27.4 | I can't believe that. |
| 0:28.4 | My husband and I were just talking about that last Sunday, and we're just days away, |
| 0:33.3 | and we were having a conversation, like, are you ready? |
| 0:36.2 | What are you doing? |
| 0:36.7 | What are you still praying through? But you know what, Father i love lent and i know i know you do too it's |
| 0:42.3 | almost like you can tell in the rhythm of your mind in your body and your heart in your life |
| 0:46.5 | when you need that season yeah and i think what we're going to talk about in this episode is |
| 0:51.8 | gonna i know it's going to be a part of my lent it's part of very much something that the Lord's speaking to me about. And I would |
| 0:58.0 | suggest it's probably something that he's speaking to every one of us about. So, |
| 1:01.8 | buckle up. We're going to get convicted yet again. So what's our topic today? |
| 1:08.0 | So our topic today is sticks, stones, and names. Oh, stick stones and names. I think I know |
| 1:14.0 | where this is going. Let's pray. Bring on the prayer. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:18.3 | Amen. Father, we thank you for the amazing gift of life and for the blessing of the gift of faith. |
| 1:25.9 | We thank you for all that you have done for us in the person of your son. We thank you for the rhythm of the gift of faith. We thank you for all that you have done for us in the person of your son. |
| 1:29.8 | We thank you for the rhythm of the church year and for the season that's soon to be upon us. |
| 1:35.7 | We ask for the grace of the Holy Spirit to help us to know how you're inviting each of us very personally |
| 1:42.0 | to best enter into the time of Lent so as to extract from |
| 1:49.1 | it those many gifts that you want to give to us. Mindful that you're such a good father. |
| 1:54.1 | We ask your blessing on our conversation. Help it to foster within us a greater desire to be agents of transformation in this culture that we live in. |
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