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You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo

Episode 344: Glory Days: Are They In the Past? Part III

You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo

ACTS XXIX

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

4.8652 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In this episode, Fr. John and Mary conclude their series on being able to relive great memories of the past with friends and prayerfully apply those great memories to the mission God is entrusting to us today.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, welcome you were born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo and Mary Gilfoyle.

0:06.5

We're a couple of missionaries at Acts 29.

0:09.4

This is the podcast where we talk about how acquiring a biblical worldview brings us great hope.

0:15.3

The God who created and rescued this world in order that you and I can be agents of transformation and recreation or

0:24.1

sabotage in CS Lewis's language, Mary. How you doing? I'm doing great, Father John, and I'm excited

0:30.1

about this conversation that we're going to have today. This is the last in a series of three,

0:35.4

and I'm just thrilled we got a chance to share it with everybody.

0:37.9

I am too.

0:38.5

So this all flows from a really to continue to unpack an experience that we had when

0:43.6

we were on shutdown back at the beginning of July and the feast of Peter and Paul.

0:47.4

And yeah, so if you haven't heard the last two episodes, hit pause.

0:51.6

Go back, listen to those two, if you're brand new to the podcast or somehow

0:55.1

missed those. And then come back and join us for the conclusion of what's our topic. There you go.

1:02.0

Our topic is glory days. Are they in the past part three? Yeah. So the conclusion of glory days,

1:08.3

are they in the past? And we're not doing a diagnosis of Bruce Brinkstein's song.

1:12.0

I think we should pray on that note, shouldn't we? In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

1:16.5

Amen.

1:17.6

Oh, gracious Father, we do thank you for these summer days that we're living in right now, this time that we have hopefully to at least get something of a break,

1:29.4

even if it's just a couple of days,

1:34.0

to rest, recharge, be refreshed, to pause,

1:39.0

to have ourselves removed by your spirit from the tyranny of schedules and the slavery of work.

1:45.1

So as to continue to learn evermore how to truly be human.

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