Hey, everybody. Welcome to You're Born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo and Mary Guilfoil.

We're 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.

Mary, happy feast day today.

It's the nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Do you claim like every Marian feast day is your own patroness?

Thank you.

And yes, I do.

I do the same with everybody named John.

Thankfully, there are a lot of St. John's, and I need them all.

Super excited as we continue to, we mentioned last week. We're kind of returning back to the Sunday

readings, but we're zeroing in a special way in the Psalms, which almost always get neglected

at Mass. I don't know if it's because somebody stands up there and starts singing it that people

don't realize this isn't like half time. You know, it's actually part of the word of God.

It's one of the readings. It's not supposed to be changed to some other song in a hymn book or

whatever. It's chosen by the church for a particular reason because it connects either to the

feast day that's being

celebrated or it ties maybe especially the first reading in the gospel together so what is our

title this week god's extraordinary response to a forgetful and flattering race you of which

i am a member. Ditto.

So let's pray, shall we, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. So good and gracious, Father, we thank you for this day. We thank you for the feast that we're celebrating. We thank you for the reality that is the communion of saints who not only give us great example and inspire us to be courageous ourselves, but who intercede for us

before your throne even now. I just ask, Father, that you would be kind and gracious to Mary and to

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