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You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo

Episode 348: Praise the Lord, Who Lifts Up The Poor, That Is, Me.

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

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, as Fr. John and Mary discuss Psalm 113, they reflect on how important it is to see ourselves as being among “the poor.”

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0:00.0

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

0:05.6

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 you and I can be agents of transformation and recreation. Mary, how are you? I'm doing great, Father, Sean. How are you? I'm doing great, thanks. I'm excited this week. We're going to be in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. We're going to be at the Church of the Resurrection in Ellicott City, and we're looking so forward to being there. Yeah, we're going to be there Wednesday night with, I think it's wide open to anybody, so probably if you're in South Dakota, it might be a little far to come, but looking forward to being with folks then. And then we're going to be the next day with, I think a large group of pastors and parish leaders and just super excited to have the opportunity to be out there in that part of the country. And so please

0:54.3

pray for us and for all those who are going to attend that the Lord would both put his words in

0:59.5

our mouth and open up the ears and the hearts of all those who are going to come to kind of just

1:04.4

continue to grasp his vision for what it is he's asking of us. Amen. Gosh, that's that's something we all need,

1:09.3

right? Father John, to see as he sees. And

1:12.1

speaking of God's vision, we also want to remind all of you, our dear friends, about the Jesus

1:18.3

conference that's happening October of next year. It's October 2nd through the 4th. It's going to be

1:23.4

happening here in Plymouth, Michigan at the St. John's Resort. It's going to be Friday,

1:28.6

Saturday, and Sunday. It's going to be amazing. We just chatted with Sarah Kroger last week,

1:33.9

who's going to be able to be with us and just lead us in worship. So we'd love to have you

1:37.7

all come. And if you want to learn more about the Jesus conference, go to axe 29.org

1:43.6

slash the Jesus conference and sign up and

1:47.6

we'll send you more information as it develops. That's A-C-T-S-X-I-X.org slash the Jesus

1:55.6

conference. Super excited for this event and we will continue to talk about it as more things become

1:59.7

available and as people are able to buy tickets. We're doing everything we can to make this as absolutely reasonable as we can. We don't want to make a dime. We just want to actually help try to pay a little bit for food. And we in Acts 29, like to feed people. So we joke oftentimes that come spend a week with us and you'll find out that the 29 stands for pounds you gain in one week with us.

2:20.1

Yeah, look at us.

2:21.2

Look at us.

2:22.1

Hey, what's our titles?

2:23.4

Our title for today is praise the Lord who lifts up the poor.

2:27.4

That is me.

2:30.0

Oh, spot on, sister.

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