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You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo

Episode 351: Praise Demolishes Discouragement

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

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, mindful of so many things that are tempting us right now to discouragement, Fr. John and Mary discuss for what and how we can praise God, and what precisely praise can do to demolish discouragement.

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0:00.0

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

0:06.0

We are a couple of missionaries at Acts 29.

0:09.6

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

0:15.5

God who created and rescued this world in order that you and I can be agents of transformation and creation.

0:22.1

Mary, ready for another invasion of leaders this week?

0:26.0

It's the best kind of invasion, Father, John.

0:28.1

We've got dear friends coming from across our northern border here in the country.

0:33.3

So we've got some great friends coming from Vancouver, British Columbia,

0:37.1

and we've got some friends coming from just 15 minutes down the road in another diocese. Yeah, I'm super excited. Yeah. And, you know, we love what, obviously we love this piece of the ministry that we do, that we call leadership immersives. But I think one of the greatest things that we enjoy is watching friends of ours becoming friends with one another. Yeah. I love that. That's exactly true. And you know, I was thinking even as we just reiterated again what this podcast is all about, one of the things that I always love, it's one of the highlights of the week for me is when people walk through our doors for the first time because we're in an office park. So it looks pretty sterile from the outside.

1:12.7

People walk in, it's like, am I in the right place?

1:15.5

And then they walk in the door and it's like, oh, I'm in the right place.

1:19.5

All right.

1:20.8

And then after some appetizers and whatnot to kind of warm people up, you give everybody a tour,

1:26.2

which I love.

1:27.3

Me too. And our space is

1:28.6

super intentional about how we've designed it all and decorated it all. And the highlight of our

1:34.2

place is our chapel. But before you get them to the chapel, you walk them through some of the

1:38.9

significant walls in our space. And one of the walls is just entitled reacquiring a biblical worldview, and there's

1:45.0

lots of images underneath that. And I always appreciate how much you stress with people that what

1:50.4

this principle is all about is that it's essential for us not just to see some things differently,

1:59.4

or maybe a better way to say that, is that scripture doesn't help us see some things differently, or maybe a better way to say that is that scripture doesn't

2:01.9

help us see some things differently. It helps us see everything differently. And my goodness,

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