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You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo

Episode 355: The Temple That Is You

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

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On this feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica, Fr. John and Mary explain what this feast is about, and then reflect on the readings assigned for this feast in general, before highlighting several key themes in Psalm 46.

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0:00.0

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

0:05.9

Guilfoyle. We're a couple of missionaries at Acts 29. And this is the podcast where we talk about

0:11.1

how acquiring a biblical worldview brings us great hope in the God who created and rescued this

0:16.5

world in order that you and I can be agents of transformation and recreation. Mary, welcome back to

0:23.6

New England. You used to live here, didn't you? I know, you know, Father John, I was thinking,

0:27.1

I wonder if those friends of ours who listen, wonder just like, has she just lived like everywhere?

0:32.0

Pretty much you have. Every state. Does she claim as her own? Yeah, it's great to be back in

0:36.2

Newport. My husband and I and our daughter lived here many decades ago.

0:40.5

She was three years old when we lived here.

0:42.4

Oh, my gosh.

0:43.0

Steve was going through Naval Justice School because he was a JAG officer.

0:47.0

He was an attorney for the Marines.

0:49.3

Oh, wow.

0:49.8

And so we spent a beautiful amount of time here.

0:53.8

And I think Newport is probably one of the most, one of the prettiest places in New England. Not a lot of daylight though right now, thanks to daylight, savings time. That's where we are. That's where we are. But we are out on mission with the Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island. And so we're here with the bishop and priests for a few days, and then we're

1:11.3

going to be with the curia, and then we're going to be with some parish leaders. So we just ask

1:15.3

everybody to please pray for that, even as the mission in Wichita was just drenched with grace.

1:22.0

So we're anticipating the Holy Spirit to drench our time here with grace. But we know

1:26.2

how desperately we rely on people's prayers.

1:29.0

And so we ask you to pray for us and for the bishop and all those brothers and sisters who will

1:33.2

be with us this week. Absolutely. And one more reminder before we move into our conversation is we

1:39.5

just want to remind everybody about the Jesus conference, mobilizing the church for the world he loves.

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