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You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo

Episode 358: The Big Story

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

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

As we prepare for the 1st Sunday of Advent and the start of the Church Year, Fr. John and Mary step back and invite us to consider God’s design for creating the human race so as to better understand the mission that belongs to us all as the Church.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, welcome to you.

0:03.6

You're born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo and Mary Guilfoy.

0:06.9

We're a couple of missionaries at Acts 29, and this is the podcast, where we talk about

0:11.6

how acquiring a biblical worldview brings us great hope.

0:15.8

God who created and rescued this world in order that you and I can be agents of transformation and recreation. Mary, gobble, gobble. Hard to believe, isn't it? Thanksgiving. I know. Thanksgiving. I was reaching out to Elise and her husband just trying to figure out, you know, what they'd like to have for Thanksgiving, and it doesn't appear we're having turkey. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. So we We got to figure something else. I'm not keen on turkey either. I'll bet it's not meatloaf. You know, it's definitely not meatloaf. I ate meatloaf for 18 years of my adult life. And one of the first decisions I made when I went to college, I'm never going to eat me loaf again.

0:55.0

So we're never, so we're definitely not having that.

0:57.9

But you know, it's interesting, you know, the months have flown.

1:02.7

It's hard to believe that we're going to be sitting around our tables.

1:05.9

But gosh, Thanksgiving, we have so much to be grateful for.

1:10.6

Amen.

1:13.8

Amen. This is a time to really make the effort in our personal prayer. But then also, I know you do it around your Thanksgiving table as a family,

1:18.7

because I've seen it. Just a time perhaps to invite everybody around the table to just take a moment and to think about and then to say out loud

1:29.8

one, two, three things that we want to thank the Lord for.

1:32.7

Yeah, amen.

1:33.6

Because everything's a gift.

1:35.2

Name something you have that you have not received.

1:37.7

Amen.

1:37.9

Amen.

1:38.0

Amen.

1:39.1

And it's, you know, we say in the intro to the podcast every week that acquiring a biblical worldview brings us hope in the God who created this world.

1:49.5

And that's really what we're going to talk about this week, isn't it?

1:52.1

We're going to dive into something like his intention behind creating.

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