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You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo

Episode 371: He Sees You and He Cares

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

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary continue their series on Jesus’ words to the 7 Churches in the Book of Revelation — Churches that are at one and the same time real places and symbolic of the Church in every age. Today, they look at Jesus’ words to the Church in Smyrna and see what it might mean for us.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome to you. We're born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo and Mary Gilfoyle. We are a couple of missionaries, 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 and calls you and me the agents of transformation and recreation. Mary, this is take two. We were just

0:22.6

about to hit the record button. And then Laura came not knocking, but pounding on the door

0:29.5

because we just lived through a flood in our office. That was fun. Here we are talking about

0:33.0

apocalyptic literature in Revelation, and we had our own little mini apocalypse in our office.

0:38.8

Yeah, Laura literally came in, like, rescuing us. I don't want to be, I don't want to alarm you,

0:43.5

but, oh, we're flooding. We're underwater. So, no kidding. We have about five or six of our rooms

0:50.6

in standing water right now is we're recording this.

0:54.6

And we're going to praise God anyway in this storm.

0:57.1

Always.

0:57.6

And we're getting ready to host about 30 or so folks who are coming in in next week.

1:01.5

Just a week from now from all over the country and beyond the country, actually, for

1:07.0

leadership immersive.

1:08.0

So we're going to ask all of you to pray that our insurance company

1:11.4

and all the people who are doing the work will get to work and make this happen.

1:17.0

So we trust in Jesus.

1:18.0

Absolutely.

1:18.8

Amen, Father John.

1:19.8

Speaking of trusting in Jesus, what's our topic today?

1:23.1

He sees you and he cares, which has already brought comfort to you and me.

1:28.0

Really good news.

1:28.8

Let's pray in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.

1:30.9

Amen.

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