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You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo

Episode 373: Don’t Drift

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

🗓️ 9 March 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. Today, they look at Jesus’ words to the Church in Thyatira and how relevant what He said to them so long ago is for us here and now.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome to you. We're born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo and Mary Guilfoyle. We're a couple of missionaries at Acts 29.

0:09.5

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.

0:18.2

It calls you and me to be agents of transformation and recreation.

0:24.1

Mary, I'm a little tired.

0:25.4

I have to say that.

0:26.5

Why are you tired, Father John?

0:27.9

What could possibly do that worry?

0:29.5

We just hosted an extraordinary.

0:31.7

We asked everybody last week, if you were listening to Please Pray for Our Visitors

0:35.5

with us from around the U.S. and Canada who were in for leadership

0:39.7

immersive. And it was just just an unbelievably anointed time. I want to thank those who have

0:45.3

been praying for that because the prayers were so fruitful. But then we're also, we're doing as a team

0:50.9

for Acts 29, there's a family. We're doing a vigil once a week, so we kind of get

0:56.5

up late at night early in the morning. But then the guys I'm living with, the three priests I'm

1:02.1

living with, we're doing a vigil too. So I think for Lent, I've given up sleep. It's sleepless in

1:08.0

Seattle. Sleepless in Detroit. I woke up the other night for the vigil, and I literally was bouncing off the wall.

1:16.6

I was like swaying from wall to wall.

1:18.6

I felt like a wee blow.

1:21.1

You know, I was just trying to, I was wobbling like crazy.

1:24.1

I was just trying not to fall down.

1:25.6

So hopefully I'll stay away for the podcast. How are you?

1:29.4

I'm feeling something similar because of the sleepless thing and the vigil that we're keeping

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