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You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo

Episode 375: Say Not “I Am Too Small”

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 March 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary continue their series on Jesus’ words to the seven Churches in the Book of Revelation. Today, they look at Jesus’ words to the little and seemingly insignificant Church in Philadelphia, ironically, the one that endured the longest of all the seven Churches due to their patient endurance.

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0:00.0

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

0:05.1

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

0:10.7

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

0:16.4

this world and calls you and me to be agents of transformation and of recreation.

0:22.9

Mary, we are getting exceptionally close now to those events that make possible the rescue of

0:29.8

this world and then that propel us out.

0:33.4

I'm eager as I'll get out for Holy Week.

0:35.5

How about you?

0:35.8

Yes, praise be Jesus.

0:37.0

You know, there's a perfect

0:37.9

timing and everything. We're more than halfway there and you get to a point where you're just

0:43.3

ready to step into that which we see manifested on the cross on Good Friday and the glory that is

0:50.4

the empty tomb. Amen. Amen. Amen. I'm super excited for the podcast episode today and for our

0:58.0

conclusion. We're getting close now. We've got one more church after this one today of these seven

1:02.8

churches in Revelation. What is our title today? Our title today is, say not, I am too small.

1:10.6

Well, I like that. About that. Good. I think this would be super important for, you know, many. I pray so. Most of the people who are listening, I presume, are not bishops or archbishops or cardinals. They're just ordinary people. Ordinary people in the pews. And I think sometimes the temptation is to think, oh my gosh, what could I possibly do?

1:34.0

And I think this exhortation from Jesus to this little church in Philadelphia is a really timely word for many of us.

1:34.8

So let's pray.

1:36.8

In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.

1:37.2

Amen.

1:44.5

Father, we thank you again for these Lenton days and for the abundant graces that you've been pouring out upon us individually and upon the church.

1:47.5

Lord, we continue to lift up the world in which we're living, especially those places,

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