Hey, everybody. Welcome to the You Were Born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo and Mary Guilfoyle.

We're a couple of missionaries at Acts 29.

And this is the podcast where we talk about how acquiring a biblical worldview brings us great hope and the God who created and rescued this world.

It calls you and me to be agents of transformation and recreation. Mary, ongoing, happy Easter.

Right back at you, Father John. Easter blessings and spring has sprung in our beautiful home

state of Michigan. Yeah, everything is in bloom, which is why I feel like I can't breathe right now,

so I have a major sore throat, so hopefully I can... Your eyes are all swollen. My eyes are swollen.

I can't see.

I'm reading in Braille so I feel like.

So if I choke in the middle of this episode on so many levels, it's because of the weather.

So I'm super excited about this.

We're walking our way through a number of, not all of, but a number of the appearances of Jesus

after his resurrection to different people. And tonight we're going to, or today we're going to

focus on one that I've never heard people really talk about. So what's the title of our episode?

Yeah, God wants his family back. Praise God. Let's pray in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

All gracious, Father, we continue to thank you for these days that we're in,

for all that Jesus has accomplished for us.

His life, death, his glorious resurrection,

his ascension to your right hand right now where he reigns in glory.

We pray in a special way that as we walk through this encounter,

that perhaps those of us who are anxious or worried about loved ones who don't yet

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