Hey, everybody. Welcome to You Are Born for this with Father John Ricardo. That's me. I'm your host and the executive director of Acts 29, where we talk about anything and everything related to transforming not just parishes, but the church. And as always, I'm here with Mary and Nick, my co-hosts, guys, it's good to have you back

in the midst of these crazy times.

He did a crazy day.

It's great to be here.

Nick, what's our topic today?

Father John, we have a great one lined up.

It is unprecedented times, unprecedented prayer.

So, Father John, let's do that, right?

Let's pray. Yeah, with that in mind, let's pray in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.

Father, we ask that you would bathe this conversation right now with the power of your Holy Spirit,

the Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, who continues to move amongst us, who continues to inspire and to guide us, to give us the gift of

wisdom, to illuminate our minds, most especially in these unprecedented days that we find

ourselves living in right now. We just pray for your anointing on our conversation that it would

be fruitful to all who are listening but most especially

to those who actively serve in the church that we might know what it is you're asking us to do

and that you would give us the courage to do it and we ask all this in Jesus's name.

Amen. Amen. The name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. So I might just say

something real quick. So this really did come to us this morning. We had a completely other

podcast planned, and then we felt like the Lord was given us the inspiration. So we're going to act

on this. So if this sounds like we're talking over each other, we probably are. Because

I just threw out some thoughts and tried to act on what it is

that we feel like the Lord wants us to do. And it's really prompted simply by this reality that we

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