Hey everybody, welcome to You Were Born for This with Father John Ricardo.

That's me, Father John, and your host.

I'm the executive director of Acts 29.

And as always, I'm here with my co-hosts, Mary and Nick,

where we talk about anything and everything having to do with transforming parishes,

and that is even more important than ever with all that we're going through in this time

of social distancing.

So, Nick, we got a great topic today, very practical for our priests.

What is it?

Yes, Father John, it is super practical.

So today we're continuing our conversation from the past few episodes where we're talking about our third principle.

Say more about that in a minute.

The third principle, God is the architect.

And in this episode, we want to specifically talk about praying with the mind of a physician or what we call diagnostic prayer.

So as we open this up, Father John, will you pray us into it?

Yeah, absolutely.

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

Father, we just give you this time right now, and we pray in a very particular way

for the priests in our country, especially for pastors and for those who are the closest

collaborators with them, that you would give them wisdom and inspiration as they seek

the guidance of your Holy Spirit and trying to discern what it is that you're asking

them to do right now to

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