Hey everybody, welcome to You Were Born for this, the podcast with Father John Ricardo.

That's me. I'm the executive director of Acts 29, but we talk about anything and everything on this podcast related to transforming parishes.

As always, I'm here with my co-host, Nick and Mary.

And Nick, what's our topic today?

Yeah for the John this episode is conversation is around how COVID-19 and the fallout from it

is providing a unique opportunity for us all to get clear on our roles in the church.

And Padrae let's pray into this conversation.

Yeah in the name of the father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.

Father, we do entrust this time to you right now. We ask for your Holy Spirit to be poured out upon us and upon our brothers and sisters who are listening. We continue to pray for all the pastors in the

church in these days that you would sustain them, uphold them,

give them wisdom and courage, let them to help them to know that you are with them,

that their lives and the people that they care for are in your hands.

With all of our brothers and sisters who are on the front lines in this time, all those

who are sick and suffering from either COVID or from whatever it is that might be afflicting

them. And help us all, especially right now, just to understand that you've given everybody

in the church a unique and irreplaceable role to accomplish your will, which is to get your world back.

So help us to understand how we're supposed to live that out in this podcast.

We ask all this in Jesus' name.

Amen.

So Father John, they're talking about COVID-19 being a hinge event.

And it's funny.

So at my house, we're kind of having a hinge event right now, right?

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