Episode 79: Imagine This

You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo

ACTS XXIX

Detroit, Catholic, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Evangelization, Fr. John Riccardo, Parish Transformation, Acts Xxix

4.9 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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As much as we want answers to “why,” the real question is “what do we do now?”

In this episode, Fr. John, Nick, and Mary talk about where we are in the country and the Church as a result of COVID-19 and introduce the first in a series of episodes on their white paper, “Re-Imagining What a Catholic Parish Can Be: A Destination for the 21st Century."

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to You Were Born for this podcast with me, Father John Ricardo.
0:08.6	I'm your host.
0:09.2	I'm the executive director of Acts 29, where we talk about anything and everything related to
0:15.1	transforming parishes.
0:16.6	And we are back together again with Mary and Nick.
0:20.0	Nick, welcome back after a couple of weeks off
0:22.5	and the beautiful gift of young little Anne Catherine, who we got a chance to see the other day.
0:28.3	Yes, thank you, Jesus. Thanks for that John. Mary, it's great to be back. And yes, our third child,
0:33.8	our first daughter, Anne Catherine, just born a couple of weeks ago. And so, thank you
0:38.0	Jesus for answered prayers. Healthy mom, healthy baby, and the gift of new life. So yeah, today's
0:43.8	episode, gosh, I know we're pretty fired up. This is dear to our heart. So kind of today's
0:50.0	episode is going to begin almost like a mini series within our podcast. On what we have here at
0:55.2	X-29, it's a white paper. We have just published a white paper. We'll talk about what that is and more
0:59.5	about that in a minute. But that white paper is called reimagining what a Catholic parish can be
1:05.5	a destination for the 21st century. And you can find this white paper at imagine this.
1:12.4	That x29.org.
1:14.1	And as always, Acts 29 is spelled A-C-T-S-X-I-X.org.
1:20.4	So we want to immediately be clear about why we wrote this white paper,
1:24.5	why we felt led by the Holy Spirit to publish this.
1:27.1	And it's really because we are convinced here from our own experience in both priestly and parish ministry,
1:34.7	as well as our experience in ministering to priests and parishes across the country,
1:39.2	that the present model of parish life is really unsustainable and is not what God is asking for in these days.
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