Episode 88: Being Priests for Our Country

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

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Being priests for our country, and oh, by the way, that means all of us!

In this episode, Fr. John, Nick and Mary talk more about the National Day of Prayer and Fasting asking for God’s mercy and the healing of our hearts and offer some practical ideas on what to do this day.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome to the You Were Born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo.
0:08.7	I'm your host. That's me, Father John, the executive director of Acts 29, where we talk about
0:13.4	anything and everything related to transforming parishes. As always, almost always, I'm here with
0:20.3	Nick, Mary, co-host. How are you guys doing today?
0:22.7	We're here. We're doing great. Hey, I'm E. Orr. What's up with that?
0:28.2	Hey, we had a really momentous weekend for the Ax 29 family at large and for your family in particular, Nick, eager to kind of unpack that,
0:38.5	and it's going to tie in nicely with this whole topic that we want to talk about today, right?
0:42.3	What is that topic?
0:43.5	Yeah, today's topic is being priests for our country.
0:46.7	Ooh, I like that.
0:47.9	Yeah, so, I mean, this is a fun one because a lot of us don't realize we're all priests.
0:54.1	We all have a common priesthood, so we'll get into that, but Father John, let's pray. This is a fun one because a lot of us don't realize we're all priests.
0:54.1	We all have a common priesthood.
0:55.1	So we'll get into that.
0:56.1	But Father John, let's pray.
0:57.3	Yeah, indeed.
0:58.3	In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.
1:00.3	Amen.
1:01.3	Heavenly Father, we thank you for the day.
1:02.8	We thank you for the gracious gift of life for choosing for us to be alive right now at this
1:08.8	moment and for the access that we have to you
1:11.5	because of the precious blood of your son, which was poured out for us and his spirit who dwells
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