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

I'm your host, Father John.

I'm the executive director of Acts 29, when we talk about anything and everything related to transforming the church.

And in this episode, we're going to continue a conversation that we started last week with Father Patrick

Schultz and Father Ryan Mann, two great young priests from the Diocese of Cleveland.

And so we just want to toss that back to everybody as give you a glimpse into the life of

a couple of really extraordinary priests and continue to ask you to pray for them and for myself and for all our brothers

who are out there doing ministry. So as always, let's just pray before we resume that conversation.

So, Father, we thank you for these two men. We ask for your ongoing anointing upon them and upon

all of their brothers who are serving in the vineyard, whether it's in Cleveland or in Detroit

or all across this country. I pray that you'd give them grace, courage, perseverance,

and a deeper and deeper conformity to the sacred heart of your son, Jesus. And we ask all this

through Christ, our Lord. Amen. So one of the thoughts that came to

mind as I was listening to you guys. We were talking about preaching a little bit. When you're

preach, so I think a lot of people are, so let's be honest, right? Most preaching is terrible.

You know, I used to hate it, right? Brother priests, I think you're all great. Yeah, no, everybody out there who might be a priest, awesome, right?

But all the other people who are now dead and in heaven probably.

Yeah, I mean, it's like the biggest complaint that people have, right?

I mean, music and preaching, right?

So most music is whatever and most preaching is, looks like it came out of a, you know, homily.com or

whatever.

I don't think people understand, like, when you go to preach or I go to preach, like, you're

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