WOF 382: The Beauty of Hope w/ Fr. John Riccardo
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Brandon Vogt
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🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Friends, in his talk at the 2022 Good News Conference, Fr. John Riccardo speaks about the unwavering trust and hope that Christians are called to.
When tempted to despair, we are challenged to hope that the Lord is addressing the storms in our lives, the lives of others, and the life of the Church.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vaat, the host and the senior publishing |
| 0:10.8 | director at Word on Fire. In his talk at the 2022 Good News Conference, Father John Ricardo |
| 0:17.9 | spoke about the unwavering trust and hope that Christians are called to. When tempted to despair, |
| 0:25.2 | we are challenged to hope. Hope especially that the Lord is addressing the storms in our lives |
| 0:30.9 | and the lives of others and in the life of the church. If you're lacking hope or you're |
| 0:36.6 | yearning for more hope, this talk I think will give you a renewed sense of this theological virtue. |
| 0:43.2 | So sit back and enjoy this talk from Father John Ricardo titled The Beauty of Hope. Enjoy. |
| 0:55.2 | So just a quick word, this is not a talk. I always find it really helpful to say that. I don't, |
| 1:00.1 | I don't, I'm a priest, so I don't give talks. It's intended to be a word. So I say that mainly because |
| 1:08.5 | the title of this has changed three times. It's not the beauty of surrender anymore. It's the |
| 1:12.7 | beauty of hope. I'm not sure if we can see this. Oh, nope, I want to go back. So this is a very famous |
| 1:21.3 | icon. Some of you might be familiar with it. Maybe some of you not. I want to explain it really quickly |
| 1:25.0 | because I believe that what we're looking at right here, and if you know icons, icons are supposed |
| 1:29.2 | to be windows, they're not, they're not drawings. They're actually, they're technically said they're |
| 1:34.6 | written and you, they're means by which we enter into the mystery. This is the mystery of Jesus |
| 1:41.4 | liberating hell. This is where some of us hour right now. And it's certainly where much of the |
| 1:51.6 | world is right now. And it's where some of our family members are right now. Jesus is the one |
| 1:56.5 | in the center, obviously holding the cross. He's standing on Satan's head. This has happened people. |
| 2:05.1 | He's crushed him. He's broken the gates of hell. And you see hands that are stretched out to him. |
| 2:12.0 | He's, he's bringing out of hell out of darkness, out of anxiety, out of sadness, out of despair, |
| 2:21.1 | out of emptiness, out of meaninglessness. He's bringing those who are caught in those places. |
| 2:26.1 | That's some of us who are here right now. It is again certainly much of the world. And unfortunately, |
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