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In this episode, Fr. John and Mary talk about the importance of and give examples of creating a culture of prayer.

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Episode 165: Creating a Culture of Prayer

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary invite Deacon Mark Moriarity to the conversation and talk about the beauty of friendship and the reality of unity made possible through the Eucharist. 

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Episode 234: Never More United Than At Mass

In this episode, we begin to break open the third part of kerygma, which we entitle, “Rescued: God’s Shocking and Unexpected Response to Sin."<a rel="payment" href="https://www.actsxxix.org/give">Support You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo</a>

Episode 7: Rescued, Part One: God’s Shocking and Unexpected Response to Sin

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary reflect on God’s call in our lives to be and do great things for Him as they break open ACTS XXIX’s first core, or apostolic, value: ambitious for God and His Kingdom.

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Episode 388: Ambitious for God and His Kingdom

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary take a look at Mark 1:17 and see in it a remarkably simple yet powerful way we can bring Jesus' healing into the lives of those around us.

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Episode 161: Jesus' Ordinary Way of Healing Can Be Ours

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary conclude their four-part series on changing the way we make decisions and break open how to pray with the mindset of a general in order to prayerfully discern what most needs to happen now.

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Episode 291: Praying With The Mindset of a General

The Inspiration Behind the White Paper

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Episode 58: SPECIAL EPISODE: Re-imagining What a Catholic Parish Can Be

Special guest presenter this week. We welcome Albert Faraj to the Podcast!

Saint Augustine repeatedly warned his flock not to build on sand, meaning not to think life was going to be easy once a person became a Christian. Faith doesn’t magically make all of life’s challenges disappear. Instead, faith enables us to know and to see that with every challenge and every temptation God provides the grace and the strength necessary to endure. 

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Episode 40: Building Our Lives On Rock

A Jewish son, heir to his father’s significant wealth, runs out of that wealth and then hires himself out – sells himself to another – to feed … pigs. Pigs! A Jewish man enslaves himself to feed an unclean animal that he himself cannot eat. This is a truly pathetic state. 

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Episode 8: Taking Back Ground in Our Own Lives for the Kingdom

Are you in need of a reminder that the Church has always venerated the Scriptures even as She venerates the Body of the Lord? The Word of God is rich food! 

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Episode 37: Be Not Afraid: Feast on the Word of God

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary linger over one line from the Pentecost Sequence and encourage us all to call for a daily outpouring of the Holy Spirit in our lives.

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Episode 231: Father of the Poor

Your parish is probably broken and you might not know it!

In this episode, Fr. John, Nick, and Mary continue with their series on their white paper and talk about why re-imagining parishes is so critical right now.

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Episode 82: We Need to Reimagine Parishes Now

Someone crying is someone who is in need or hurting somehow. They are acknowledging they’re not all together and need help of some sort, thus the cry. Isn’t this us when we call out to God for His grace to help us be the men and women He made us to be and that we want to be? 

<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+2%3A1-5&amp;version=NCB" rel="nofollow noopener">1 John 2:1-5</a>

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Episode 64: The One Who Answers The Cry

We in ACTS XXIX think of this mission of ours as priests as being “hopeful lamenters.” Hopeful because Jesus is Lord, and He has defeated Sin, Death and Satan, and He will make all things new. But lamenting because the world is right now groaning in pain

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Episode 47: On Being 'Hopeful Lamenters'

Over and over in these chapters Paul reminds the Church in Rome that God has not and will not ever reject His promise to the Israelites. Furthermore, he reminds the Gentiles in the Church that they are “wild branches” that have been “grafted” onto the tree that is the Jewish people.

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Episode 29: God of Abraham, Forgive

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary discuss the season of Advent that is about to begin and speak about the comforting and sobering reality of being a part of the human family that is constantly in need of mercy and being refashioned by the Potter.

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Episode 257: Humility, Humility, Humility

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary ask for prayers for some work with college students this week and continue to break open everything related to the launch of The Rescue Project.

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Episode 190: The Biggest Mission Field in the World

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary talk about the impact of a book they’re reading entitled, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry and the desire God has for all of us to live more authentically human lives. 

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Episode 119: Is God Giving You Permission to Slow Down and Do Less?

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary continue their series on Jesus’ words to the 7 Churches in the Book of Revelation — Churches that are at one and the same time real places and symbolic of the Church in every age. Today, they look at Jesus’ words to the Church in Smyrna and see what it might mean for us. 

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Episode 371: He Sees You and He Cares

St. Paul was, to put it mildly, brilliant. Few people have impacted human history as profoundly as Paul...

<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+1%3A22-25&amp;version=NCB" rel="nofollow noopener">1 Corinthians 1:22-25</a>

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Episode 58: Let the Holy Spirit Do the Convincing

Dare to ponder the chasm between God’s love and our own. 

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Episode 50: Be Not Afraid: The Grace of a Pierced Heart

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary break open part three of a four part series and discuss a third crucial question to bring to prayer in order to be ever freer for the mission God wants to work in and through us.

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Episode 294: Eavesdropping on the Enemy’s Strategy - Part 3 of 4

Fr. John shares a recent preaching on the importance of restoring the initiative to God; to learn how to seek His good plan for our life.

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Episode 212: Restoring the Initiative to God

What we might not realize, given how often many parishes take up such “special collections” is that while we have become accustomed to such things, nobody ever did this in times long past. 

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Episode 75: Looking Through The Lens of Generosity

What can and should we do to reach the fallen-away and the nones?

In this episode, Fr. John, Nick, and Mary continue to talk about the white paper and speak specifically about how to reach the fallen-away and the nones.

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Episode 85: Why We Need to Reimagine Our Parishes Now, Part III

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary wrestle together with one of the most difficult and challenging Scriptures – the testing of Abraham, and propose something for us to do in these Lenten days so as to grow in our capacity to entrust ourselves and all those we love to the Father.

<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+22&amp;version=NCB" rel="nofollow noopener">Genesis 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18</a>

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Episode 269: The Journey From Love to Trust

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary celebrate the remarkable life of Mary DelPup and hold her up as a model for leaders in the Church to imitate.

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Episode 163: Tell Them To Do What She Did

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary reflect on the increasing hostility towards the Church in the light of Scripture.

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Episode 177: Conducting Ourselves With Grace in the Midst of Trials

As we turn the calendar and continue to read and watch stories of ongoing violence, wars, and division, let us call upon the intercession of Peter and Paul, and invoke the power of the Holy Spirit to fall upon us, that we may somehow further and advance the peace that only God can give and bring to the creature made in His image and likeness whom He so loves. 

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Episode 148: Knocking Down Walls Of Division (Part II)

A Plea from Fr. John for the Church to be Prophetic.

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Episode 80: A Plea from Fr. John for the Church to be Prophetic

I was fortunate after ordination to the priesthood to spend several years studying the theology of the body in depth. I can still recall as if it was yesterday an experience I had sitting outside reading the Holy Father and suddenly realizing I was starting to sit up straighter.

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Episode 51: Pondering God’s Word on the Body

Jesus told His disciples, and us, that it would be better for us if He left, so that another Advocate could come (cf. John 16:7). At first glance, this doesn’t make sense. 

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