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Today, we begin the grace filled season of Lent, and this passage from 1 Peter, challenging as parts of it can be, calls to mind how the season ends: in glorious triumph!

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Episode 56: The King Unshackles the Imprisoned

As we prepare for the 1st Sunday of Advent and the start of the Church Year, Fr. John and Mary step back and invite us to consider God’s design for creating the human race so as to better understand the mission that belongs to us all as the Church.

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Episode 358: The Big Story

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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Episode 88: Being Priests for Our Country

Paul urges us to present our bodies as “a living sacrifice.” This was written to people who, unlike us, were very familiar with ritual animal sacrifices...

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Episode 32: Minds and Bodies and What to Do About Them

Even though most of us are unable to be nourished by the Eucharist, God is still offering us His spiritual food through His Word. <a rel="payment" href="https://www.actsxxix.org/give">Support You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo</a>

Episode 13: Be Not Afraid: God’s Word is Food!

Feeling like you don’t measure up? You're loveable just as you are!

In this episode, Fr. John invites us to let go of any nagging fears we have that we have to earn the Father’s love. <a rel="payment" href="https://www.actsxxix.org/give">Support You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo</a>

Episode 43: Be Not Afraid: The Father Loves You!

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In this episode, Fr. John and Mary talk about the encouraging reality that is the communion of saints and that they’re not simply watching us from afar, but rather praying for us and cheering us on.

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Episode 146: Those Who Are With Us Are More Than Those Against!

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary look at Isaiah 50:4-7 and how God’s Word wants to prepare our hearts to enter ever more deeply into Holy Week by contemplating the outrageous love Jesus has displayed for us. 

<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+50&amp;version=NCB" rel="nofollow noopener">Isaiah 50</a> 
Isaiah 41:8-16 
Isaiah 42:1-9 
Isaiah 44:1-5 
Isaiah 44: 21-28 
Isaiah 49:1-13 
Isaiah 50:4-7 
Isaiah 52:13; 53:12 
Isaiah 61:1-3

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Episode 273: Weary? Jesus Has a Word for Us This Week

Timely, then, are the readings for Mass this week, for they are all related to the topics of mercy, forgiveness and judgment. Even this passage from Romans comes in the context of Paul warning the community to be very careful in their behavior towards one another, lest they end up passing judgment on the servant of another (i.e.,God).

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Episode 34: The Measure With Which You Measure

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In this episode, Fr. John and Mary talk about their recent retreat and propose a way to think about Lent.

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Episode 215: God’s Agenda for Lent

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary get very practical about how Jesus can and does heal us from whatever keeps us from living abundant life.

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Episode 170: Getting to the Root of the Matter

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary welcome Dcn. Steve and USMC Major Sharon Sisbarro and have a conversation about how we can draw on some wise principles from the Marine Corp that easily apply to the Christian life.

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Episode 136: Gearing Up Mentally, Spiritually, and Physically for Battle

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary reflect on what St. Benedict (the patron of Europe) might have to say to us as Catholics living here and now in the USA.

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Episode 207: Benedict, Europe and Getting Our Hearts Aligned to God’s

Fr. John Riccardo introduces the new ACTS XXIX podcast, "You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo." 
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I could never believe in a God who would crucify his own son. A very popular television talk show host from decades past said that. I remember hearing those words as if he said them this morning. 

<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+8%3A31-34&amp;version=NCB" rel="nofollow noopener">Romans 8:31-34</a>

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Episode 57: What Kind of Father?

What does it mean when Josephus says, “Repent and believe in me”? He’s certainly not telling someone “how to get to heaven.” He’s more or less saying, “Abandon your current way of acting (in this case, by waging war against Rome) and put your trust in me.” Such an exhortation relates to action...

(James 2:14-18)

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Episode 86: What Does It Mean to Have Faith?

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary offer an encouraging word for us all to know the gifts God has given us and to use them to do great things for His glory.

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Episode 193: Don't Bury Your Gifts in the Ground!

We are re-releasing this homily, "Something for Everyone," that Fr John Riccardo proclaimed on Good Friday in April 2019 because we think it is more relevant now than when it was originally released.<a rel="payment" href="https://www.actsxxix.org/give">Support You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo</a>

Episode 33: Something for Everyone: Good Friday Homily, April 2019

Over the past five years now, the Lord has been teaching us in ACTS XXIX some simple ways to return to what Cardinal Cantalamessa reminds us was the common modus operandi for the saints.

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Episode 82: A Way to Understand the Will of the Lord

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary conclude their four-part series and discuss a fourth critical question to take to prayer in order to be every freer for the mission God wants to work in and through us. 

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Episode 295: What Territory Are You Asking Me to Take Back, Lord? - Part 4 of 4

Our speech can be immensely damaging to others, and in our modern society we are exposed almost constantly to harsh, slanderous, malicious, and obscene speech. As disciples of Jesus, the way we talk and write is supposed to stand out, to be different, to be noticed by not sounding like the world at large. In doing so, we can help the world become more genuinely human..

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Episode 126: Taming Our Tongues

While many in the world and the Church are eagerly awaiting the start of the conclave and the election of the next successor to St. Peter, we are still in what are officially known as the nine days of mourning for Pope Francis. As such, we are called to pray for the repose of his soul in an intentional way. It’s also been a time for me to revisit some of the many things he wrote that deeply inspired and convicted me, both as a disciple and as a priest. In particular, I have found myself returning over and over to a gathering he had with the bishops of Brazil shortly after he was elected in 2013.

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Episode 117: Are We Able to Warm People’s Hearts?

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary liken God's Word in its capacity to give hope and encouragement to how Radio Free Europe did the same for those living behind the Iron Curtain.

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Episode 145: Radio Free World

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What’s Your Magnificat?

In this episode, Fr. John, Nick, and Mary invite Dcn. Steve to the mic and talk about the year we’re leaving behind and encourages us to press into gratitude, no matter what.

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Episode 107: Turning the Page of 2020

Fr. John and Mary continue their Easter series on the appearances of the risen Jesus. This week’s episode breaks open one of the most remarkable of all: the appearance to His “brother” James.

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Episode 380: God Wants His Family Back

Our lack of unity in the Catholic Church is a scandal. Our lack of unity as Christians is a scandal. As a result of the division that exists within us as disciples of Jesus, those “sheep” who are living the nightmare that is life apart from God are hindered from knowing that God sent His Son out of love for us all, and hindered from knowing their true identity as beloved sons and daughters of God. As such they are easy prey for the one Jesus calls “the thief,” who comes to steal, to kill and to destroy.

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Episode 159: The Scandal of Division

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In this episode, Father John and Mary reflect on the Kingship of Jesus and the ramifications of that for how we speak about people and situations.

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Episode 152: Is Jesus the King of Our Speech?

It’s often said about parents that they’re only as happy as their least happy child. I have always admired this about the moms and dads I know. There is no time off, or away from, their children – no matter how old they are. Indeed, their hearts ache for their children.

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