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The Rescue Challenge is an extraordinary journey of transformation which launched September 10, 2024. Join us as Fr. John Riccardo leads us through a 14-day journey that will bring you the true hope that comes from meeting the only One Who makes all the difference in life! We believe the most urgent need today is a compelling proclamation of the gospel. The Rescue Project is the way God has led us to share the gospel for these times for which we were born. The adventure you were born for beckons! The Rescue Project is also offered in an eight-week small group experience of the gospel surrounded by food, conversation and prayer! Go to https://RescueProject.us to learn more.

The Rescue Challenge (the podcast)

Simply put, an experience of the gospel surrounded by food, conversation and prayer. The Rescue Project seeks to proclaim the gospel in a compelling and attractive way over eight weeks in a small group format. This experience is imbued with beauty, authentic humanity, and accompaniment.

The Rescue Project (the series)

The Rescue Challenge is an extraordinary journey of transformation which launched September 10, 2024. Join us as Fr. John Riccardo leads us through a 14-day journey that will bring you the true hope that comes from meeting the only One Who makes all the difference in life!

We believe the most urgent need today is a compelling proclamation of the gospel. The Rescue Project is the way God has led us to share the gospel for these times for which we were born. The adventure you were born for beckons!

The Rescue Project is also offered in an eight-week small group experience of the gospel surrounded by food, conversation and prayer! Go to https://RescueProject.us to learn more.

The Rescue Challenge | The Invitation

Looking to get equipped to run Rescue? Look no further! Here are our rough draft episodes. The final ones will be uploaded early in 2023.

Running Rescue

The Rescue Project Trailer

Created. Captured. Rescued. Response. The gospel is power. it is the transforming power of Love! At its core, the gospel is that YOU matter&hellip; to God! For additional resources and to <a href="https://rescueproject.us">learn more</a>.

The Rescue Project (multiple languages)

Looking to get equipped to run Rescue? Enjoy our two seasons:
- Running Rescue: Our equipping videos produced with 4PM Media.
- Launch Livestreams: Recordings of our weekly launch accompaniment.

For even more equipping resources, go to our website: https://RescueProject.us/

Get equipped to Run Rescue. Learn more at RescueProject.us/Run

Chapter 4 - Prayer and the retreat

Why the retreat - An Invitation From Fr. John Riccardo

Join us as we talk with the Pipers. To learn more, go to RescueProject.us/Run

Q&A - Home Groups

Q&A - Prayer Ministry

Why is everything so obviously messed up? Chapter Three shines light on why things are not as they should be, and identifies the one and only enemy of the human race.

“The sight of these happy creatures filled the devil and his fallen angels with anger and envy. They took thought as to how they might mar the work of God and destroy the destiny of this newly created race. They set about to enslave those whom they had been meant to serve and to degrade those who had been assigned such an exalted place into the lowly slime beneath their feet.”
– Sophia Consulting, The Christian Cosmic Narrative

Created. Captured. Rescued. Response.
Go to RescueProject.us to learn more.

Ch 3 - The Enemy is the enemy

Featuring some of the latest encouragement and inspiration from ACTS XXIX! 
May you grow in hope and joy as you soak in the Biblical worldview.
Learn more about ACTS XXIX at https://www.actsxxix.org/

Featured / New Releases

With unshakable confidence in Jesus, we exist to recapture the original mission of the Church to rescue, renew, and transform the human family into the family of God.

WHO IS ACTS XXIX?

Based on our most recently released prayer journal, this new series hosted by Fr. John Riccardo and Mary Guilfoyle was created to accompany and further equip leaders in forever changing the way we make decisions. In this series, we explore together how to remove obstacles to true discernment and establish the essential ways for praying together, all in order to restore the initiative to God—whether in diocesan offices, parish teams, apostolates, or family life.

Speak, Lord: The Art of Synodality

创造。捕获。营救。回应。[https://RescueProject.us/chinese]
我们坚信，最紧迫的任务是令人信服地宣扬福音，不仅要以一种有吸引力和集中的方式分享福音，还要为人们提供一种看待现实的方式，以及理解与我们现代文化所讲述的故事截然不同的世界、历史和生活的方式。

在此之前，基督教信仰通常被视为一套规则和纪律，而仅仅去教堂不太可能引导一个人踏上追随耶稣并继续他拯救这个世界的使命的伟大冒险。

创造。捕获。营救。回应。
有关更多信息和免费资源，请访问 https://RescueProject.us/chinese

营救 计划 (Chinese)

A series for those seeking to become Catholic, originally preached as a part of the RCIA preparation when Fr. John Riccardo was the pastor at Our Lady of Good Counsel in Plymouth Michigan (The initial six talks have been replaced with The Rescue Project). Part of the "Vintage Fr. John Riccardo" collection.  
Starting in March, 2023, videos will be regularly posted to cover the full topics in the series.

Becoming Catholic

As we journey across the country, we are blessed to witness powerful preaching, teaching and conversations. We are happy share the best of these in Encourage and Inspire! 

For more information on ACTS XXIX, go to ACTSXXIX.org

Encourage & Inspire

Fr. John Riccardo reflects on the meaning of faith. From a preaching at St. Louis de Montfort, Fishers Indiana in March 2024.
#Allegiance #Assent #Declaration #EmbodiedFidelity #JesusIsLord

Swear to God

Fr. John Riccardo prepares couples for marriage.  Includes:
 - The Series: An inspiring and full biblical worldview of marriage.
 - Testimonials: How couples have experienced this.

Marriage through the Lens of Scripture

Episode 2 - AMR Series

Moving from a utilitarian view to restoring our identity as a family on mission.

The Second Essential Principle

In his Keynote Address to the Mother and Unborn Baby Care's  "Fall for Life Banquet" on November 13, 2025, Fr. John Riccardo offers a new strategy in the fight for the unborn and poses the question, "How much are we willing to do to change the hearts of those who hate?"

Fall For Life Banquet 2025

The Third Essential Principle

Criado. Capturado. Resgatado. Resposta. [https://RescueProject.us/resgate]
Acreditamos apaixonadamente que a tarefa mais urgente é a proclamação convincente do evangelho, que não apenas o compartilhe de uma forma atraente - e concentrada, mas que também ofereça às pessoas uma maneira de ver a realidade e de dar sentido ao mundo, história e vida que é muito diferente da história que nossa cultura moderna conta.

Até que isso aconteça, a fé cristã é muitas vezes vivida como um mero conjunto de regras e disciplinas, e simplesmente ir à Igreja não é susceptível de levar uma pessoa a embarcar na grande aventura que é seguir Jesus e continuar a Sua missão de resgatar este mundo.

Criado. Capturado. Resgatado. Resposta.
Para obter mais informações e recursos gratuitos, acesse https://RescueProject.us/resgate

Projeto Resgate (Portuguese)

Episode 1 - AMR Series

Prime Matters: Monsignor Shea hosts a conversation with Fr. John and Mary. Join us.

An Unknown Future and a Known God

Join Fr. John Riccardo and Mary Guilfoyle as we talk about anything and everything that has to do with reacquiring a Biblical Worldview. This podcast seeks to encourage and inspire our listeners with hope firmly founded in the Lordship of Jesus. If you are blessed by our podcast, and wish to support us, please click https://www.actsxxix.org/give

You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo and Mary Guilfoyle

The Carmelites have a charism of praying for priests.  ACTS XXIX has a love for priests and seeks to refresh and equip them.  At the Ann Arbor OCDS' invitation, Fr. John Riccardo shares the urgency and the need to pray for priests. (November 15, 2025, Christ the King Church, Ann Arbor, MI)

Priesthood: The Unspoken Crisis

C4 - 救赎计划

C9- 救赎计划

C6- 救赎计划

C1 - 救赎计划

Daily conversations from the Holy Land. Join Fr. John Riccardo, Mary Guilfoyle and Albert Faraj as they share the graces of the journey with you! 

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Journey to the Holy Land

Fr. John shares the gospel in five minutes. And you can too!
Go to RescueProject.us to learn more.

The Gospel in 5 minutes

Fr. John Riccardo joins Fr. Dave Pivonka, Dr. Scott Hahn and Dr. Regis Martin for a conversation on the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ! 

To learn more go to www.actsxxix.org and RescueProject.us

On being transformed by the gospel

Seeking encouragement? Wearied by the storms of life? Fr. John Riccardo powerfully preaches on the beauty of hope on October 31, 2022.

The Beauty of Hope

¿Tiene Dios una manera preferida de ser agradecido? Creemos que Él lo hace y el capítulo ocho abre la respuesta inesperada.
 
“… Cuando venga el Hijo del Hombre, ¿encontrará fe en la tierra?” – Lucas 18:8

Descubre aun más en https://Rescate.us

C8 - ¿Qué quiere Él de mí?

Our Fundamental Convictions

On day 11, Fr. John talks about why holiness is so important and shares three helpful methods of prayer to help us grow closer to God. 

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The Rescue Challenge | Epsiode 11

In this episode Father John and Mary share some exciting news about The Rescue Project, ACTS XXX media and an image from the Lord to start this new year.

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Episode 211: Maybe We Need to Get Even More Basic

Quer se equipar para realizar o Rescue?
Aqui você encontrará “Realizando Rescate”, nossos vídeos que irão prepará-lo para liderar outras pessoas.

Também temos guias complementares, que você pode encontrar aqui: https://RescueProject.us/resgate

Realizando Resgate (Portuguese)

In this episode, we finish breaking open the third part of kerygma, where we talk about the death and resurrection of Jesus and the difference it makes in our lives.<a rel="payment" href="https://www.actsxxix.org/give">Support You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo</a>

Episode 10: Rescued, Part Two: What Difference Does It Make?

Join us for the first five years of our journey in three minutes!

ACTS XXIX The First Five Years

Looking for a safe refuge? Hide yourself in God’s mercy!

In this episode, Fr. John invites us to bask in what God has revealed both in today’s gospel and through St. Catherine of Siena whose feast we celebrate today.<a rel="payment" href="https://www.actsxxix.org/give">Support You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo</a>

Episode 49: Be Not Afraid: That None Should Be Lost

El capítulo siete nos recuerda que por muy importante que pueda ser un argumento convincente, hay algo — Alguien — necesario para moverme a rendirme.

“Es el Espíritu Santo, por lo tanto, quien inculca el sentimiento de la filiación divina en el corazón, quien nos hace sentir (¡no solo saber!) que somos hijos de Dios. El Espíritu mismo se une a nuestro espíritu para dar testimonio de que somos hijos de Dios (Romanos 8:16). Esta obra fundamental del Espíritu Santo a veces tiene lugar de manera repentina e intensa en la vida de una persona…Con motivo de un retiro… o con ocasión de la oración por una nueva liberación del Espíritu, el alma se llena de una nueva luz en la que Dios se revela de alguna manera como Padre…. Se experimenta un sentimiento de gran confianza y un sentido completamente nuevo de la condescendencia de Dios. En otras ocasiones, en cambio, esta revelación del Padre va acompañada de un sentimiento tan fuerte de la majestad y trascendencia de Dios que el alma se siente abrumada”. – Raniero Cantalamessa, Vida en el Señorío de Cristo

Descubre aun más en https://Rescate.us

C7 - Las palabras no son suficientes

El capítulo cinco se dirige a Jesús y le pregunta: “¿Era simplemente un hombre sabio, amable y bueno, o vino a rescatarnos de poderes contra los cuales nunca podríamos competir por nuestra cuenta?”

“Señor Dios Todopoderoso, que envió a tu Hijo Unigénito para dotar a la humanidad, encarcelada en la esclavitud del Pecado, con la libertad de Tus hijos e hijas, oramos muy humildemente por estos niños, que sabes que experimentarán los encantos de este mundo, y lucharán contra las trampas del diablo: por el poder de la Pasión y Resurrección de tu Hijo líbralos ahora de la mancha del Pecado Original, fortalecerlos con la gracia de Cristo, y custodiarlos siempre en su camino por la vida.” – Ritual Bautismal de la Iglesia Católica

Descubre aun más en https://Rescate.us

C5 - ¿Qué ha hecho Dios al respecto?

What does it mean to say, “Love listens?” According to Acts XXIX Founder Fr. John Riccardo, God says, “To say love listens, means God listens. Think for a moment, what is the cry of your heart right now? Forget the world because God hears it. But He doesn’t just hear, He does something. And as he does so we must.”

Watch Fr. John’s presentation “Rescued for What?” from the recent @Alpha USA Conference to learn more about how Love listens.

Rescued for What... at the Alpha Conference

Learn more about our mission at actsxxix.org

Why We Call Our Chapel "The Trailer"

Vous souhaitez vous équiper pour effectuer du Sauvetage ?
Vous trouverez ici « Diriger Le Sauvetage », nos vidéos qui vous prépareront à diriger les autres.

Nous avons également des guides complémentaires, que vous pouvez trouver ici : https://rescueproject.us/sauvetage/

Diriger Le Sauvetage (French)

What do you do when life feels like the beaches of Normandy in 1944?

In this episode, Fr. John unpacks today’s Scripture from 1 Peter, encouraging us to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, crucified and risen. <a rel="payment" href="https://www.actsxxix.org/give">Support You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo</a>

Episode 46: Be Not Afraid: Eyes Fixed on Jesus

C8 -  o que Deus quer de mim

In this episode to prepare us for the great celebrations of Christmas, Fr. John and Mary attempt to put into words several ways to help us better understand events and mysteries that are truly beyond all telling. Merry Christmas, everyone! 

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ACTS XXIX - Mobilizing for Mission 
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Episode 362: Speechless

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary reflect on the context and the missing verses from this week’s First Reading detailing the encounter between God and Elijah and to do a little homework before we go to Mass in order to be ever better prepared for what God wants to say to us.

A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: The Old Testament 
John Bergsma and Brant Pitre 
Ignatius Press

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Episode 241: Something’s Missing

Sent forth on mission as heralds of the Gospel

In this episode, Fr. John shares again from one of his favorite books, “From Christendom to Apostolic Mission: Pastoral Strategies for an Apostolic Age" and reminds us that we are being sent into the world as heralds of the Gospel. 

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Episode 77: Be Not Afraid: Proclamation and Commission

On this Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, Fr. John and Mary hold up our Lady as the model for radical trust and surrender to God, and discuss how oftentimes our good and holy plans might need to be discarded if God has another and better plan.

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ACTS XXIX - Mobilizing for Mission 
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Episode 360: The Plan Is the Plan Until…

Fr. John and Mary continue their Easter series on the appearances of the risen Jesus. This week’s episode breaks open the encounter between Jesus and His friend, Peter, at the Sea of Galilee after Peter’s failure.

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Episode 381: A Most Unexpected Question

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In this episode, Fr. John and Mary continue their series on Jesus’ words to the 7 Churches in the Book of Revelation. Today, they look at Jesus’ words to the Church in Pergamum and His challenge to them and to us to repent of those places in our lives where we have served two masters.

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Episode 372:  No Compromise

How are you doing in this crisis? There’s never been a more important time to be honest and vulnerable with each other.

In this episode, Fr. John, Nick, and Mary speak honestly about how they’re doing in this pandemic and try to model some conversations we can have in our own lives. <a rel="payment" href="https://www.actsxxix.org/give">Support You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo</a>

Episode 23: Make Time For Real Conversations

In this episode, Fr. John and Mary continue to discuss the transformation God wants to bring to our hearts so that we might be more conformed to Jesus and more credible witnesses in the world.

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Episode 130: Don’t Shadow Box!

Do you know what Jesus is doing right now? He’s making intercession for us!

In this episode, Fr. John unpacks for us today’s Collect prayer and what it is Jesus is doing right now on our behalf before the Father in heaven.<a rel="payment" href="https://www.actsxxix.org/give">Support You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo</a>