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Episode 150: Will We Take This Week Seriously?
Jan 2100:06:23Tap to summarizeJesus’ prayer for the unity of all those who believe in Him is one that I fear many of us — myself very much included — do not usually take anywhere seriously enough. In His farewell discourses in John, the Lord’s motive for this unity is twofold: that the world will believe the Father sent Him and that the world may know that God loves them even as He does His Son (cf. John 17:11-23). ======= Have a comment about this podcast? Contact us! Click To Learn More About ACTS XXIX Support Thoughts from the Trailer with Fr. John Riccardo
Transcribe →Episode 149: Peace In Troubled Times
Jan 1400:07:05Tap to summarize...the peace God and God alone can give and does give is able to calm our hearts and minds even when things all around us are on fire, whether literally or figuratively. The peace of Jesus can reign in us regardless of whether or not the circumstances of life or up or down. ======= Have a comment about this podcast? Contact us! Click To Learn More About ACTS XXIX Support Thoughts from the Trailer with Fr. John Riccardo
Transcribe →Episode 148: Knocking Down Walls Of Division (Part II)
Jan 700:07:05Tap to summarizeAs 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. ======= Have a comment about this podcast? Contact us! Click To Learn More About ACTS XXIX Support Thoughts from the Trailer with Fr. John Riccardo
Transcribe →Episode 147: Knocking Down Walls of Hostility For The New Year
Dec 3100:09:01Tap to summarizeAs we enter into this new year, mindful of the division, resentment, anger, enmity and more that are tearing apart the human race, let us call upon the intercession of St. Stephen and his friend and brother, St. Paul. May their powerful prayers help us to see one another as we should, as brothers and sisters. ======= Have a comment about this podcast? Contact us! Click To Learn More About ACTS XXIX Support Thoughts from the Trailer with Fr. John Riccardo
Transcribe →Episode 146: Merry Christmas!
Dec 2400:06:32Tap to summarizeEmmanuel doesn’t merely mean “God is with us,” as in “God is in our midst.” It means, “God is on our side.” He has come for us. Because for some unimaginable and unexplainable reason, the Creator of all that is is passionately in love with us! May the Holy Spirit overwhelm us anew in these holy days we are about to enter. ======= Have a comment about this podcast? Contact us! Click To Learn More About ACTS XXIX Support Thoughts from the Trailer with Fr. John Riccardo
Transcribe →Episode 145: The Greatest Cipher System of All-Time
Dec 1700:07:24Tap to summarizeIn these introductory verses to the Church in Rome, Paul tells us that the good news of King Jesus’ victory over the powers of Death and Sin had been promised previously through the prophets. There are scores of prophecies about what and how God is going to defeat these cosmic powers, but none of them just come out and say “God is going to become a man and rescue His creation.” We might be inclined to wonder why the prophecies are often so mysterious and confusing? ======= Have a comment about this podcast? Contact us! Click To Learn More About ACTS XXIX Support Thoughts from the Trailer with Fr. John Riccardo
Transcribe →Episode 144: He’s Closer Than You Think!
Dec 1000:06:37Tap to summarizeGenerally speaking, the Latin word adventus means coming, or arrival. But there’s much more behind this word than meets the eye. You wouldn’t use it to describe, say, grandma coming for Thanksgiving (no offense to grandmas!). Adventus was an empire word. It had to do with a very specific ceremony in the Roman Empire. ======= Have a comment about this podcast? Contact us! Click To Learn More About ACTS XXIX Support Thoughts from the Trailer with Fr. John Riccardo
Transcribe →Episode 109: “Your Labor Is Not in Vain”
Feb 26, 202500:07:42Tap to summarizeIn these days of Eucharistic revival in the Church, we are continually being invited to consider why the Lord gives Himself to us at Mass hidden under the appearance of bread and wine. actsxxix.org/trailer/109 Have a comment about this podcast? Contact us! Click To Learn More About ACTS XXIX Support Thoughts from the Trailer with Fr. John Riccardo
Transcribe →Episode 108: Do We Know the Story?
Feb 19, 202500:06:25Tap to summarizePaul’s proclamation, and the message of the New Testament, is the announcement that Jesus is the true King of the world; that by His death on the cross He has defeated (and one day will destroy) the enemies of the human race; that He has rescued us for the world — not from it; that you and I are now personally being summoned to lovingly and gratefully pledge Him our loyalty and allegiance as our rightful King; and until the day He returns and makes all things new (cf. Rev 21:5), we are to live our lives in such a way as to be both working models of His recreation and active agents in His hands, doing all we can to reconcile, restore and recreate this world that God loves. https://www.actsxxix.org/trailer/108 Have a comment about this podcast? Contact us! Click To Learn More About ACTS XXIX Support Thoughts from the Trailer with Fr. John Riccardo
Transcribe →Episode 107: Why Would Anyone Want To Live Forever?
Feb 12, 202500:10:26Tap to summarizeIn this great Jubilee Year of Hope, I have found myself rereading Pope Benedict XVI’s rich letter on hope from 2007. The words of Saint Paul this week remind me of a passage that I find very provocative as we not only consider the Lord’s resurrection but the life to come which Paul emphatically preaches. I pray you, too, will find it worth praying with this week. actsxxix.org/trailer/107 ======= Have a comment about this podcast? Contact us! Click To Learn More About ACTS XXIX Support Thoughts from the Trailer with Fr. John Riccardo
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