You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo
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
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January 5, 2026 • 19 mins
In their first episode for 2026, Fr. John and Mary extend an invitation to consider so as to build momentum around a movement to bring hope and renewal to our parishes, neighborhoods, universities and more.
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December 29, 2025 • 27 mins
In this episode, in light of the Feast of the Holy Family, Fr. John and Mary talk honestly about family—the blessings, the wounds, and the ache many carry into holidays and gatherings. Looking at Jesus’ own family life in the Gospels, we discover that the Holy Family is bigger than we think, and that Jesus understands the complexity of our relationships, offering us hope and consolation.
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December 22, 2025 • 22 mins
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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December 15, 2025 • 27 mins
For this 4th Sunday of Advent, Fr. John and Mary reflect on Joseph and John the Baptist as examples of people the Lord allowed to experience great confusion in their lives, but who also exemplify astounding trust in the God for whom nothing is impossible.
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December 8, 2025 • 32 mins
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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December 1, 2025 • 24 mins
As we continue our way through these first few weeks of Advent and our focus on the coming of the King, Jesus, Fr. John and Mary offer some thoughts and Scripture passages to pray with on the power of Jesus’ name.
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November 24, 2025 • 24 mins
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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November 17, 2025 • 28 mins
Father John and Mary invite us to reflect on and prepare for that real day when each of us is going to stand face to face in front of Jesus and be judged by Him who is the King of the Universe and hear one of two things.
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November 10, 2025 • 24 mins
Fr. John and Mary invite us to learn a lesson from the beauty and wonder of creation all around us as we await the real and glorious day of the King’s return.
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November 3, 2025 • 29 mins
On this feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica, Fr. John and Mary explain what this feast is about, and then reflect on the readings assigned for this feast in general, before highlighting several key themes in Psalm 46.
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October 27, 2025 • 25 mins
In this episode for All Souls Day, Fr. John invites Mary to share her experience of standing at the entrance of the valley of death, and what it was that gave her strength at that time. They then invite us to ask ourselves if we know the Good Shepherd, and what we’re going to do today to get ready for the day of our death.
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October 20, 2025 • 20 mins
In this episode, Fr. John and Mary break open Psalm 34, highlighting the beautiful reality that God is the most attentive listener there is and encourages us to imitate Him.
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October 13, 2025 • 18 mins
In this episode, Fr. John and Mary break open Psalm 121 and invite us to breathe and reflect upon the steady assurance of God’s all powerful and loving presence with us.
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October 6, 2025 • 25 mins
In this episode, mindful of so many things that are tempting us right now to discouragement, Fr. John and Mary discuss for what and how we can praise God, and what precisely praise can do to demolish discouragement.
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September 29, 2025 • 32 mins
In this episode, Fr. John and Mary discuss how the Psalms help us to exercise various spiritual “muscles,” training us to get in shape and become the men and women God created us to be and that we want to be.
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September 22, 2025 • 19 mins
In this episode, against the backdrop of all that’s taking place in our country, Fr. John and Mary seek God’s wisdom and help from His Word.
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September 15, 2025 • 24 mins
In this episode, as Fr. John and Mary discuss Psalm 113, they reflect on how important it is to see ourselves as being among “the poor.”
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September 8, 2025 • 24 mins
In this episode, Fr. John and Mary break open Psalm 78, the Psalm for this coming Sunday, encouraging us to teach to those entrusted to our charge the great things He has done, and to consider how we’re personally responding to His extravagant mercy and patience in our own lives.
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September 1, 2025 • 21 mins
After the traumatic events that took place last week in Minnesota, Fr. John and Mary reflect on the anguish many of us are experiencing in light of Scripture in general, the Psalms in particular and Saint Augustine.
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August 25, 2025 • 10 mins
In this episode, Fr. John and Mary share the exciting news about the Jesus Conference – Mobilizing the Church for the World He Loves, ACTS XXIX’s first international gathering happening in Plymouth, Michigan on October 2-4, 2026.
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