Displaying items 111-120 of 166 in total of Thoughts from the Trailer with Fr. John Riccardo with the tag "encouragement".
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Episode 56: The King Unshackles the Imprisoned
February 14th, 2024 | 12 mins 57 secs
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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 55: Can People Tell To Whom We Belong?
February 7th, 2024 | 9 mins 25 secs
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A quick drive down any city street, or walk through any park can instantly reveal where people’s allegiances lie. Bumper stickers, hats, and sweatshirts immediately declare a person to be a Michigan fan, a Swiftie, a Trump or Biden devotee, proudly pro-life or proudly pro-abortion.
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Episode 54: What's In It For Us
January 31st, 2024 | 9 mins 25 secs
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Perhaps I’m just really selfish and disordered, but I’ve always been encouraged by passages in Scripture that seem to convey that the disciples thought like me (at least at times). James and John jockey for positions of power, wanting seats at the right and left of Jesus.
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Episode 53: A Pastor Responds to His Flock
January 24th, 2024 | 8 mins 27 secs
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I can just imagine the eyerolls among some people this coming Sunday as this passage is proclaimed at Mass. There goes the Catholic Church again. Why is she always so down on marriage and sexuality and the things of this world?!
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Episode 52: A Scene Change is Coming
January 17th, 2024 | 7 mins 6 secs
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The line that I am personally dwelling on this week is the last one: “The world in its present form is passing away.”
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Episode 51: Pondering God’s Word on the Body
January 10th, 2024 | 5 mins 52 secs
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I was fortunate after ordination to the priesthood to spend several years studying the theology of the body in depth.
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Episode 50: Remodeling the House
January 3rd, 2024 | 9 mins 24 secs
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I had a conversation with a young woman recently that I can’t shake. Hers is a rather common tale: she grew up in a strong Catholic family, went to Catholic schools, got to college and drifted away....
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Episode 49: Reading Scripture On Our Knees
December 27th, 2023 | 9 mins 35 secs
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Fr. John reflects on Colossians 3:12-21.
"We have acquired something of a habit of excising those parts of Scripture we find uncomfortable, confusing, and problematic. Hans Urs von Balthasar was fond of saying we need to do theology on our knees, and not at a desk. In other words, we need to let God’s Word pick us apart, not us pick it apart." -
Episode 48: Veiling and Unveiling the Mystery
December 20th, 2023 | 10 mins 21 secs
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This was originally an entirely different article. And then Monday happened.
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Episode 47: On Being 'Hopeful Lamenters'
December 13th, 2023 | 8 mins 49 secs
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We in ACTS XXIX think of this mission of ours as priests as being “hopeful lamenters.”