You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo
Jun 29, 2026 · 31 min · 11 segments
In this episode, Fr. John and Mary continue their conversation about why how we do what we do is as important as what we do. This week they address this by looking at their 2nd Apostolic Value…
John RiccardoHost
Mary GuilfoyleHost
Father John, do you want to remind us, our friends who might be catching this particular podcast in the midst of a series that we're doing? Yeah, we're doing a short series right now
Other organizations call them core values for the simple reason that the how of what we do in our work matters at least as much as the what.
And here's how maybe, in fact, you and Albert and I were just talking about this, or you, me, and Albert, I guess we're just talking about this.
And one of the core parts of the work that we do is we teach and model these apostolic values.
And that's why you and I prayerfully just landed on why we thought it would be valuable to do this.
This is the part of our work that, the how, that I think jumps out at people when they're with us for an extended amount of time, right?
Yeah, we've heard that from even when we're out, you know, on mission in a particular diocese or a particular state, doing a particular thing, or we're bringing people to us, this is what most catches their attention.
I remember us having dinner one night a set of years ago, and we were working with the large archdiocese.
And he said, you know, you were with us all day, pouring into us, putting us through whatever it is we did as we were doing ministry with him.
Father John, do you want to remind us, our friends who might be catching this particular podcast in the midst of a series that we're doing? Yeah, we're doing a short series right now
Other organizations call them core values for the simple reason that the how of what we do in our work matters at least as much as the what.
And here's how maybe, in fact, you and Albert and I were just talking about this, or you, me, and Albert, I guess we're just talking about this.
And one of the core parts of the work that we do is we teach and model these apostolic values.
And that's why you and I prayerfully just landed on why we thought it would be valuable to do this.
This is the part of our work that, the how, that I think jumps out at people when they're with us for an extended amount of time, right?
Yeah, we've heard that from even when we're out, you know, on mission in a particular diocese or a particular state, doing a particular thing, or we're bringing people to us, this is what most catches their attention.
I remember us having dinner one night a set of years ago, and we were working with the large archdiocese.
And he said, you know, you were with us all day, pouring into us, putting us through whatever it is we did as we were doing ministry with him.
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