Fr. John Riccardo's Podcasts

Fr. Mark's Homily from the 10:15am Mass.

Fr. Mark is from St. Al's.  Remember the 2006 Charity Christmas Ball benefiting St. Al's on December 9th, 2006 at 7:30pm.

Fr. John's Homily from the 10:15 Mass on November 12th, 2006

RCIA Meeting from November 12th, 2006

"The Church - The Body of Christ Is Not An Image"

RCIA Meeting from November 5th, 2006
"Holy Spirit"

Tapping on Theology - "Freedom"

Tapping on Theology - "Relativism"

Tapping on Theology - "What Ever Happened to Spring?"

RCIA Meeting from October 29th, 2006
"Father or Adversary"

RCIA Meeting from October 22nd, 2006
"Who is Jesus?"

RCIA Meeting from October 15th, 2006
"The Mass Explained"

St. Charles Parish - Pre-Marriage Talk

ENDOW Facilitator Training Talk

Fr. John's Homily from the 10:15 Mass on October 29th, 2006

Fr. John's Homily from the 10:15 Mass on October 22nd, 2006

Fr. John's Homily from the 8:15 Mass on September 24th, 2006

RCIA Meeting from September 17th, 2006

Tapping on Theology - Living As a Christian in a Post Christian World
Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
Fr. John Riccardo: Whatever Happened to Spring?

Fr. John's Homily from the 10:15 Mass on September 17th, 2006
Run-time: 10 min. 55 sec.

Fr. John's Homily from the 10:15 Mass on September 10th, 2006
Run-time 09 min. 40 sec.

Fr. John's Homily from the 8:15 Mass on August 13th, 2006

In this, the first of five sessions, Fr. John talks about God's love, and what it means.

Fr. John's Homily from the 10:15 Mass on July 30th, 2006

In this, the final talk in our series on prayer, we examine in some detail the model of all Christian prayer, the prayer that Jesus Himself taught to His disciples, and to us, when He was asked how we should pray. The Lord’s Prayer, or The Our Father, is so familiar to us, and yet, perhaps because of that familiarity, we often lose sight of just what we’re praying. May we never get used to saying these extraordinary words!

In this, the third of four talks on prayer, we try to delve into one of the more troubling questions we have with regard to prayer: How come, so often, our prayers are either not answered at all, or the answer is “No�? There are certainly many reasons for this, but we begin to examine some of these in detail.

The second installment in St. Anastasia's Prayer Series with Fr. John

The first in a four part series on Prayer.

Audio of Fr. John's Scavi Tour.  From Tap on Theology May 10th, 2006

Join Fr. John on this Scavi Tour.  From Tap on Theology May 10th, 2006

July 16th, 2006 - 10:15 Mass - Fr. John Homily

Fr. Johns Homily from 8:15 Mass on July 9th, 2006

Fr. John Riccardo talks about confession, sin and scriptual basis of confession.  The title of the talk is "I Will Arise and Go To My Father".

From a Men's Gathering at St. Patrick's Church, Brighton, Michigan.

Fr. John Riccardo's 8:15 Homily

Welcome to Fr. John Riccardo's podcasts.  This article will tell you how you can listen and view podcasts and video. 

The simplest way to get the podcasts and video posted on this page is to download Apple iTunes.  iTunes is a media library manager, that will allow you to subscribe to Fr. Riccardo's podcasts and video.  iTunes is free and available for Macintosh and Windows computers.  Once you've downloaded and installed iTunes you can follow this link.  If you have iTunes installed, click "I have iTunes", and you will be taken directly to the iTunes Music store where you can subscribe to the podcast.  Then, whenever Fr. Riccardo adds a podcast you will receive it automatically in iTunes.  Subscriptions to and downloads of these podcasts are free.

If you do not wish to install iTunes, you can download each podcast and video directly, to view and listen to them.

The podcasts are in either mp3 or m4a format.  Many media players (iTunes is recommended) should be able to play these formats.  Simply "right-click" on the direct download link and "Save As".  Once the download is complete open the file in your audio player to listen.

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Note some of these files get quite large.  It is recommended that users have a broadband (highspeed) internet connection to download video files.  Dial-up users might experience long download times in excess of 2 hours per video.  Sorry for the inconvenience, we are working on getting a smaller sized video for dial-up users.  The audio versions of each podcast has been reduced in size to accommodate everyone. 

Also note, you DO NOT need an iPod video to view the video files, the iPod video version simply means that it has been formated to fit onto Apple's iPod video screen.  You can view and listen to all of these media files in iTunes.

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This revealing, candid conversation took place between the leaders of two of Oakland County's largest churches, Father John Riccardo of St. Anastasia Catholic Church, and Pastor Steve Andrews of Kensington Community Church.  Both are located in Troy, Michigan within minutes of each other.

Seeking common ground, "the priest and the pastor" respectfully examine the similarities and differences between the two great traditions they represent.  Regardless of your religious background, you'll enjoy their open discussion.

Topics include: Salvation, Holy Eucharist, The Virgin Mary, Confession, The Saints, Prayer & Worship, Evangelism, Christian Unity

A DVD of this conversation entitled Common Ground: What Protestants and Catholics Can Learn from Each Other may be purchased from the Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish Office or ordered online.

Video version of the main session of The Da Vinci Night at Kensington Community Church.

Recorded: May 21st, 2006 @ Kensington Community Church

The following is audio of the question and answer session held after the main session of "The Da Vinci Code" talk. 

Recorded May 21st, 2006 at Kensington Community Church

This is the audio from a homily presented by Fr. Riccardo while pastor of St. Anastasia Church in Troy, Michigan. The homily is being published here for the first time as part of our effort to post all of Fr. Riccardo's podcasts at this site.

This is the audio from a homily presented by Fr. Riccardo while pastor of St. Anastasia Church in Troy, Michigan. The homily is being published here for the first time as part of our effort to post all of Fr. Riccardo's podcasts at this site.

This is the audio from a homily presented by Fr. Riccardo while pastor of St. Anastasia Church in Troy, Michigan. The homily is being published here for the first time as part of our effort to post all of Fr. Riccardo's podcasts at this site.

This is the audio from a homily presented by Fr. Riccardo while pastor of St. Anastasia Church in Troy, Michigan. The homily is being published here for the first time as part of our effort to post all of Fr. Riccardo's podcasts at this site.