In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here,

that you see me, that you hear me.

I adore you with profound reverence.

I beg your pardon for my sins, and the grace to make this time of prayer

fruitful. My immaculate mother, St. Joseph, my father and Lord, my guardian angel, intercede from me.

In this fourth Sunday of Lent, we will read in the second reading these revolutionary

words of St. Paul to the Ephesians.

But God who is rich in mercy, by reason of his very great love, wherewith he has loved us,

even when we were dead by reason of our sins,

brought us to life together with Christ,

by grace you have been saved,

and raised us up together,

and seated us together in heaven in Christ Jesus,

that he might show in the ages to come the overflowing riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.

These words are revolutionary, as I said, because we can think of a God

who is all just

and we expect

God to be all just

and we can think that he

punishes the sinner for his transgression

and that would be the right thing to do

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