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St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

A Joyful Affirmation

St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

St. Josemaria Institute

Spirituality, St. Josemaria Escriva, Christianity, Christian, Gospel, Catholic, Meditation, Religion & Spirituality, Opus Dei

4.9645 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2017

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

“Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8). In this meditation, Fr. Peter Armenio, priest of Opus Dei, highlights Jesus’s teaching during the Sermon on Mount and invites us to reflect on “holy purity” as a means to finding true joy and freedom in our lives. Fr. Peter explains that because God is revealed as self-giving love, and holy purity is an expression of self-giving love, the more we exercise purity, the more we see God face to face. Holy purity, there...

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

0:09.8

My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.

0:17.5

I adore you with profound reverence.

0:21.1

I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

0:27.3

My immaculate Mother St. Joseph, my father and Lord, my guardian angel,

0:31.3

in deceit for me.

0:51.3

With your permission, Lord Jesus Christ, truly present with us in the monstrance, in this time of prayer.

0:55.9

And what's the topic of our prayer? Well, I know I gave this topic in the month of May,

1:01.0

but I think only had one person in the meditation,

1:04.0

or you know, so I think I could get away with giving it again.

1:08.3

And I usually talk about holy purity on the commemorative day of this adolescent saint,

1:21.6

St. Maria Grety. And what I've noticed,'ve noticed, if I'm not making sense, it could happen, but I'm jet-lagged from a

1:35.6

seminarian program in Rome.

1:39.0

So that's why, it's one of the reasons I am not making sense if I'm the the but I noticed

1:49.3

because I've been involved with this program for three years and there's tremendous

1:57.5

devotion to female saints.

2:04.1

St. Maria Grety is one of them.

2:07.6

Neptune is that, that's her, I know it's a planet,

2:10.6

but it's also a town of Italy.

2:14.6

The Italian pronunciation is Netuno, but it's Neptune.

2:19.3

And that's where she lived in the town of Neptune.

2:24.3

And many, many pilgrimages go there to pray to her and venerate her.

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