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

My macular mother, St. Joseph, my father, and Lord, my guardian angel, into seat form.

Lord, assist us in bringing to our conversation with you this key idea of the Holy Father, which is the topic of our

prayer, the apostlet of attraction, or the apostle of of Witness or the Apostle of Good Exam.

This Apostle is as old as the Gospel and as New as the Gospel, but the present culture call especially calls for an apostle of attraction where our

witness which is compatible with being a vessel of clay, proves that Jesus is real.

And in fact, that gospel of attraction

is indispensable to speak about doctrine

because that attraction

awakens that question, articulated by St. Peter in his first epistle,

be ready to give the reason for the hope that is within you. So people need to see us as oases of joy and peace.

Perfect, no.

That's our Lord.

But nevertheless, that presence of our Lord.

We know how to go about it, but Lord, we want to talk to you about it.

Today's first reading gives a little bit of a picture of the formation of the very

first followers of our Lord, taken from St. Paul's letter to the Thessalonians, at least what I've read,

this is the oldest body of writing in the New Testament. Some people dispute that. They say

it's the letter to the Corinthians, but these letters predate the four gospels.

And it's in this letter that St. Paul says to the recipients of the formation he's giving,

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