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 ask 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 for me.

As we approach the third week of Advent, we recognize that it is known for the Sunday that is called Gaudete Sunday.

It is the Sunday of joy, the Sunday where we kind of get up from our slumber.

And with alacrity, we run to the manger or we set off in order to go see Jesus with great stress on the goal of kneeling down before the Messiah,

just like the Magi wanted to go and see the king of the Jews so that they might worship him.

On Gaudete Sunday, the church allows for flowers on the altar and also for rose vestments

because it's telling us that this time of expectation is almost over and it's

almost there and that we should rejoice that's precisely what the word Gaudetta means it

means rejoice taken from the letter of St. Paul to the Philippians, who exhorts his listeners to rejoice in the Lord always.

And then he repeats it again. Again, I tell you, rejoice. The Lord is near. The Lord is near. This is also the antiphon of the Mass,

the entrance antiphon with which we begin the Mass that day.

And so in this third week,

we want to, following the homily on Christian vocation by St.

Jose Maria, we want to get up from our slumber.

And this is precisely what St. Paul says to the Romans,

which St.

Jose Maria quotes in his homily.

He says, St. Paul, and this due, understanding the time for it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep, because now our salvation is nearer than when we came to believe. The night is far advanced. The day is at hand. Let us therefore lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Let us walk becomingly as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in debauchery and wantonness,

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