Be Still: A Christmas Reflection (Rebroadcast)

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

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

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In our meditation of the week: Msgr. Fred Dolan invites us to reflect more deeply on the Nativity of Our Lord. “In the Incarnation,” he says, “God has come not only to unleash our power of loving and adoring God but also to give us a model on how to become more fully human.” Recalling a famous short story from 1906, “The Gift of the Magi,” Msgr. Dolan gives us the “antidote” to that attitude of commercialization that often accompanies the Christmas season. He helps us ponder the fact that wh...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
0:04.0	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.
0:12.0	I adore you with profound reverence.
0:16.0	I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:24.7	My immaculate mother, St. Joseph, my Father and Lord, my guardian angel, enter seed for
0:30.2	me.
0:35.4	Those words of Scripture help us today to enter this time of prayer.
0:40.3	Those words that say very simply,
0:43.3	Be still and see that I am God.
0:48.3	Vacate and videte,
0:52.3	quonim ego, some deus.
0:56.0	Be still.
0:57.0	Vacate.
0:59.0	Our word vacation comes from that Latin verb, vacate.
1:06.0	Come to a screeching halt, be still, and see that I am God.
1:13.6	We crave the silence of this prayer so that we can take in all the lessons that the Lord wants to teach us.
1:22.6	We marvel at the rapt attention of Mary and Joseph, that focus of the shepherds, and in a few days
1:36.3	the Magi, none of them can take their eyes off the newborn.
1:47.7	God has showered us with his mercy.
1:52.6	As we behold the child, we realize that God is showing us what he had in mind when he created the human being.
2:02.6	After all, we are beholding perfect God and perfect man.
2:08.6	God is showing us His mercy.
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