Becoming a Laborer

St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

St. Josemaria Institute

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

4.9 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2017

⏱️ ? minutes

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Using the story of the Rich Young Man as the model, Fr. Peter Armenio, priest of Opus Dei, reflects upon Jesus’s search for “laborers” for the harvest (Luke 10:2) and highlights the three steps Jesus gives to help us lay down our lives for him and become laborers. “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus answered him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments…’” And he replied, “All of these I have observed from my...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:07.0	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.
0:15.0	I adore you with profound reverence.
0:19.0	I ask your pardon
0:20.8	for my sins
0:21.8	and the grace to make this time of prayer
0:24.6	fruitful.
0:26.5	My immaculate Mother St. Joseph,
0:28.6	my father and Lord,
0:31.3	my guardian angel,
0:32.1	and deceit for me.
0:35.8	Lord, as we
0:36.9	fix our attention on your true presence,
0:41.9	savoring that prayer of St. Thomas, the Apostle,
0:46.7	my Lord and my God, we ask you to help us discern,
0:52.8	popular word in the contemporary church, discern what it means to be a laborer
1:02.2	in his harvest. Why do I bring this up? Because our Lord categorizes two kinds of people.
1:12.3	One kind is the harvest.
1:14.1	I know none of you want to be the harvest.
1:16.5	And the other kind is the laborers.
1:20.0	Okay?
1:21.0	So I guess you want to be the laborer.
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