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Today in the podcast, Becoming Leaven for the World.

Father Peter Armenio, a priest of Opus Day,

encourages us to be contemplatives in the middle of the world and explains why prayer is an essential ingredient if we are to be leavened for the world. 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, and deceitful.

We begin our day of recollection with the topic of life of prayer, even though that seems to be the standard topic of all the meditations.

Let's begin with a couple of quotations from Saint Jose Maria.

He says, if you are another Christ,

if you behave as a Son of God, you will set things alight no matter where you are.

Christ enkindles all hearts, leaving none indifferent.

This sounds wonderful, but what is the help menu? How do I do it? How do I become that

other Christ?

St.

Jose Maria says in the way,

if you're not a man of prayer,

I don't believe in the sincerity of your intentions when you say that you work

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