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 deceit for me.

Thank you. My guardian angel in deceit for me. We focus our attention on our Lord.

I'm on a roll. I'm making people laugh, and I haven't said a thing.

And we focus on the Blessed Sacrament.

And that is our greatest theology book, our greatest catechism.

Everything's implied there, and it's very germane to any topic, but the topic we're going

to pray about today.

The Holy Spirit speaks in a very special way, in a direct way, through the official representative

of Jesus called his vicar.

And that vicar is the one who succeeds Peter, the Apostle,

our Holy Father, Pope Francis.

And the Holy Spirit has moved the Holy Father

to write a longish exhortation.

One of the few perks of being a pope is you could exhort and get away with it.

And he wrote an exhortation on holiness, which strikes at the heart of what we always contemplate, reflect on in certain sense. Every theme

of meditation, of the talks, the classes, harken back to imitating Jesus Christ and becoming

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