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.

We continue walking with Jesus to the village of Amas.

All of us have our own version of an Amas where the Lord approaches us.

We don't recognize him.

And that's basically our life of prayer.

We speak to our Lord whom we do not see.

But Jesus is telling us that even though we think he is distant,

he's certainly close to us,

and our suffering and our uncertainties and anxieties are a magnet that draw

him to our rescue, to our encounter.

And so finally the long walk ends.

So they drew near to the village

in which they were going.

He appears to be going further.

But they constrained him,

saying,

stay with us

for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent.

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