Bright and Cheerful Homes

St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

St. Josemaria Institute

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

4.9 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, Fr. Peter Armenio reflects on the home of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph in Nazareth, their example of a "bright and cheerful home", and why building a strong family foundation rooted in love and joy is essential to the new evangelization. Like St. Josemaria Escriva, we can go to St. Joseph to learn the "secret" to knowing Jesus Christ and bringing him to our family and others: “Saint Joseph, our Father and Lord: most chaste, most pure. You were found worthy to carry the Child Jesus...

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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.
0:11.0	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.
0:25.5	My Immaculate Mother St. Joseph, my Father and Lord, my guardian angel, and deceitable.
0:32.9	With your permission, Lord Jesus Christ, truly present with us in the Blessed Sacrament.
0:42.4	Our topic of conversation with our Lord at first glance comes across as a typical safe topic.
0:55.1	I guess that's beginning with a little bit of negativity.
1:01.0	I'm being spiritually passive-aggressive.
1:06.2	Bright and cheerful homes.
1:10.6	And I don't say that to
1:12.3	denigrate anybody, but it's
1:14.5	perhaps a topic
1:15.8	coming out of an Amish home.
1:21.3	Well,
1:21.6	that's because they're very Christian.
1:25.5	And, or it's
1:27.1	a topic that would come out of days gone by, bright and cheerful homes.
1:37.4	And maybe on a superficial level, there's just an implicit boredom there.
1:45.0	All right, we have to go through the topic.
1:46.7	It's kind of a polyana, polyana-ish topic.
1:51.7	Bright and cheerful homes where everybody is nice and saying the right things
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