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Please enjoy today's meditation.

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 emagulate mother, St. Joseph, my father and Lord, my guardian

angel intercede for me. You may know that in the central offices of Opus Day in Rome, there's an oratory

there, the Oratory of the Holy Trinity, which is used by the prelate. And inside there,

there's a reliquary, the small little silver chest that holds the relics of St. Catherine of Siena. I heard that it was given to the founder

by the Archbishop of Siena Monseigneur Mario Ismaele, Castellano, back in 1964, and he even signed

its authentication.

And on that little reliquary, there's a Latin inscription,

and it reads, I'll translate in a sec, to English, it reads in Latin,

Deleksit opera and bellita ecclesiam day

and Romanum Pontificam.

Which can be translated.

He loved God's

church and

the Roman pontiff with deeds

and in truth.

This idea

to love the Roman pontiff, to love the church, is something that really deeply

resonated with St.

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