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,

into seat form.

With your permission, Lord Jesus Christ, truly present with us in the Blessed Sacrament.

The next topic of prayer is Spirit of Penance.

Yes, we need to exercise piety, but to always give an experience of the kindness and affection of Christ takes a lot of penance, a lot of self-denial. Prayer gives us the fuel. It's the fuel, the energy source

of our love, but we need to develop virtues like a sport

or like a skill or like a language.

We've got to repeat those actions until they become part of us.

Man and women by nature are perfectable. Even Jesus grew in stature before God and man

because he's human. And so I need to learn through the Enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

He speaks to us through inspiration, speaks to us through inspiration,

speaks to us through good example,

speaks to us through cognizance of our sinfulness,

our sins of omission,

and we want to learn how to live that new commandment of love

creating that bright and cheerful home.

St. Jose Maria, and I want to do these words justice, or this idea justice,

in 1970, he had a get-together, I think, with only Americans.

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