Chosen by God | The Second Week of Advent

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🗓️ 5 December 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Fr. Javier del Castillo continues our Advent podcast series reflecting on the call we receive at baptism to become a saint. In looking at the vocation of the twelve apostles, we see Christ choose ordinary men with defects and shortcomings to be instruments in the work of grace. Fr. Javier reminds us that the Lord works in all people through the grace of the Holy Spirit. Though we may notice our own individual shortcomings, if we are susceptible to the work of the Lord, we too can pursue our v...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:03.0	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.
0:10.0	I adore you with profound reverence.
0:13.0	I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:18.0	My Immaculate Mother, St. Joseph, my father and Lord, my guardian angel
0:24.2	intercede for me. As we continue in this second week of Advent, we want to get into the meaning of Advent as a coming of our Lord into our lives.
0:44.8	We are getting ready.
0:46.9	We can think of Mary as she got ready through her pregnancy.
0:52.4	We can only imagine how she would be so excited at seeing the face of God
1:01.8	and then discovering actually that his face, the face of Jesus, is actually her face
1:10.2	because as we know, there is no human, or there's no male seed in the conception of Jesus, since it was the Holy Spirit that intervened.
1:23.6	And all of the humanity of Jesus, therefore, is assumed from Mary.
1:31.3	And so Jesus must have really looked like Mary.
1:35.3	And this is exactly what happens, what will happen,
1:39.3	when Jesus comes into our own lives.
1:43.3	He wants to actually come into our lives and incarnate himself
1:49.2	once again in everything that we do. He wants to ennoble everything that we do and raise it up to the level of the divine.
2:02.6	The moment when Jesus comes into our lives, we could say is the moment that we notice our
2:09.4	vocation, what our vocation is, what our ultimate end is.
2:13.6	And that could happen when we say yes to God.
2:17.2	In the big moments of life.
2:19.1	Let's say we, you know, somebody gets married.
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