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today.

Day 1097.

You know, we've been talking, well, paragraphs 1434, 1439, we've been talking about conversion.

And not only the conversion that baptized that

Jesus calls all to conversion, calls us to conversion. And conversion is a process. We talked about

this yesterday. It's an interior repentance is a radical reorientation of our whole life,

a return, a conversion to God with all our heart and end of sin, all these things. Incredible.

And so today we're talking about the many forms of penance in Christian life. And so we know that prayer, fasting and alms

giving, we know that those three tasks, those three movements, those three elements of conversion,

they are the things that scripture presents to us as ways to turn to the Lord. At the same time. We know, because we heard yesterday, that they're not just tasks that remain on the service. It's not meant to be just simply external things. They're actually meant to reach our hearts. We're talking about that today, as well as the fact that conversion is accomplished in daily life. There's gestures of reconciliation. There's reaching out to our brothers and sisters. There's concern for the poor. There's, there's fighting for justice and fighting for

the right. There's all these, okay, let me just tell you today. We're going to go through a list of

things, a list of, I don't want to say tasks, because that's, that's too, that's too shallow.

A list of, list of movements, a list of things that people can do, essentially, that orient them

more and more towards conversion.

And all of these come from scripture.

So this is kind of, you're in for a treat today.

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