Dinner with Jesus

St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

St. Josemaria Institute

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

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🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ ? minutes

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In this podcast, Fr. Leo Agustina invites you to imagine inviting Jesus to dinner as he passes by you at home, your dorm, your office, your kitchen, or your desk. Would you welcome him and listen to him? Would you allow him to open your horizons and give meaning to your whole life? This was the way of St. Matthew (also called Levi) as we read in the Gospels. Jesus was sending a huge message by passing by people at their jobs and at work. He is present, he is aware, and he really cares. But y...

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0:00.0	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. I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:21.9	My immaculate mother, St. Joseph, my father and Lord, my guardian angel,
0:28.4	intercede for me.
0:32.9	In the gospel of today's Mass, we read something about Jesus and his interaction with a human being.
0:40.6	And maybe because of the distance of centuries, we put the gospel in a box.
0:47.2	Maybe the box of legends or nice stories that have nothing to do with us.
0:53.5	But this is not true.
0:56.3	The beauty of the gospel is precisely that.
0:59.7	That applies to you today, to me.
1:02.8	Right now, Jesus is passing by.
1:05.9	And talking to us.
1:07.2	And that's why the gospel is alive.
1:10.4	So let's read it not as a legend or as a fantasy, but as a reality.
1:16.7	Jesus is alive.
1:17.5	Jesus, we believe that you are alive.
1:19.7	That's why I said, I believe that you are here with me.
1:24.2	In my heart, in the tabernacle, if you are in a church, in your soul, in my soul,
1:30.5	when we are in a state of grace.
1:33.2	So let's listen to what Jesus has to say today, to you, to me, putting ourselves inside
1:39.8	the scene of the gospel.
1:42.4	And it says that Jesus went out again besides
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