You're listening to I Pray with the Gospel on the St. Jose Maria Institute podcast.

In the name of the Father and of the, 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 a prayer fruitful.

My Immaculate Mother, St. Joseph, my Father, and Lord, my guardian angel, intercede for me.

The Feast of St. Cyril and Methodius.

A reading from the Gospel of Luke, chapter 10.

After this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town,

in place where he himself was about to come.

And he said to them,

The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.

Jose Luis was 12 years old on December 27, 1942.

He was spending his Christmas holiday with his priest's uncle in a country hamlet in the north of

Spain.

That night, someone came from the neighboring town to ask the priest to attend a dying old lady.

It was dark and snowing, but nothing stopped the priest from taking his coat and setting off to walk the three-mile

distance. His young nephew volunteered to accompany him. They had walked two miles when the snowfall

became very heavy, covering their way. Their feet were freezing, and in a few

minutes they got lost. Suddenly the old priest fell. In pain, he realized he couldn't walk

anymore, and sent the boy for help. Jose Luis ran and knocked at the first house he found.

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