God Has Become Visible

St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

St. Josemaria Institute

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

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🗓️ 3 January 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This time of year is an especially spectacular and special time to penetrate the question: Who is God? What can we know about God? On this podcast we are invited to reflect on the mystery that our God has become one of us and how every prayer and reception of the Sacraments focuses on this incredible Truth. We [could] begin answering these questions by focusing on the suffering and solidarity of Jesus’s humanity and the fact that Our Lord shared in every component of human life. And, in turn...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:07.2	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.
0:15.3	I adore you with profound reverence.
0:18.6	I ask your pardon for my sins.
0:24.6	And the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful. My immaculate Mother St. Joseph, my Father and Lord, my guardian angel, intercede for me.
0:31.6	With your permission, Lord Jesus Christ, truly present with us in the Blessed Sacrament.
0:43.9	And we ask you, Lord, as we witness this mind-boggling truth of faith, that we have Jesus truly present behind that veil of bread.
1:03.0	To be theologically precise, it's not bread anymore.
1:09.0	And we believe this, and we thank our Lord for that grace of faith
1:13.6	that we actually believe it,
1:17.6	and we look forward to this time of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
1:24.6	We ask you, Lord, to help us meditate on a theme that runs through literally every time of prayer,
1:39.3	at least implicitly.
1:42.3	That's why we are called Christians.
1:45.0	We follow the anointed one. Christos means anointed.
1:50.0	Christ means anointed in Greek.
1:55.0	What's mind-boggling is that our God has become one of us.
2:06.6	That is the absolute charm of Christianity and every sacramental action, every reception
2:15.6	of the sacrament, every prayer always focuses on that incredible truth.
2:27.3	Lord, help us penetrate a bit. This is why this time of the year is so spectacular and so special.
2:37.0	Who is God?
2:40.0	What can we know about God?
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