In the name of the Father and of the Son 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 of prayer fruitful.

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

We read in Holy Scripture in the epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians that we are chosen, that we have been chosen in Jesus Christ, as he says,

before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish in his sight in love.

He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ as his sons according to the purpose of his will,

unto the praise of the glory of his grace, with which he has favored us in his beloved son.

This is the opening paragraph of St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians.

He wants to remind them of their call to holiness.

We have been chosen in him before the foundation of the world.

Before anything existed, we were already loved by God.

Love consists in this, not that we have loved God, but that He has loved us first, says St. John.

Holiness, our call to holiness, is a real gift. There's nothing we

have done to deserve it. It's not that, as Blessed Alvro used to say, that our Lord kind of

created us and then kind of scratched his head and said, no, what am I going to do with this person?

Maybe, yeah, maybe I'll call him to holiness or maybe I'll call him to do this and carry out this task.

Yeah, it's kind of like an afterthought.

Not at all.

Our Lord has actually had a plan for us even before he created us.

And in fact, what that means is that when he does create us,

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