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, into seat for me.

With your permission, Lord Jesus Christ, truly present with us in the blessed sacrament we come

before you Lord and we come here to incarnate your teachings which are spirit

and life into our daily practice by living some form of your total gift of self

we find you because the Holy Spirit in John's first epistle

says that God is Agape or Agape.

He's self-giving love.

And to the degree that I give of myself,

to that degree in this life, I see God.

I actually see God in an indirect way, in shadows, as I replicate, which will never do perfectly, his self-giving love.

And we make that act of faith that the Lord will arrange circumstances in our life so that we have opportunities to be purified.

So little by little, I am empowered to exercise that self-giving love. To God directly in prayer and suffering and to Jesus

Christ through loving of those around us first our immediate family or extended

family or friends or colleagues including that's more our immediate family, our extended family, our friends, our colleagues, including,

that's one of the charms of the gospel, people who have injured us and hurt us.

The topic of this conversation with Jesus is humility as triumph.

I'm plagiarizing St. José Maria.

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