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 you for pardon of my sins and grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My mother immaculate, St. Joseph, my father and Lord,

my guardian angel intercede for me.

As we enter into this period of prayer together,

we begin perhaps by praying for one another that we would have the gift of prayer.

We ask the Holy Spirit to grant us this great gift,

that we would be able to open our souls, our hearts, our minds,

our whole being to the Lord, to you Jesus.

And we can contemplate the Lord, you Lord Jesus,

in the fifth chapter of Luke's Gospel,

in the hustle and bustle, the busyness of your public life,

we see you here as so often in fact, surrounded by crowds by the Sea of Galilee.

We picture ourselves there, more than that, we situate ourselves there

on the shores of that lake, where you teach us so often.

And St. Luke recounts that,

while the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he was standing

by the lake of Jenezerith, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone

out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simons, he asked him to put out a little from the land,

and he sat down and taught the people from the boat.

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