In Life and in Death, We Are Never Alone

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St. Josemaria Institute

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

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🗓️ 31 October 2023

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In this podcast, Fr. Donncha Ó hAodha guides us to pray about the gift of the month of November. It is a great gift because it gives us the opportunity to focus on reality, to focus on the truth and love of God, and to recover our perspectives on our own journeys through time and to eternity. This is important, as Fr. Donncha explains, because when we elevate and perfect all the bits and pieces that make up our day, seeing them within the horizon of eternity-- one universal horizon-- we wil...

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0:00.0	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.
0:13.0	I adore you with profound reverence.
0:17.0	I ask you for pardon of my sins, and grace to make this time of prayer fruitful
0:24.6	my mother immaculate
0:28.2	St Joseph my father and Lord
0:31.7	my guardian angel intercede for me
0:36.2	in this month of November My guardian angel intercede for me.
0:45.3	In this month of November, the whole church focuses on the last things.
0:52.3	We're all on a journey through time and to eternity.
0:56.4	Now we realise this all the time.
0:58.1	Time keeps going.
1:00.4	We keep moving on.
1:02.5	It's obvious.
1:05.8	None of us is getting any younger as the phrase goes.
1:08.2	And that's no bad thing.
1:10.4	It's natural.
1:14.7	If we were to be frozen in time, we wouldn't be happy.
1:17.7	We wouldn't achieve our end.
1:24.6	It might seem attractive sometimes just to halt the passing of time,
1:28.3	to press pause on chronology. But after a while we'd find it intolerable.
1:32.3	No, indeed, here we have no lasting city.
1:37.3	We're always straining towards the fullness of happiness, the fullness of joy.
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