Thank you for listening to the St. Jose Maria Institute podcast. We are pleased to share with you

today an excerpt from the audio edition of the book Praying 15 Days with St. Jose Maria Iscriva

by Father Kiyom Jerville. Praying 15 days with St. Jose Maria Escriva invites us under his guidance

to follow various characters in the Gospels, placing ourselves in each scene as one more among the rest

as they live out their personal encounters of Jesus Christ.

The audio edition of Praying 15 Days with St. Jose Maria Skriva

is produced by the St. Jose Maria Institute

and is available on a two-disc CD set and digital download.

The following is the introduction as another person in the scene, may you seek Christ, may you find Christ, may you love Christ.

This is how St. Jose Maria frequently dedicated books about the life of Jesus,

books whose reading he recommended.

It is a triple invitation that he also carved in letters of fire on people's hearts.

But how can one arrive at this personal encounter with Christ

by reading his life in such a way that it becomes recorded in our memory, just like

the images of a movie.

St. Jose Maria was not content to simply read the gospel. He used to live it as one character

more. This characteristic phrase captures his approach.

He entered into the life of Jesus, or rather he let our Lord become his life, by introducing him into his heart.

In the gospel, we discover not only the life of Jesus, but also our own.

Everything, every point that is told there, has been gathered, detail by detail,

for you to make it come alive in the individual circumstances of your life.

Many people came to know Jesus during his earthly life. The words that follow will illuminate

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