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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 grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My immaculate mother, St. Joseph, my Father and Lord, my guardian angel intercede for me.

The topic for meditation, this time of prayer, and I understand the theme of thoughtfulness and reflection

for the whole month of the St.

Jose Marie Institute, the month of January, 2026.

Maybe you're not quite getting used to it being 2026, but here we are 2026.

So the theme for this month is the reality of pessimism.

I'm not sure what the different aspects of pessimism that are going to be covered

in the San Jose Maria Institute efforts this month,

maybe trying to promote some of the books of the writings of St. Jose-Marie, I

imagine, with regard to overcoming the problem of pessimism and looking at also as pessimism,

the reality of pessimism as the reality of our living in the middle of the world. If you don't, if you're not in the middle of the

world, or if you're not very, somewhat engaged in the realities of the world, I guess you could say,

for example, maybe an infant and whatever that might be for that person, the age of reason, or maybe a person with later in life,

a senior who has a kind of dementia, is not aware as much of realities outside of oneself and immediate

surroundings.

Well, maybe those people are not very pessimistic.

In fact, it's very moving to see the optimism of little children many times who, yes,

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