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, and deceit for him.

Well, before we get into ways to follow Christ,

it's always important to have as our backdrop the spirit behind the only

prayer the Son of God made man composed. And we say it's so often we may lose, without any ill will, of course, the significance of the first phrase,

which essentially says, when you pray, reflect that God loves you perfectly, unconditionally.

When you pray, say our Father.

And we could rhetorically, because Jesus answers our questions

through the scriptures, through inspirations,

in the next life, directly, but indirectly right now.

Lord, why was that your first phrase? you say, say, our father? And I think we

could safely say because I want you to keep going deeper and deeper in the reality of God's

unconditional love for you.

We've received the advice, we've probably given that advice, be yourself.

And we all have insecurities because the effects of original sin affect the soul,

affect the body, and affect the emotions or the psyche, you know, which is kind of like a gray area where when does, when do we become spiritual and cease to become physical? Well, I would say,

you know, there's the emotions and the psyche is sort of the transitional stage from physical

to spiritual, even though our soul is very defined

and our body is very defined.

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