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 deceitful.

We savor that opening prayer, my Lord and my God. And as we focus on the Eucharist,

which is the model and the greatest image and symbol of every topic in the gospel.

And it's not only a symbol, it's that true presence of Jesus.

And St.

Jose Maria says that for him, the Eucharist is our Lord's greatest act of self-giving.

And he says, even more than on the cross itself,

even though the Eucharist is synonymous with the cross,

to have our Lord's presence here,

we need to bring the sacrifice of Calvary to the present moment.

But this hiding in the tabernacle,

making himself so accessible, rigging up away so that we could have them all to ourselves,

no tickets, no lines, no waiting rooms.

St. Jose Maria says that this for him is his greatest act of self-giving self-abasement.

Our topic of prayer is on detachment and penance.

Well, detachment and temperance, no, well, detachment and temperance, but penance and temperance

are expressions of the same idea.

One way we could look at this is immediately go into all sorts of symptoms of attachment to worldly things.

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