This is Scott Han and I want to welcome you to the Road to Amaeus, a podcast from the St Paul Center. Grow deeper in love with the blessed sacrament with mystery of the altar, daily meditations on the

eucharist, the perfect companion for weekly eucharistic adoration or for a quick

five minutes of prayer each day. What two or three practical steps can you take to renew your covenant with our Lord to renew the well

spring of personal prayer so that instead of just hearing great ideas and

instead of just taking away 20 or 30 things that you end up

not doing any of them, you know it might be the daily rosary it might be

eucharistic adoration it might be the chaplet of divine mercy which has become one of my all-time favorites

The sabbatical began for me at the end of April early May of last year when I did the total consecration reading through true devotion of the Blessed

Virgin Mary with St Louis de Monfort and then after those 33 days I shared it

with my family and we picked up a book by a former student and dear friend

Father Michael Gately 33 days to morning glory and we did that consecration

near the end of our family vacation as a family to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

And I mean, and you are tapping into inexhaustible depths of divine graces that really are stored up for us

when we discover who we are as God's children in God's family

with the mother of God as our own mother.

So I want to encourage you to do all of these things, but to, you know, just to pick one or two of them that you haven't you haven't

done before or you used to do but you like to return to. Having said all of

that just by way of introduction. I'd like to focus our attention for the

rest of my time on three specific areas. I'd like to look at what the

catechism has to say about prayer at the beginning of the fourth

and final section. The fourth pillar of the catechism as you know is devoted to prayer

in general as well as to the Our Father in particular. Then secondly I'd like to move

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