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 you for pardon of my sins and grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

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

Well, in this meditation we continue our prayer about that great text of St.

Jose Maria passionately loving the world and perhaps we can bring we can

begin the meditation by going to the intercession of Saint Jose Maria and asking

him to intercede for us before the Lord so that we can understand the beauty of what he outlines in this homily which he gave in 1967.

It is a text that he put a lot of work into. He prepared it very carefully.

I remember somebody who was in Rome at that time with him, making that very point,

that the founder of the work put a great effort into that homily. And there's no doubt that it expresses

in a very beautiful and clear way the essence of the spirit of Opus Day,

of finding the Lord and loving the Lord and serving the Lord in and through the ordinary,

especially through daily, everyday work.

So it is that homily, passionately loving the world, is a very precious and beautiful presentation of the Spirit of Opus Day.

And here in this period of prayer, we could each one of us in our own way, guided by the Holy Spirit, in the intimacy of our own dialogue with the Lord,

we could pray about what does it mean to passionately love the world?

Does it make sense to love the world?

Sometimes that might sound a bit strange

because in a certain spiritual sense,

the world is worldliness. It can be a negative thing.

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