Our Call to Holiness

St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

St. Josemaria Institute

St. Josemaria Escriva, Opus Dei, Christianity, Spirituality, Catholic, Meditation, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Gospel

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🗓️ 22 June 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Reflection…“Holiness is the most attractive face of the Church.” Pope Francis, Apostolic Exhortation: The keys of holiness are Grace and Freedom. The freedom to choose the vocation in which we desire to make the presence of Jesus come alive in our hearts and in the heart of the world. And the grace to aid us in living the Beatitudes where the heart of Jesus opens up to us the many ways we can imitate him in our desire to become saints. Let us invoke Our Blessed Mother and t...

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0:00.0	My Godemichis
0:05.0	Nebronosteis, Noste, Noste, and Omey Patsrits,
0:09.0	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here,
0:15.0	that you see me, that you hear me.
0:20.0	I adore you with profound reverence.
0:25.6	I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:32.6	My Immaculate Mother St. Joseph, my Father and Lord, my guardian angel, and tocede for you.
0:42.3	As always, we begin our prayer focusing our attention on the Blessed Sacrament.
0:51.3	And the Blessed Sacrament is always, at least intuitively, the best explanation of the words
1:02.0	of Jesus, the value of the ordinary, a lesson in humility, a lesson in self-gift.
1:13.7	And as we begin, we want to look at the Eucharist with more attention, more love,
1:23.3	especially the topic being vocation.
1:27.1	It's a good way to start.
1:29.3	Go back to the basics.
1:32.3	And the model of vocation is the Holy Eucharist.
1:38.3	It's this presence of Jesus in the world.
1:42.3	He's totally present in the middle of the world through the tabernacle,
1:46.5	through the Blessed Sacrament. And the Blessed Sacrament also offers us the goal. What is
1:54.6	holiness? Holiness is always Eucharistic because the saint in this life he or she can't say it, but they can get close.
2:06.1	It is no longer I that live, but Christ who lives in me.
2:11.9	That Christ's presence is a full presence.
2:16.4	It's analogous to the Eucharist, obviously,
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