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 the Lord,

my guardian angel, seafo. As we give our attention to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament,

and since he's sacramentally present, he's not present the way he was present in his public life.

He's sacramentally present so that we could all have him to ourselves.

Now he is glorified and he transcends space and time. He's using his divine power.

And it's all about loving us. And the Eucharist is a way God rigged so that we do have him all to ourselves.

And using an idea of St. John Paul, the Eucharist is also about his desire to be with us.

We want to be with him, but his desire to be with us far exceeds, infinitely exceeds, to be accurate,

our desire to be with him. And we really do want to be with him. And what we do is,

until we go to heaven and see him face to face, we literally put words in his sacramental mouth. That's the purpose of the gospel. And the words we're going to put in his mouth because they are eternal, and they always speak to us. That's the miracle of the gospel. The gospel within the broad parameters of the teaching of the

church, Jesus speaks to us through the language of the gospel. And we repeat these celebrated words.

Jesus said to him, Thomas, that is, I am the way and the truth and the life.

None one comes to the Father but by me. And this meditation, from the perspective of St.

Jose Maria, Opus Day is a family, and the father,

canonically called the prelate, is so special.

Because our father, St. Jose Maria,

had a very special role in Opus Day,

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