Repent and Believe in the Gospel

St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

St. Josemaria Institute

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

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🗓️ 20 March 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Reflection… Lent is a season of conversion of the mind, heart, and soul through the acts of prayer, penance, and deeds of charity/alms giving. Though its exact time of origin is unknown, the practice of fasting and the offering of a penance during the 40 days prior to Easter was more widely visible in the church sometime soon after The First Council of Nicaea, AD 325. The councils’ program of liturgical and theological alignment may have been the springboard that aided in the formation of the...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:09.1	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.
0:18.7	I adore you with profound reverence.
0:22.4	I ask your pardon for my sins
0:24.6	and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:29.1	My immaculate mother, St. Joseph, my father and Lord,
0:33.5	my guardian angel, intercede for him.
0:37.3	Lord Jesus, truly present with us in the Blessed Sacrament.
0:43.3	Our theme of conversation with our Lord is timely because we will be giving special concentration on the theme of Lent, which is conversion. Utilizing the special
1:00.1	graces and the special means Jesus presents to us, prayer, penance, and deeds of charity, three contact points of Jesus Christ. Because Jesus Christ is the incarnation
1:20.8	of self-giving love. And only through self-giving love on our part can we make contact with him.
1:30.6	Prayer is a form of self-giving love that we direct directly to God through Jesus Christ.
1:42.9	Penance, we impose the cross upon ourselves to have a deeper encounter
1:49.1	with him and allow the Holy Spirit to more effectively purify us. And we encounter him
1:58.2	in a direct way, he reveals reveals it in our love for others.
2:04.4	If you did it for the least, you've done it for me.
2:06.9	So the theme of our time of prayer is conversion.
2:13.7	There are countless messages in the gospel,
2:22.3	but there's one message that is omnipresent.
2:43.3	Because the trajectory to those very high bars, the gospel message establishes, humbling ourselves, being a great servant, praying at all times,
2:48.7	serving the least of our brothers and sisters, or least, there's nobody who's least,
2:50.1	but they may seem that way. And our Lord
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