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

My Immaculate Mother, St. Joseph, my Father and Lord, my guardian angel, intercede for me.

In this month of October, we will celebrate another anniversary of the founding of Opus Day.

And as we know, one of the central messages that St. was a Maria understood in this message that he received,

he always said that it was something he saw,

and he saw it as coming from the hands of our Lord,

was that everyone in the world could become a saint in and through the realities of the ordinary,

and especially with great emphasis on sanctifying ordinary work.

When we open the gospel, we realize how often our Lord uses examples of ordinary work

to communicate divine and at the same time human wisdom to his disciples and all this with

great naturalness. If we look at the parable of the sower, we see how he uses the example of

an ordinary person sowing seed in the field

or in order to explain

how we should search for

the kingdom of God. He uses the example of

of the merchant in search of fine pearls

you know or the fisherman who casts the net into the sea

and so many other examples.

The Lord esteems our work so much, the work that we do every single day with our hands

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