Second Week of Lent | Jesus, My Closest Friend

St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

St. Josemaria Institute

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

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In this podcast, Fr. Peter Armenio explains how knowing about Jesus Christ differs from knowing him. And, in order to know Christ, Fr. Peter encourages us to foster a personal relationship with him, with “the knowledge of the heart, the knowledge of a relationship, the knowledge a man and a woman have of each other when they’re courting…” Getting to know him requires intimate conversation, which begins with the “desire to seek Christ.” As St. Josemaria would say, we must seek him “hungrily” a...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:05.0	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.
0:14.0	I adore you with profound reverence.
0:18.0	I ask your pardon for my sins
0:22.3	and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:29.5	My immaculate mother, St. Joseph, my father, and Lord,
0:34.9	my guardian angel, intercede for me.
0:40.9	With your permission permission Lord Jesus Christ
0:42.1	truly present with us
0:45.1	in the blessed sacrament
0:47.2	the
0:49.5	overall theme
0:52.0	of these two meditations is on conversion in light of the fact that we find
0:58.8	ourselves in this special time of grace that we call lent and we use this time it's a time of
1:08.0	struggle it's a time of self-denial a time for extra sacrificial self-giving but it's a time of struggle, it's a time of self-denial, a time for extra sacrificial self-giving,
1:13.9	but it's especially a time of joy because these are measures to encounter the ultimate satisfaction and meaning of life, which is the very life of Christ.
1:33.8	An anecdote comes to mind.
1:37.6	A Jewish writer now embrace the Catholic faith. I don't know if he's still living.
1:47.0	French Jew by the name of Andre Frossar.
1:51.0	And he was walking through the streets of Paris with a Catholic buddy.
1:58.0	And in this particular church the Blessed Sacrament was exposed in the
2:06.4	monstrands and he asked his friend Andre if he could be excused so he can make a brief visit
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