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St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

The Diamonds in Our Lady's Crown:The Beauty of Our Prayers and Sacrifices

St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

St. Josemaria Institute

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

4.9645 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

In our meditation of the week: Fr. Leo Austin reflects on how Our Lady opens our hearts to giving ourselves as a ransom for many, as we say in the Mass when we receive the Eucharist. To be a ransom for many, as she teaches us, means desiring to make ourselves humble instruments of God. Drawing on the scene of the ten lepers in St. Luke's Gospel, Fr. Leo reminds us that when we are confronted with the healing power of God's grace, whether we feel worthy or not, all of us have the possibility ...

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My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.

0:09.0

I adore you with profound reverence.

0:12.0

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

0:19.0

My immaculate mother.

0:22.9

St. Joseph, my father and Lord.

0:25.6

My guardian angel

0:26.9

intercede for me.

0:31.6

The grace of God

0:33.0

is something unstoppable.

0:35.8

Sometimes we think about it as a material thing. Maybe when we were

0:41.2

kids, children. We thought about grace like a clean water, or maybe it was a symbol of light,

0:48.8

a mysterious power that we don't know exactly what it is because it respects our freedom

0:57.0

and at the same time has such a huge influence in every people's life, in every person's life, right?

1:05.0

That's the grace of God, unstoppable.

1:08.0

Many times different authors have represented that grace as a sun, a star that comes from

1:16.3

the Eucharist, maybe the rays of sun that purify, that open new horizons. Other people

1:24.9

like to represent the grace in saints. The Blessed Virgin Mary obviously is the first one that comes to mind, the purity of Mary,

1:31.9

the joy of the saints.

1:34.4

And all those representations just get a little closer, but still very far away, of what really happens when every single person,

1:49.0

like you, like me, talk to God.

1:53.0

Because when I talk to you, my Lord, it's not something magic happens, like in a science fiction or a magical movie, is more than that.

2:05.9

It's a reality.

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