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St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

The Family: Leaven of a New Humanity

St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

St. Josemaria Institute

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

4.9645 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, Fr. Peter Armenio reflects on the role of marriage and family as catalysts in revitalizing Christianity in the world today. Contemplating the gospel of the Wedding Feast at Cana (Jn 2:1-12), Fr. Peter explains the significance of the sacramentality of marriage which facilitates a bond of fidelity, love and self-giving between a husband and wife. Through this bond, the home is able to become a school of prayer, joy, contemplation, dialogue, and love. Mother and father ar...

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0:00.0

In the name of the Father and of the Son of the Holy Spirit, amen.

0:04.2

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

0:12.1

I adore you with profound reverence.

0:15.9

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

0:22.6

My immaculate mother, St. Joseph, my Father and Lord, my guardian angel, intercede for me.

0:29.3

As we begin our reflection on the last meditation or reflection on the celebrated document of the Holy Father, Amora's Letitia, that apostolic exhortation, that elaborates on the beauty of marriage, on the theology of marriage,

0:58.0

we want to look at marriage, as the Holy Father teaches us in his ninth chapter of Amor's Letitia,

1:07.7

the spirituality and the family itself as leaven for a new humanity.

1:23.6

Put it even more simpler terms to see the family,

1:31.4

the Christian family, the Catholic family

1:33.6

as the light of the world,

1:37.0

as the salt of the earth,

1:39.2

as the leaven in the mass.

1:44.1

Jesus himself delusied in the Mass.

1:50.6

Jesus himself delivers a very powerful message.

2:00.5

Since he is the son of God made man and his sojourn here on earth are the 33 most spectacular, extraordinary years of the whole history

2:05.5

of creation. It's the culmination point of creation that God himself becomes part of our world.

2:17.1

He doesn't drop from the sky

2:20.3

with melodrama,

2:24.3

with blasts of trumpets and drum rolls

2:29.3

and elaborate processions,

2:37.2

but rather he's born like everybody else,

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