The Holy Mass as the Center of Our Life

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🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this podcast, part of our Day of Recollection resources for the month of February, Fr. Donncha Ó hAodha reflects on the importance of the Holy Mass in our daily life. He explains that in every Mass the healing work of Christ becomes present and effective in our world. Fr. Donncha offers encouragement for those times when we may not feel like going to Mass, for it is then when we absolutely need the Mass as it is an encounter with God’s love and a catalyst for our work of evangelization. [...

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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,
0:08.0	I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.
0:15.0	I adore you with profound reverence.
0:18.0	I ask you for pardon of my sins and grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:23.6	My mother immaculate, St. Joseph, my father and Lord, my guardian angel intercede for me.
0:32.6	We could begin this period of prayer by placing ourselves in the midst of a busy period in our Lord's public life.
0:45.2	You Jesus are travelling around different parts of the Holy Land of Palestine, preaching the gospel, healing, teaching, and also being challenged at times by those
0:58.9	who don't understand you or those perhaps who are not totally open to you.
1:05.0	And St. Luke tells us in chapter 10 of his gospel that a lawyer stood up to put him to the test saying,
1:12.9	Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
1:18.9	And the Lord answers him, what is written in the law? How do you read?
1:24.2	And he answered, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind.
1:32.3	And your neighbor as yourself.
1:35.3	And he said to him, You have answered right.
1:38.3	Do this and you will live.
1:42.3	So our Lord's response is very complete. you will live.
1:49.1	So our Lord's response is very complete in every sense.
1:55.3	Eternal life is a question of total love of neighbour, total love of the other.
2:03.9	But this particular man, this particular lawyer, who challenges Christ, is not entirely happy with the answer.
2:08.2	Maybe it just seems too much to him.
2:15.6	In any event, we're told by St. Luke that, desiring to justify himself, he said to Jesus, and who is my neighbour?
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