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.

This time of prayer together gives us the chance to revisit the document, The Joy of Love, published by the Holy Father

five years ago. You might recall that Pope Francis chose last March 19th to launch the year of

Amoris Letitia family.

He chose March 19th to mark the fifth anniversary of the document.

And so here we are, more or less halfway through this great year of the family.

We want to talk to the Lord about halfway through this great year of the family.

We want to talk to the Lord about the joy of the family, the joy of love.

After all, the document of Maurice Leticia means the joy of love.

And it explores, if we want to explore the joy and beauty of the family. And so one way for us to carry out this time of prayer is to take a look at a few of the insights of the Holy Father

in this long and very beautiful document.

The goal, of course, is for us and our families to come to resemble more and more closely the Holy Family of Nazareth.

One of the prominent themes of the document is learning how to accept all the members,

every single one of the members of the family, as they are, and how to do so with greatness of spirit.

And this, we all know from experience, requires interior life.

It requires a very conscious effort to accept it to revel in each one of our family members.

At one point early on, the Holy Father says,

married couples joined by love speak well of each other. They try to show their spouses good side,

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