The Means to Union with Christ | Part Six

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🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Continuing our Easter series, To and From Emmaus: In this podcast, Fr. Peter Armenio reflects on the importance of nurturing our interior life in order to draw close to our Heavenly Father and to share the light of Christ with others. As we see in the gospel passage, Christ makes himself known to the disciples through the breaking of the bread and in sharing of the Word. In this time of prayer and reflection, Fr. Peter challenges us to make resolutions that can help deepen our Eucharistic pi...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son 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.
0:11.6	I adore you with profound reverence. I ask your pardon for my sins, and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:22.0	My emaculate Mother St. Joseph, my Father and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful. My immaculate Mother St. Joseph, my father and Lord,
0:27.4	my guardian angel, intercede for.
0:32.1	We continue our walk with Jesus.
0:36.2	We continue our personal walk to Emmaus. It's not just a pious,
0:43.7	metaphorical way of speaking. Everything Jesus does is for us personally. And we are recipients of his words, of his presence, of his deeds, all the episodes of
1:01.1	his life are meant to affect us personally.
1:05.9	And especially this narrative of the life of the resurrected Christ here on our planet on this earth.
1:19.2	We accept his words personally, we accept his gestures personally.
1:26.5	And just to segue into the topic of our meditation,
1:32.3	which is the means to union with Christ, the means to sanctity.
1:39.3	We see two means used.
1:42.3	They don't recognize Jesus, just like we don't see him with our eyes of flesh. We hope to see him face to face in heaven.
1:53.0	And the medium of conversation with Jesus on this long walk to Emmaus and then back again to Jerusalem
2:06.1	is Jesus' actual words, the prophetic words predicting his passion that he explains.
2:22.4	And then at the end of their journey,
2:26.2	the breaking of the bread.
2:31.4	The bread he will distribute to those two disciples.
2:32.7	He breaks the bread.
2:40.5	And so they deal with him, if you will, using the words of St. Jose Maria.
2:44.5	They deal with him through the bread and the word.
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