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slash give. Today on the podcast, the sanctification of work.

Father Peter Arminio, a priest of Opus Day,

shares the biblical basis for giving glory to God through our work and explains how Jesus' hidden life of work

is meant to be for us a model for holiness.

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, and to cede for him.

With your permission, Lord Jesus Christ, truly present with us in the Blessed

Sacrament. This is kind of a safe topic to make up for your previous topic. It's called sanctification of work. That shouldn't sound too frightening.

We open up the gospel and we listen to our Lord's words,

addressed to a lawyer who asks him

who asks him that profound question,

what must I do to be happy?

That's not the only instance he is

confronted with this kind of question.

And he answers,

Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

He says to him, what is written in the law?

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