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.

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 seat for me.

As we focus our attention on Jesus Christ present with us, we ask him, humbly, to help us see him and contemplate him in his saints.

What is a saint, but an individual who can sincerely repeat with St. Paul,

not in this life it may be a bit presumptuous,

but the church can recognize this.

That's what a canonization is, that that person can say, it is no longer I that live, but Christ who lives in me.

That is what a saint is.

It's an individual who has allowed the Holy Spirit to work in such a way that there has been a radical transformation.

That man or woman, preserving his or own personality and character traits and even defects,

has become a vessel of clay with the fullness of Christ,

has made Christ present through their many conversions and transformations.

And the saint, on occasion of St. John Paul's commemoration or Feast Day, October's 22nd,

we want to contemplate Christ in Him.

I personally feel that it's rather easy to see Christ in such an extraordinary individual.

I recall, though it's almost a half a century ago, being a young man preparing for the priesthood in my early 20s, when he was elected, that was preceded by, obviously, the death of Paul the sixth, now blessed Paul the sixth,

and proceeded by a pope that lasted 33 days, John Paul I. And I recall being very moved and impressed by John Paul

the first. In fact, John Paul the first prayed at the mortal remains of St. Jose Maria,

who was not officially St. Jose Maria at the time. of St. Jose Maria, who was not officially St.

Jose Maria at the time.

He went to his burial place called the crypt underneath the Prolatic Church of Opus Day

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