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Please enjoy today's meditation.

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.

There is this quote by blessed Clelea Merloni that I read some time ago, my lord,

and I want to bring it to my time of prayer today to this meditation,

because it's pretty deep. It's impactful. It was impactful when I read the first time,

and I think and help us, It helped me to examine myself in your presence with peace.

And she says, remember that the devil, Satan, will often make you feel the weight of fatigue.

He will often torment you with the fear of working uselessly.

End of the quote.

And maybe that was a little bit the mindset of the apostles at the early stages of the church.

And today we are celebrating the awesome feast of Pentecost, the coming of the Holy Spirit.

It is good to consider what happened before he came.

And to enter into this time of prayer, putting ourselves in the shoes of the apostles,

or even in our own shoes, what stops me from being optimistic? And maybe there is this sense of

feeling useless. And we need to know that doesn't come from God. That's always come from Satan, feeling useless, right?

But it's good to go through the pain that the apostles experienced

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