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 are people in life that are very lucky,

or blessed, we would say.

Or maybe both, and one of them is saying,

Look, he had the tremendous fortune of interviewing

the blessed virgin mary his gospel and also the acts of the apostles have as its foundation

the dialogue that he had with the blessed virgin mary with mary after the resurrection of jesus

christ and his ascension.

So just imagine being like St. Luke, spending time with Mary.

Maybe after dinner, gathering memories, writing down anecdotes,

opening up the treasure of the heart of Mary and then taking notes.

It's such a great opportunity for us to get engaged into those conversations with Mary through

the Gospel of St. Luke.

And at the very beginning, he says that during those days, Mary, I remember that she was

17 years old, Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah,

where she entered the house of Sechariah and greeted Elizabeth.

Again, Luke is taking notes.

Mary is saying when I was 17th, the angel Gabriel visited me,

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