The Universal Call to Adoration

St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

St. Josemaria Institute

Spirituality, St. Josemaria Escriva, Christianity, Christian, Gospel, Catholic, Meditation, Religion & Spirituality, Opus Dei

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🗓️ 22 September 2023

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In this podcast, Fr. Donncha Ó hAodha reflects on how the universal call to adoration is the source of our happiness and the source of our true human flourishing and maturing. We can achieve our fullest human and spiritual potential insofar as we worship and adore God with our whole being and with our lives. The universal call to adoration, to give all the glory to God, especially through our ordinary, secular, daily, and sometimes mundane/repetitive realities, in no way demeans the human p...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:08.8	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.
0:20.0	I adore you with profound reverence.
0:23.6	I ask you for pardon of my sins
0:26.6	and grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:32.6	My mother immaculate,
0:35.6	St. Joseph, my father and Lord,
0:38.3	my guardian angel, intercede for me.
0:46.3	In this period of prayer, of mental prayer, of meditation,
0:51.3	we seek to enter into the presence of our Lord, which in a sense is very easy
0:59.2	because in him we live and move and have our being. You, Lord, are closer to us than we are to
1:09.0	ourselves, as St. Augustine said.
1:13.6	In this sense, prayer is always deeply personal, non-transferable, inalienable between you,
1:24.7	Lord and me. In this prayer, Lord Jesus, I, and me.
1:32.2	In this prayer, Lord Jesus, I seek to listen to you.
1:40.3	I want my soul to be attentive, open, loving.
1:52.0	And in this prayer, I also want to speak with you face to face, heart to heart. So prayer is always personal and at the same time it's social. We pray always as individuals, but as members of this family with such deep bonds,
2:08.1	which is the Church of God, God's family.
2:13.2	As St. Hose Maria said, we all need a lot of company, company from heaven and company from earth.
2:23.4	And in the opening prayer of our meditation, we invoked the help of our lady, St. Joseph and our guardian angel.
2:33.2	And in fact, whenever we pray, we are, to use the phrase of the letter to the Hebrews,
2:42.3	we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses.
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