Let us begin this talk with a Hail Mary.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

The purpose of this talk is to go over some points of the way that the St.

Jose Maria Institute has realized are the top four points of the way in social media right now.

As you know, we are celebrating the 80th anniversary of the publishing of the

way, which is by now a spiritual classic by St. Jose Maria. He wrote it in 1939. It's a book that

contains points of reflection, points of wisdom.

And out of the 99 points that it contains right now, for some reason or other, there are four very popular points.

And the purpose of this talk is to explore what those are and

also to theorize as to why and maybe we can draw some good out of that.

So the the four points, I'm going to read the first three and then leave the last one to the end.

The first point is a very popular one, a very, very famous one.

From the chapter on character, it is called, or it reads like this,

don't say that's the way I am, it's my character. It's your lack of character.

Esto v. Be a man. That's point number four of the way. The second point is from the chapter on

mortification. Conquer yourself each day from the very first moment, getting up on the dot,

at a fixed time without yielding a single minute to laziness.

Okay, very interesting.

That is the point on basically the heroic minute, and it is point 191.

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