In the name of the Father and of the Son and 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, intercede for me.

The purpose of this time of prayer is to consider this classic written by St.

Jose Maria 80 years ago.

The way is a classic that has changed innumerable lives.

The final analysis, this little book of 99 points

teaches so many people how to pray, how to turn their entire life into everything they do

into prayer.

And this meditation is meant to be a kind of appetizer to get a taste of the depth of these considerations.

The preface of the book says it all, where the very young St. Hosomaria says,

read these counsels slowly. Pause to meditate on these thoughts.

They are things that I whisper in your ear,

confiding them, as a friend, as a brother, as a father.

And they are being heard by God.

I won't tell you anything new. I will only stir your memory so that some thought will arise and strike you. And so you

will better your life and set out along ways of prayer

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