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, inter seed for me.

On this third Sunday of Advent,

as always we address Jesus in this Bethlehem of a chapel, or if you're praying outside of this chapel in a church, which is essentially

Bethlehem, which means house of bread, this is the house of bread of God.

And the theme traditionally of the third Sunday of Advent called Gaudete Sunday,

which means literally rejoice Sunday or joy Sunday, which means literally rejoice Sunday or joy Sunday.

We reflect on one of the major manifestations of this intimate union with Jesus.

And Advent is about expecting our Lord and welcoming our Lord

and creating the right staging area for our Lord to come to us,

the right dispositions.

And one of the telltale signs of this come to us, the right dispositions.

And one of the telltale signs of this more intense presence of Jesus is the prominent

fruit of the Holy Spirit very much present throughout Jesus' life and revealed by Paul as a fruit of the Holy Spirit,

taught by the Catechism, it is joy.

Joy and peace are those two prominent fruits of the Holy Spirit.

And in today's gospel, as last week, John is the prominent character.

He is the one who is preparing for the first Advent, the first coming of our Lord in the public forum.

And I won't read the whole gospel, but basically talks about mending our sinful

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