Third Week of Lent | The Purpose of Lent: Get Closer to Jesus

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🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this podcast, as we continue our Lenten devotions, Fr. Peter Armenio reminds us of the importance of getting to know Christ, our Divine Friend, and using the Gospels as a medium to hear him and to speak to him. Fr. Peter explains how “the purpose of Lent is to get closer to Jesus” and one of the best ways of doing this is by following the Church’s three Lenten pillars—prayer fasting, and almsgiving—as they all lead us to keep us focused on and in communication with Christ. In t...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:04.0	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.
0:11.0	I adore you with profound reverence.
0:15.0	I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:26.3	My Immaculate Mother St. Joseph, my Father, and Lord, my guardian angel, and to see for it.
0:32.7	With your permission, Lord Jesus Christ, truly present with us in the blessed sacrament,
0:54.9	and as Lent is well off to the ground, off from the ground, we ask you, Lord, that this time of special graces be for us individually an occasion of profound conversion that little by little
0:57.9	we become more united to Christ
1:01.7	that we get to know him
1:04.3	as an individual gets to know a friend
1:07.3	he's our divine friend
1:10.0	he's many things as God He's our divine friend. He's many things. As God, he's our creator. As man, he's our
1:17.1	savior. And Jesus, in his humanity, translates the infinite transcendent love of the Father
1:26.6	in human form.
1:30.8	He becomes a human language of God's infinite transcendence.
1:36.9	That's why he's called Word made flesh.
1:41.0	That's why the letter of the Hebrews say that God spoke through his patriarchs and his prophets,
1:49.0	and in the fullness of time, speaks to us through his own very son.
1:56.0	He reveals himself through his son.
2:00.0	And the humanity of Jesus, what does it reveal? reveals himself through his son.
2:05.9	And the humanity of Jesus, what does it reveal, how much God loves us,
2:12.1	and how much Christ, because he's God and man,
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