In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen.

My Lord and to 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, at your seat for me.

When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites,

for they love to pray standing in the synagogues

and on the street corners to be seen by others.

Truly, I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

But when you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your father, who is unseen.

Then your father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Well, we begin our prayer now with these words from St. Matthew.

Well, are we in our room? Have we closed the door?

Are we praying in secret?

Well, we're not fully in secret because we are together in this oratory, which is the place to pray,

but we know the Lord sees us now, and that he says, well, he will reward us. How will you reward us, Lord, if we go as good sons and daughters to really pray?

That's what we want to do now in this time now.

It should not just be me, the priest, speaking, but it should be me the priest speaking

and praying, and you listening and praying.

The dominant future of this time really has to be that we are somehow praying. And if we think that the Lord will reward us,

then your father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Well, that has to give us a lot of hope.

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