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

As we more explicitly put ourselves in the presence of God through Jesus Christ,

as we contemplate his true presence, as we always do, using sentiments and a prayer of his own apostles,

we humbly ask Jesus to increase our faith, our trust, our love.

This plea addressed to the tabernacle takes on a special urgency, given the challenges,

to put it mildly, that the people of God face with this flaring up

or this greater awareness

of clerical scandal.

It would have been easier for me

to elaborate and to meditate on sanctification of work, turning work into prayer.

Since it's September, the beginning of the school year, on the heels of Labor Day.

The main characteristic of the Holy Family was that they were ordinary and they engaged in work.

Jesus and his father, Joseph, as carpenters,

and the Blessed Virgin Mary as a homemaker.

They give us powerful lessons on the value and the calling to turn our ordinary activities, especially our work, into prayer.

But we need to read the sirens of the times and bring Christ into both our joys and sorrows.

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