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. In this meditation, we want to pray about

our responsibility to transmit the faith, especially to our loved ones and especially to our children.

When we talk about transmitting the faith, we are really corresponding to the

mandate that our Lord gave the apostles,

go to the whole world and baptize everyone in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

We are all very fortunate to have received the faith.

Maybe most of us have received the faith in baptism when we were little kids, when we were children,

and we did nothing to deserve this gift, and we were baptized into a Christian family.

Perhaps others have converted having studied the faith and having prayed for the grace of a conversion after the age of reason.

Whatever the case may be, the faith is always a gift and it's not something we have given to ourselves.

But as a gift, if we have freely received it, as our Lord says in the Gospel of Matthew,

we should also freely give it.

Everyone who receives the faith owes God for the faith and also in a secondary

way, all those people that have been a kind of chain that goes all the way back to the apostles

and to Jesus himself.

You know, what would, where would we be had it not been for all those martyrs in the early

centuries?

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