Why Do We Have To Die?

St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

St. Josemaria Institute

Spirituality, St. Josemaria Escriva, Christianity, Christian, Gospel, Catholic, Meditation, Religion & Spirituality, Opus Dei

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🗓️ 16 March 2024

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In our meditation of the week: Fr. Javier del Castillo explains the great lesson Jesus teaches us in the gospel for the Fifth Sunday of Lent (John 12:20-33), which is that we have to die -- to self and in this world-- in order to really see who he is. From a Christian outlook, death is a passageway to eternal life where we get to see God, face to face, if we have lived according to the faith. Because of Jesus, we can no longer think that our death in this world is the end or something to be ...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:04.4	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.
0:11.5	I adore you with profound reverence.
0:13.9	I beg your pardon for my sins.
0:16.1	And the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:19.6	My Immaculate mother,
0:23.1	St. Joseph, my father and Lord,
0:24.9	my guardian angel intercede from me.
0:29.6	Today,
0:31.0	in the fifth Sunday of Lent,
0:33.3	we will read
0:34.6	from the gospel, according to St. John,
0:40.3	when a couple of Greeks come to Philip and Andrew,
0:49.2	and they tell them that they want to see Jesus.
0:55.0	And so Philip... and they tell them that they want to see Jesus.
1:00.0	And so Philip went and told Andrew, and then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.
1:04.0	And Jesus answers with these words,
1:09.0	The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
1:12.6	Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies,
1:18.6	it remains just a grain of wheat.
1:21.6	But if it dies, it produces much fruit.
1:25.6	Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in
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