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, and Father, and Lord.

My guardian angel, and to see before me.

Our topic of conversation with our Lord is interior struggle,

dash fighting against loop warmness.

And I want to title this meditation

under the heading of the interior life, a phrase coined by St. Paul addressed to,

for the most part, laity in the primitive church of Corinth, the Church of Corinth, that had no steeples, no temples,

no parish centers, no parochial schools, no official diocesan programs, The church was a moral entity. I would estimate maybe 60 families,

80 families. Priests were not in abundance then. You a pope you had a bishop their bishop was

st paul other bishops were ordained like st apollo st barnabas st.

Barnabas Saint-Titus but it was the will of God that the face of the church, especially in those first centuries,

would be the face of ordinary folk.

The face of the church was not the bishop or the priest. And I don't say that in reaction to what's going on right now with the reemergence of an awareness of pre-scandals,

clerical abuse, which is such a disgrace, that that would afflict people called to be role models and setting the tone.

Even if that didn't happen, I would say the same thing.

The literature of the New Testament is basically a history of the church book written by the Holy Spirit,

because we believe that's the inspired word of God.

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