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So in that spirit of calm, we fuse ourselves into God's will and we want to bring with us all souls, the choirs of angels, the saints, the glories of heaven, all souls living and dead, and bring them with us so that fusing ourselves in God's will, this becomes perfect return of praise to the heavenly father.
We therefore ask Lord that you give us the words, the thoughts, the inspirations what we need to hear tonight. So to guide the teaching, guide the listeners, guide all those that will contribute. We pray for the coming of the kingdom in our hearts and in the world.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from it.
Mary, Queen of the Divine will, pray for us. St. Joseph, guardian of the divine will, pray for us. St. Hannibal and little daughter Louisisa. Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Since it proved seemed to prove useful to people last week's class, I thought of continuing a little bit along similar lines. We're trying to go deeper into our hearts and in our minds so that we are become more open to the gift and we become less trapped and enslaved by patterns of sin and difficulties we've had. and also as we go along to show how the divine will has the answer to all these problems. But that the more scripture says we know ourselves, the deeper will that freedom be.
Now we have to remember that fallen human nature always has the church calls it concupiscitions but we could say as it as a propensity a pulling towards sin and Francis de Sales in his great book the introduction to the devout life which is a brilliant book. It's the first book that was written for lay people to become holy. It's quite amazing. It wasn't until remember the date it was 16 something when it was published that it was the very first book that was written so that lay people could become and should become saints. So it was also used a lot in the second Vatican council which of course emphasized the universal call to holiness. And I don't think it's coincidental that that call and that council came at a time when Louisa's writings were about to become more widely spread because Jesus's teaching of Louisa and the gift of living in the divine will gives us the shest and the greatest way to become great saints. So as it were everything prepares for this gift.
St. Francis de Sales says that he takes us through this journey of firstly to be free from mortal sin to then bit by bit one becomes free from venial sin and then through a constant attention free from attachments and pursuing this gift to live in the divine will means we must also all pursue that desire to be spotless to be free from stain of sin. But remember both last week and this week what we're going to emphasize is that this comes not so much through our own effort but through the grace of God.
So a quick recap. We picked a couple of points last week, for example, that if we are not careful, one of the things that can hinder us is a hidden form of pride that without realizing it when we fail at things or we give into sin or we move out of the divine will, the element of pride comes when we feel I've let myself down. I haven't um done as much as I should do. I haven't used the gift as much as I should do. I haven't done as many rounds as I should do. That, if you can see, is a subtle form of pride because it is saying that it is up to us to accomplish these things rather than dovetailing or meshing ourselves in harmony with the will of God. And by the way everyone, that's a common mistake often for people at the beginning of their journey in the divine will because quite rightly Jesus emphasizes to Louisa Acts, we're going to come to the quote that you know well later on to do everything because Jesus wishes to do it in us and through to us. There can be a temptation to think therefore it is now up to us. We have to cram in more acts. We have to do more acts. And the subtlety of the temptation is there is a certain truth. Most temptations, if we think about it, the devil uses a truth as a kind of a hook or a bait to ent trap us. So yes, we have to make use of the gift. Yes, we are called to do our acts. They're important, very important that we continue to do them and use them as much as we can. But there is a huge difference between doing that as a cooperation with grace as opposed to thinking it's our own effort aided by grace.
Remember the whole keep going back to the principle of the divine will which is we surrender the pebble of our will in exchange for living in the divine will that applies constantly in all things. So it can be a temptation to think I've got to do more acts. I've got to do more this, more that. And again, Francis Deos says that with most of us, that's how the devil works. He doesn't give us a obvious temptation, at least not when we progressed a certain way along the spiritual journey. But he will just encourage us to do a little bit more, try a little bit harder until eventually because this is under our own will and power, we can no longer continue to do that. So it's not by simply hard work that grace is achieved. We can't achieve anything from our own efforts. It's all preparing for Christ. Transformation for Christ.
So, I'm going to look at one of the big obstacles now in this journey, which is discouragement. If we're all honest, we'll probably admit that that's something that can tempt us and draw us in. that we can become at first a little worn out, a little discouraged, despondent. And that is one of the devils and the biggest temptations we face. I remember on retreat at the seminary, the first retreat I did there, the priest mentioned, and I can't remember who he was quoting, he said, "The devil took someone in to see all the tools he used to tempt people." And there was always all these frightening little hooks and swords and all sorts of sharp instruments. And then right at the end of the table was this big metal wedge. And he said, "This is what I use more than any of the other things." And the guy said to what is it? He said, "It's discouragement."
So let's look and see a bit more so that we avoid feeling in falling into this trip trap and also seeing what Jesus teaches us and teaches Louisa as the way out of it. So remember the princip some certain principles one is whenever we act we always act for the good that's a principle of St. Thomas Aquinus that even when we choose things that are wrong, we are still acting and choosing those things for some good we think we will get out of it. The second thing is to remember that in our hearts and our souls as St. Augustine says, "We are made for intimacy with Christ. We are made for a union of a heart. We're made for union with his love. And marriage is a symbol of that. And because we have these two desires to act for the good and the desire for intimacy that if these are not approached carefully the danger is that we become driven and motivated by self-dependence, self reliance. or as Bob shoots calls it unholy self dependence. In other words, because we are we have been for so long so used in our lives, as that beautiful book, the drop book series says, we've been so used during our lives to acting with our human will that it takes quite a shift to realize that that is self-dependence, self reliance. And this can be hidden. It's not obvious. We don't always see it. And it's because it's hidden. Particularly the more we travel along the journey to heaven, the more it becomes a hidden thing. It's not something that seems obvious, but let me give you a few examples of things in our language we can notice. Oh, I let myself down. I could have done better. I should be much holier than I am right now. I should have made better use of the gifts God has given me. Now, when you hear those There is of course a grain of truth in them if it was true humility. But can you see that the way those phrases are put? We are mirror we are projecting a selfdependency. It's up to me with help from God but nevertheless up to me. And therefore when we have that mode of operating and because we have the desire for intimacy when that doesn't work because God first has to rid us of that pride we become discouraged and therefore because we've not had the intimacy with Christ that we desire, we channel that into other things.
So if you think of it as a series, a slow series of movements or better still let's look at it as a the conversion that the divine will brings about. So what the divine will is Jesus is telling us we want to move from a circle a cycle of self-reliance depending upon our own strength then failing then becoming discouraged and then finally we fall into what used to be called a cidia. But in the deadly sins now is kind of being joined together with sloth. Sloth laziness and laziness is people mistake this. The deadliness of aidia is not what we think. It's not simply for example not getting out of bed lazing around. We can of course all fall into that form of laziness. Now laziness acidia in the sense is when discouraged by our lack of success, discouraged by the fact that we have not achieved intimacy. Our heart becomes slow to practicing acts of the faith. And that's a pretty good way to look at a cidia. When the soul becomes slow in exercising the faith and the things of faith become less joyful. They seem to motivate us less and bit by bit our heart becomes narrowed and hard. There's a good book if you want to read further about this. There's a good book called The Noonday Devil. Now, someone quickly will probably put up on the chat who wrote it, but it's a very good book um because it gives to us how deadly this sin of aidia is because we don't notice it. If we steal, if we get angry, if we commit sins of impurity, if we're jealous, these things we recognize, right? They're obvious. That's why we bring them to confession. But aidia is a quiet, silent killer. It just slowly entraps the soul. But it comes from this danger that we can fall into of self-reliance. And when that fails, discouragement, we you lose, we become halfhearted and we become gradually cold because we've been defending depending on our own strength.
Now what is also interesting in this which will surprise us and which again is something we have to be aware of is that aia can also be marked by restlessness and activity. See when we admit and we all know when we fall into laziness but this is different because it's to do with the heart being constricted because we've been self-reliant to get away from that we can actually try and get over our restlessness by frantic activity. That is something that's not often noticed that frantic activity is also a sign of this constriction of the heart.
Let me read a little bit from a novel that is quoted in volume three of Arasmo living mecus's commentary on St. Matthew. But the quote comes from an American writer who I didn't know, John Chver. And he wrote a book short story called The Worm in the Apple, which is a really interesting title. And he says this, "Larry went to his job each morning with such enthusiasm that you might think he was trying to escape from something. His participation in the life of the community was so vigorous that he must have been left with almost no time for self-examination. He was everywhere. He was at the communion rail, the 50 yard line. He played the obo with the chamber music club, drove the fire truck, served on the school board, and rode the 803 into New York every morning. What was the sorrow that drove him?" That's a very accurate picture of the dangers that can take place when we do not stop to see precisely why we're acting and if in that acting there is a sense that we do not want to face something. So here is someone that many people could look at and say was a model of the community, but there is something there behind that. And so external activity can be a danger if it removes us from being quiet and restful with God.
Now, of course, we're not saying that good works should not be done. But what we are saying here is that there is a great tendency of the human mind and soul to use every device possible to stop itself from self-examination, from being naked before God, for being willing to be shown with all the faults and failings. Because when we do that, humility then becomes our mark. We start truly becoming humble.
So you may ask what has this got to do with our journey in the divine will? Well, firstly, it's a good principle of the spiritual life. So, it will help us. But secondly again we have even in the divine will to always make sure that what is prompting us is the true desire for intimacy with Christ. The do true desire for praise of God. the true desire to give him his glory to save souls to console the heart of Jesus and not falling into a trap where we feel that if we only do this that and the other then everything will be okay. And confession therefore which is so important and so an examination of conscience is so important is that it can lead us now when we see things in this light it can lead us to go deeper.
I'm a great believer in um oh just whilst I've got a request for the page number was 494 volume 3 Evo Arasmo Mary Carcakus volume 3 on St. Matthew page 494. And the more we do therefore go below the surface and dig quietly, confidently with the light of the Holy Spirit, blockages start to be removed. It's like imagine your soul as a series of rooms. I may have used this image before. I can't remember, but it's a good one. Imagine your soul like St. Theresa says is a mansion. And many of the rooms are light, airy, they're clean, they're sweat, they're dusted. All is well. But there's a few rooms that have been shuttered up that are dark, dusty. They've got the dust cloths over the furniture. No one's been in the room for a while. And if we're honest, we all have one or two rooms like that that need opening up. The door needs pushing open, the windows thrust open, the curtains drawn, the dust cloths removed, and the room to be cleaned. This is what is quite popular in Catholic and and Christian psychotherapy is parts to realize that our soul is a number of different parts. So that it explains why we can have many things put together but still struggle in certain areas. There's still things that need addressing.
So I'm going to pause there before I start looking at the the divine will answer to that. The first part has been laying out this difficulty of a cedia of a natural discouragement coming from a tendency to do things under our own steam. becoming self-reliant. And when that fails, we become discouraged and then we tend to find it much more difficult to keep up our practices. And that the conversion that's talked about in the gospel is this conversion from this way of looking at things um to that Maybe I'll finish this first part, then I'll take any questions with another quote. This is page 488 from the same volume. He does a beautiful analysis of the wedding feast. And that's apt, if you think about it, because Jesus teaches this parable of the guests invited to really make us think as to what was at the root of those invited refusing the invitation. Now remember the parable, this is Matthew chapter 22. The parable gives the the people give many different reasons. I've just got married, brought a house, got something to attend to. But in this parable, Jesus, I think, is asking us to really look at what is the essential things that stops people from accepting the invitation. He writes, "Repentance for sins, interior conversion, and joyful participation in the royal son's wedding are all aspects of the Christian life that belong together. Each step leading to the next." So you can see already something very profound. We start off with repentance, but that's got to lead to conversion. And the conversion of the heart then leads for joyful participation. Clearly the greatest obstacle to admission to the kingdom is not sin as such but rather the arrogant attitude that refuses to grasp God's hands when it is graciously and gladly extended. pretending both to oneself and to God that one needs nothing that one can one needs nothing that one cannot acquire on one's own and this may possibly be the sin against the Holy Spirit that cannot be forgiven precisely because it is a refusal of forgiveness the refusal to change one's ways to see things in a fresh manner through God's eyes by definitionation definition implies a terminal fixation on one's own world view. All opposition to this goal must be removed. Self-fixation never remains merely interior but must eventually lead to violence.
Okay, any questions to make sure that first part is understood and then we will look at solutions to that how we can guard against it. Just check the chat as well. Got number of chats. Good. Someone found out the noonday devil by Jean Charles Gol N. That's right. I've answered the question. Yeah, Francis the Sales had a bad temper. So did St. Ignatius. St. Ignatius had a terrible temper. People with that, if you have children or grandchildren with that, it's a question of learning to channel that. It can actually be quite a powerful thing in the spiritual life provided it's channeled. Okay, any questions? If not, don't worry. We will move on. We will continue on our journey. But I'm hoping the purpose is to give some insight into the workings of the soul so we understand better. And that because you are all following holiness and because you all wish to receive this gift, the temptations will be subtle. They won't be obvious ones. And the subtle way of doing it is just that it's to lead us to a self-dependent. Hence Jesus in the gospel today. I wasn't preaching today. Uh my deacon was but the the gospel today from St. Matthew chapter 11 sums that all up. Do we want to remain burdened? Do we want to remain overworked? And many people choose yes. It's one of the mysteries that people will choose to remain burdened because they fear surrender. They fear giving up control. And like in the parable of the wedding banquet, it's that mystery of our human nature that can refuse something that we know to be good, to be better, much better. But the price of surrendering self-control often is the hindrance. So again with us it's going to be subtle. It's going to be little ways in which we're trying the devil our own fallen nature tries to make us forget the golden rule that Jesus does everything little by little. And it's easy, the subtle thing that even Louisa fell into of desiring to be a little more virtuous. But Jesus explains to us, we must forget everything, even the virtues. And one of the good ones, I haven't done it for a while, but one of the good ones is is and it brings peace is to surrender one's place in heaven to God. To actually just say, Lord, all I want is your will. I want everything to work out as your will has ruled and therefore I accept that. If I have to be a little daisy in the garden of heaven and not a rose, that's your will. Let it be done. Um now that is again not saying that we shouldn't be motivated for by a desire for holiness but in the divine will the desire for holiness is to return praise to God not our sanctification. Does everyone understand the difference between that? The gift is primarily to give praise and glory to God, console the heart of Jesus, save souls. Our sanctification, which will surely happen in a great way if we're doing those things, comes as a byproduct. But if we go in thinking, I'm going to do these things so I become holier, we're missing the point. The point is we're now focused on God. And that's why Jesus says to Louisa, Louisa, don't worry about your virtues. I will take care of that. It's not a problem for me. Don't get ahead of yourself. Relax. And remember Theresa uh Theresa Louisa was animated by a good desire. Can you see then the subtleties is that bit by bit very gradually we try and we're taken away from that looking towards God to looking to ourselves. And it's difficult because Padre Peio, he calls it self-conceit, by the way, in at least the English translation. It's subtle because it affects precisely people who are striving to be good and holy. That's why he says it's such a difficult thing to war against.
Okay, no questions. That means that's great. Maybe some of you are tuned into the World Cup without mind knowing it, but I don't I don't know what's happening there. I'm strongly I tell you it's a temptation, but I am tempted to go to bed and wake up for the England match. I just uh because it's at 1:00 in the morning here. um only because it's such a big hurdle for England to climb to play Mexico in Mexico. But anyway, okay, let's move on then. No questions, no comments, no testimonies. Right. Let's first of all look at the 2nd of August 1928. And I have not put the volume down. 2nd of August 1928. Someone will find that quickly on the chat. And so what this is this teaching is going to tell us is that everything is found in Jesus's will. So all that we've laid out in the first part, the dangers, the things we should be aware of are answered by the simple fact, look, get rid of this stuff. Get rid of your will. Get rid of trying to be self-dependent. Give yourself to me. And then everything is there for you. Everything is disposed to you. And that when we get that the right way round, our acts and rounds, etc. will grow.
Now, it was interesting. I was on Wednesday, I was with Helen, who's with us. I was on a a a chat uh a meeting with her group and we had is it pronounced Cena from Samoa >> beta >> sorry >> beta beta >> beta >> no s i t a >> oh sitta that's right that's right sitta so what was interesting about what she was saying and by the way the whole meeting I found was a remembering that we must always go back to the basics in the divine will. She was mentioning how her group now imagine this is a very seems to me a very holy lady who has been practicing the divine will greatly for a number of years. But even in her group, I could pick up there was a little bit of confusion because what Sitta was saying was that the practice of the acts is really important and that some in her group almost thought she was like going overboard like how can anyone live their life to the same extent? Well, of course, in one sense, we're not all called to practice the gift to the same way. But I think that shows us that if we don't have some spiritual principles behind it, we can look at the gift in a human way of thinking instead of remembering it's a gift and it contains everything to bring about it. But if we try and approach it by simple force of effort, then it will seem outrageous to us. But this quote now we're going to look at shows everything is in place.
"My daughter, the will of God that the writings of my divine will come to light is absolute and as many incidents as may occur, it will triumph of everything." So Jesus is saying, look guys, this is going to happen. You don't need to worry. It cannot not happen. It's certainty. And even if it should take years and years, it will know how to dispose everything so that it's absolute will be fulfilled. The time in which they will come to light is relative and conditional upon when creatures dispose themselves to receive so greater a good and upon those who must occupy themselves with being its criers. By the way, criers means it's it's kind of an English phrase used to have town criers. Bit like heralds. They would go out. They would be dressed up and they'd make it was like the modern version of the internet. Instead of having phones, you just had this town crier that would go around and announce everything. Remember, he said two things. It's the time in which this is going to come to light is conditional upon creatures disposing themselves to receive so greater a good. So all of you here, doesn't matter how far you've got, doesn't matter how successful you've been, if you are disposed, if you desire this gift, you are one of those helping to bring it about. But then he also says he needs people that will be its criers and make the sacrifice so as to bring the new era of peace, the new son which will dispel all clouds of evil. If you knew how many graces and lights I keep prepared for those whom I see disposed to occupy themselves with them, they will be the first to feel the balm, the light, and the life of my fear.
So, do you see we shouldn't be put off? Jesus is saying, look, it's as simple as this, guys. Just become occupied. Just dispose yourselves. This is what you're doing. You've all given up valuable time on a Sunday. Unless you've shut your spouse out of the house, and this is an excuse for getting away from them by saying, "I've got work to do." But I trust most of you are disposing yourselves to learn more. That's that's the seven loaves and two fishes. God doesn't expect you to come to these talks already at the level of the seventh mansion, already in the seventh choir of the divine one in heaven. Just dispose ourselves. It's as easy as that. Open ourselves up and then we will feel the balm, the light, the life of my fear. Look at me. That's capital M. Look at me. how I prepared in my hands the clothes, the food, the ornaments, the gifts for those who must occupy themselves with them. But I am looking to see who the true disposed ones are, so as to invest them with the prerogatives that are needed for a work so holy, which I so much love and want them to do. But I must also say to you, woe to those who are opposed or might place obstacles. So again if he has prepared in his hands the clothes, the food, the ornaments, the gifts whose people are involved with those things. How much more is he going to dispose those things that are needed for those who want the gift of living in the divine will. You however do not move anything, not even one comma, of that which is needed to prepare the kingdom of my divine world. So that on my part and on your part, by doing what is needed to give this great good to creatures, nothing may be lacking on our part. So that as soon as the creatures dispose themselves, this is the important bit, they may find everything in place and that which is needed. So he's telling Louisa, he's saying, Louisa, you got a really big job here because you need to work with me so that we so create things. Obviously Jesus is the one but Louisa's cooperating so that we we the guys coming after Louisa may find everything that is in place. Now again remember to thank God everything in place. You all have access to the volumes. You all familiar with the hours. You know the basic teaching on doing divine acts, everything's been there for you. It's all disposed for you through the work of Louisa. So that Jesus is telling us, don't become discouraged over anything. Everything's in place.
So, say for example, um, if I pick on someone, if I pick on Susan, right? Because she'll she won't mind me picking on Susan. Let's say Susan is struggling, let's say, with getting discouraged with how do I now move on to um really reclaiming the acts of Jesus's life? How do I claim those the whole of Jesus's life from his infancy to his ascension? How do I make that my own? Oh, I can't do it's just too difficult. I don't understand it. I'm not going to go there. So, you can see it's a good desire, but we're going about it by our own power and thought. We're becoming discouraged and we stop. Rather saying right Jesus you want to give me this I've learned this part of the teaching I don't understand it you've disposed everything so you teach me remember Louisa at the beginning didn't know all of this stuff Louisa didn't come to this already formed she came to it and Jesus spent years teaching and forming her. And even if you play close attention to the way some of the volumes are written, she clearly also got confused again about things and she reasks questions that she'd asked before. But the interesting thing there is Jesus always gives a deeper answer as the volumes go on. So that's the answer to everything. We remove our will. Everything is disposed. But it's not up to us. We just whatever the problem is, we surrender it. Give it to Jesus and he will give us the right book, the right teacher, whatever we need at the right time. But he will test us. He will test our patience and he will give us situations in which um we're tempted to discouragement.
"Did I not do the same in the work of redemption? I prepared everything I did and suffered everything. And in spite of the so many adverse incidents that I saw, my very apostles vacasillating, doubtful, timid to the point of running away from me when they saw me in the hands of the enemies, being left alone, not having the good of seeing any fruit while I was on earth. Think of the fig tree. In spite of this, I neglected nothing of what was needed for the complete work of redemption, so that when they would open their eyes to look at what I had done, they would find all the good in order to be redeemed, and nothing might be lacking to them in order to receive the fruit of my coming upon earth."
The thing I also like about The Chosen, particularly season four, um, the last two or three episodes, is you see Jesus's pain when his disciples do not get the picture. You know, think about that. it. I thought it's one of the great parts of The Chosen season 4 is that you see Jesus having to suffer from the apostles being slow of hearing, hard of heart, that they don't understand still what it's about. And remember, we're talking about Jesus's human nature here on his human nature, his human divine heart. That must have been a great suffering spending so much time and like so many of us are to be so slow in understanding what he's trying to tell us.
"My daughter, the kingdom of my redemption and that of my will are so linked together that they hold hands and almost have the same lot because of human ingratitude. But one who must give and form a good so great should not pay attention to this nor stop. It is necessary that we do complete works so that nothing may be lacking on our part and so that as they dispose themselves they that's us may find everything that is needed to receive the kingdom of my will."
So everything is there. Everything is prepared. Nothing is lacking to us. Just as nothing was lacking in the redemption, nothing is lacking in the sanctification. So again what can hinder us, delay us is when we become discouraged, when we vacasillate because we are being tempted to move back to the old man, the old human way of looking at things, the old human way of doing things.
Good. We finished a couple of minutes early, but that's fine. I'll check the chats. Yeah, I like that idea. That may be uh to do a whole retreat on deeper conversion. That would be a very interesting thing to put together. Um if you want a book, it doesn't say it's doing that, but it ends up doing that. And if you don't want to buy all the four volumes of this book, he wrote a book called The Way of the Disciple, which is a much smaller book. It's based on eight passages of scripture, but it's about it. The whole book is a masterpiece in how we move to deeper conversion, how we start by being formed, how we have to learn to rest. It it's a really it's really beautiful and Mexico have our lady of Guadalupe in her football boots. We have to remind her that we are her daring. Exactly. That's Susan's comment. So um and the 2nd of August 1928 is volume 24. So volume 24. Good. So I haven't had a peep from anybody today which is quite unusual but that's fine. Um so we will finish with uh some prayer. Perhaps why don't I guide us through a little self- renunciation that will be a good way of finishing up? So you can just join in follow what I say but adapt it. Remember we have to adapt things to our sakes.
So come Holy Spirit enkindle in our hearts the fire of your love. Send forth your spirit and they shall be created and you shall a new face of the earth. So in the name of Jesus, I renounce the spirit of self-reliance. I renounce the spirit of self dependence in the name of Jesus. I renounce the sin of pride in the name of Jesus. I renounce the spirit of shame and the spirit of fear. And I renounce all associated spirits that make me dependent upon myself rather than dependent on the power of Christ. And in the name of Jesus, I renounce the lie that I cannot attain this gift. I renounce the lie that I do not have the dispositions to obtain this gift. I renounce the lie that it's impossible to obtain. I renounce the lie that it will just exhaust us. And you can add now anything you wish to add yourselves before I give a command. So anything you wish to add yourself, any spirit, any tendency that you want, just quietly to yourself, renounce that in the name of Jesus. Anything you may be struggling with, any spirit that's hindering us removing the pebble of our will. That's all we want to do. We just want to remove that pebble. So, we're thinking of those things that stop us renouncing that totally.
So Lord Jesus, you have the power to work across all times, all spaces. So in the name of Jesus, I command all these spirits that those here present although that those who will listen to the podcast to depart from them right now. And in turn, we ask you to fill them with the father's blessing of total confidence in your goodness that you have prepared everything for us. Everything there is ready and you desire more than anything. This is what you came to do above all to return us to the order, place, and purpose for which we are made. So fill your listeners with this great desire for the gift, a great confidence, a great love of your good. Allow us to become children, to receive, to trust, never to fear. And may his blessing come upon you, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.