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I do this every morning! I imagine Jesus is in the car with me and talk to Him about my day, my struggles, my plans, etc. Such a blessing to have a friend that will always be there. ❤️
Praying in-depth, to God, from the heart and mind; for him, to see to the plight and listen to the pleading, helps make a just and holy relationship with Him.
As a Retired Marine, thank you for tending to those soldiers. During my years of service from boot camp on my wife and I were blessed to have some wonderful priests, one of whom so impressed and explained our Catholic faith my then protestant wife, that she converted and we remarried in the Base chapel on Camp Lejeune. After returning from Afghanistan, Father Joe, helped me tremendously to deal with both moral injuries and reconciliation. With that said, finding this video this morning was very timely as I have felt as if my prayers have been mechanical the past couple days and I have been easily distracted. Thank you for your videos. Vivat Jesus
Your humility in your sharing is very touching. Just attended adoration today and the time I spent in silence was more vital to me that the prayers I said. The power of prayer is surely to listen to what God has to say I suppose. Merci Beaucoup encore.
I heard a story about a man that was dieing & the priest told him to pretend JESUS was sitting on the chair beside his bed!& talk to Him ! Hes real! Many weeks later The man died & his wife told the priest he had died The priest said he was sorry to have not been thr The wife said the funny thing is he died with his head on the chair!
This is totally relatable to me 😅, today I started to pray my rosary in a more deeper way. I make sure I am focusing on who I am praying to. St. Teresa of Avila also said to know whom you are praying to. The first layer of the interior castle is to set your mind on God and do not be distracted to other things.
What a great talk Father Mark! Sometimes on a clear night, I'll go outside and look up into God's magnificent creation of the universe and "empty" myself to the Lord. Often, I feel like I'm the nearest to God is under the canopy of a starry sky.
Converted to Catholicism and the memorized prayers were a conundrum - until I leaned in to them. They have been my 'hallmark' cards - perfect words that I don't have the elegance to put together but they say my heart better than I can a lot of times. Fr Groeschel really kicked this off for me when he said the 'rosary is a place we enter into' - that was revolutionary for me. I say / go to the rosary every day. Fr Harden explained to pray without ceasing was to at the beginning of the day pray about what to do - what good I could do; How to do it; decide in prayer with Jesus and then carry it out with the doing.... the prayer of action all day - decided on with the Lord. Loved it. Has totally made the difference - spiced all day with arrow prayers. Thank you Father - I so enjoy your videos.
Perhaps we might say that vocal prayer is the structure which holds our private prayer up (guides it) and from which our private prayer extends (is complemented by private prayer, to address our specifics) .
PRAYER OF SURRENDER Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, My memory, my understanding And my entire will, All I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace. That is enough for me. Amen. Prayer of St. Ignatius of Loyola
Thank you for explaining this because I needed to hear it. I often times just pray superficial & don't go deep into a relationship with God. I will keep these points in mind when I pray from now on.
Thanks for this encouragement. I try to remember to ask the Holy Spirit to be with me as I pray and I will also ask the assistance of my guardian angel and the saints.
One thing I do, and maybe can help someone, is praying with the entire church, that is, exercitasing the communion of Saints (remembering the Church militant, padecent and thriunphant and praying for and with all of them) (Sorry for my english)
This was awesome. I do pray like this but I just realized that I do this more during the bad times than the good times. I do pray everyday but that open conversation prayer is what I’m talking about. And lately things have been super stressful so I have been praying open like this in addition to my normal daily prayers. Thank you for this video!
This is such a beautiful talk and reminder. I can still recall looking at St. JPII and his face was the expression of deep prayer and engagement. You've heard stories where commotions could be happening around him but he would never flinch or get distracted as his prayerful heart was entirely engaged and connected with God, Jesus, Our Lady, and all. I strived to have his focus and true devotion. I find that for myself, it's a lot easier to engage from the heart when my eyes are closed, so I remove the temptation to react to my environment, especially when praying the rosary before Mass begins and parishioners are talking and settling in. Thank you for this video. So beautiful. God bless!
Thank you so very much. What you have just shared is accurate for so many of us. As Catholics we have so many beautiful devotions there is no way we could ever satisfy our appetites for them. In a way you have just described the perfect parent-child relationship.... vacations, holidays, gifts, parties are wonderful but the the day to day interactions are what form us and give us the confidence that we are loved, our thoughts and ideas have value and our actions are important.
As a Protestant, I’ve always struggled with public prayer. I don’t like having to pray in front of other people. I have a great private prayer life, I just prefer to keep it private. Also, I’ve never really felt like I should be using “rote prayers”. The denomination I grew up in was always deeply suspicious of things that were “too Catholic”. Never mind that rote prayers can be very useful. You’re always just supposed to “talk to God directly, you know, like he’s your best friend”. Yeah, I never felt frustrated at all.
I’m on my last 14 days of a 54 day novena. I’m really struggling to know if my prayers are heard. Most weeks I start my week with a 3 or 5 hour drive to a customer’s site. I got in the habit of not turning on the radio, praying a Rosary and just trying to be with the lord. i was not sure if I was praying with my heart. I try, but like all of us, I’m human and my mind drifts. I did a search on UA-cam for ‘how to pray from the heart’ and this video show up! This message meant sooo very much to me. (62 year old man and I have big, wet eyes. I needed to hear this message) It’s such a simple thing. Turn off your radio. Tell Jesus you would prefer to spend the time with him. Even if you don’t pray the Rosary, be Christ like and see God in everyone. It’s a tiny sacrifice. Every week, when I drive 3 and sometimes 6+ hours, with no radio on, I’m only starting to realize how absolutely serene those hours are for me.
Praying from the heart. A beautiful message. Superficial level of prayer versus the engagement of the heart. Saying prayers versus engaging. Imagine Jesus next to you and just have a conversation. February 2, 2022
Thank you, thank you, thank you I need to listen to this over and over again. Prayer isn't just making a shopping list of wants. Or just becoming a robot mouthing off what becomes meaningless babble
Thank you Father Mark Mary. I pray the Rosary everyday and that meditation time is beautiful but I do struggle with speaking to God from my heart. I struggle with what to say, how to say it, is it ok to say what I truly feel at that moment..etc...I want and NEED a relationship with God but I keep doubting everything that comes out of my mouth. Please pray for me to grow spiritually. We need more videos like this.
father thank you , I know the times when my heart is not in my prayers. My prayers sorta ramble. I love the story of your friend I always talk to our lord because I believe that he's always with me and I speak that I may be with him. Amazing always, Father I was hoping you might speak about the church. I always pray the rosary at home I wanted to pray it before mass but I get intruded by people speaking before mass in the entrance way in the church not being quite. I'm sorry I know I should focus but the noise is such a distraction. I had to go and find a quiet place to do the rosary before mass started I was hoping to get your advice on this
I would like a Bible study on God’s Divine Heart. What has God revealed in Scriptures about His personality, His desires, His Divine Will, what makes Him happy? and joyful? What makes Him sad? What makes Him angry? A deep study because Jesus The Incarnation is The Sacred Heart of The Heavenly Father. Can you do that?
But God already knows what's in our heart. So I find it inauthentic to pretend otherwise. I like to engage with the Holy Spirit and ask him questions, ask for guidance. I find that He answers even before I've finished the thought. But I really struggle with what I call free-range prayer. At 72 I much prefer my Catholic prayers, the Rosary and the Divine Office plus little "ejaculations" that the nuns taught us and making offerings for the Holy souls etc. There's an abundance of riches in our ancient prayers and the advice of our saints. I find The Little Flower provides the perfect guidance for getting close to Our Father and His Son and The Spirit who emanates from Their Love. God bless.
Hi Stephanie Lynn,thank you for your beautiful response. I place you,and those in your heart,in my heart which I give to Jesus and Mary each day. God bless. Praise Jesus and Mary always!!! Ps a compliment to you you are beautiful. If you haven’t already consecrate yourself and your loved one’s to the sacred heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary,please do so. Also to St Michael archangel,St Joseph,and your guardian angel. Please watch the warning or illumination of conscience by Christine Watkins. (the sooner it comes the better).
Okay. For those who do not know, I am a Sikh. Even though we have a different form of prayer, I still pray at the end of the day. The thing is, IDK if God is with me in the moment or not, and I really want to make sure He's hearing me. Sometimes I'm at least lucky that He hears my call. But I really want to make sure that He is actually with me when I'm praying and conversing with Him. Any ideas how to do so? Also Ascension, do you plan on doing a video about what God has planned for our future? I ask because I've been having this struggle recently.
I treat Christianity like a self improvement program. I definitely pray out of of obligation. I tell the Lord my complaints but I mostly doubt He will care or listen. I'm not always grateful when my prayers are answered
I had this talk with my......Baptist gf.....I know.. She and I got into a disagreement. She thinks we just READ prayers and not from the heart. I told her we do both. I must also say, I am growing tired of Protestants vs Catholics.
Protestants don't want to acknowledge any legitimacy of Catholicism as it threatens their raison d'etre... It's political. They don't want reconciliation with the Catholic Church for fear of losing their petty fiefdoms. I was protestant for almost 50 years and was in many denominations. Now I'm home.
Is a private prayer like the Divine Mercy Chaplet that says, ''I offer the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ'' okay? I always felt when I'm praying this that I'm re-sacrificing our Lord. Please, enlighten me on this 🙏
If you only can say in your heart, not even out loud, "Thank you, God", you have reached God. "Subjective, objective, prayers par excellence" .... you are listening to a false prophet.
“...with his imagination put himself in the presence of God...” Satan lives in the imagination. Are we not meant to stay out of the darkness of the imagination? Was your friend then not being deceived into thinking he was talking to God? When in fact he was talking to Satan on all those hour long road trips?
Hey!!, dont do that.... dont discount non Catholics relationship to God, by saying they are somehow missing the fullness of the relationship bc they dont have the mass. Ridiculous. Christ is Christ. Some can receive Him in physical form via the Eucharist or in the hug/community of the Body of Christ. That kind of Catholic elitism, wont help fortify a Catholics' faith, only their self righteous piety.
..also non Catholics have confession... the Amish have public confession, like the "Chapter of Faults" in religious orders. Some could say you dont know the fullness of community/the Body of Christ until you have to confess your sins to the entire community. True forgiveness from the Body of Christ, is special and truly humbling.
I do this every morning! I imagine Jesus is in the car with me and talk to Him about my day, my struggles, my plans, etc. Such a blessing to have a friend that will always be there. ❤️
That’s a pretty OP stat, imma try that.
Hey guys pray for me ❤️🙏🏼✝️ and I am praying for you
Praying for you
Praying for you, please pray for me and for power to break circle of sin. Praise Jesus
@@kerim7877 same here, praying for all of you.
Praying for you 🙏❤️🧎
God bless you Christophe!
You are talking to me!
I have wanted to know how to pray from the heart!
I want my prayers to be sincere!!
Praying in-depth, to God, from the heart and mind; for him, to see to the plight and listen to the pleading, helps make a just and holy relationship with Him.
As a Retired Marine, thank you for tending to those soldiers. During my years of service from boot camp on my wife and I were blessed to have some wonderful priests, one of whom so impressed and explained our Catholic faith my then protestant wife, that she converted and we remarried in the Base chapel on Camp Lejeune. After returning from Afghanistan, Father Joe, helped me tremendously to deal with both moral injuries and reconciliation. With that said, finding this video this morning was very timely as I have felt as if my prayers have been mechanical the past couple days and I have been easily distracted. Thank you for your videos. Vivat Jesus
Semper Fi Devil Dog God Bless & oooohhhhrahh
Prayers for my marriage and all marriages
You have my prayers. ❤️ God restored my marriage.
I can do that sometimes, but not all the time. Today I did at Adoration. What a blessing
Your humility in your sharing is very touching. Just attended adoration today and the time I spent in silence was more vital to me that the prayers I said. The power of prayer is surely to listen to what God has to say I suppose.
Merci Beaucoup encore.
I heard a story about a man that was dieing & the priest told him to pretend JESUS was sitting on the chair beside his bed!& talk to Him ! Hes real!
Many weeks later
The man died & his wife told the priest he had died
The priest said he was sorry to have not been thr
The wife said the funny thing is he died with his head on the chair!
😭 that is so beautiful.
This is totally relatable to me 😅, today I started to pray my rosary in a more deeper way. I make sure I am focusing on who I am praying to. St. Teresa of Avila also said to know whom you are praying to. The first layer of the interior castle is to set your mind on God and do not be distracted to other things.
What a great talk Father Mark! Sometimes on a clear night, I'll go outside and look up into God's magnificent creation of the universe and "empty" myself to the Lord. Often, I feel like I'm the nearest to God is under the canopy of a starry sky.
Converted to Catholicism and the memorized prayers were a conundrum - until I leaned in to them. They have been my 'hallmark' cards - perfect words that I don't have the elegance to put together but they say my heart better than I can a lot of times. Fr Groeschel really kicked this off for me when he said the 'rosary is a place we enter into' - that was revolutionary for me. I say / go to the rosary every day. Fr Harden explained to pray without ceasing was to at the beginning of the day pray about what to do - what good I could do; How to do it; decide in prayer with Jesus and then carry it out with the doing.... the prayer of action all day - decided on with the Lord. Loved it. Has totally made the difference - spiced all day with arrow prayers. Thank you Father - I so enjoy your videos.
Perhaps we might say that vocal prayer is the structure which holds our private prayer up (guides it) and from which our private prayer extends (is complemented by private prayer, to address our specifics) .
PRAYER OF SURRENDER
Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty,
My memory, my understanding
And my entire will,
All I have and call my own.
You have given all to me.
To you, Lord, I return it.
Everything is yours; do with it what you will.
Give me only your love and your grace.
That is enough for me.
Amen.
Prayer of St. Ignatius of Loyola
Thank you so much Father Mark Mary, love to you all ❤❤❤
Thanks Fr. Mike Mary. God bless you. Have a great weekend.
Thank you for explaining this because I needed to hear it. I often times just pray superficial & don't go deep into a relationship with God. I will keep these points in mind when I pray from now on.
Thanks for this encouragement. I try to remember to ask the Holy Spirit to be with me as I pray and I will also ask the assistance of my guardian angel and the saints.
One thing I do, and maybe can help someone, is praying with the entire church, that is, exercitasing the communion of Saints (remembering the Church militant, padecent and thriunphant and praying for and with all of them)
(Sorry for my english)
This was awesome. I do pray like this but I just realized that I do this more during the bad times than the good times. I do pray everyday but that open conversation prayer is what I’m talking about. And lately things have been super stressful so I have been praying open like this in addition to my normal daily prayers. Thank you for this video!
Beautiful farther. God bless
This is such a beautiful talk and reminder. I can still recall looking at St. JPII and his face was the expression of deep prayer and engagement. You've heard stories where commotions could be happening around him but he would never flinch or get distracted as his prayerful heart was entirely engaged and connected with God, Jesus, Our Lady, and all. I strived to have his focus and true devotion. I find that for myself, it's a lot easier to engage from the heart when my eyes are closed, so I remove the temptation to react to my environment, especially when praying the rosary before Mass begins and parishioners are talking and settling in. Thank you for this video. So beautiful. God bless!
Thank you so very much. What you have just shared is accurate for so many of us. As Catholics we have so many beautiful devotions there is no way we could ever satisfy our appetites for them. In a way you have just described the perfect parent-child relationship.... vacations, holidays, gifts, parties are wonderful but the the day to day interactions are what form us and give us the confidence that we are loved, our thoughts and ideas have value and our actions are important.
Thank you Father. Have a good day.
As a Protestant, I’ve always struggled with public prayer. I don’t like having to pray in front of other people. I have a great private prayer life, I just prefer to keep it private. Also, I’ve never really felt like I should be using “rote prayers”. The denomination I grew up in was always deeply suspicious of things that were “too Catholic”. Never mind that rote prayers can be very useful. You’re always just supposed to “talk to God directly, you know, like he’s your best friend”.
Yeah, I never felt frustrated at all.
Amen
God bless you Father Mark-Mary and all the CFRs 🙏🏼
Pray for me please❤️🙏 I have done so many things that I felt guilty of and I want it to stop. I want to pray from the heart to be with the Lord ❤️
Hi to Father, PT as well. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Love you Father, thank you for your work. God Bless
Thank God for father Mark Mary!
I’m on my last 14 days of a 54 day novena. I’m really struggling to know if my prayers are heard.
Most weeks I start my week with a 3 or 5 hour drive to a customer’s site.
I got in the habit of not turning on the radio, praying a Rosary and just trying to be with the lord.
i was not sure if I was praying with my heart.
I try, but like all of us, I’m human and my mind drifts.
I did a search on UA-cam for ‘how to pray from the heart’ and this video show up!
This message meant sooo very much to me.
(62 year old man and I have big, wet eyes. I needed to hear this message)
It’s such a simple thing.
Turn off your radio.
Tell Jesus you would prefer to spend the time with him.
Even if you don’t pray the Rosary, be Christ like and see God in everyone.
It’s a tiny sacrifice.
Every week, when I drive 3 and sometimes 6+ hours, with no radio on, I’m only starting to realize how absolutely serene those hours are for me.
Praying from the heart. A beautiful message. Superficial level of prayer versus the engagement of the heart. Saying prayers versus engaging. Imagine Jesus next to you and just have a conversation.
February 2, 2022
This hits home. Conversation with your best friend. ✨
Thank you father Mark Mary god bless you
God bless all of you at Ascension Presents.❤️
So needed! God bless your work for Jesus! 💜🙏💜
Thank you, thank you, thank you
I need to listen to this over and over again. Prayer isn't just making a shopping list of wants. Or just becoming a robot mouthing off what becomes meaningless babble
Shockingly the LDS church missionaries taught me how to pray out loud.
Absolutely beautiful commentary. Reading the Holy Word of God is developing a wonderful relationship with the Holy Trinity. Thank you and God Bless.
Thank you brother!!! 💗
Thank you
Thank you! I needed this😇
Thank you Fr 😊
Always enjoy your posts
Thank you..
Wonderful start to my day. Many thanks, Father.
Fr Mark Mary you are the best, so easy to engage with you!
Amen this helped me❤
I love the CFR. Thanks for this, and all of your videos, Father.
Excellent===a conversation with God. I do this after saying an "our father" it is the prayer God gave us after all.
Thank you. I need to hear this several times. It was helpful
Thank you for this timely reminder. Cannot hear it often enough. God bless.
Thank you for this. Keep growing.
Thank you for reminding me about this you're absolutely right thank you so much
This was excellent! I'm forwarding it to my kids. Thank you!
❤🙏😇thank you for this, much needed tonight!!
excellent share
Amen 🙏❤️🛐✝️
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you Father Mark Mary. I pray the Rosary everyday and that meditation time is beautiful but I do struggle with speaking to God from my heart. I struggle with what to say, how to say it, is it ok to say what I truly feel at that moment..etc...I want and NEED a relationship with God but I keep doubting everything that comes out of my mouth. Please pray for me to grow spiritually. We need more videos like this.
Hey there, Champ Father Mark-Mary;)
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Transcript in Korean I can't change it 😂
Praise The LORD ✝️🕊❤️🙏
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father thank you , I know the times when my heart is not in my prayers. My prayers sorta ramble. I love the story of your friend I always talk to our lord because I believe that he's always with me and I speak that I may be with him. Amazing always, Father I was hoping you might speak about the church. I always pray the rosary at home I wanted to pray it before mass but I get intruded by people speaking before mass in the entrance way in the church not being quite. I'm sorry I know I should focus but the noise is such a distraction. I had to go and find a quiet place to do the rosary before mass started I was hoping to get your advice on this
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I would like a Bible study on God’s Divine Heart. What has God revealed in Scriptures about His personality, His desires, His Divine Will, what makes Him happy? and joyful? What makes Him sad? What makes Him angry? A deep study because Jesus The Incarnation is The Sacred Heart of The Heavenly Father. Can you do that?
One moment of intimacy with Christ the Lord, is better than a lifetime of empty Masses.
But God already knows what's in our heart. So I find it inauthentic to pretend otherwise. I like to engage with the Holy Spirit and ask him questions, ask for guidance. I find that He answers even before I've finished the thought. But I really struggle with what I call free-range prayer. At 72 I much prefer my Catholic prayers, the Rosary and the Divine Office plus little "ejaculations" that the nuns taught us and making offerings for the Holy souls etc. There's an abundance of riches in our ancient prayers and the advice of our saints. I find The Little Flower provides the perfect guidance for getting close to Our Father and His Son and The Spirit who emanates from Their Love. God bless.
Hi Stephanie Lynn,thank you for your beautiful response. I place you,and those in your heart,in my heart which I give to Jesus and Mary each day. God bless. Praise Jesus and Mary always!!! Ps a compliment to you you are beautiful. If you haven’t already consecrate yourself and your loved one’s to the sacred heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary,please do so. Also to St Michael archangel,St Joseph,and your guardian angel. Please watch the warning or illumination of conscience by Christine Watkins. (the sooner it comes the better).
Okay. For those who do not know, I am a Sikh. Even though we have a different form of prayer, I still pray at the end of the day. The thing is, IDK if God is with me in the moment or not, and I really want to make sure He's hearing me. Sometimes I'm at least lucky that He hears my call. But I really want to make sure that He is actually with me when I'm praying and conversing with Him. Any ideas how to do so?
Also Ascension, do you plan on doing a video about what God has planned for our future? I ask because I've been having this struggle recently.
We are to pray to the Father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, after we have repented and believed the Gospel.
I want to study these things even im just 10--
If God knows our heart, aren’t all prayers from the heart (especially when we invite and give our heart over) to God?
I treat Christianity like a self improvement program. I definitely pray out of of obligation. I tell the Lord my complaints but I mostly doubt He will care or listen. I'm not always grateful when my prayers are answered
I had this talk with my......Baptist gf.....I know..
She and I got into a disagreement. She thinks we just READ prayers and not from the heart. I told her we do both.
I must also say, I am growing tired of Protestants vs Catholics.
Protestants don't want to acknowledge any legitimacy of Catholicism as it threatens their raison d'etre... It's political.
They don't want reconciliation with the Catholic Church for fear of losing their petty fiefdoms.
I was protestant for almost 50 years and was in many denominations. Now I'm home.
💛🧡🙏🧡💛
Is a private prayer like the Divine Mercy Chaplet that says, ''I offer the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ'' okay?
I always felt when I'm praying this that I'm re-sacrificing our Lord. Please, enlighten me on this 🙏
I try, GOD knows ...I try
I find the formal prayer seem dry. Hard to make them sincere,but I sure try.
I literally buckle in Jesus in the passenger seat and talk to him. I even talk to him all day while I’m at work like he’s there.
Fr, I have a really important question… do you answer questions on your videos?
Please a video on Muslim Christian marriage
Father Mike Schmidt did one on marrying outside the church a while ago.
Fist educate yourself on Islam. Not just the sanitised versions. Check out David Woods channel.
Sometimes what you think or believe exists, doesn't actually exist.
If you only can say in your heart, not even out loud, "Thank you, God", you have reached God.
"Subjective, objective, prayers par excellence" .... you are listening to a false prophet.
What do you mean by false prophet?
Father mark,
The hand gesture 👌 signfies 666
Which is the number of the beast
Facepalm
In your meaninf
🤥
It means okay🙄
“...with his imagination put himself in the presence of God...”
Satan lives in the imagination.
Are we not meant to stay out of the darkness of the imagination?
Was your friend then not being deceived into thinking he was talking to God?
When in fact he was talking to Satan on all those hour long road trips?
Hey!!, dont do that.... dont discount non Catholics relationship to God, by saying they are somehow missing the fullness of the relationship bc they dont have the mass. Ridiculous. Christ is Christ. Some can receive Him in physical form via the Eucharist or in the hug/community of the Body of Christ. That kind of Catholic elitism, wont help fortify a Catholics' faith, only their self righteous piety.
..also non Catholics have confession... the Amish have public confession, like the "Chapter of Faults" in religious orders. Some could say you dont know the fullness of community/the Body of Christ until you have to confess your sins to the entire community. True forgiveness from the Body of Christ, is special and truly humbling.