# Meditation on the Annunciation and "The Religious Sense"

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Podcast: [Holiness for the Working Day](https://stenobird.com/podcast/holiness-for-the-working-day-562220)
Published: 2026-03-26T02:12:00+00:00
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## Resource

Some years ago, a simple car ride with my young nephew became something unexpected, a window into the deepest structure of the human heart. His endless questions, his wonder at everything from trees to passing strangers, revealed something we are all born with but often lose, what Luigi Giussani calls the religious sense . In this episode, we trace that childlike openness all the way to the Annunciation, where Our Lady, fully awake and receptive, encounters God in a way that awakens everything and demands a response. Drawing from Giussani, Thomas Aquinas , and Joseph Ratzinger , we explore how vocation is not something we construct, but something spoken to us, and how true freedom is not keeping options open, but giving ourselves completely to what is real and good. This is an episode about wonder, encounter, and the quiet, world-changing power of a single yes.

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