This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Over the next few weeks, leading up to the Feast of Christ the King,

I want to spend time in the Rosary learning and meditating on the person of Jesus.

We are called to deep friendship with Jesus, and that friendship is aided by a profound familiarity with his life.

We will begin with the four reasons we need Jesus,

and then we will walk step by step through his life.

So let us begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit

and let's call to mind all those that we've promised to pray for.

So let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

The Catechism suggests four reasons why we need Jesus.

First, God became man in Jesus to save us by reconciling us with God. We have all sinned. St. Paul tells us in

Romans chapter 6 that the consequences of sin are death.

Death doesn't just mean the end of our earthly life.

Death as the consequence from unrepented sin means eternal separation from God, but also separation from one another

and the complete loss of happiness. Imagine being locked in solitary confinement, completely alone, forever, with no hope the pain would end.

That is hell.

That is what Jesus came to save us from.

Well, why can't God just forgive and forget the consequences?

Because God made us free like himself, and with freedom comes consequences. Good choices bear good consequences, bad

choices bear bad consequences, and if we want him to remove the consequences,

then he would have to remove our freedom and we would not be human.

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