This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

We are still in Florida on vacation.

Half my crew, actually most of my crew fell asleep,

but John has stayed strong with me.

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

Amen.

So let's call the mind all those we've promised to pray for,

and I especially want to offer this rosary

for Steve Nordstrom. We were made for Joy and Joy is the response

to something experienced as good and it invites us to rest in that good.

Like sitting tonight on the beach with my daughter Grace watching the sunset and the tide rolling.

We can have real joy and pleasure and for this discussion they mean the same thing

by experiencing a real good such as the joy of a job well done, a good conversation with a friend, or a sunset with your daughter.

Or we can replace it with fake joy, some pleasure that takes the place of the real thing.

One temptation is to choose fake joy that comes from sloth, gluttony, drunkenness, and drug use.

That is the pleasure without possessing the true good because life is just too hard or it's too painful or too boring or that the real joy you feel is unattainable.

But temperance helps us to experience real joy.

And the greatest joy is to possess God, the supreme good, and the vice that prevents us from reaching our high calling of union with God is sloth otherwise known as a chadia

a chadia is an aversion to the invitation from God to become god-like, to become a saint,

and it results in the effort to escape the invitation through busyness, workaholeism, entertainment, news, sports,

drunkenness, drug use, pornography, many other things. The great Catholic philosopher Joseph Peeper wrote,

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