Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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

The goal of life is transforming union with God. But don't try to do this on your own.

Jesus wants to live in you and through you so that you can really live as a son or daughter of God,

so that you can live virtuously.

But God made you intelligent and free, so we have to use our mind and our freedom to learn and practice the virtues

And that's what we're gonna do in this next series of Rosary meditations

But it's also in this next series of Rosary meditations.

But it's also the next step to preparing for our consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on May 13th,

the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima.

Now when we talk about the kind of people we want to be,

one of the clearest ways to explain it is to talk about virtue.

Virtue is the perfection of the human being by perfecting the way we act.

Human beings are designed in such a way that our character is expressed in our action and then our action

shapes our character. In other words, what we do is connected with the kind of people we become.

So a virtuous person is a person with good character

and that good character is confirmed and perfected by virtuous actions.

All right, but then what's a simple definition of virtue?

A virtue is a good action we turn into a habit that becomes a stable character

trait by which we do the good quickly, easily, and joyfully.

And this is what the Saints show us best of all,

that it is possible to be a person who has the habit, who naturally does the right thing

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