This is the movement of the Holy Family.

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 end of one year and beginning of another affords us an opportunity to ask one of the most important questions. Why are we here? What is the purpose of our life?

You may immediately respond with

to get to heaven of course.

And while that's true, what does it mean?

And how should we live our lives practically to reach the goal?

In the Bible in 1st John, chapter 3, verse 2 and the catechism in paragraph 1023 tells us that heaven is

union with God and becoming like him. Now Mother Teresa famously provided an acronym by which we could

organize our lives and achieve this purpose. That acronym is Joy and it stands for Jesus, others, and you. Now when I first heard

this, I thought it was nice, but way too simplistic to capture the complex nature of our lives.

But actually, the more I reflect on it,

I think it provides a perfect architecture

by which we can build our lives.

We can reach the goal of life, union with God, and becoming like him

if we would love Jesus, if we would love God, and if we would love Jesus if we would love God and if we would love God through charity to others and love

God through charity to ourselves, then we will be united to God and become like him through love, through Jesus, others, and you.

Our Father who art in heaven,

hallow it would be your name,

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