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.

It's a very popular assumption that we can go around doing gravely evil things while

still being a basically good person. Sometimes people will say that even

though they do things that are totally against God's plan and God's instructions, they still

believe in him, still want to go to heaven, that they still have a fundamental orientation to God.

A more mainstream expression of this idea,

the idea that we're good people even though we do really bad things comes in the form of

Hollywood movies where people doing horrible things still have hearts of gold.

There are movies where the main character is a prostitute with a heart of gold,

or a contract killer with a heart of gold, or a con artist with a heart of gold.

But that's not the way gravely evil actions work. Gravely evil actions

corrupt our heart. They corrupt our heart.

They corrupt our desires and thinking and behavior.

They corrupt us.

And gravely evil actions establish a false God in our lives, and so turn us away from the true God. Our Father who art in heaven, hollow would be your name, thy kingdom come thy

will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive

us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against

us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us for me but Amen.

Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women. me able sinners now and at the hour of our death, Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee,

blessed art thou among women.

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