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.

So why are we meditating on holiness? Why worry about holiness? As long as I make it into heaven, that's good enough, right?

One of the ways we justify or try to get comfortable with our spiritual mediocrity is by saying something like this.

Look, I may not be a saint and I doubt I'll ever be, but that's fine. I'm probably good

enough to get into heaven, and that's good enough for me. As long as this thing has a happy ending, as long as we all end up in the right place,

that's all that matters in the long run, right? So why get all worked up about being perfect?

We don't need to be perfect.

You know the saying.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Good enough is good enough, isn't it?

We're all used to that kind of complacency.

And at first it seems to have a kind of plausible logic to it. But deep down, we know it can't be true.

We know Christ didn't make us for mediocrity. We know he called us to be more. But then what is the flaw in this kind of thinking?

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow 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 from evil, amen.

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

blessed art thou among women. Blessed is a fruit of thy womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for a sinner is now and at the hour of our death,

Amen.

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