This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our 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,

especially for the healing of Olivia and Margo through the intercession of

blessed Pauline Jericho. We've been talking about fighting temptation which

essentially means reforming our feelings through right behavior and

disciplined imagination.

Now one of the key ways of overcoming temptation both behaviorally and

imaginatively is to avoid the near occasion of sin but what exactly does that mean? One of the most violent and disturbing things Jesus

said in the Gospels is about getting rid of whatever causes you to sin. He says that if your hand causes you to sin you

should cut it off and if your eye causes you to sin you should pluck it out

after all. to sin, you should pluck it out. After all, it is better to get into heaven missing a body

part than have the whole of you get tossed down into the fires of hell. Essentially, you may have to cut certain

things out of your life, certain things that aren't bad in themselves, but which for us are near occasions of

sin.

We have to cut those situations out, and it's going to be really hard. It might even feel a bit

like an amputation but it's worth it. 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 laid us not into temptation

But deliver us from evil.

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