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 to all those we've promised to pray for.

We've been talking about fighting temptation, which essentially means reforming our feelings through right behavior

and a 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, he says says and graphically it's better to get into

heaven missing a body part than have the whole of you get tossed down into the fires of hell.

What Jesus is saying is that

we have to cut certain things out of our life,

certain things that aren't necessarily bad in themselves, but which for us are near occasions

of sin. They are things that lead us to sin.

And we have to cut those situations out.

And it could be really hard because we are addicted

to those things. so it might feel like an amputation but it's worth it.

Our father who worked in heaven, hallow would be your name, Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us a stare 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.

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