This is the movement of the Holy Family, leading people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation and the Rosary.

So, welcome to our Rosary meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Let's call to mind in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Especially, we continue to pray for the healing of Olivia Canile. Now yesterday we reflected on the

temptation of Jesus. Paul's letter to the Hebrews teaches us that Jesus is able to help us in our temptation,

not only because he's the Savior of the world, but also because he's been through temptation himself.

So he knows what we go through, he understands. So what is temptation? Why does God allow it and what is our strategy to defeat it. That's the point of our

meditation today. Now first off it's not a sin to be tempted. Temptation is an attraction to some disordered thing.

To lust, gossip, to lie, to get back at others, to have power over others for power sake to indulge in pleasure for pleasure's sake, to be

lazier to be unbelieving or topt or cohabitate or to look at pornography or to skip mass without a legitimate reason

Now we can be tempted to all of these without sinning.

We sin when we consent. We give in, we say yes to the temptation in thought or word or action or omission by what we fail to do.

Now temptation comes from the world, meaning society, but it also comes from the flesh, which means

our wounded human nature, especially our desires that are inclined toward evil and away from good, but temptation can also come

from the devil who seeks to destroy us in hell.

Now why is temptation a big deal?

Because if we don't resist,

and if we give in to sinful actions,

then we turn those actions into sinful habits.

Sin and sinful habits result in an aversion for God and for the things

of God. And if we have an aversion for God, then we won't desire God.

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