This is the movement of the Holy Family.

So welcome to our Rosary meditation.

I am so blessed this evening to be joined by 80 people, mostly lay people who have committed themselves to go deeper

in prayer and to be trained to help others learn to pray. Go deeper in prayer, have a greater friendship with Jesus and grow in holiness.

And we're going to be training them all week and they've made the commitment to

help others in their interior life. So what an honor it is to be with them. Let's begin 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. Now this week we're going to be meditating on one beatitude each day.

Jesus begins his teaching with the beatitudes and the word beatitude means

happiness. So the eight beatitudes are God's eight step plan to be happy and it begins with the poor and spirit. Now to be poor

in spirit is to direct everything in one's life to union with God.

And prayer is the most direct way to the goal

because prayer is friendship with God but by prayer we mean

meditation. Meditation is to read or recall some teaching or event from the word of God, from

scripture, the lives of the Saints or the Church, and then to reflect or think about it to exercise our mind and try to understand it and apply

it to our lives and then we always finish our meditation by forming a

simple concrete resolution to put the teaching of Jesus into practice.

Now the Rosary is a great start, but as our friendship with Jesus grows,

he calls us to allow it to simplify, to allow ourselves to just be with God, to just sit with God in silence attentive to him in a loving stillness.

Is there a desire growing within you for more time with God?

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow it would be your name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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