This is Holy Family School of Faith.

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 all those we've promised to pray for.

Today's meditation as we enter into our series on the virtues is taken from CS Lewis, The Great Divorce. In this scene a dead man, a ghost, is invited into heaven

by an angel, but he refuses because he is enslaved by the vice of lust represented by a lizard.

I saw coming towards us a ghost who carried a little red lizard on his shoulder and it was twitching its tail like a whip

and whispering things in his ear. Then he turned and started to limp westward away from heaven.

Off so soon, said a voice.

The speaker was more or less human in shape, but larger than a man, and so bright that I could hardly look at him, his

present struck my eyes and my body too, for there was heat coming from him as well as light.

Yes, I'm off, said the ghost.

Thanks for all your hospitality, but it's no good, you see.

This lizard can't live here.

I shall just have to go home.

Would you like me to make him quiet?

Said the flaming spirit.

An angel as I now understood.

Of course I would, said the ghost.

Then I will kill him, said the angel, taking a step forward.

Oh, uh, look out, you're burning me. Keep away, said the ghost retreating.

Don't you want him killed?

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