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.

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

We especially offer this rosary for the repose of the soul of Father Tom Dozelle,

a fantastic priest of the Archdiocese who died January 1st at

4.30 PM. He had a great love for the mother of God, so it's appropriate that he went to heaven on her feast day.

I had the great privilege of taking him to Mexico City to the shrine of our Lady of Guadalupe

which was the last thing on his bucket list.

Today I will begin a series of Rosary Meditations from the third part of the Catechism explaining how the life of Jesus is made present in the Mass and the sacraments so that we may receive his divine life and

be transformed. This should be a helpful teaching for all ages.

St. Aranes, St. Athanasius, and St. Thomas Aquinas,

sum up the Catholic faith in this way. The Son of God became man so that man might become a

son of God. What does that look like? It looks like the Saints, like St. Maximilian Colby,

who even though he had tuberculosis,

founded a monastery that attracted 700 young men and housed thousands of people during the Nazi

invasion. He was arrested and sent to Auschwitz where he traded places with another man who was sentenced to die by starvation.

So suffering from tuberculosis, and after months in a death camp in which he regularly gave

away his food to other prisoners, he lived for more

than two weeks with no food or water in the starvation bunker. Guards later testified that each day when they went to the cell,

they found Colby alive.

His body literally radiating light from within.

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