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 of those people we've promised to... and the Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.

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

I continue to offer the Rosary for Olivia Canalee for the end of her seizure clusters.

Oftentimes our feelings are misdirected.

Sometimes we are inclined toward what we know is wrong

and away from what we know is right.

We desire too much food, we dislike exercise,

we're averse to prayer and try to avoid it.

We hope to gain happiness through money and we fear commitment.

But feelings are not the problem. The problem is when feelings control us.

Feelings or passions are good God-given powers of the soul

designed to propel us toward things that seem pleasing and away from things which seem displeasing.

If we're confronted with something which seems pleasing, we experience the good emotions or passions of attraction, desire, joy, hope,

and courage.

If we are confronted with something that seems displeasing, we experience dislike, aversion,

sorrow, despair, fear, and anger.

The problem is that we experience the wrong emotion at the wrong time.

We fear to do the good or we desire what's evil.

We may hope for something we know will bring about our own downfall.

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