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.

Today we reflect on the theological virtue of charity or love.

The two chief characteristics of God's love are selflessness and sacrifice.

Consequently, in the virtue of charity, our love must embody these two attributes.

Of course, the fact that we must be selfless does not imply that we can never consider our own needs and desires.

In fact, the virtue of hope is founded on fulfilling one's own need.

I want to get to heaven. I need to get to heaven.

Hope is the desire for supernatural good insofar as it will make oneself happy.

This is totally appropriate, but it also needs to be complemented by charity,

which is the desire for supernatural good insofar as it's something that will make God and neighbor happy.

With hope, we desire something for our own happiness.

With charity, our desire is to make God and neighbor happy.

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

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

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses

as we forgive those who trespass against us

and need us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

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