Welcome to our daily 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. So we've been meditating on faith and hope and now charity.

So how would you define love? It's not easy. We use love in a lot of different ways, and it's not always easy to

see what they all have in common. Here's the definition of love. Love is to want some good for

yourself and some good for others. That means there are two ways to love. You can love by wanting

some good for yourself. Phrases like, I love pizza, I love summer, I love the Kansas City Chiefs,

or I love being in a romantic relationship, all describe this first kind of love.

It's a self-directed love, which is fine.

But then there's the other kind of love which is deeper and is often more difficult, and

that's the love of wanting some good for another person.

So for example, if I were to say, I love my kids, I'd do anything for them.

It would indicate that what I desire is good things, happiness for them.

Examples of this second kind of love are the way all parents are supposed to love their children,

the way Mother Teresa love the poor, or the way we should love our enemies.

It refers to a willingness to work for someone else's good.

This is the love we encounter in the theological virtue of charity. It's a love of

God, but it's also a love for God. It's where we love God for His sake, for His good,

and not just for what we get out of it.

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 free of those who trespass against us, and lead not into temptation but deliver us from evil amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed are thou among women blessed is a fruit

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