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.

Adam and Eve began the history of human sin and that first sin shows us the three ingredients

present in every sin you and I commit.

The first ingredient is pride.

Adam and Eve wanted to be a big deal. They wanted to be like God.

The second ingredient is worldliness.

Worldliness means there is some created good, some good of this world that you prefer to God.

It could be something lofty and sophisticated like the knowledge of good and evil.

It could be something totally banal and sensual like the next meal or the next drink.

That bite of a tasty apple.

But whatever it is, you would rather have that

will be good than the infinite goodness of God.

And the third ingredient is disobedient self-will. Where you say,

I know God has forbiddenness. I know this goes against the providential ordering of things, but I don't care.

This is what I want and I'm going to do it.

All sin is pride, worldliness, and disobedient self-will. And so if we are ever to be saved from our sins, what saves us must be able to overcome these three

forces within us. And that's part of why Jesus saves us the way he does.

Our Father who art in heaven, hollow would 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 lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil

Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women.

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