This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our Rosary.

Let's call to mind that we are ever in the presence of Almighty God and whom we live

and move and have our being.

We call upon Him in the name of the father and of the

son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. We offer up this rosary tonight for the repose of

the souls of Deacon Steve White,

and for Grace Cresswell.

I went to both funerals the last two days,

so we've prayed for their families.

I also want to pray and say hello to our audience in Shanghai, China. Thank you for praying with us.

Our Rosary tonight is called Control and Emptiness. I recently watched a docudrama about a criminal

underworld mastermind recounting his life story before he died. He tells us wouldbe biographer. I decided long ago that life was a game and I was

going to live in such a way so as to be the one who controls it. He thought that controlling his own life,

through his own will instead of gods, would produce greater fulfillment.

The movie ends with the gangster alone, broke, battling cancer, and weeping over a dying crippled son he could neither cure nor restore.

The mastermind of the mob controlled nothing

and ended up empty.

This typifies our own modern age. We think life is a game that we can control without God.

Only too late do we figure out that this leads to emptiness and that the only game is the one we tell ourselves

when we refuse to serve God. In today's gospel, when Jesus tells Peter to send his boat out into the deep,

Peter responds,

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