This is the movement of the Holy Family.

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, especially Olivia Canelie and Margot through the intercession of Blessed Pauline Jericho.

Today is the Feast of Pentecost.

The Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles and transformed them from timid and fearful to courageous

in bold. We need the same transformation to happen in us. Now maybe you know that the

word or the word martyr means witness. The idea is that when someone is willing to give their lives for a

truth it really witnesses to their conviction but it also works the other way.

The reason people were martyred in the first place

is that they wouldn't stop witnessing to the truth,

even when people told them to shut up. The Apostles didn't start

out being murdered. The Jewish authorities began simply by demanding they stopped talking about Jesus. And to that the Apostles said,

you be the judge of whether it's better for us to obey God or men, but we are not going to stop telling people about Jesus.

Now, there are a lot of people who would be much more comfortable if we would not proclaim the church's teachings on faith and morals,

if we would be quiet about the fact that Jesus is the only way to heaven, that the Catholic

Church is the one true church, or that marriage is one man and one woman,

till death do them part.

So we face the same question that the Apostles and Nearly Martyrs faced.

Should we make other people more comfortable by staying quiet or

should we obey God by spreading the truths of Jesus.

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