This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

Last night my spiritual director asked me how I was doing with my muscular skeletal problems that make it difficult for me to breathe.

I said they're killing me. She responded, well, it is a good preparation for death. Now, this issue is not going to kill me. It annoys me.

And sometimes it makes me an annoyance which at times may make my wife want to kill me.

However, this comment struck, it struck me. This is a good preparation for death. So this morning I meditated

upon a profound text by St. Francis de Sales from the introduction to the

devout life on death and it really made me think And I believe it may help you reflect. And then I'll relate it to the

sacrament of reconciliation later this week. So let's begin in the name of the Father and

the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for joining our

Rosary and our sufferings together and offering them for the deep conversion of all those

submitted to our prayer list. Death is not a bad thing. In fact, because of

Christ, Christian death has a positive meaning.

As St Paul said, for to me to live is Christ and to die is gain.

And Teresa of Avila wrote,

I want to see God, and in order to see Him, I must die.

And finally, Torres, the little flower, stated,

I'm not dying, I am entering life.

The Catechism tells us that the church encourages us to prepare ourselves for the hour of our death.

In the litany of the Saints, for instance,

she has us pray from a sudden and unforeseen death deliver us, O Lord, and to ask the mother of God to intercede

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