This is the movement of the Holy Family, leading people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation and the Rosary.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

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, especially for the healing of

Olivia Caneli and four five-year-old Thomas Lauer.

As we continue to get to know Jesus better,

I was

made perfect through suffering.

Hebrews 5.

during his life on earth, Jesus offered up prayer and entreaty, allowed and in silent tears,

to the one who had the power to save him out of death, and he submitted so humbly that his prayer was heard.

Although he was the son, he learned to obey through suffering, but having been made perfect, he became for all who obey him the source of eternal salvation.

God the Father allowed Jesus to suffer so that he would become the source of salvation.

Likewise, God allows us to suffer, and then he invites us to take up our own cross and join it to the suffering of Jesus.

And in this way, God invites us to participate with Jesus in the conversion and salvation of our loved ones who are far

away from Christ.

The Catechism in paragraph 618 explains how God wants our participation in Christ's sacrifice.

The Catechism says, the cross is the unique sacrifice of Christ, but because he has in some way united himself to every person, the possibility of being made partners in a way known to

God in the suffering of Jesus is offered to all people. Jesus calls his disciples to take up their cause and follow him.

For Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, so that we should follow in his steps. In fact, Jesus desires to

associate with his redeeming sacrifice those who were to be its first beneficiaries.

This is achieved supremely in the case of his mother,

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