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 that we've promised to pray for.

Now if we don't want to live as dogs and pigs, if we want to be set free from the vices that enslave us,

an essential step is to make a searching and fearless and honest examination of

conscience so that we can see which particular vices enslave us so that we can take those to confession and

with the grace of God begin to work to overcome them.

But the first step is to know which ones have us.

So in our meditation today and tomorrow,

we're going to provide you a detailed examination of conscience that you can then work through

every day for the next week and then you'll see your patterns clearly, which is the first

step to being set free. Now, all sin begins with pride

and pride is not one of the seven deadly sins.

All sin is pride. Pride is like ice cream. It comes in a variety of flavors. Vanity, envy,

sloth, anger, greed, gluttony, lust.

Pride is to say,

I don't need God and his plan.

I can do it on my own.

I can do it my way.

But God is the foundation of existence and if you remove Him as your foundation, then

you become the foundation. But you're not wise or strong or big enough. That's why you feel overwhelmed, anxious, angry.

Because you're trying to be the Atlas of the universe.

Remember, Atlas?

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