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 we've promised to pray for.

This morning, Teresa, I went to the sacrament of reconciliation.

I'm not going to tell you my confession.

However, I will tell you that as always,

afterward I experience such peace and freedom. But knowing

yourself honestly is essential to making a good confession.

And that's why we're providing yesterday and today a good thorough examination of conscience

based on the roots of sin so that everyone can experience the same freedom and peace given by Christ through this sacrament.

So yesterday we covered pride, vanity, envy, and sloth.

Today, anger, greed, gluttony, and lust.

Now, anger is a God-given emotion meant to prompt us to achieve something difficult or arduous or to correct some evil or to endure something we can't change without giving up or becoming

evil ourselves.

So anger is meant to be a constructive emotion. It's meant to give us the energy to correct in evil or end in injustice or just simply persevere in doing good. But anger can become sinful

when it's inappropriate for the circumstances, meaning the anger is too intense, it lasts too long, or it's directed toward the wrong thing.

Often, our anger is directed toward hurting others in an act of revenge.

Or we use our anger to protect our ego or to get our way or to show our importance and power.

But that kind of anger is not constructive.

It's not directed toward a good.

Anger is sinful when we use it to get our way.

In that regard, we become like a terrorist.

But we often fall into anger about things we can't control. Do you become angry about the decisions

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