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.

We learned about the angels and now today the fall of the angels.

The catechism in paragraphs 391 to

395 teaches that the devil and the demons were at first good angels made by God, but they became

evil by their own doing.

Scripture, particularly in 2,

2, speaks of the fall of these angels.

Now, like humans, angels were created with intelligence and a free will, and God lays before us a choice.

If we want God above all created things, especially more than ourselves, then he will give us

our heart's desire and we will share in God's life forever in heaven.

But if we want some created thing,

if we want ourselves more than we want God, and this turns us away from him, then that is all we get

forever and that is hell.

God makes us free. He won't choose for us and he won't force us to choose him.

If we reject him, then God honors our freedom and allows us to live forever in a place without

him. That is hell. God sends no one to hell. Humans and angels choose to go there by their own free choice.

Our Father who arts in heaven, hallow would be your name, by kingdom come by will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and give us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us and

lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with with thee blessed art thou among women

blessed is a fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary mother of God

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