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 the mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Today we continue to meditate on the fourth commandment and specifically on the way a father is to be a provider and protector.

The Trinity starts with a father.

God himself starts with a father.

So too with the human race.

Humanity starts with a father.

So too with our individual families. The father begins a

family. But of course sometimes that's all dads ever seem to do is to start a family and then go on to neglect it.

And everyone knows what damage this causes a family.

Families need dads, and dads know know every dad knows that he has two particular

responsibilities for his family. He must work to provide for his family and he must work to protect his family.

And the only way any family feels safe and secure is if they have a dad who will never quit working to provide and to protect his family.

But again, that providing and protecting can't just be at the physical level. A man, if he's going to fulfill his

responsibilities as a man, must provide spiritually for his family and protect his family spiritually. So what does that

look like? Our father who art in heaven, halle would be your name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth

as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive 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

for us sinners now and at the hour of our death a man oh Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee,

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