This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

It's called to mind all those who've promised to pray for, especially for the healing of Olivia

Canili and for the strengthening of Jeannie Sherman. The Joyful Mysteries give us five strategies for Joy.

First, docility to God's will. Then, thinking of others. Third, humility, fourth, gratitude, and

finally, patience.

The first mystery, the enunciation.

Dossility means to be teachable, ready to accept the will of God, no matter how it's delivered to us.

Gabriel, the archangel, came to Mary and presented to her the will of God.

Mary, God the Father would like you to be the mother of his son.

Will you accept God's will and take on this mission?

And without hesitation, Mary responds,

Yes, I am the handmaid of the Lord. Let what you have said be done to me.

No further questioning about the mystery of that process by which she, though remaining a virgin, is to become a mother.

All that, she leaves to God.

No anxious forebodings about the afflictions which such a motherhood will bring with it. All that she leaves to God.

No hesitations, no doubts, no demands for a sign. It is God's will, therefore it is hers. We all want to be happy and we are so unskillful

in knowing what will be best for us. So fickle in growing weary today of what

delighted us yesterday. We can only be sure of getting what we really want if our will is God's will. That's what Mary teaches us.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallow it would be your name,

Thy kingdom come, thy will be down on earth as it is in heaven.

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