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.

Amen.

It's called to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Courage is about overcoming fear.

Courage enables us to overcome the fear of losing lesser things,

to preserve or gain greater things.

Jesus said, greater love has no man than this than to lay down his life for his friends, for God and for others.

St. Maxime and Colby made a quick assessment standing there on a hot July day in Auschwitz in

1941. To choose the love of God and neighbor over his own life.

Then he made the heroic choice, step forward, and traded places with a man condemned to death.

To be courageous, we must have a hierarchy of loves.

We must know what is of greater importance and what is of lesser importance and be willing

in every circumstance to sacrifice what is lesser or what is greater.

What is our hierarchy of loves?

First, God, worshipping and thanking him through the Mass, friendship with him and prayer,

obedience to him through the way of happiness,

otherwise known as the commandments, the virtues,

and the moral teachings of Jesus

as they are expressed in the Catechism.

Secondly, the responsibilities of our vocation as a husband and father, wife and mother, priest are religious.

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