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 all want to be good people, someone who has the habit of all good actions flow from

people, well all good actions flow from four cardinal virtues, not red

virtues, cardinal from the Latin word cardo, which means hinge, because all good

actions hinge on four virtues, prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance.

So if we want to be a good person, then we need to make these four habits. And the third cardinal virtue is

fortitude or courage or bravery. This is the virtue that enables us to overcome our fears and do the right thing even when we don't want to.

Fortitude prompts us to take action and to keep going even when we're threatened by significant suffering and loss because we know that the good we're pursuing and protecting is more important than the good we're

risking. Like St. Maximilian Colby, who knew that union with God and faithfulness to the truth and a willingness to forgive and

that saving another human life were all more important than saving his career and all that he had built or preserving

relationships or protecting his health or even saving his own life.

Because courage is the willingness to sacrifice lesser things for the sake of greater ones.

So Colby spoke the truth and it got him sent to Auschwitz by the Nazis

and he forgave those who tortured him in the death camp and he gave away his food rations so that other prisoners could live.

And finally, Colby traded places where the man condemned to death.

And Colby could do all this because he was a man of courage.

The question is, am I? How would I know?

Our father who art in heaven, hallow 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

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