This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our Rosedary 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.

Now we've been meditating on the power of the soul that we call the will, the power that chooses and ultimately the will is supposed to choose the supreme good God.

But if that's the case, why does God seem to hide himself? Well first, the will is the faculty that always

pursues what we perceive to be good. The will could no more choose not to pursue a good, then ears could choose to

hear something that wasn't a sound. But if we always choose some apparent good, if that's a necessary feature of our wills, then how can

we be free? When we say the will always chooses the good, we mean it always chooses something which appears to be

fulfilling and attractive in some way. We don't mean that the will necessarily chooses

the moral good, which means the good which is conducive to our perfect

and permanent happiness through union with God in heaven, on the contrary.

We often sin by making inferior goods like sex or esteem or food or drink or rest,

primary.

We prefer the creature to the Creator and when we live that way, we not only

thwart our own happiness, but our enjoyment of those created goods becomes corrupted as well.

But how can it be that our wills, which are designed to choose the good, can pursue a lesser-created, unsatisfying

good at the expense of the supreme perfect good which offers eternal happiness.

How can we do that?

Our Father who art in heaven,

halle would be your name,

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