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.

Let's call to mind all those we've

promised to pray for. The first words of Jesus in the Gospel of John are not.

Follow all these rules or you'll go to hell. Rather, Christ probes our hearts with a question. What do you want?

Christianity is not about suffocating the longing that dwells in the heart of man,

but about freeing it so that it can reach its true height, says Pope Benedict.

A desire is a yearning for something that promises to fill a void, a longing for that which

promises satisfaction in its attainment. It comes from the Latin root meaning to long for, wish for, hope for, and to expect.

And the original sense of desire may mean to look to the stars or to await what the

stars may bring.

For this reason, St. Augustine says, the whole life of a good Christian is a holy longing.

That is our life to be trained by longing.

And Pope Francis says,

I will ask you two questions.

The first, do all of you have a desiring heart,

a heart that desires? Think and answer in silence and in your heart. Do you have

a heart that desires or do you have a heart that is closed, a heart that is asleep, a heart that is anesthetized against the things of life?

And the second that second question.

What is the most important, most precious reality for you?

The reality that pulls at your heart like a magnet.

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