This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our Rosary Meditation.

I'm in Jerusalem with my brother Jack and we are before a beautiful crucifix in the

presence of the Blessed sacrament. So let's begin our meditation 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.

Today we meditate on the way in which Jesus invites us to give the way he gives generously in almsgiving, prayer and fasting. As the Lord said, give and there will be gifts for you, a full measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running

over will be put into your lap, because the amount you measure out is the amount you will be given back.

Why does Jesus want us to give away money, fast and pray?

Because God alone satisfies. There is nothing we can buy, nothing we can put in our

mouth, and no way we can spend our time that will satisfy our hunger and thirst for God.

Nothing but God alone satisfies.

And we can receive God immediately by prayer, even if we do not sense it, because the presence of God goes deeper than the level of the senses.

But to receive God more completely, we need to break our addictions. We need to

break our addiction to self-reliance by giving away our money, and we break our addictions to the pleasures of the

five senses by fasting. Therefore, Jesus says, when you pray, when you give alms, and when you fast, he does not say

if but when, because he knows these are necessary.

Our father who art in heaven, hollow it be your name.

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

Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass

against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

Ail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women blessed is a

fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary mother of God pray for us in us now and at the

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