This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our daily Rosary meditation.

Let's speak in 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 today we will be meditating on God's plan for human

sexuality. So if you're listening with young children, I just want you to be aware.

Genesis chapter one tells us God created man in the image of himself.

In the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.

This means that in the complementarity of the sexes, man and woman are made to live like God who is love.

So if we want to understand the love of man and woman,

then we need to understand the love of God.

1st John chapter 4 tells us God is love.

What does this mean?

In the Trinity, God the Father gives a total gift of himself infinitely and eternally.

This gift begets the Son, and since the Father holds nothing back in his giving, the son becomes all that the father is.

God from God, light from light, true God from true God.

The son receives the gift of the father and responds with the total gift

of himself back to the father. And the love between the father and the Son is so real that this mutual gift of self is

another person, the Holy Spirit. The love of God is a free and total gift of self, a gift that results in a permanent union of the divine persons from which another divine person springs forth.

Now the opposite of love is not hate, it is use. And no one can find happiness by using another person or being used. In fact,

we're all sick of it. So if we want to be happy, then we need to strive to make our human,

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