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.

The Fifth Commandment not only tells us,

Thou shalt not kill,

it also reminds us that we have a duty to take care of our physical health.

But we live in a weird time in terms of how people treat their own bodies.

Society seems to be absolutely unable to take a balanced view of physical health and fitness. On the one hand, there are an incredible

number of folks who treat their bodies horribly. They eat horribly, get no exercise, drink and smoke to excess, and have no regular sleep.

On the other hand, you have people whose whole life is wrapped up in eating healthy and staying fit.

People who seem to think the measure of a good life is how good you look, how much you can bench,

how many miles you run or how many steps you take in a day.

Not surprisingly, the church, meditating on the goodness of the body and the greater goodness of the soul gives us some insight to how we're supposed to live virtuously because virtue lies in the middle of two sinful extremes.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow it would be your, 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 us from evil,

Amen.

Hail 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.

Ready for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death,

Amen.

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