This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Well, welcome to our Rosary meditation.

This is Rosary on the road.

I am very blessed to be at the home of Lee and Deb Butler this evening

with a bunch of friends who on Fat Tuesday have had pancakes

and we've had some conversation and now we're going to pray the Rosary together.

The purpose of Lent, which begins today, is to help us grow in a deeper friendship with God.

This meditation, I'm going to give you five points from the Saints

to achieve that deeper friendship with him.

So let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

And let's call to mind all those that we've promised to pray for.

Prayer is friendship with God.

And what does friendship take? Takes time talking, listening and just

being together. And this corresponds to the three major expressions of prayer,

vocal prayer, talking to God, meditation, listening

to Him, and contemplation, just being with the one who loves us.

Teresa of Avalon describes the spiritual life as a garden entrusted to our care.

In the beginning it will require more of your effort but persevere because as you experience growth

It doesn't get harder. It will get easier

She writes, The Garden of the Soul can be watered in several manners.

The first, drawing the water up from a well by use of a bucket. That entails a great deal of

effort. The second way, cranking a water wheel and having the water run through an aqueduct.

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