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. A lot of people struggle to trust God because maybe they've been burned so many times in the past

when it comes to religious people they thought they were supposed to trust. Some people buy into some Catholic visionary

who turns out to be a fraud. Or maybe somebody predicted the end of the world or the

chastisement or the warning and it hasn't happened yet.

Maybe there was somebody who everybody said was a super holy person and then it turned

out they were an imposter or worse a monster.

Maybe you went to some faith healing event and they said if you really believed deep down in your heart, then you or your loved one would have been healed.

And then you did believe, or at least you tried to believe, but nobody was healed.

Or worst of all, maybe you really trusted someone you associated with the faith and that

person let you down in a big way.

And so you say to yourself, that's it. I'm done buying in.

I'm not falling for anything else. I'm good. If other people want to have faith if they want to go for all this

religious stuff that's fine for them but I'm tired of being burned.

It's a common experience.

It's the defense mechanism most of us reach when we've been let down.

But if you lose your faith in Christ and his church

because somebody else proved untrustworthy,

that's not fair to Christ or his church, and it's not fair to you.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow would be your name, Thy kingdom come thy will be done in 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

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