This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our daily Rosary meditation.

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

Amen.

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

We've been meditating on the last things and today we meditate

on a vision of heavenly life through the glorious mysteries, the first glorious mystery, the resurrection.

Now all the glorious mysteries of the Rosary give us an insight into some facet of what awaits us in heaven.

That insight begins with realizing that heaven will be a place for our bodies. We forget how radical this is, how none of the

pagans imagined an afterlife for the body. They thought that if the soul survived death at all, it was only to live forever

as some kind of ghostly spirit, something that thought and remembered. But in this first glorious mystery we see Jesus resurrection

and we recognize a full bodily life. He sits by the fire, He walks with his friends. He repeatedly asks for food and eats it.

His resurrection is a promise of our future resurrection.

We will walk again.

We will laugh with our lungs and smile with our mouths

and embrace one another with our arms.

Our bodies will be restored,

not sick, not weak, not old, and not doomed to die, but alive and well forever. Our Father who art in heaven, hallow would be your name, 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.

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