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.

When it comes to the 10th commandment, which forbids envying your neighbor's goods, one of the forces we need

to reckon with is the temptation to seek our identity in things.

Because we wouldn't be likely to envy our neighbor's goods

unless we thought those goods conferred a certain status on us, that having such things elevates you,

makes you more interesting or sophisticated while not having them says that you really don't have much going for you.

This is why companies pay movie stars and sports stars so much to make a commercial

because you think you'll share in their coolness if you buy

what they're selling.

But of course you won't and the thought that you make yourself better by owning a particular thing?

That's the disease of consumerism.

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.

Holy Mary, mother of God, brief for us in her,

and is now and at the hour of our death, amen.

Yil 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.

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