This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

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

Amen.

It's called to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

When my son Xavier was very little I tried to teach him the our father. I would say okay Xavier let's pray the our father and he would get a big smile and full of confidence he would say

Our Father our Father our Father certain that he had mastered the prayer

though he was a long way from learning the whole the

the whole prayer, I realized he had mastered the most important part.

God is our father.

That's really all we need to know, to be convinced of.

And if we would let that really sink in, it would completely transform our lives.

So today we need to meditate on God the Father.

And I was wondering, what's the best story to explain the goodness of God the Father.

I think certainly it has to be the story Jesus told of his own Father, the story of the prodigal son, which is really about

the amazing goodness of the father. Pay attention to the father.

Pay attention to the father in this story.

A man had two sons.

The younger said to his father,

father, let me have the share of the estate that would come to me.

So the father divided the property between them.

A few days later, the younger son got together everything he had and left for a distant country where he squandered

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