This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

Troy and I are still blessed to be in Peachtree City, Georgia this morning, Sunday morning with a great group of men for a half day men's retreat.

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

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

In 1951, Pope Pius the 12th wrote a letter to the world entitled,

In the Face of approaching evils.

It perfectly captures the state of the world today

and the absolute necessity of the Rosary

as the only weapon to change the course of world events,

transform families and save the souls of our loved ones, which along with friendship and good conversation is why the Rosary is at the heart of our movement.

Pius the 12th writes,

We have never ceased in the face of approaching evils to entrust to the most powerful

protection of the mother of God the destiny of the human family.

You know well the calamitous conditions of our times. Fraternal harmony among nations

shattered for so long a time has not yet been re-established anywhere.

On the contrary, we see souls upset by hatred and rivalry,

while threats of new bloody conflicts still hover over the peoples. To this one must add the violent storm

of persecution which in many parts of the world has been unleashed against the church, depriving it of its liberty and making the blood of martyrs flow again

and again. However, consideration of a situation so pregnant with dangers must not depress you.

Instead, fly with greater confidence to the mother of God.

There the Christian people have always sought refuge in the hour of danger because as St. Irenaeus said in the second century,

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