This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

Tonight, I am blessed to be praying the Rosary with my daughter, Sarah.

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.

I gave you pretty heavy theology yesterday

speaking about justice, rights, and entitlements.

So I thought today I would lighten things up with a saint, but as I walked the beach and prayed, the saint that kept coming to mind was John the Baptist.

Fortitude is the ability to sacrifice lesser things for the sake of greater things.

And John the Baptist is a great example of courage for John gave up his life for the truth.

John the Baptist was beheaded at the request of Herod,

the wife of King Herod, because John was not silent

in the face of evil. John told King Herod that it was wrong for him to divorce his wife and then take Herodias the wife of

his brother Philip. John made it clear that adultery is gravely wrong. For bearing witness to the truth, John was imprisoned and beheaded.

The disciples of John carried his body to Sebastian where he was buried and the tomb of John the Baptist is one of my favorite

places to go to in the Holy Land. At that spot I kneel and pray for both prudence

and courage to bear witness to the truth in such a way that

will attract people to Jesus.

Cost what it may.

John was able to sacrifice what was lesser, his life, in order to gain what was greater.

Heaven and union with God.

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