This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our 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. We were made for joy and not for sorrow.

Joy or delight is the response to something experienced as good, and it invites us to rest in that good.

Joy is the emotion that prompts you to stop, sit down, and delight in the magnificent 360-degree view once you've reached the summit of a mountain.

It says, this is a good place to be. Let's stay here. Sorrow, on the other hand, is the response to something experienced as evil, and it clamors that

somebody do something to fix the situation.

Joy, meaning delighting in things that are good, prompts us to rest.

Sorrow prompts us to action and never lets us rest. Our screens give us a constant reminder

of all that is wrong in the world, prompting sorrow, destroying rest, creating anxiety and

worry. Furthermore, our screens constantly confront us with

sorrows that are not our responsibility, beyond our ability to fix. But we continue to put all that is

wrong in the world before our mind. Sorrow then prompts the brain that there is something to fix so we can never rest.

And the cycle of watching a broken world, sorrow and anxiety continue.

Have you had enough already?

Because we were not made for sorrow.

We were made for joy.

Our Father who art in heaven,

hallow it be your name.

Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

And give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And need us not into temptation, deliver us from you, amen.

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