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.

In the Our Father, we pray, lead us not into temptation.

Well, how do we understand this?

God does not lead us into temptation.

Well, the original Greek means do not allow us to give into temptation in sin.

That's what we're praying for.

Temptation does not come from God.

It comes from the world, the flesh, meaning our fallen human nature,

and it comes from the devil. We can't control the world or Satan.

With God, however, we can control ourselves. Our fallen human nature can be transformed with Christ. But we have to

really pinpoint the source of the temptation that comes from within.

That flows from our vices, our disordered desires.

These tempt us to sin, pride, vain ambition, envy, sloth, anger, greed, gluttony, and lust.

And every person is dominated by two or three of these.

And if we want to get free from these vices,

then we need to identify the two or three deadly sins that dominate us.

That's what we call our predominant faults.

So how do we identify these? It's pretty simple. Just do a brief

examination of conscience every day for a week. Look at what you've done that's wrong or failed to do that was right and then ask

which of the deadly sins was the cause. It won't take long to see a pattern, then you'll know your

dominant sins. But then you've got to make a concrete game plan to behave differently.

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