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.

During World War II, a woman named Irene Updike managed to smuggle a significant number of Jewish people to safety.

Unfortunately, a Nazi officer found out what she was doing and he made her this proposal.

If she would become his mistress and sleep with him, he wouldn't blow the whistle on her

activities.

So she took his deal.

Needless to say, she had no desire to be intimate with such a monster,

but she thought it was worth it to save the lives of innocent people.

She thought the important consequences of her work justified the repulsive evil bargain. This seems at first glance to be a very

courageous decision, but on the other hand courage is virtue, and virtue can only prompt us to do what is morally

good, and fornication isn't morally good.

So how do we deal with decisions that look brave but are actually immoral?

Our Father who art in heaven, Hallow would be your name,

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

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us

from evil, Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, Blessed art thou among women.

Blessed is a fruit of thy womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God, prefer a sinner is now and at the hour of our death,

Amen.

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