This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

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

Amen.

Calling to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

This week, we're going through the basics of prayer and the spiritual life.

Today, how to get the most out of the Rosary. The Rosary is supposed to be a meditation on the word of God, not

a mindless saying of words, and the two most powerful aspects of meditation are thinking and forming a resolution.

Let's take the first thinking. A big problem in the world is that people don't think. We have

become intellectually lazy and we tend to let our feelings take control rather than to be directed by our intellect

because it takes a lot of work to think and it's hard to stay focused for an extended period of time.

That laziness gets worse by the way if we indulge in hours and hours of screen time dedicated to shows and sites and content designed

precisely to help us avoid thinking. But daily meditation on the word of God in the Rosary can help fix this.

Now, some people are probably surprised and a little challenged at how intellectual some of these rosary meditations are.

But actually, the primary form of prayer is a meditation, which means thinking about some truth about God, whether that truth is found

in the scripture or the lives of the Saints or the Church's teaching, or your own life. And even though it takes work, don't give up on thinking in

meditation. Exploring and reaching out for God Practice makes perfect.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow would be your name. Thy kingdom con thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us a 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,

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