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.

Today is the feast of the martyrdom of John the Baptist. You may be suffering today or someone you love.

It may be something temporary or chronic or terminal.

There may be no human remedy and very naturally you may feel, as I often do, You may feel abandoned, bewildered, afraid, and discouraged. I think John the Baptist

probably felt all the same things.

He spoke up when no one else would, when King Herod took his brother's wife as his own,

John said, this is wrong. It's adultery. So Herod arrested John and threw him in a very nasty prison, probably had him chained to a wall, very little, if any, food or water,

rats, fleas, lice, all the usual prison cellmates, darkness lots of darkness and I'm certain

John experienced great physical mental and emotional suffering waiting for his impending execution.

Then in Matthew 11, John from his prison cell sends a few of his disciples who had come to visit him to go and ask Jesus this question.

Are you the one who is to come?

Or have we got to wait for someone else?

Basically, I think John's question was this.

Jesus, I believe you are God, so why won't you help me?

Why won't you get me out of this prison of suffering? Why does God allow suffering?

Our Father who art in heaven, hall would would be her name, by kingdom come by 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.

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