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 and I also encourage you to

hit pause to do an examination of conscience which helps us to prepare for a regular confession.

In a letter to Cardinal Kefara,

Sister Lucia, one of the three visionaries of Fatima wrote,

Father, a time will come when the decisive battle between the Kingdom of Christ and Satan

will be over marriage and the family.

And those who will work for the good of the family will experience persecution

and tribulation but do not be afraid because our lady has already crushed the head of Satan.

Sister Lucia was right.

The family is disintegrating.

In the US alone, marriages are down 66% since 1971. Baptisms down 50%.

The birth rate in the US is at its lowest in our entire history.

We are at 1.7.

It takes 2.1 children per woman to maintain a level population. We are far beneath that. In fact, every

first world country is in a severe fertility crash. This may not seem like a big deal to you right now, but if this trend does not change,

then we may face in the not so distant future the complete extinction of whole nationalities.

What happens when there are too few children to fill schools,

too few workers to fill schools, two few workers to fill jobs,

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