This is the movement of the Holy Family.

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.

On Monday morning of Holy Week, Jesus returned from Bethany, and as he passed by Bethpage,

seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it

and found nothing on it but leaves, and he said to it, may you never bear fruit again, and at that

instant the fig tree withered and died.

The fig tree is a prophetic sign that helps us understand what Jesus is doing on Monday of

Holy Week.

We know that Jesus spent Palm Sunday evening in Bethany at the home of his friends, Martha,

Mary and Lazarus.

And what do you suppose Martha did for Jesus?

Why she made him a big feast, of course,

because Martha is the patron saint of hospitality.

So on Monday morning, when Jesus curses the fig tree for not bearing fruit, it can't be just because he's hungry.

The problem is that the tree is not doing what it's supposed to, bearing figs, bearing fruit.

And that's also the problem with the Jewish people.

They were not bearing the fruit that God had asked.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow would be your name.

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

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