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.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. I'm especially offering this for

little Olivia Caneli for the end of her seizure clusters for Jeannie Sherman.

And I'm in the midst of thanking God ahead of time

for bringing my son-in-law, Nick home for the birth of his son,

Cormac. Nick is an officer in the Marines and the DoD has shut down all

travel until August so we are expecting a miracle and I think our lady has revealed to me

that if this petition is to be granted, I must suffer personally.

For prayer without fasting, and suffering is weak.

Money, power, power, time.

Happiness is to possess the good things that complete or fulfill our human nature.

In general, we need a hierarchy of good things. Three levels of good

we discussed yesterday. Extrinsic or external created goods, things that are concrete such as food and drink, especially coffee and bacon,

houses and cars, books, but also abstract things like money, power, and time.

Both are means to hire goods and not ends in themselves.

We are to use them to help us possess the human goods and the divine good, God.

Intrinsic or human goods, the essential things everyone needs to become the people God designed us to become.

These are the goods of the body and the soul such as physical goods, health, safety, security, psychological goods like stability and variety, family and friends,

knowledge, achievement, beauty, and our identity.

These are intermediate ends. No one of these and not all of them together are the purpose of life.

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