This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

We have entered the nine days before Pentecost, these are the days that Mary and the Apostles were

gathered together in prayer, praying the very first novena leading up to Pentecost. So in these days in our Rosary meditation,

we're going to be meditating in a special way on overcoming the vices that prevent the Holy Spirit

from transforming our life.

And at the end of every rosary until the day of Pentecost we have a special

novena prayer that we invite you to join us.

So 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.

Now, fortitude is the virtue to do what we should,

even when we don't want to.

But now we're meditating on temperance.

Temperance prevents us from doing what we should not,

even when we really want to.

But we have to place this in the context of happiness because we all long for happiness

But if God wants us to be happy, why do we always resist him?

Why do we that we always resist him? Why do we do actions that we know won't make us happy?

I think it's because we think

the happiness that God wants for us is going to be boring or lame.

Now, sin is defined by St. Augustine as a thought word or deed contrary to the eternal law.

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