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.

Everyone wants to use their personal gifts and really do some good for other people.

But so often we feel like we don't know enough and we're not good enough. Well let me tell you about Pauline Jericho. Blessed

Pauline Jericho who was born in Leon, France in 1799.

She grew up in an age shortly after the French Revolution,

which sought to rid France of its Catholic faith and to establish a society built on science and reason alone,

kind of like our culture today. And even many of her family and friends had very little interest in religion or prayer,

and they knew almost nothing about their faith.

About this, she writes in her diary, the spiritual ills of my country were increasing before my very eyes and I was convinced that the interior intuitions that showed them to me so clearly

arose from the very heart of truth. My great desire was that I might be allowed to fill the hearts of believers

with the same deep and vivid sense that God had given me

of his great indignation against his people and of the power of prayer to dispel it.

I had heard of great results from the use of the Rosary and I had hoped it possible to revive the devotion in France

believing it would calm the anger of heaven and produce living fruit in the souls of all people.

And even though Pauline was not a priest or a nun,

and she was just 27 years old,

and she desperately longed for a way to set the hearts of all people on fire for Jesus.

And then she remembered that every time the church faced a similar crisis it was the Rosary that renewed it.

And Pauline knew that Mary and the Rosary could lead the world back to Jesus.

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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