This is the movement of the Holy Family.

So welcome to our Rosary meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Let's call the mind all those we've promised to pray for. Now our lady has asked us to

pray the Rosary every day. You don't have to pray this one, but whichever

rosary you pray, make sure that you are meditating on the word of God.

We shouldn't let our rosaries be just a road saying of words

while our minds wander. That's not meditating. Today we begin

to learn and meditate on the Beatitudes and the sermon on the mound, which is the heart of the teaching

of Jesus. Beatitude means happiness. If God wants us to be happy, why do we always resist him? Why do we do things we know are wrong and that we know won't make us happy.

In paragraph 1871 of the catechism,

it says that sin, as defined by St. Augustine, is a thought, word, or deed contrary to the

eternal law.

It goes against our design.

In other words, God made us for happiness with Him, that's our design,

but instead we choose to go against our design and so against our own happiness.

And every sin involves two parts.

An attraction to some good thing, we only sin because we want something which appears,

at least in some way, to be a good.

Second, our pursuit of that good thing is in some way irrational.

It's contrary to God's will for us.

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