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.

In the Third Commandment, God links the command of rest to the command of holiness.

In practice that means there are two obligations for Sunday.

One is to rest, the other is to worship, to go to Mass. And for many of us, these two

obligations seem kind of disconnected or even intention. When my kids were little it took a lot of effort,

a lot of work to get everybody up and dressed and in the car for Sunday mass. One Sunday my oldest daughter Sarah

when she was probably I don't know about six didn't have shoes on when we got

to church.

In fact, we could never find shoes.

That's why we usually kept extras in the van.

This time there were no extras.

So I said to her,

if it was good enough for Moses, then it'll work for you.

So it might not seem restful getting the family to church or keeping them well behaved for over an hour in the pews.

And yet the truth is, worship and rest go together.

Because we can't do anything human.

We can't do anything natural.

We can't do anything natural. We can't even really rest unless we put God first.

Worship, God, Sunday Mass. These don't get in the way of rest. They're actually what makes rest possible.

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.

Give us a stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses,

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