This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

I'm joined by Teresa the Great and Sarah Morrison, formerly Shurslick, and by Habibi Sandy.

Today we're blessed to be joined by Angelina and by my personal support human so that she can go on free pilgrimages, Stasia.

That's a long title.

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.

Many people wonder why I pray the Rosary the way that I do.

So we are going to address that in our meditation today.

Many people say the Rosary, but few really pray the Rosary.

Many people say the words of the Rosary, but few make it a meditation on the life of Jesus or something he has revealed for our salvation.

There are three basic stages of prayer, vocal, meditation, and contemplation.

Vocal prayer is speaking to God by our thoughts or words. The Rosary is meant to be

vocal prayer and meditation simultaneously.

Meditation is to turn your attention to God and think about or reflect upon something he has done or said.

And we do this to understand it,

but also to love God more because of it,

and then to form firm convictions or resolutions

we put into practice with the assistance of grace.

Sister Lucia, one of the three visionaries of of or mental prayer consists in placing ourselves in the presence of God in order to reflect

on one or other of the revealed mysteries.

Some episode in the life of our Lord, some point of doctrine, the law of God, or even about one or other of the virtues

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