Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. We, the School of Faith, are hosting a living nativity

this December 12th through the 15th with Mary and Joseph and a baby Jesus and live animals and

hot chocolate. This is going to be a great Advent event. Bring your kids, bring your

grandkids. You can find all the details at schoolof faith.com. Now also, I was always struck

when St. Bernadette said the only thing she feared was bad Catholics.

So we're trying to make good Catholics through friendship, good conversation, and the rosary.

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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.

The Old Testament is largely a story of sons at war with one another.

Adam is the Son of God. He's made in God's image and likeness with intelligence and freedom.

But of course, so is Lucifer. And in the third chapter of Genesis, we see God's angelic child attack God's human children.

And then Adam and Eve experience the same thing with Canaan Abel. They watch as one of their sons

attacks and kills the other son.

And the fraternal fighting and conflict continues on and on and on down the line.

It continues with Noah's sons, with Isaac's sons, with Jacob's sons, and with David's sons.

And what's sadder? What could be more heart-rending for a parent than to watch your children fighting, to watch them hate each other,

to kill each other.

This is the sorrow God has felt from the beginning, and it's the sorrow that has infiltrated down through the human story, and if left to itself, it only escalates.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hollow it be your name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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