This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our daily Rosary meditation.

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

Amen.

I want to give a shout out to Claire and Amy,

two wonderful nurses who are Rosary Warriors. I met them because my wife

Sandy broke her leg right before Christmas and my mom fractured her hip the day after Christmas and a father of a good friend

passed away so needless to say I've spent a good bit of time in the hospital

reflecting I've spent a good bit of time in the hospital reflecting on this week with the martyrs St Stephen and the holy innocence murdered by Herod and the suffering around me.

Thinking about the question,

why does God allow pain and suffering.

Now one of the most powerful of all feelings is actually sorrow or suffering.

Of all the motivators, the most fundamental are joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain. Every other feeling or passion is an expression of that more basic prompt to avoid what causes suffering and to pursue what causes joy.

And one of the greatest mistakes of our civilization is to believe that sorrow is an unmitigated evil, one to be eradicated at all

cause, but it isn't. It's a basic meaningful part of human existence, and it was suffering that saved us, the suffering of the little child that came at Christmas.

If we worship a crucified God, if we honor the Christ, Messiah, who liberated us by his agonizing suffering,

then we can't act as though suffering is the enemy.

Suffering, quite the contrary, was given to us to be our ally in striving for ultimate happiness and fulfillment.

Our Father who arts in heaven,

Hollywood be your name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth

as it is in heaven.

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