Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. What's called in mind all those we've promised to pray for?

Hey, I want to thank everyone for helping us reach 500,000 in our Advent challenge and this has

helped us to finally go over 100,000 followers.

You know, Teresa, one of our Rosary warriors called me yesterday and said,

not so long ago you were at 900 people trying to get to a thousand.

Now we've eclipsed a hundred thousand.

But our ultimate goal is a million and we're doing all we can, but we can't do it without you.

So let's all be Apostles of the Rosary and share it with others.

Now today is a great feast of St. Francis Disales,

who is one of the most important doctors of the church on the spiritual life.

He was born in 1567 into a family of nobility in the area of the Alps that surrounds Geneva and

Granoble. He studied law and theology at the University of Paris, but then despite his father's

wishes for him to pursue a secular career, he felt a strong call to the priesthood and was ordained in 1593 and then became Bishop of Geneva in 1602.

Now this is not long after the Protestant Reformation where roughly 10 million people left

the Catholic Church in Europe and Francis Disales worked hard and very successfully to bring people who had left the church back to the Catholic church.

But I think he's best known for his conviction that everyone is called

to become a saint.

Now this has always been the teaching of Christ in the church, but too often

holiness has only been a thing seen for priests and nuns, but his aim was to show that everyone could become a saint

just through their ordinary circumstances. And for this end he wrote one of the most important books called The Introduction to the Devout Life.

That's one that everybody should read.

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