Welcome to Daily Rosary Meditations with Dr. Mike Shurzlick, where you learn how to meditate and establish a daily habit of prayer while discovering the truths of the Catholic faith.

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Thank you. Someone you know that could benefit from daily prayer, share this meditation with them. 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.

I read a fascinating article entitled Death by Loneliness by a psychiatrist who, after treating

thousands of patients realized there are four essential ingredients everyone needs to be happy.

A good relationship with God? We all need family and friends, and we need a way to find meaning

and purpose and suffering. Finally, everyone needs meaningful work. So today on the Feast of St. Joseph

the Worker, let's meditate on the true meaning and purpose of work.

Now, work is meaningful if it helps us accomplish four things.

If it makes the world a better place.

If it helps other people receive what they need.

If it helps us to get good at things we couldn't get good at any other way,

and finally, it should help us become a better person. St. John Paul II wrote,

Through work, man not only transforms nature, adapting it to his own needs, but he also achieves fulfillment

as a human being, and indeed, in a sense, becomes more of a human being.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow it be your name, Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us,

and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed are thou among women.

Blessed is a fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

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