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.

Today is one of my favorite saints, St. Thomas Moore, a layman, husband, father, and professional.

Now after graduating from law school and before he was married, Thomas Moore lived for four

years at the London Charterhouse, which was near a Carthusian monastery, where he participated

in the monk's life of prayer and the practices of self-mastery.

During these years, he developed his own prayer life, which enabled him to achieve self-mastery,

and it enabled him to discern his vocation and to prepare himself for the rest of his life.

And in these four years, he discovered that his own intelligence,

his own human energy, and all his effort, these alone would not be enough. That he needed God's

grace that comes from the sacraments and a deep life of prayer.

And as a result, he built a spiritual foundation for the rest of his life.

And then until the end of his life, even though he was a husband, father of six,

a lawyer, statesman, theologian, author, social reformer,

and the Lord High Chancellor to King Henry the 8th of England, which was the second ranking

officer in the government. So a pretty busy guy with a lot of responsibilities. With all of this, he started each day with

meditation, study, and mass. In fact, Thomas Moore wrote, if you love your health, if you desire to be

secure from the snares of the devil,

and from the storms of this world,

and from the hands of your enemies,

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