This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our 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 who've promised to pray for, especially praying for the healing

of the seizure clusters for Olivia Caneli, asking for the intercession of Blessed Pauline Jericho and for the strengthening

of Jeannie Sherman.

Now let's pause for a moment.

You can add all of your own intentions.

In the Gospel of the Mass today Jesus said, anyone who does not take his cross and follow

in my footsteps is not worthy of me.

If you experience a cross and have done all you can to change it,

then God is allowing it for two reasons.

To empty you, to fill you with his divine life, and to invite you to be a partner

in his saving work. On this first point, St John of the Cross writes,

We must then dig deeply in Christ. He is like a rich mine with many pockets containing treasures.

However deep we dig, we will never find their end or their limit.

Indeed, in every pocket, new seams of fresh riches are discovered on all sides.

For this reason the Apostle Paul said of Christ,

in Him are hidden all the treasures of the wisdom and knowledge of God.

Would that man might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach

the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering.

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