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.

Here in the States, it's Thanksgiving.

Now the Gospel for this day is about the 10 lepers that were healed,

but only one thank Jesus.

Now, for sure it can be hard to be grateful in suffering or difficult times,

but what is really crazy is how often we fail to be grateful in good times.

We tend to take the generosity of God and all our blessings for granted.

Look at these 10 lepers. They've just been healed of a devastating

terminal illness and yet how many of them remember to go back and say thank you?

Just one. That's it. Something got in the way of their

gratitude and something gets in the way of ours. Something makes us forget to say to God, thank you, and this failure in gratitude blocks

our happiness.

Gratitude refers to both a feeling of appreciation and to a display of

thankfulness towards our benefactor, and where the display is absent, the feeling will quickly

evaporate. In other words, if we stop saying thank you to God,

then our pleasure in the things we've been given,

it won't last.

Those who are not thankful soon find everything in life

dissatisfied, boring, and they can never be satisfied.

That's why expression and they can never be satisfied.

That's why expressing our gratitude to God

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