This is the movement of the Holy Family, leading people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation and the Rosary.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Today we meditate on the five benefits of receiving Jesus in the Eucharist at mass.

Now our salvation is not a one-time deal.

We sin every day. Therefore we stand perpetually in need of salvation. Salvation is an ongoing

process of falling and rising and falling and rising again.

And all the power of salvation

flows from the cross of Jesus

and his sacrificial death and resurrection.

But because he knew we would need this saving power in our lives

continuously to rise after we fall, he provided a miracle. Jesus makes the saving event of his death and resurrection

present in each mass.

We can take part and receive all the benefit just by going to mass, offering ourselves to

God with a contrite and humble heart and receiving Jesus in the eucharist. The catechism explains it this way.

When the church celebrates the eucharist, she commemorates Christ's death and resurrection and it is made present.

The sacrifice Christ offered once for all on the cross remains ever present.

As often as the sacrifice of the cross by which Christ has been sacrificed is celebrated

on the altar, the work of our redemption is carried out.

And the Eucharist is thus a sacrifice because it represents, it makes present the sacrifice of the cross because it is its memorial and

because it applies its fruit. So we can say or I should say the Catechism says, the sacrifice of Christ and the

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