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 we've promised to pray for, joining all of our

Rosaries together for the deep conversion of all those submitted to our

prayer list. By his suffering death and resurrection, Jesus Christ conquered Satan, sin and death.

In the Mass, the Holy Spirit makes that historical event,

the suffering death and resurrection of Jesus Christ present,

so that his victory over Satan can be reapplied to us.

Well, wait a minute. I thought we were saved through grace and faith and baptism.

Yes, we were, but life is messy.

There is so much that is good and there is so very much that is broken.

We are broken. I am broken. I cannot seem to cure myself of my pride, envy, sloth, anger, greed, gluttony, lust, anxiety, impatience,

judgmentalness, annoyance, I don't mean that I'm annoying, I mean that other people annoy me.

The fact is that I am in constant need of being saved because I am constantly wrecking myself and everything

around me.

It's the law of entropy.

Everything gradually declines into disorder.

Sometimes in my life it's not a gradual decline, but a free fall. And because we are constantly self-destructing and

messing things up, we are constantly in need of being saved. And that is why Jesus makes his saving event, his suffering,

death and resurrection present in every mass, because we need the saving work of the

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