This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Well, welcome to our Rosary meditation.

I am blessed this evening to be with a number of excellent men preparing for the Diaconate and their wives.

They are at the beginning of their journey of five years of deep preparation.

I've had the privilege of being with them this evening, and now we're going to pray the rosary.

Today is December 8th, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary.

You may be renewing your consecration to Jesus through Mary today or tomorrow, December 9th,

because the feast, when a feast falls on Sunday, it can be moved to Monday.

I've also received literally thousands of names

for our prayer intentions.

I think I had 500 requests alone today of all the loved ones who are asking help through prayer and sacrifice for their conversion.

So let's call to mind all those that we've promised to pray for and let's especially offer our

rosary each one of us for all of these thousands of names on the prayer list. One of our greatest fears is that a loved one will not be with us in

heaven. Those who fight alone are not as strong as those who fight together. If you fight alone you are more likely to become

discouraged, lose hope, and give up. Don't fight alone. Join us in

offering to pray the Rosary every day and to offer sacrifices and personal

crosses for the conversion of all those on the School of Faith prayer list. The devil is attacking our

loved ones, but we must stop being passive spineless victims. Satan does not have more power than God. The enemy

Satan fears most is the Blessed Virgin Mary because she crushes his head by her humility. We must rally around our

Queen whom scripture says is a Queen in battle array and take the fight to Satan. Go on the offensive.

For as Matthew chapter 16 says, the gates of hell can never hold out against us.

Our Father who art in heaven, hollow it be your name,

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