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

Welcome to our Rosary meditation from Captiva, Florida, where my wife and I are enjoying a beautiful vacation thanks to the tremendous

generosity of a wonderful couple to help poor church worker.

So 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 promised to pray for offering our Lenten prayer and

sacrifices for the deep conversion of all the names submitted to our prayer list.

Now in recent days I've been walking you through the essential teachings of John of the Cross on how to reach the goal of our life, which is transforming union with God. Our transformation

begins when God pours his divine life into our soul through the sacrament of

baptism, then constantly nourishing and increasing his life within us by the Eucharist.

We respond to God by giving ourselves to Him in a return through the good actions we turn into habits called the virtues.

The greatest of these is love.

For God is love and we travel to Him by means of love.

As John writes, in the evening of life

we shall be judged by our love.

Now assuming the role of the sacraments,

that of renouncing evil and the practice of virtue, John gives us a two-part

plan to reach the goal, prayer and detachment. Now don't overreact.

John is not saying the only things we need are prayer and detachment.

That would be inhuman.

So let's take a step back and get the context first. We've been

designed by God to need many good things to be fulfilled and happy. We need a hierarchy of

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