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.

It may be that one of the most counterintuitive teachings of the Catholic Church on civil issues

is her declaration that the family is the most basic unit of society.

Now most of us might tend to think that individuals are the most basic

unit. We figure that it's individuals who get together and form families and that it's individuals who get together

and form towns and cities and nations. In fact, in political or civil discussion, the family as such is frequently disregarded and people talk

about individuals or larger communities. But that's a big mistake. The basic unit of water is a molecule made up

of three atoms. If you get down to less than three atoms, you don't have water anymore. And the same is true of society.

If you break the family down into individuals, you don't have society anymore.

As with God, the basic indivisible unit of humanity is at least three.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow would be your name, Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who

trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee,

blessed that art thou among women,

blessed that is a fruit of thy womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God.

Wray for a sinner is known at the hour of our death, Amen. Hail Mary, full of God, God, pray for us iners now and at the hour of our death, Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women.

Blessed is a fruit of thy womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God, Ready for a sinners, now and at the hour of our death,

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