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.

Today we begin to meditate on the fifth commandment.

After the Lord established the primacy of God, the first three commandments,

and on the human level, the primordial importance of the family, the fourth commandment,

the next commandment, the fifth, is designed to respect the fundamental good of life.

Thou shalt not kill.

Now like all the thou shalt not commandments,

this prohibition is ultimately based on a positive affirmation.

It's based on the affirmation that existence and above all human existence is good and

we must treat the existence of a human person the image of God

as very good which means we must not seek to attack the goodness of others, their being or their presence in the world.

We must not murder because the existence of our neighbor is adressed thing, but the Fifth Commandment

means way more than simply the prohibition against murder.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow it 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 is with thee blessed art thou among women

blessed is a fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary mother of God, brave for our sinners

noun at the hour of our death, Amen.

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

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