This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

God created us for happiness.

happiness. All people want to be happy. In fact, happiness is the purpose of life.

So what brings true and lasting happiness?

Father Robert Spitzer does a great job of summarizing four levels of happiness.

The first level is to seek and to fulfill our desire for the physical goods, like food and drink, good health, sexual pleasure, and the desire to procreate, and those things

that give safety and security.

Level 1 represents our fundamental desires for physical pleasure, immediate gratification, and excitement.

And this may be manifested in seeking my favorite food,

a good whiskey, a nice home, or a second home, or the desire to travel and experience new things.

The happiness that results from these goods however is typically short-lived shallow and impacts no one else except me.

Now level one is not inherently bad. We all need to satisfy the basic needs for physical goods but if we get stuck in

level one our lives become a roller coaster of gaining and losing and after the food

is consumed or the show or the travel is over, it isn't long before we're hungry or thirsty or bored again.

How much of your life is taken up with trying to satisfy all

happiness with just level one? Our Father who art in heaven, hollow 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

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