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.

One way of describing beauty is to say that it's the unification of what is naturally separate.

We love the thrill of seeing two things which we don't normally associate with each other coming together.

Each one of the arts show us this unification of what is separate,

this convergence of opposites. In music, for example, we love a

duet in which the woman's high voice blends with the man's low voice.

Or in stories, we have the basic fairy tale form of a poor

farmer's boy marrying a princess or a poor housemaid marrying the king's son. Or for example in color, artists have designed a

color wheel so that they can combine colors from the opposite ends of the

spectrum. When the division, the separation between two

unrelated or distant things has been overcome, we have an insight into the

primordial unification of reality, which we call beauty,

which is why nothing is more beautiful than the Christ child in the manger at Bethlehem because nowhere else is division

so absolutely overcome and united.

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

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

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