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.

As we're growing closer to December 8th, when we will consecrate or reconsecrate ourselves to Jesus through Mary,

we're traveling through these 33 days of preparation by getting to know Jesus better.

And today we meditate on the luminous mysteries.

The luminous mysteries are called luminous because they illuminate something they shed light on some truth And I think the most important truth that we should always keep in mind

so that it transforms the way we look at our lives is this. A good God made a good world and

he made you very good and he's actually bringing everything to a good conclusion. And if you think that way about life, your life will be transformed.

The five luminous mysteries show this to us. And the first is clear enough. At Jesus baptism he's

recognized as a son of God with whom his father delights.

So too at our baptism.

We became children of God with whom God the Father delights.

Now as we said yesterday we may feel like an imposter that

we're not good enough like we don't measure up, we're not solid. And then we're tempted to seek our

identity or personal value in things of this world. Professions, relationships, the opinion of others, things

that are always changing, things that will never be solid.

And when we base our identity and worth on stuff that's not solid,

we feel more like a ghost.

But the only way to have a solid identity

is to get it from something, well, solid,

something that never changes,

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