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.

With each day, we are preparing to renew our consecration to marry on December 8th simply by this

Rosary meditation. So thank you for joining us.

Beauty is where we allow ourselves to be surprised by things being right,

by things being good and orderly and true. But to

continue being surprised at the goodness of something, well that takes work, it takes

discipline.

It's a paradox of human existence that you have to know a lot about something to be surprised and fascinated by it, to really appreciate it.

That's why someone who knows only the rules of football,

but doesn't really know anything else about it,

will find it boring. In fact, they might think

every game looks the same. But somebody who's been playing and watching football all

their lives will often say, oh my gosh, that was incredible.

I never saw a play like that before.

That was beautiful.

In other words, you have to really invest.

You have to keep learning about something

if you want to be able to continually

appreciate its deepest levels of beauty. That's true of your spouse, it's true of your kids, it's

true of your faith, it's true of everything. But if you're lazy, you'll get bored by things working the way they're supposed to.

And that's when we get the temptation to delight in disorder and perversion.

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