This is the movement of the Holy Family, leading people to Jesus through friendship, good

conversation, and the Rosary.

So 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 that we've promised to pray for, especially offering this rosary, praying for great blessings to fall upon Steve and Sue Sharp on their 40th wedding anniversary, two great people.

And we continue to pray for the healing of Olivia Caneli and for little Thomas Lauer,

who is struggling with stomach cancer for his complete healing and recovery.

Now let's pause for a moment and you can call to mind all those that you've

promised to pray for. I was having a good conversation last night with about 25 really solid

college students and I asked them what they thought was the purpose of marriage. It's really

interesting. Kind of sad, really. In their own way,

basically every one of them said that the purpose of marriage is the pursuit of happiness,

kind of a sophisticated pleasure grab. But the problem with that vision of marriage is that as

soon as they don't feel that their spouse is making them happy,

then they think they've lost the purpose of marriage and they're tempted to leave.

But that makes marriage about use, using the other as a means to happiness and to avoid loneliness.

And how many times have we heard someone say,

I don't want to be unhappy the rest of my life, so I'm getting a divorce.

But these young people were shocked to find out what the real purpose of marriage is,

that it's to be sent on a mission from God, to cooperate valiantly with the love of the

Creator, and to have children and teach them to become saints so that God can build up his

own family. But the purpose of marriage is to be sent on a mission from God. Listen to what the catechism says.

Holy orders and matrimony are directed toward the salvation of others.

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