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.

Not to use too violent an image, but if you cut a person's head off, that person will no longer be able to govern his body.

You can't tell your hands what to do, feet what to do, unless you have a head to tell them with?

So if the church is Christ's body, what is the head that Christ uses to govern this body?

Some people will tell you that Christ himself is the head, and that's true of course, if we mean simply that Christ rules over the church or that Christ is in charge of the church, but how does Christ rule over

the church? After all, we can't see Christ anymore. So to us, Christ is no longer a visible head of the church.

So what we need is a church with a definite visible structure

and a definite visible source of leadership,

which is precisely why Jesus gave his church a Pope. Our Father who art in heaven, hallow would be your name. Thy kingdom come

by will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us 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.

Blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God.

Brief for us in her is noun at the hour of our death, amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee,

blessed art thou among women.

Blessed is a fruit of thy womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God.

Brief for us iners, now and in the hour of our death,

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