This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

We've been reflecting on the three powers of the soul, the intellect, the passions, and the will.

And we've been coming to a greater understanding of the feelings and giving you practical strategy to reform them, now we turn to the importance of the

intellect.

The primary power of the human soul is the intellect.

Man is classically defined not as a feeling creature,

nor even as a free creature,

but first of all as an intelligent rational creature.

What makes us the kind of living creature we are is our intellect, which is the faculty of the soul that is directed

to knowing the truth. It's only the intellect that makes it possible for us to be

good.

We don't expect elephants or sharks or house flies to behave in a good way

because they aren't rational. So it's the intellect that's the

foundation for everything else. It's our capacity to be good,

be loving, which means that if we're lazy about knowing

which means that if we're lazy about knowing the truth,

then we really won't ever be able to fulfill any

other fundamental aspect of our humanity.

If we're lazy about knowing the truth we'll never be able to love the way God

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