So this is the most of our little bit of a meditation.

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

It was called to mind all those we've promised to pray for,

especially for Livy Canelia, she's having her surgery on Monday and we pray for her doctor Luke Tommich who is also one of our

rosary members he's a good donkey for the Lord. And for this young woman, Sophie,

23 years old who had a stroke for Margot to wake up and for all those that we've

promised to pray for. Now on Monday we reflected on the fact that the Rosary is supposed to be a meditation on the word of God.

But we need to go a little further with this, understand it a little better, so that we can really receive all the benefit that our Lord and our lady want to give us from the

Rosary. But to do that we have to better understand meditation.

Again, meditation is to turn our attention to God.

We need to be thinking about the person that we're speaking to.

Prayer is a conversation with God.

And then we should think about what God is saying to us through his word or some timeless truth that we reflect on.

But then we need to have a conversation with God in which we can share with him from the heart and listen to him to pay attention

to what he inspires within us and then we always want to end our meditation with a practical resolution. So really there are

four parts to meditation. We want to read or listen or imagine something from the word of God found in scripture tradition or the teaching of the church and then reflect or think about what strikes you.

Try to understand it and apply it to your life, but then we need to have a conversation.

So as we speak the vocal prayers from the Our Father, the Hail Mary, and the glory be in the form of a chant,

we pay attention to what Jesus and Mary want to share with us.

And then we conclude our Rosary with a resolution by choosing something practical and concrete to do that day based on our meditation.

That's the essence of making the rosary of meditation.

Our Father who art in heaven,

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