Welcome to our daily 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 we've promised to pray for.

Today we meditate on the temptations of Jesus in the desert. Now Jesus is a divine person. He is

incapable of sin because he's God. Why then would Jesus go through the motions of being tempted to sin

when sin was precisely what he was incapable of? First of all, so that he could sympathize with us in our temptations.

Hebrews chapter 14 says that Christ, our high priest, can sympathize with our infirmities since he was tempted

like we are, but without sin.

In other words, it wasn't just a charade. Jesus is fully God, but he's also fully

human. He could be tempted. He did feel the attraction of the goods which Satan presented to him.

He felt that internal tug-of-war between the lesser but so desirable good and the greater good God wants for us.

So he knows by his own experience how powerful temptation can be. But secondly, so that he could show us how to overcome

temptation, what practices, what us ready to choose rightly even when evil presents itself as a live option. Jesus is our example in all things. And here

we need to look carefully at the weapons he brought to his battle with Satan.

Our Father who are in heaven,

hollow would be your name.

Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to 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 a fruit of thy womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God, brief for a sinner and is now and at the hour of her death,

Amen.

...