This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to the 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, especially, let's band together joining our Rosary with the

thousands of others for the multitude of loved ones, their names that have been submitted.

And we are praying and offering sacrifice for their deeper conversion with a deep conviction and confidence that our lady is going

to work miracles of conversion.

This is Godatee Sunday, which means the Sunday to rejoice because the birth of Christ is close at hand.

It comes from Philippians 4, in which Paul says,

Rejoice in the Lord always.

Again, I will say, rejoice.

Let all men know your forbearance.

The Lord is at hand. Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer

and supplication with thanksgiving, but your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God which passes all understanding

will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. There is much to rejoice in to be thankful for. God is good, life is good. There is so much that is good. But there is also sorrow, pain, and the cross.

I have a cross and many, if not all of you, also have a cross.

So how do we rejoice when we also have a cross?

St. John of the cross, whom we've been meditating on the last few days,

says that the fastest and most effective way to reach perfect joy, that of possessing Christ,

is through the cross.

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