This is the movement of the Holy Family, leading people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation and the Rosary. Okay, welcome to our Rosary meditation.

I am blessed to be at the Tujadas, celebrating literally a miracle for their Father Christian just this last month.

It was on the verge of death. Probably should have died. But through many

rosaries of family and friends and through his own friends who made a pilgrimage to a very special

shrine to our lady in Chile.

He's with us this evening.

And he looks great. So we're gathered with his family to pray the rosary in Thanksgiving.

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

Let's call to mind all those that we've promised to pray for,

especially for Steve White to receive a new heart

and for the healing of Olivia Caneely.

Now people want to wait until they feel like doing what is right before they do it. But if we wait until we feel like it, we'll never move.

Now the real problem about being a Christian is that I usually know what I should do, but I just don't

want to do it.

I don't feel like doing what is right, and I really feel like doing what's wrong. That's all fine and well until I do the wrong thing

and turn my life into a dumpster fire. Yet we don't have to live this way. We can be transformed. Jesus and Mary have offered to come and live in us and through

us if we want them to. They want to transform us from the inside out. All we need to do is cooperate.

Now, the virtues manage to take all of our twisted desires and reorganize them.

Directs the feelings in an integrated manner to prompt us

toward what's good for us and away from what's bad.

So when you have virtue, you actually feel like doing good and avoiding evil.

Those with virtue wouldn't even enjoy sin. They greatly desire the good. So basically once you

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