This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our Rosie 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 that we've promised to pray for. I always have the

biography of some saint I'm reading and working through.

I've noticed that every saint faces three enemies,

the interior enemy, the intimate enemy, and the exterior enemy.

The interior enemy are the virtues or character traits the Saints were lacking within themselves at the beginning

before they set out on their journey to transformation.

The intimate enemy is a traitor, a person who is supposed to be their ally,

supposed to be one who helps them but doesn't. In fact, a traitor goes out of his way to make life

as difficult as possible for the saint, even to the point of betraying them. The exterior enemy is the sinful world, Satan, and the demons, and the false

ideologies they employ to prevent the same from fulfilling the will of God.

Here is the most ironic thing. With God's grace, the intimate enemy, the betrayer, and the external enemy, the devil, the

fallen sinful world, these actually help the saint overcome the first enemy, the interior enemy, our lack of virtue.

Now we're connecting back to the passage from Faustina's diary yesterday.

We have anxiety and fear about the intimate and external enemies because they cause us all kinds of difficulties.

But, and I want you to hear this clearly,

we were made for the struggles we are facing right now and without the

intimate and external enemies we cannot be transformed and become what we're meant to become.

The intimate and external enemies are some of our greatest benefactors.

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