This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our rules of your 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.

This is the second day of our nine days of prayer leading up to the Feast of Pentecost in imitation of that time in which the apostles gathered around Mary between the ascension and the first Pentecost.

So as we pause, you can ask the Holy Spirit for greater presence and power in your life and for all of his seven gifts.

Wealth managers tell me their biggest problem is to get their clients to make decisions

based on reality rather than emotions and fears. This is the crisis of our age. We act on

preferences and feelings rather than reality, truth, and the will of God.

In our fallen state, what drives most of our decision-making is disordered passions and misplaced attachments.

Pride, the will to dominate, timidity, vanity, envy, lust,

gluttony, greed, a false sense of security and identity, fear, or the opinion of others.

These should not determine our choices and behavior.

Therefore we need the virtue of prudence, which is the art of making good decisions.

In this meditation, we'll give you a three-step process to avoid being ruled by misguided

emotions and feelings.

First step, think. What is reality and what is the greatest good that I want?

Second, make a choice. That is, make an act of the will. Choose the good you want and the means to achieve it,

even if it goes against your feelings and disordered desires.

And then finally, take action.

Put into action what you've chosen, even if you feel the opposite.

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