Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin to 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.

We've been meditating on the 8th commandment and the importance of truth, because the truth deserves to be

defended from the air that attacks it, and we all have the responsibility to spread the truth.

However, we shouldn't treat our opinions,

our personal preferences and our customs as if they're universal truth.

When we do that, we make ourselves very annoying and we actually do harm to the truth.

Often, we're more... and we actually do harm to the truth.

Often we're more passionate about spreading and defending our own opinions and preferences

than we are the truth. So we need to know the difference between what is truth

and what is less than truth. The difference between what is truth and what is

just our opinion. So first, what do we mean by truth? So first, what do we mean by truth?

Truth is when our mind correctly understands reality.

When that happens, we have the truth.

I mean, when we know the way something really is outside of our mind.

When we observe something accurately, when we reason about something validly, or when we accept

the testimony of trustworthy witnesses, then we have the truth.

But things like opinions or preferences or just customs, well that's less than truth.

Now, those aren't bad things,

but they aren't the standard for truth. different people have different opinions, preferences, and

customs and there's really not much more to say about it. So here's the question. How should we deal with the truth and how is that

different from the way we're supposed to deal with opinions, preferences, and customs, those things that are less than the truth.

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