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

So welcome to our Rosary Meditation. 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.

Continuing to pray for my grandson Cormac as the doctors are trying to figure out why he's having these seizure symptoms.

And we also continue to pray for the healing of Olivia

Caneli and for little Thomas Lauer recovering, God willing, from his stomach cancer, and for

the families of these little youngsters. So we'll pause for a moment, and you can call to mind

your own petitions.

We continue to meditate on the teaching of Jesus in the sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5, verse 38, where Jesus said, you have heard that it was said, an eye for an eye and a tooth

for a tooth, but I say to you, do not resist one who is evil, but if anyone strikes you on the right cheek,

turn to him the other also, and if anyone would sue you and take your coat, let him have your

cloak as well, and if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles, give to him

who begs from you, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you.

Now, taken out of context, this passage is easy to misunderstand.

Jesus is not saying that we should be spineless passive cowards who submit to whatever evil we face. In no way.

Jesus does not forbid self-defense. We are not pacifists. In fact, in John chapter 18, verse 22,

Jesus defends himself. We'll touch on more of that later. Suffice it to say that in this

passage, what Jesus forbids is returning evil for evil. We cannot solve evil with more evil.

St. Paul tells us that we must resist evil and overcome it with good.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallow it be your name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our giving prayer and forgive us our trespass us.

...