This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our Rotary 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.

All people want to be happy.

Living a life of virtue leads to happiness,

and living a life of vice leaves a wake of self-destruction.

Over the next few meditations, we will reflect upon the virtues that lead to human flourishing in happiness,

faith, hope, love, prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.

God doesn't just command us to do his will, to do the right thing.

He designed us to enjoy doing what is right and good.

Well, how is that possible?

To understand this, we must recall the way God designed the human person.

The human person is comprised of a body and soul, and there are three powers of the soul, the intellect will and passions.

And just as the body needs food, water, and oxygen to live,

the soul needs reality.

Specifically, the intellect needs reality, specifically the intellect needs reality in the form of truth and

the will needs reality in the form of goodness.

Without food and water, the body will die. Without reality in the form of truth and goodness, the soul begins to die from a sense that life is meaningless.

The intellect receives reality in the form of truth, therefore the soul needs to be fed on truth to thrive.

When the intellect grasps reality accurately, it possesses truth and then the mind is satisfied

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