This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

In his address to the world last Friday,

which I shared with you yesterday, the Pope said four things.

We are in a storm that we should invite Christ into our boat by repentance because he will guarantee there will be no shipwreck to our soul.

That we're all in the same boat together, so we need to row together. And Mary the star of the stormy sea will guide us.

So let us 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.

Many of us have begun a 54-day novena of praying the rosary every day. This special novena to the

Queen of the Most Holy Rosary. If you'd like to join us right now, our lady is not fickle. 53, 54 doesn't really matter to her.

But let's pause our recording and let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. our first meditation

meditation. What is the storm? I had the privilege of studying

under one of the greatest theologians on Mary in the last century, Father Renee

Lorinton, who wrote extensively on all the approved apparitions of Mary since

1830 and investigated the apparitions and visionaries. and

visionaries that occurred from the 1980s until his death in 2017.

He provides a remarkable synthesis of the storm.

First, the cause of the storm.

Our modern world has abandoned God

and turned to sin which destroys everything.

Sin, which is a turning away from God, is the root cause of all problems.

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