This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our Rosary 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.

Now we've meditated on the virtue of prudence, the first of the cardinal virtues.

And now we come to the second, justice. Justice is the virtue,

where we give God and others what we owe them. The first three commandments delineate what we owe

God. The next seven, what we owe others. The first three commandments, just to be a reminder,

you shall have no other gods before the one God. You shall not take the name of the Lord

in vain and keep holy the Sabbath Day. So what do we owe God? Well, everything. God created us from

nothing. He holds us in existence. He provides for our smallest needs. Then he became man,

suffered and died to give us eternal life.

In return, we owe him everything.

And giving God what we owe him is an aspect of justice called the virtue of religion.

Some people, however, say, I'm not a religious person, and I want to respond,

oh, so you created yourself, you hold yourself in existence, you can save yourself from everlasting death,

wow, I'm glad to have met such a God as you. But I don't say that.

Now, we can never attain a level of pure justice with God

because we can never perfectly repay this enormous debt that we owe him.

We can never say to God, we are even.

However, we should at least try in gratitude to give back to God all that we are. As Jesus said in Luke chapter 17, when you have done all you have been commanded,

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