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. And 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.

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