Welcome to our daily 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 we've promised to pray for.

After thousands of years of oppression by the Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, and Assyrians, Babylonians and Greeks,

finally the Romans, many of the Jewish people thought they knew what was wrong with the world. And what was wrong with the

world was that bad people were in power and they oppressed the good people. And so there needed to be some kind of revolution, something to restructure society so it could be just.

Then all humanity's problems would just go away.

And that was the Messiah they were looking for.

Someone who would lead a revolution and reform the system

and put the right people in power so that there

would never be any injustice again. And because they were focused on the wrong

thing, they actually missed the true Messiah.

And ever since then, we have been focused on the wrong thing and we miss the true Messiah.

Ever since then there have been all these efforts to ignore the Christian message in favor of some plan, some program

that would fix the world through revolution and careful planning.

Whether it was the French Revolution following the ideas of Rousseau, or whether it was the

communist revolutions of China or Russia following the ideas of Marx, or whether it's the idea politics of today.

These alternatives to Christianity all share a common feature. They all try to fix the world

through social reform and they all reject the salvation that comes from Christ alone.

Our Father who aren't in heaven, hollow would be your name,

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

Give us stay our daily Braden, forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against

us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil

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