Welcome to our daily 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.

We're starting a short series on the Seven Sacraments.

I know, I know, you know all this stuff. But we take it all for granted.

And we've all fallen into this idea that we just need to be a good person to get to heaven. But that's the

heresy of Pelagianism. The fact is, we can't make ourselves worthy of heaven by our effort alone. Only God can make us

worthy of heaven by making us like himself, making us divine and that's the great power of the sacraments.

So why are we here? I mean, why are we in this life?

We're all humans and that's a really good thing.

We have an immense capacity for knowledge and creativity and

physical strength and speed and endurance, and we have the freedom to do whatever we choose.

And greatest of all, we can love.

But we're also beset by all kinds of physical, mental, emotional, and cultural limitations.

And at any moment we can be overcome and destroyed by a

microscopic virus or cancer or a car wreck. We're born, we go to school, we get a job and get married and have kids,

and for about the next 30 years, we're running so hard we can't even think.

And then it's just all over.

Kids leave, the professions end, our health declines, and there's just not much to fill

the day except TV and loneliness and it all goes by so

unimaginably fast and then we die.

Is this why we're here? It can't be.

What is this supposed to be all about? about.

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