This is the movement of the Holy Family, leading people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation and the Rosary.

So, welcome to our 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 that we've promised to pray for, for my grandson Kormak, for little

Olivia Caneli, and for Thomas Lauer. Now with this meditation I really want to

encourage you to set out and go deeper in prayer. Now why would we want to spend more time in prayer? Well the

ultimate reason why we do anything is for the sake of some good thing we need to be happy and God

designed our human nature to need many good things. We need nutrition, safe place to

live, friendships, knowledge, meaningful work, and achievement, beauty, and so on.

But even if we had every earthly thing our human nature needed, we would still not be satisfied because we were made for

union with God. Only God is the infinite perfect and everlasting fulfillment of all our good desires.

Therefore, God alone satisfies.

And even if we lack one of the earthly things we need, like good health or a good relationship, or work

that really suits you, or work at all, God, who is the source of all that is good can supply for what you lack. He can fill us with

himself so that we can we can be full of joy even when we lack certain good things.

And God wants to give himself to us, especially in the Eucharist,

but we must open the doors of our soul to receive him.

Pope Benedict said,

prayer is the self-opening of the human spirit to God.

So why would we want to pray or go deeper in prayer? Because we want to be happy and

God alone satisfies. Our Father who art in heaven, hollow would be your name.

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

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