This is Holy Family School of Faith.

So 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 the mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Our first meditation in our first decade,

we've had many people join the Rosary podcast recently,

and it's helpful for them to know why we pray the rosary in the way that we do.

The Rosary was always meant to be a meditation on the Word of God.

Jesus is the Word of God, And all that he revealed comes to

us through scripture, tradition, and the magisterium. Therefore, we can meditate upon anything from

the full word of God, the deposit of faith, when we pray the rosary. And people can become bored with the rosary if it's experienced

as a mindless rote prayer. We need something to captivate our intellect and our passions that

then moves the will to make a change in our lives for the better. That's why the Rosary was always supposed to be a meditation.

Sister Lucia, one of the visionaries from Fatima, writes,

Meditation or mental prayer consists in placing ourselves in the presence of God

in order to reflect on one or other of the revealed mysteries, or some episode in the

life of our Lord, or some point of doctrine, the law of God, or even about one or other of the

virtues which we find in Jesus Christ, in Our Lady, or in the Saints. All of this can be reflected upon during the Rosary.

So the essence of the rosary is a meditation

on some point from the deposit of faith

over the span of time that we're given

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