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.

Once there was a king named Herod, and he was more defective in more ways than perhaps any other human being in scripture.

He killed John the Baptist, he took his brother's wife, he mocked the creator of the universe in the person of Jesus Christ,

he was a drunken, lustful, stupid oath.

And it's good to meditate on someone like Herod,

because when we look at his failings, we may notice some similarity to our own culture and

maybe even to ourselves, and then we can hurry to try to fix it before we become locked in the eternal human

failure that is the state of hell.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow would be your name, Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who

trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil,

Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee,

Blessed art thou among women.

Blessed is a fruit of thy womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God, pre-for-e sinners now and at the hour of our death,

Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee,

blessed art thou among women.

Blessed is a fruit of thy womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God, pre for usinner is now and at the hour of our death,

Amen.

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