Advent | The Journey of Longing
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
Dr. Mike Scherschligt
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🗓️ 11 December 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the movement of the Holy Family. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to our Rosary meditation. |
| 0:06.0 | We have had a wonderful first two nights with our living nativity |
| 0:12.0 | in our little Bethlehem. So we want to invite you to come out this |
| 0:18.3 | Saturday night or Sunday night. It'll be a little bit colder, but we have a heated manger scene. So come and join |
| 0:29.3 | us, pray the Rosary with us, bring your kids and grandkids and family and friends, and this will be the best |
| 0:39.2 | way to prepare for Christmas. Now let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:47.0 | Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. |
| 0:50.0 | I have an icon of the Nativity, the birth of Jesus in my little chapel at home. |
| 0:56.0 | Jesus lies in the manger in the cave of Bethlehem, in the center of the scene. |
| 1:02.0 | Yes, it was a cave and not a barn. The baby Jesus is surrounded |
| 1:06.7 | by an ox and ass, for Isaiah tells us that the ox knows its owner and the ass its master's |
| 1:12.4 | crib. |
| 1:13.0 | There are two are Marion Joseph, the Magi, the Shepherds, and the Angels. |
| 1:18.0 | All the usual suspects, oh yes, and the sheep. |
| 1:22.0 | Christmas Day is the sheep. |
| 1:29.0 | Christmas Day is the moment when all these characters see for the first time what they have always longed for, whether they knew it or not. |
| 1:31.0 | Either way, after much journeying, they now see with their own eyes the fulfillment of all their desire. Now take |
| 1:40.0 | away all the characters and leave the manger empty. |
| 1:43.0 | Put Mary and Joseph back in Nazareth with Jesus in her womb, |
| 1:46.6 | place the magi back in Iran or Iraq somewhere in Persia probably. |
| 1:51.4 | Put the Shepherds, well, who knows where the shepherds were, put them with the sheep somewhere, |
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