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🗓️ 11 May 2019
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0:00.0 | Welcome to our Rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
0:06.0 | Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. |
0:10.0 | I especially offer this Rosary for the repose of the soul of my uncle Lester |
0:16.8 | who died at 9 10 p.m. Friday night. |
0:20.1 | He was a man with a big heart and great love, but also a great sense of humor. |
0:28.0 | He would always introduce me to people and say, |
0:32.0 | I taught him everything I know and he still doesn't know anything. |
0:41.3 | Confronted with the deepest desires of our heart, we have three options, to be a stoic, an addict, or an aspiring mystic. |
0:58.0 | I don't know about you, but I won't settle for less. I want God. |
1:00.0 | I want to be an aspiring mystic. |
1:03.0 | Someone who realizes that I have a built-in desire for infinite beauty, truth, and goodness, |
1:11.0 | a desire for God. |
1:13.6 | And this desire can't be repressed, |
1:16.5 | nor can it be satisfied by the things of this world alone. |
1:21.6 | If you want your desire for the infinite fulfilled by God and you are willing to do |
1:28.1 | something about it and persevere, then you too are an aspiring mystic. |
1:36.2 | As St. Augustine said, |
1:39.0 | you have made us for yourself, |
1:41.3 | O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. |
1:47.5 | So what does an aspiring mystic do? |
1:51.6 | First, an aspiring mystic becomes more and more aware that God is not out there in the distance |
1:59.9 | looking down on us. |
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