Doctrine of John of the Cross 4
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
Dr. Mike Scherschligt
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🗓️ 14 March 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the movement of the Holy Family, leading people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation and the Rosary. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to our Rosary meditation. |
| 0:20.0 | Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm offering this Rosary for the gentleman who died on the plane next to me |
| 0:31.2 | of an apparent heart attack this evening as Sandy and I were flying home from Florida |
| 0:37.0 | after this rosary for the repose of his soul, his poor wife and family. Sandy and I are a little tired as our plane was |
| 0:47.1 | diverted and we arrived home very late. We also offer this Rosary for the repose of the soul of a young woman named Emily Morrison. |
| 0:59.0 | As she also passed away, we pray for her family in this difficult time and for a little five-year-old |
| 1:05.5 | Thomas Lauer and for little Catherine in Omaha. We offer our rosary and our sacrifices for all the people submitted to our prayer |
| 1:17.6 | intentions list and for your own intentions. |
| 1:25.0 | This life will end. |
| 1:29.0 | Therefore we have much to learn from John of the Cross. |
| 1:38.8 | He was ordained in 1567. Then he met Theresa Vavala. She persuaded him to help her reform the Carmelite order from a life of busyness and distraction in which they had no time and no interest in daily meditation. |
| 1:53.0 | If you can imagine that. |
| 1:56.7 | We usually have no time for something |
| 1:59.8 | when we have no interest in it. |
| 2:06.0 | Man always has time for what he loves, doesn't he? |
| 2:11.0 | Well, how do you think the Carmelites responded to this effort to make them change? Well, on December 2nd, 1577, a group of Carmelites kidnapped John and took him to Toledo, Spain, tortured and imprisoned him in a 10 by 6 cell with very little light, |
| 2:28.2 | no change of clothes, no bed, and he lived on bread and water for nine months. |
| 2:34.0 | John writes, |
| 2:36.0 | the immense blessings of God |
| 2:39.0 | can only enter and fit into an empty and solitary heart. We must be emptied to be filled by |
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