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Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers

Don't Pray Half-Hearted

Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers

Dr. Mike Scherschligt

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🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0

This is the movement of the Holy Family.

0:03.0

So welcome to our Rosary Meditation.

0:05.0

I am blessed to be with about 125 fantastic young men and women from Holy Trinity.

0:15.0

We're going to pray the Rosary with me now.

0:17.0

So let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

0:20.0

Let's call the mind all those we've promised to pray for.

0:27.0

In the sermon on the mount,

0:29.0

Jesus tells us we shouldn't pray just by heaping up a bunch of empty words like the

0:37.8

immigrants and that we should go into our room and shut the door and pray to our father who sees in secret.

0:47.8

What our Lord is getting at is that we should pray with all our heart, but I think that we only pray half-hearted.

1:00.0

God doesn't want half-hearted prayer. He wants all your heart. He wants us to put our whole

1:08.8

heart into our prayer. Not half-hearted. So what is prayer? Prayer is friendship with God.

1:20.3

But we don't really go about it that way. What do friends do? Friends spend time together, talking, listening, just being together. That's prayer.

1:30.0

And the first thing friends do is they tell each other what they've been thinking about.

1:36.0

I've got a friend that I talk to three or four times a week and he always starts off by asking what you've been thinking about. And I tell him what's on my mind and the

1:45.7

conversation goes from there. That's precisely how we should begin with prayer. Just tell

1:52.2

God it's on your heart. Jesus said to St. Faustina,

1:57.0

talk to me simply as a friend to a friend.

2:05.0

Our Father to art in heaven, hollow in be your name,

2:09.0

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

2:12.0

It's us to stay our dating red and the biggest largest taxes.

2:17.0

As you would be good of those to the past against us,

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